September 29, 2024
“A bipartisan Senate report released Wednesday blasts the U.S. Secret Service for several significant failures that led to the near-fatal assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, over the summer.” — Casey Harper, The Center Square The interim report referenced in the above quote was released by Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), […]
Tags: accumulation of errors, assassination attempt, Butler County, Casey Harper, Donald Trump, July 13 2024, Pennsylvania, presidential detail, Secret Service failure, Secret Service protection, Senate report, U.S. Secret Service
Posted in Politics |
September 22, 2024
One of the “evidences” for a young Earth that some Young Earth Creationists (YEC) like to present these days is the existence of paintings and carvings on stones (and maybe cave walls) that look a lot — or even just somewhat — like dinosaurs. (Or, at least, how dinosaurs are portrayed by modern artists. That’s […]
Tags: ancient art, carved stones, cave paintings, coincidental likeness, forgeries, fraud, Fuz Rana, human & dinosaur co-existence, Ica Stones, non-YEC explanations, petroglyph, reconstructions based on footprints and skeletal remains, stone paintings, YEC evidence
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
September 15, 2024
“Even with a bill that they believe will or could be a successful end run around the tyranny of the federal judiciary, [those who passed the Texas ‘heartbeat’ bill] still chose to violate God’s law absent any even pragmatically compelling reason to do so. This is indicative of an addiction to compromise on the part […]
Tags: abolitionist, abolitionist claims about incrementalists, agreement on principle, ban abortion, Christian concerns, compromise, fight against abortion, flawed and unfair accusations, immediatist, inconsistent, incrementalist, James Silberman quote, limit the evil, pragmatic, pro-life, Scott Klusendorf, shared goal, The Case for Life, unnecessarily divisive
Posted in Politics, Religion |
September 8, 2024
“Do tariffs defy the laws of supply and demand and lift our standard of living?” — opening question in “Separating Tariff Facts from Tariff Fictions” by Erica York, Cato Institute Every once in awhile, the issue of tariffs comes up in the news. Even with my limited knowledge of economics and tariffs, I know that, […]
Tags: 2018–2019 tariffs on China, American consumer loses, Cato Institute, economics, Erica York, few-if-any benefits, import/export, not good for the economy, primer on tariffs, protectionism, Trump trade policy, U.S. v. China
Posted in Politics |
September 1, 2024
“These are the faces of women who died because they could not obtain safe and legal abortions. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, these pictures could include your daughter, sister, mother, best friend, granddaughter.” — found on home page (in 2005) for the website of the National Organization for Women (NOW) when Justice O’Connor announced […]
Tags: back street, bad arguments, Christopher Tietze, coat hanger, DANFORR, Greg Koukl, Kris Hamel, Mary Anne Warren, Mary Calderone, most illegal abortions are done by licensed physicians, NOW, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life, unmitigated nonsense
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |