Mike Wittmer

Category: Politics

  • what can brown do for you?

    I don’t have anything to add to the national conversation on race, but here’s how I see it. I don’t think I truly appreciate the cloud of suspicion and harassment that black men experience. This fall one of my students, a large black man, was late for class. When I asked where he was, he…

  • duck soup

    I don’t see a need to weigh in beyond what others, such as Al Mohler, Russell Moore, Trevin Wax, and Joe Carter, have already said (everyone with a blog has commented on this story; sorry if I missed you). And I do need to put this aside and do the work God has called me…

  • the rest of the story

    The editorial cartoon in today’s Grand Rapids Press pokes fun at Walmart for asking people to donate so its workers can have a happy Thanksgiving. This story made national news last week, proving that none of the newscasts do much original reporting anymore. When I mentioned the story to my parents, they told me the…

  • what did you think we were going to say?

    Yesterday I heard a couple of stories in the media about the Christian owned businesses and schools that are suing the government over our right not to fund abortions. The arguments against the lawsuit seemed to be that corporations aren’t people so they don’t have the freedom of religion and the slippery slope argument of…

  • thoughts from the weekend

    What are the odds that the Michigan-Ohio State game will start with a running clock? Is it possible that Michigan is tanking on purpose to prevent the Buckeyes from playing a ranked opponent? Well played, Michigan, well played. Watching David Axelrod explain why President Obama wasn’t lying when he said everyone could keep their health…

  • inside the bubble

    President Obama made an interesting comment yesterday while campaigning for his health care reset in Boston. He was attempting to defend his lie that those who like their health insurance policies will be able to keep them, and, according to the N.Y. Times, “He accused lawmakers in Washington of distorting that fact by failing to…

  • suing the government

    The many lawsuits against the HHS mandate may be overrun by current events. Now that hundreds of thousands of people are learning that, despite the President’s frequent assurances, they are not allowed to keep the affordable insurance policies they currently have, the Affordable Care Act may collapse of its own weight. Perhaps Nancy Pelosi should…

  • big bumbling brother

    When I lived in Beijing I operated under the assumption that someone was always watching or listening to my conversations. My friends and I would jokingly talk into the pepper shaker in restaurants, but also we would seriously examine each letter for signs it had been opened and resealed, talk in code in those letters…

  • whose justice? whose morality?

    I awoke this morning with a thought experiment that might be interesting to try out. When someone says that opposition to same sex marriage is immoral (or disrespectful, demeaning, unjust, unloving, or whatever term they might use), ask them how they know this. On what basis is it immoral? They can’t just say it’s obvious,…