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College students organized a protest in response to their university’s nomination of a sole finalist for president of the school. The University of Florida announced on October 6 that Senator Ben Sasse, R-Neb, was unanimously nominated to be the only contender to serve as the 13th president of the public institution.

Troy Schmidt’s jaw dropped. A few minutes before, he had been preparing to start his seventh year as chaplain for the Olympia High School football team in Florida. But now, those plans had been changed – radically changed. “I received a call from the coach,” Schmidt told me. “He said Orange County Public Schools is no longer allowed to have chaplains as a part of the football program.” Schmidt, who is a campus pastor of the First Baptist Church of Windermere, Florida, listened as the football coach explained the district’s decision to cleanse Christianity from its ranks. “I could no...

The Baltimore County executive, C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger, knew the national Democratic Party was eager — or to put it bluntly, desperate — for him to win the open House seat here in Maryland's Second District. Even so, he was a bit surprised by what the party bestowed on him. First, he started getting advice from Representative Elijah E. Cummings, who has represented parts of the urban core of Baltimore since 1996. Mr. Cummings told him to start running far more commercials on black radio stations and to have black political leaders record messages that can be automatically telephoned to...