A View from the Right Science, POLITICS, & Religion

“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 […]

Jesuit priest/journalist Thomas Reese recently wrote a piece for “Religion News Service”, in which he discusses Pope Francis and some of his critics (within Catholicism) on the topic of God’s mercy vs. justice. “Deep in our hearts, we want Batman for God, someone who will beat up our enemies and punish evildoers. We really don’t […]

“[Joe Biden] was aware of Hunter’s business. He met with Hunter’s business partners.” — Devon Archer, being interviewed by Tucker Carlson I originally had something different in mind for this week. But, then this came up and, since it makes for a great sequel to last week’s post, I wanted to provide my own summary […]

This actually happened several days ago, and there has been more reported on the probe since, but I still thought it worth mentioning. You’ve all probably heard or read about the investigation(s) into Hunter Biden and his father, and a big part of that has to do with huge “consulting” fees and unpaid taxes. The […]

“[T]he rate of warming as measured by unperturbed surface stations, USCRN, and UAH does not represent a climate crisis.” — Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed (2022) Have you ever wondered how the climate gurus calculate things like average surface temperatures and warming trends? Where do they get the data? […]

“One way or another, the time is now for Congress to do what’s needed to fix the FBI and end its trampling of Americans’ most precious civil liberties.” — Steven G. Bradbury, Distinguished Fellow in the Executive Vice President’s Office at The Heritage Foundation For a while now, there have been calls to revamp or […]

“The Bible’s weird, but maybe not as weird as it seems at first.” — Robby Lashua, Stand to Reason This post is about one of those passages in the Bible that makes one say, “He did WHAT?!!” It is from Judges 11, in which the Israelites (specifically, those east of the River Jordan in the […]

“Disagreement isn’t discrimination, and the government can’t mislabel speech as discrimination to censor it.” — Kristen Waggoner, CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States finished up their latest term this past week, and, man, there were some big decisions with far-reaching ramifications! Most of the decisions are […]

“The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power — including power currently held by the executive branch — to the American people.” — Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump […]