A View from the Right Science, POLITICS, & Religion

“People know my views on the Iran deal. It was a terrible deal. It should have never ever been made. It’s insane. It’s ridiculous.”  — President Donald Trump When the leaders of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China signed onto the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015, many […]

“The future is going to be amazing, and we should be optimistic that as a free people we can lead the world into that future – just as we led the world with new developments in cars, airplanes, computers and the Internet.”  — Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and unabashed […]

“The exercise seems aimed primarily at avoiding contact with antiquated beliefs, racist language, and sexist assumptions.”  — Thomas D. Williams, PhD I confess, I’m not really a “classic lit” sort of guy. Although, I have read a few of the usual entries in whole (e.g., The Holy Bible, The Hobbit, Mere Christianity) or in part […]

We hear a lot of talk (mostly from the political Left) about this “fair share” idea. My question has always been, “Who decides what is ‘fair’, and how do they come up with that?” To me, “fair” would be roughly equivalent to “proportional to income”, which is what everyone should pay (with exceptions for the […]

“But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.”  — Job 12:7 (HCSB) The other day I was eating lunch out in our sunroom, when I suddenly heard some loud tapping noises on or near the roof. The sounds didn’t last long, fortunately, but […]

“3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. 4 He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”  — II […]

“I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend….”  — Presidential tweet, 3/22/2018 So, McMaster is out and Bolton is in. Hmmm… First, a couple […]

“China’s cyber-spies have been hacking countries left and right. They were blamed for the enormous data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management that compromised the data of more than 21 million people.”  — Samuel Bocetta, CFIF We’ve all heard of “cyberwarfare”. It gets mentioned in the news along with “cybersecurity” and various attempts […]

“26 For you are all sons of God through trusting in Messiah Yeshua. 27 For all of you who were immersed in Messiah have clothed yourselves with Messiah. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female — for you are all one in Messiah […]

“By the way, bump stocks — we’re writing that out. I’m writing that out myself. I don’t care if Congress does it or not. I’m writing it out myself, okay? You put it into the machine-gun category, which is what it is. It becomes, essentially, a machine gun. And nobody’s gonna be able — it’s […]