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“You cannot understand the Palestinian refugee question while not at the same time also understanding the broader historical, political, and legal circumstances surrounding the issue.” — Lex Takkenberg, a senior advisor for the Jordan-based Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development When reading or listening to the discussions about the Israeli/Hamas conflict, you might have wondered […]
“No Peace with Israel. No Recognition of Israel. No Negotiations with Israel.” — statement from the Arab League Summit (1967) It wasn’t easy to choose a topic for this week, but I eventually decided on the Israel vs. Palestine/Hamas war. But, rather than me spending a lot of time writing something up, I found a […]
As my regular readers know, I am a conservative Christian with an interest in Christian apologetics. It is both interesting and frustrating to see some of the stuff that well-meaning people have put on the internet in order to answer a challenge to their “faith” and/or to put an atheist or other non-Christian in his/her […]
Did you watch the second GOP presidential primary debate the other day? I didn’t, but I understand that things got a bit heated between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis at one point. It was over the topic of energy independence, specifically DeSantis’ policies as governor of Florida. Haley accused DeSantis, saying, “Day Two [of your […]
Many topics were brought up in the House Judiciary Committee’s recent meeting featuring Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland was there to give “sworn testimony”, but not too surprisingly much of it amounted to expressions of ignorance, forgetfulness, and evasion. The Daily Signal‘s Fred Lucas has provided seven takeaways, which I will give here in shortened […]
I cited from John Lennox’s book God’s Undertaker not long ago. The mathematician discusses various factual and logical challenges to Richard Dawkins’ analogy for natural processes which posits an infinite number of monkeys “randomly” typing works of Shakespeare — or even just a single target word. In my opinion, the refutation of the typing monkeys […]
“Ford! There’s and infinite amount of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.” — Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Earlier this year, I produced two posts citing mathematician John C. Lennox’s book, God’s Undertaker. The first was about Galileo’s legendary […]
“There are costly damages associated with climate change. But there are also costly damages associated with climate policies. Too many politicians and the media focus only on the former.” — Bjorn Lomborg As I sometimes do, I’d like to share an excerpt or three from Hillsdale College’s Imprimis newsletter. This time it is from a […]
“The authors have definitely found something new. This is a really weird, stupendously large, early whale.” — paleobiologist Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Thirteen years after paleontologist Mario Urbina discovered some really big fossils in the coastal desert of Peru, he and his team were […]
“The Church of Diversity waxes strong. All must be cleansed; all must be saved.” — Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc. As I have said before, Vivek Ramaswamy is not my first (or second, or third) choice among the GOP’s current presidential candidates. But, he is anti-woke, and I think he has some good ideas. So, I […]
