January 7, 2023
“The fact is that Donald Trump 2024 has a reasonable chance to beat anyone the Democrats launch at him.” — Kurt Schlichter, trial lawyer/writer/commentator Last year, Kurt Schlichter wrote a few columns about likely and potential Republican candidates for U.S. President in 2024. I wanted to do a quick review of what he said about […]
Tags: 2024 election, alternatives, campaign strategy, Donald Trump, Kurt Schlichter, message, opposition, personal behavior, positives and negatives, record in office
Posted in Politics |
January 1, 2023
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for a bi-annual “Top 10” list, in which I briefly preview and link to my favorite posts from this blog — this time, from 2021 and 2022. (Last such post was here.) In particular, they are typically ones in which I did more than just quote a big block […]
Tags: blogging, favorite posts, recommended, sample posts, suggested reading, Top 10
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
December 25, 2022
I’m gonna go somewhat off-topic for the Xmas holidays. I know, I know. Some people (maybe you?) strongly dislike these songs for one reason or another. But, I like ’em. Such songs can trigger nostalgic feelings or memories from one’s childhood or some other event, and sometimes they just add a nice bit of Christmas […]
Tags: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Baby It's Cold Outside, Betty Garrett, Christmas Don't Be Late, Christmas tunes, David Seville, Dominick the Donkey, Eartha Kitt, Emilia Clarke, Esther Williams, fun songs, Gayla Peevey, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, Last Christmas, Lou Monte, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Santa Baby, Thurl Ravenscroft, You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch
Posted in Uncategorized |
December 18, 2022
“The eruption demonstrated that geologic catastrophe can produce in hours and days geologic features previously believed to have taken millions of years. When we see what the volcano did in such a short time, we can better appreciate how the catastrophe of Noah’s Flood formed the much larger geological features on planet Earth.” — Dr. […]
Tags: catastrophism, counter-arguments, dating of fresh dacite, Don Stoner, flood geology, geological features, gradual processes, Grand Canyon book, improper comparisons, landslides, misrepresentation, Mount St. Helens, mudflows, Noah's flood, non-YEC explanations, polystrate trees, potassium-argon method, prehistoric floods, pyroclastic flows, radiometric dating, rapid processes, rapid sedimentation events, rock layers, sedimentation, standard geology, strata formation, Tas Walker, uniformitarianism, volcanic ash, volcanic eruption, young-earth creationism
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
December 11, 2022
“No, it’s not about the economy. It’s about our kids and the cultural indoctrination that is poisoning their futures.” — Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a free market think tank By now, we are all aware of the results from the 2022 mid-terms here in America. The GOP […]
Tags: age-inappropriate subjects, conservative values, countering the woke Left, cultural battlefield, economic issues, educational decisions, family values, GOP strategy, health decisions, indoctrination in schools, parental rights, principled stand, protecting the children, social issues, special-interest agendas, urban families, urban vote
Posted in Politics |
December 4, 2022
It’s not just China’s huge armies we have to be concerned about, or their technological know-how. To put it bluntly, we are losing the diplomacy game to Communist China. But, we don’t have to. I have posted before about the threat China poses not just to American dominance but to freedom and prosperity around the […]
Tags: Anthony B. Kim, Belt and Road Initiative, CCP, foreign policy, geopolitical competition, Heritage Foundation, infrastructure, International Development Finance Corporation, international diplomacy, partnering, re-prioritization, world threat
Posted in Politics |
November 27, 2022
“Norman Geisler considers his view a ‘middle’ ground position, however, many Reformed critics of Geisler could categorize him as holding a weakened form of Arminianism.” — Peter Sammons, Reprobation and God’s Sovereignty, 109, n.14 This is a follow-up to my post of a few weeks back. I had mentioned Dr. Norman Geisler as a notable […]
Tags: accurate representation, anti-Calvinists, Calvinism, doctrines of grace, double predestination, extreme Calvinist, God's sovereignty, historical misunderstanding, Hyper-Calvinism, mischaracterization, misrepresentation, moderate Calvinist, Norman Geisler, Peter Sammons, predestination, redefinition of terms, Reformed theology, reprobation, supralapsarianism, ultimacy
Posted in Religion |
November 20, 2022
You might read that title and think I’m a little weird. But, by the end of this post, you’ll be thankful for the lil fellas, too. (Though you may still think I’m weird.) A few years ago, I was having some digestive issues. (Nothing major.) I don’t remember the details — probably just as well […]
Tags: A.J. Roberts, bacteria, brain health, digestive health, fighting malnutrition, fighting obesity, gut microbes, healthy diet, Hugh Ross, Intelligent Design, metabolism, microbiome, microbiota, natal development, neurochemistry, probiotics, RTB
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
November 13, 2022
Kanye West — I refuse to call him ‘Ye’ — gets a lot of grief. This has been especially true in recent years, now that he has adopted a largely conservative political view and become a Christian (of some sort). As with Donald Trump, some of the criticism is fair, thanks to his big ego […]
Tags: anti-Semitism, backtracking, bad theology, bipolar disorder, Black Jews?, Black voice, business relationships, business woes, Candace Owens, controversial t-shirts, death con 3, Drink Champs, Instagram exchange with Diddy, Jewish business owners, Jewish conspiracy, Kanye West, misperception, offensive remarks, remarks about George Floyd, Tucker Carlson, White Lives Matter
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion, Uncategorized |
November 6, 2022
“The more you investigate, the more likely you are to find that there is LESS to these stories than meets the eye.” — astronomer Andrew Fraknoi, Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future journal Continuing from Part 1, we again consider the question asked in the post’s title: When is a UFO […]
Tags: alien spacecraft, CUFOS, environmental factors, faulty human perception, flying saucer, fraud, hoaxes, identified flying object, IFO, instrumental factors, John A. Saliba, man-made phenomena, misidentification, mysterious lights, natural explanation, natural phenomena, scientific investigation, subjective cases, UAP, UFO
Posted in Science |