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In Their Own Words: Islamists Plan to Transform U.S. Under Sharia Law

September 6, 2026

“While equal protections are safeguarded in our Constitution, Sharia promoted by Islamist movements conflicts with those protections. The two cannot coexist.” — Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel Action In case you’re wondering what I meant by “Islamist” in the above title, the following definition I got from an AI Search Assistant should clarify: “An Islamist is […]

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Why Is Sen. Murkowski Lying About the SAVE America Act?

August 30, 2026

I will mostly limit my commentary here, except to explain that I extracted the following excerpt from an email I received a couple days ago from Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel Action. — — — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stood on the Senate floor and painted a grim picture of the supposed damage the SAVE […]

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Have Trump’s Tariffs Driven a Manufacturing Boom? Not So Fast…

August 23, 2026

“The new narrative from the pro-tariff crowd — which rarely differentiates correlation from causation — is that the ongoing manufacturing upswing is a clear Trump trade policy success story.” — Scott Lincicome, “Dispatch Markets” Readers may remember that the pro-tariff policies of the Trump Administration are one of the major differences I have with our […]

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Why Would a Good God Make a Bad Place Like Hell?

August 16, 2026

Last month, I shared a vignette from Part 1 of the “Rapid Fire” series published in Stand to Reason’s (STR) newsletter. (It was a follow-up to earlier posts in which I shared vignettes from Parts 4 & 5 in the series.) In this post, Greg Koukl clearly addresses another question (from Part 1) often posed […]

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El-Sayed’s Win and What This Means for Republicans

August 9, 2026

“A Michigan flip here almost guarantees the GOP will retain control of the Senate.” — Matt Vespa, Towhhall This past Tuesday, Progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed got roughly 1% of the vote more than centrist Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens, thereby securing the Democrat nomination for Michigan’s Senate seat. He will go on to face Republican Rep. […]

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Fixing the Replication Crisis

August 2, 2026

Are you familiar with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya? Bhattacharya was a professor of medicine at Stanford University, where he received both an MD and a PhD in economics. He has held positions at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Standford […]

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Why Does God Make Death the Deadline for Salvation?

July 26, 2026

I figured I was “due” to share something involving Christian theology or apologetics this week, but I didn’t have anything in the works and was growing short on time. Then I remembered Stand to Reason (STR) and the “Rapid Fire” series they did in their newsletter not long ago. If you’ve been reading along, you […]

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NRC Bureaucrats Need to Up Their Nuclear Game

July 19, 2026

“That’s just a bunch of crap.” — Ray Rothrock, former nuclear engineer It’s not hard to find articles these days about rising electricity prices, overburdened power grids, “clean energy”, etc. I’ve posted at least a couple myself. One of the strangest — or, perhaps, just more frustrating — things is the ongoing, anti-nuclear rhetoric and […]

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Structuralism of the Gaps?

July 12, 2026

My regular readers may recall that I did a few posts last year in which I quoted Michael Denton, MD, PhD, from his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985). It was the Bonus Re-Read in my “Five Non-Fiction Books I Enjoyed Reading in 2025” post. This year, I am (slowly and sporadically) working my […]

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What SCOTUS Got Wrong Re Birthright Citizenship

July 5, 2026

“Alito and Thomas argue that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 clearly shows that ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ meant to exclude individuals “subject to any foreign power.” — Tyler O’Neil, Daily Signal As you are likely aware, the Supreme Court of the United States recently voted on the matter of “birthright citizenship” in Trump […]

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