April 21, 2019
“Then the Day of Unleavened Bread came when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”… So they went and found [the guest room] just as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover.” — Luke […]
Tags: blood sacrifice, Charlton Heston, Christ on the Cross, classic film, death of firstborn males, Easter, Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, led out of captivity, new covenant, old covenant, Paschal Lamb, Passover, Promised Land, slavery to sin, Ten Commandments, Ten Plagues, the Resurrection
Posted in Religion |
April 14, 2019
“Its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm.” — author/editor/publisher Martin Green Something a little different for you today… In 1946, Aldous Huxley wrote a Forward to the new edition of his Brave New World (1932). It was part retrospective, in which he […]
Tags: Aldous Huxley, brainwashing, Brave New World, cloning, dystopian, economic security, efficiency, eugenics, militarism, propaganda, recreational drugs, scientific caste system, sexual promiscuity, the problem of happiness, totalitarianism, utopia, welfare-tyranny
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
April 7, 2019
“[The Equality Act is the] most extreme threat to religious freedom, free speech, privacy, and to women’s rights that has ever been proposed by Congress. [It] will be used as a wrecking ball to churches, religious organizations, religious freedom, and free speech.” — Liberty Counsel The Equality Act has been around for several years, and […]
Tags: Barronelle Stutzman, Civil Rights Act, Equality Act, federal sexual orientation and gender identity law, Greg Angelo, H.R. 5, Jack Phillips, Jerrold Nadler, Julia Beck, LGBT activism, Nancy Pelosi, SOGI
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
March 31, 2019
“The collusion delusion is over.” — President Donald Trump For three years now, America has been caught up in the “Russian collusion” investigation into Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. Roughly the past two of those years have been under the direction of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Plenty of people — both among those involved […]
Tags: Attorney General William Barr, Bill Barr, Department of Justice, obstruction of justice, redacted version of Mueller report, Robert Mueller, Russian election interference, Special Counsel, summary letter, The Daily Wire, Trump campaign, Trump-Russia collusion
Posted in Politics |
March 24, 2019
“If the distances are wrong, then an object may appear small and dim not because it is incredibly distant, but because it really is small and dim. And faulty distances mean that any theory based on them — such as the big bang — is faulty too!” — Andrew Rigg, freelance journalist and amateur astronomer, […]
Tags: A Matter of Days, Andrew Rigg, answering YEC concerns, Astrophysical Journal, calibration, Cepheid binary, CHARA, Creation Magazine, direct and indirect measurements, Hugh Ross, interferometers, MIRC, radio telescopes, reliability of indirect measurement methods, stellar spectroscopy, triangulation, trigonometric parallax, V13334, VLBA, YEC challenges
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 17, 2019
“Ignore the economic solutions that work; and instead turn to failed socialist policies dictated by ideology rather than reality. That’s the California way.” — writer at “Start Thinking Right” blog California is a beautiful place. Traveling the length and breadth of the state, one would see mountains, desert, forests, plateaus, beaches, grape and orange orchards, […]
Tags: California government, federal tax law, high-speed rail, homeless people, illegal immigration, Leftist ideology, misguided laws and regulations, neo-socialism, progressive policies, restricted rights, serious economic issues, Start Thinking Right, state tax deduction caps, Victor Davis Hanson, water storage
Posted in Politics |
March 10, 2019
“[The Commercial Crew Program] is one step closer to launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil.” — NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine In Aug. 2016, I wrote about SpaceX’s repeated missions carrying cargo back-and-forth between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS) with its Dragon capsule. I also mentioned SpaceX’s plans for future manned […]
Tags: American astronauts, American space program, Bridenstine quote, commercial aerospace industry, Commercial Crew Program, commercial space vehicles, Crew Dragon, Dragon capsule, Elon Musk, International Space Station, ISS, manned spaceflight, NASA, Ripley dummy, SpaceX
Posted in Science |
March 3, 2019
“Cohen’s consciousness of wrongdoing is fleeting… his remorse is minimal, and… his instinct to blame others is strong.” — acting U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami of the Southern District of New York For twelve years, Michael Cohen served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney, complete with attorney-client privilege and a loyalty such that he would “take a […]
Tags: congressional testimony, Donald Trump, Fred Lucas, Hans von Spakovsky, Matt Walsh, Michael Cohen, Mueller investigation, pattern of deception, Robert Khuzami, Russian collusion, The Daily Signal, The Daily Wire, untrustworthy
Posted in Politics |
February 24, 2019
“The increasingly precise dates determined by astronomers trouble atheists intent on explaining life by natural means alone. The dates are too recent. But at the same time, they’re far too ancient to help creationists intent on defending a six-consecutive-24-hour-creation-days interpretation of Genesis 1.” — Hugh Ross, astrophysicist, pastor, and Christian apologist As regular readers may […]
Tags: A Matter of Days, age of universe, astrophysics, burnt-out stars, cooling curve, cooling sequence, cosmic age measurement, cosmic chronometer, fine-tuning, globular star clusters, gravitational collapse, Hugh Ross, life of a star, rate of cooling, residual thermal energy, stages in a star's development, star's luminosity, white dwarf
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
February 17, 2019
“Putting aside the fact that, as written, it would receive a C+ in any high school English class, it essentially articulates a magical world in which the skies rain chocolate, the world is powered by unicorn farts, and AOC dances through the gumdrop meadows to Lisztomania.” — Ben Shapiro, conservative columnist/commentator and radio host The […]
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Ben Shapiro, FAQ issues, GND, Green New Deal, Leftist idealism, media spins AOC lies, radical environmentalism, radical Leftists, smackdown, socialist utopia, young and naive
Posted in Politics |