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Regardless of the electoral outcome, the possibility of civil unrest should not be discounted.Our societal divide has become a widening and deepening chasm to the point that regardless of who wins the presidential election civil unrest seems increasingly likely. I wrote here about the Civil War of 1861 - 65 and here about the constitutional implications and causes of that war. Should violence follow the November election, the conflagration and its context will be very different. It will have less to do with North versus South or with our few remaining States' rights. It may be influenced by the...

More and more as we get closer to the end, people want to see a time line of coming events. Questions about the order in which events will take place, the span of time between them and the likelihood of there being enough time for everything to happen in the time we have left are becoming more numerous with each passing week. As you know the Bible doesn’t provide this level of specificity. But neither are we left to make unfounded predictions. There are a number of clues scattered throughout the New Testament that take much of the guess work...

California is one of those big blue states, like New York, Illinois, and Michigan, that the Democrats have run for decades and where taxes are suffocating and freedom is limited. But I don't really care. It's a free country, and you can choose to leave those hell-hole states if you want to - I was born in Massachusetts, left 20 years ago, and never looked back. But I saw this article about the utter destruction of California by the Left, and I shuddered for my fellow Americans.