Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily article from Monday, October 1st, 2018.

The FBI is conducting another background check on Judge Brett Kavanaugh this week.

Agents can interview his friends from high school, study his calendars from the summer of 1982,

and check his records from college as well. I've heard people say, I'm glad it's not me. I wouldn't want my life

from 36 years ago to make the national news. I understand the sentiment. Some of the political

cartoons I've seen in recent days are horrifically deplorable. Tweets and other public comments

about Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford have been demeaning in the extreme. Well, here's the paradox in our system. On one hand,

it allows us to hold our leaders to a higher standard than we ask of ourselves. As Judge Kavanaugh

undergoes his seventh FBI investigation, details from his private life will be on public display.

On the other, in a representative democracy, leaders reflect those who elect

them. The bitter rancor of the Senate hearings mirrors the divisiveness of our day. Joseph de Maestri

claimed, every nation gets the government it deserves. I don't think that's true of representative

regimes such as I've witnessed in Cuba, but it's true of a democracy where we elect people to

represent us. So if we want character in our leaders, we must first seek it in ourselves. We cannot

expect leaders to take us further than we are willing to go. There was a day when Christians were the

conscience of their pagan society. When Romans discarded unwanted babies, Christians rescued them and raised

them as their own. In a day when they had no political capital to outlaw slavery or prostitution,

followers of Jesus purchased slaves and prostitutes, then set them free. When plague swept Rome

and the emperor in wealthy classes abandoned the city, Christians stayed behind to serve the sick

and buried the dead. The first Christians risked their lives to honor their Lord with the boldness

of their witness and the compassion of their service. And by Acts 176, they had, quote, turned the world

upside down. As the only salt and light and a decaying, darkening world, you and I must do no less today.

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