June 7, 2020
“The purpose of all [new movements] was to arrest progress and freeze history at a chosen moment. The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop. As usual, the High were to be turned out by the Middle, who would then become the High; but this time, by conscious strategy, the High […]
Tags: controlled insanity, doublespeak, dystopian, Emmanuel Goldstein, George Orwell, historical revisionism, indoctrination, Ingsoc, linking-together of opposites, loyal Party member, Ministry of Truth, mutability of the past, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-Four, reality control, revolution, Thought Police
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized |
May 31, 2020
“War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” I have recently been reading George Orwell’s 1984. It is quite the disturbing vision of how our world might go in the future, though it’s obviously taking longer than Orwell thought it might. I came across a section I thought might be “fun” to share with […]
Tags: Big Brother, blackwhite, crimestop, doublespeak, dystopian, English Socialism, George Orwell, historical revisionism, indoctrination, Ingsoc, loyal Party member, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the State over all, Thought Police
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized |
May 24, 2020
Many people have heard of U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), but they may not know of his military background. After graduating Harvard Law, Cotton joined the Army and rose to the rank of 1st Lieutenant, serving in Iraq with the 101st Airborne and in Afghanistan with a Provincial Reconstruction Team. He was also awarded various […]
Tags: 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, Arlington National Cemetery, battlefield valor, Columbarium, Hillsdale College, honoring the fallen, Memorial Day, sacred duty, Section 60, Sen. Tom Cotton, The Old Guard, U.S. military, ultimate sacrifice
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May 17, 2020
“Out of every 100 Americans who pulled a Bible off a shelf today, 55 of them pulled down a King James Version. I feel fairly safe in saying that the King James is the only 1611 release still on any bestseller lists.” — Mark Ward, author, blogger, software trainer A lot of people have some […]
Tags: Alister McGrath, Authorized, cultural context, David Norton, historical background, In the beginning, James R. White, Kevin T. Bauder, King James Version Onlyism, KJV, Mark Ward, One Bible Only?, political context, Roy E. Beacham, textual criticism, The King James Bible, The King James Only Controversy
Posted in Religion |
May 10, 2020
Have you seen the “Plandemic” video? I haven’t, yet, but I kept seeing posts about it on Facebook and was wondering if it was worth my time. From the mixed comments I read/heard, it sounded questionable, but I couldn’t be sure. Then, a family-member forwarded some comments on “Plandemic” from an acquaintance of hers, Jeff […]
Tags: agenda-driven, Big Pharma, Careful Thinking, collusion, conspiracy theory, coronavirus, COVID-19, false claims, getting to the truth, inflammatory language, Judy Mikovits, misleading, Plandemic, rampant bias
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
May 3, 2020
“What happened to General Michael Flynn, a war hero, should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again!” — President Trump You may recall that Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn was forced into early retirement by President Obama in 2014. He joined the Trump presidential campaign in early 2016 and […]
Tags: attempt to discredit Trump, conflict of interest, corruption in U.S. intelligence community, Crossfire Razor, Deep State, Dept of Justice, entrapment, false allegations, FBI, intimidation, James Comey, Logan Act, manufactured crime, Marina Medvin, Michael Flynn, misconduct, Mueller investigation, National Security Advisor, perjury trap, Peter Strzok, railroaded, Russia collusion, travesty of justice, unacceptable practices
Posted in Politics |
April 26, 2020
“I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong and mislead people.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci in New York Magazine‘s Intelligencer Today, I present to you three articles I thought were pretty good reads regarding the COVID-19 situation. First […]
Tags: “Life above profits”, Ben Peterson, case fatality rate, Christian Research Journal, coronavirus, COVID-19, danger of certainty in science, death rates, decision-making, Dr. Anthony Fauci, economic impact, epidemic models, interconnectedness, lockdown, pandemic, Public Discourse, quarantine, risks to the economy, roundup, Scott Klusendorf, Uncommon Descent, vulnerability of the obese, WHO
Posted in Politics |
April 19, 2020
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams, 2nd President of the United States Over the past several weeks, I have shared portions of Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope — twice from the section on Leftism and once […]
Tags: American Trinity, American values, Americanism, beliefs of the Founders, Creator God, Dennis Prager, ethical monotheism, founding of American universities, George Washington, God who is involved, In God We Trust, John Adams quote, Judeo-Christian scripture, moral imperatives, not Deism, source of Liberty, source of morality, Still the Best Hope, Thomas Paine, unalienable rights
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
April 12, 2020
“Whether you are a person of faith or of none, you cannot escape the fact that the last six days of this man’s life, and his death, changed the world.” — Hugh Bonneville, actor A couple years ago, I came across this article about actor Hugh Bonneville (“Downton Abbey”) and the documentary he had completed: […]
Tags: Amos Oz, assumed late dates for Gospels, Calvary, crucifixion, documentary, Easter, economic factors, execution of Jesus, historical factors, historicity of biblical accounts, Hugh Bonneville, Jerusalem, Judas Iscariot, Passover Week, Pontius Pilate, radical theories, religious unrest, Resurrection Day, sociological factors, who killed Jesus
Posted in Religion |
April 5, 2020
“Only science gives reliable truth.” — believers in scientism Have you ever heard of a self-refuting view or idea? This is an idea that, when examined, actually defeats itself. It commits suicide. There are different types of self-refuting ideas, and some are easier to recognize than others. For example, if someone says, “All English sentences […]
Tags: contradictions, Greg Koukl, logical infanticide, logical suicide, Science, scientific method, scientism, self-destructive view, self-refuting idea, truth, Truth Box
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |