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No New Funding for IRS

July 18, 2021

No need to set this up, really. Here is a quote you may have missed from a piece by Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform: “Congress should not increase funding for the IRS. Not $40 billion more, as a ‘bipartisan’ group of senators demands. Not $80 billion more, as Biden and the Democrat […]

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‘Lived Experience’ and the Prison of Tribes Thinking

July 11, 2021

“To see every interaction as containing hidden violence is to become a permanent victim, because if all you are is a nail, everything looks like a hammer.” — Conor Barnes, former radical Even before the extreme radicalization and push for “social justice”, Critical Race Theory and its kin, etc., of recent years, I observed more […]

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When Pepsi Had a Navy

July 4, 2021

“We’re disarming the Soviet Union faster than you are.” — Donald M. Kendall, CEO of Pepsi, to Brent Scowcroft, President George H.W. Bush’s national security adviser It was 1990, and the Cold War was coming to an end, as the Soviet Union dissolved from within. Odd as it may sound, Pepsi “suddenly” found itself in […]

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Effects of the Fall on Creation and ‘Justifying’ Billions of Years

June 27, 2021

As happens occasionally, I came across a “blast from the past” and thought some of my readers might appreciate it. Several years ago, I posted about David Snoke’s book, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth, and a reader commented with some follow-up questions. His name was Jason, and his questions touched on several topics […]

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The Order of God’s Decrees

June 20, 2021

“Before the foundation of the world, by sheer grace, according to the free good pleasure of his will, [God] chose in Christ to salvation a definite number of particular people out of the entire human race which had fallen by its own fault from its original innocence into sin and ruin.” — Canons of Dordt, […]

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How to Fight Corporate Wokeness

June 13, 2021

“Big business, this is supposed to be the one area of culture that conservatives have some lever of power, but we were losing it at a rapid pace.” — Justin Danhof, National Center for Public Policy Research With the ever-growing frequency of American corporations adopting and pushing “woke” Left agendas, it becomes increasingly frustrating for […]

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Misconceptions About Electromagnetic Pulses

June 6, 2021

Have you ever gotten into a conversation about doomsday scenarios and someone (maybe you) brings up the dangers of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs)? Maybe it came up during discussions of the recent Infrastructure bill? Did you wonder how much of what was claimed about EMPs was accurate versus based on hearsay or movie lore? For example, […]

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The Gathering Storm

May 30, 2021

“Can it happen here? Of course it can.” — Rod Dreher, socio-political commentator, author, editor Forgive me for stating the obvious, but there is a lot of scary stuff goin’ on out there. Our government “leadership” and the many ideological influencers they are in league with (e.g., academia, media, ‘progressive’ corporations and organizations, etc.) are […]

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The New ‘Master of Disaster’

May 23, 2021

“Thankfully, we don’t have those mean tweets, all caps. Look out, they were really hurting us.” — Pete Hegseth, co-host of “Fox & Friends” Fans of 1970s TV and cinema may be familiar with writer/director/producer Irwin Allen who earned the nickname “Master of Disaster” due to his work in the disaster film genre (e.g., The […]

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Out with Cheney, In with Stefanik

May 16, 2021

“[L]et us contemplate the message Republican leadership is about to send by rushing to coronate a spokesperson whose voting record embodies much of what led to the 2018 @$$-kicking we received by Democrats.” — Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) Earlier this week, neocon Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was removed from her position as Chair of the […]

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