Archive for April, 2018

Glimpsing the Future with Newt

April 29, 2018

“The future is going to be amazing, and we should be optimistic that as a free people we can lead the world into that future – just as we led the world with new developments in cars, airplanes, computers and the Internet.”  — Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and unabashed […]

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Remolding Culture One “Classic” at a Time

April 22, 2018

“The exercise seems aimed primarily at avoiding contact with antiquated beliefs, racist language, and sexist assumptions.”  — Thomas D. Williams, PhD I confess, I’m not really a “classic lit” sort of guy. Although, I have read a few of the usual entries in whole (e.g., The Holy Bible, The Hobbit, Mere Christianity) or in part […]

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Do the Rich Pay Their “Fair Share” of Taxes?

April 15, 2018

We hear a lot of talk (mostly from the political Left) about this “fair share” idea. My question has always been, “Who decides what is ‘fair’, and how do they come up with that?” To me, “fair” would be roughly equivalent to “proportional to income”, which is what everyone should pay (with exceptions for the […]

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Inspired by Woodpeckers

April 8, 2018

“But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.”  — Job 12:7 (HCSB) The other day I was eating lunch out in our sunroom, when I suddenly heard some loud tapping noises on or near the roof. The sounds didn’t last long, fortunately, but […]

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Suffering and the God Who Got Involved

April 1, 2018

“3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. 4 He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”  — II […]

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