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 […]
Tags: anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, bigotry, censorship, discrimination, funding of IRS, Internal Revenue Service, leaks of private tax info, partisan, political machine, unconstitutional
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
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 […]
Tags: daily retraumatization, fearmongering, generalizing, internalized fears, lived experience, perceived dangers, permanent victimhood, psychological oppression, seeking true justice, social justice ideology, TRIBES, Tribes thinking, ungeneralizing, woke indoctrination, wokeness
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
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 […]
Tags: advantage over Coca-Cola, American National Exhibition, capitalist products in USSR, cola wars, Donald M. Kendall, end of Cold War, Khrushchev and Nixon, Kitchen Debate, Pepsi trade deal, Soviet ships, vodka
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized |
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 […]
Tags: age of the Earth, built-in obsolescence, creation groans, David Snoke, death before the Fall, effects of the Fall, eisegesis, Fall of Adam, harmony of nature and Bible, long lifespans, Mark S. Whorton, millions of years, nuances of Greek, plain reading, pre-Flood vs. post-Flood lifespans, Romans 8, scientific investigation, the Curse, YEC vs. OEC
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
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, […]
Tags: Amyraldism, Calvinist, creation, decretal theology, divine election, divine sovereignty, Fall of Man, God's decrees, human free will, infralapsarianism, lapsarian views, logical order, Molinism, redemption, Reformed, reprobation, salvation in Christ, Sam Storms, supralapsarianism, the case for soft infralapsarianism, theological terms, Tom Barnes
Posted in Religion |
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 […]
Tags: BLM, boycotts, corporate stakeholders, corporate wokeness, CRT, culture wars, engage businesses, Free Enterprise Project, identity politics, Justin Danhof, LGBTQ+, racism, SJW, social justice, The Daily Signal Podcast, woke capitalism
Posted in Politics |
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, […]
Tags: amplifiers, data networks, E1, E3, electrical grid, electronic systems, EMP, fast pulse, fiber-optic, major vulnerability, multiple interdependencies, nuclear explosion, power grid, protection costs, SCADA, slow pulse, transformers
Posted in Science |
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 […]
Tags: anti-Christian persecution, Critical Race Theory, illiberal ideology, leftist agenda, Leftward push, Rod Dreher, social atomization, social credit system, social justice, soft totalitarianism, Solzhenitsyn quote, surrender privacy for convenience, surveillance capitalism, wokeness
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
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 […]
Tags: border crisis, emboldened Hamas, falling consumer confidence, hiring slowdown, moratorium on deportations, President Joe Biden, rising gas prices, rising inflation, rising unemployment, stagflation, unforced errors, war on fossil fuels
Posted in Politics |
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 […]
Tags: Chair of the House Republican Conference, Chip Roy, conservative vs establishment, election fraud claims, Elise Stefanik, Liz Cheney, loyalty to Trump, Matt Schlapp, moderate, ousted from position, party message, Republican leadership, RINO, TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump support
Posted in Politics |