While the top 20 for each list is pending to post sometime on Friday, The Telegraph UK is publishing its Top 100 list of US Conservatives, and also of Liberals.
The list is interesting as it is an outsider’s perspective on the state of US politics — and I’m a fan of people who try to look in from the outside of anything. There’s usually a lot they don’t understand, but also there’s a lot that the “insiders” can learn from how they look from the outside.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the Gospel. But since the politics of the United States is a hot topic at this blog, I thought I’d mention it.
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