December 29, 2019
“Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne?” — “Auld Lang Syne”, English translation of first verse For this last post of the year, rather than doing my customary “Top 10”, I’m continuing with the musical theme from last week. One of the most […]
Tags: Auld Lang Syne, good times, New Year's Eve, old friends, Robert Burns, Scot, tradition
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December 22, 2019
We all have our favorite Christmas/holiday songs, so I figured I’d do a Top 10 list of mine. Well, some of mine. These are just my choices among the hymns and “classic”, Bible-oriented carols. (Maybe I’ll do a non-hymns list another time.) I tried to get a variety of choirs represented. In alphabetical order… 1) […]
Tags: Advent, carol, choir, Christ-Child, Christmas, hymn, Jesus, Messiah, Noel
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December 16, 2019
“If anyone asserts the fabulous preexistence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema.” — ‘The Anathemas against Origen’, attached to the decrees of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, A.D. 545, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers This week we continue addressing the various claims of “Sane guy”. You […]
Tags: Christianity, confused facts, denial of truth, Emperor Justinian I, Fifth Ecumenical Council, God of Love, Hell, Islamic jihadists, Origen, orthodoxy, Pope, reincarnation, responding to skeptics, Roman Catholic Church, Second Council of Constantinople, Vigilius
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December 8, 2019
“Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.” — William Ewart Gladstone Part of my daily routine involves scanning through the many emails I receive on politics and cultural issues. When I follow a link […]
Tags: Benedict XVI, Christianity, confused facts, Francis, Hell, John Paul II, La Repubblica, orthodoxy, Pope, responding to skeptics, Roman Catholic Church, watered-down theology, yoga
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December 1, 2019
“If [these measures] were rolled out nationally, the United States would save $2.4 trillion per year across individuals, businesses, and the government.” — Sean Flynn Democratic presidential candidates are pushing things like “Medicare for All” and a “public option”, which will only increase costs and perpetuate the weaknesses in our current system. In his book, […]
Tags: alternative approach, deductible security, economist, healthcare reform, Indiana, Medicare for All, price tags, Sean Masaki Flynn, Singapore, skin in the game, The Cure That Works, trillions in savings, U.S. healthcare industry
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November 24, 2019
“The Thanksgiving story is an absolution of the Pilgrims, whose brutal quest for absolute power in the New World is made to seem both religiously motivated and eminently human…. It is unalloyed racist propaganda, a tale that endures because it served the purposes of a succession of the Pilgrims’ political heirs, in much the same […]
Tags: anti-America, anti-West, anti-White, civil body politic, consent of the governed, extermination, genocide, Glen Ford, indigenous peoples, Jarrett Stepman, Native Americans, Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony, Puritans, racism in America, smallpox in blankets, Thanksgiving, The Daily Signal, The Mayflower Compact, white supremacy
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November 17, 2019
I have a fun one for you this week…. There have been many parts of the Bible’s historical narratives that have become well-known Bible stories. (Whether or not one accepts them as actual history is another issue.) Certainly, people who have been followers of Jesus for a number of years are familiar with these stories, […]
Tags: Adam and Eve, apple, Ararat, blinded, Cain and Abel, folk theology, great fish, Jonah, King Nebuchadnezzar, Magi, Noah's Ark, Road to Damascus, Saul's conversion, Three Kings, Three Wise Men, turned into an animal, whale
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November 10, 2019
“This lawlessness and violence isn’t being fueled by Mexico. American money and American drug addiction have paid for the growth of huge criminal organizations of extraordinary violence and cruelty.” — Newt Gingrich We have the equivalent of a Syria or Lebanon on our doorstep but with a much bigger population. The Mexican drug cartels are […]
Tags: addiction, American addicts, American money, brutal violence, corruption, criminal justice reform, economic solution, ICE, Mexican government, narco-State, Newt Gingrich, powerful drug cartels, Sara Carter, Sinaloa Cartel, treatment for addicts, U.S. policy, War on Drugs, warzone
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November 3, 2019
“Clearly, the Chinese Communist Party is eroding US economic influence abroad. The EXIM is one of our best tools to prevent this and keep America strong.” — Newt Gingrich Many of you might not realize (as I didn’t) that China has instituted something called the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), by which it finances infrastructure […]
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, China-centered trading network, communist inroads, debt-trap diplomacy, ECAs, economic and military dominance, eroding US economic influence, EXIM, Export Credit Agencies, global influence, Made in China 2025, Newt Gingrich, Trump vs. China, U.S. Export-Import Bank, Wei Fenghe
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October 31, 2019
“I don’t know what I’m doing, and it’s the not knowing that makes it interesting.” — Philip Glass, composer & pianist I couldn’t let the month of October pass without noting the 10th Anniversary of the “A View from the Right” blog! Whew! It really is hard to believe it has been that long. I’ve […]
Tags: anniversary, celebration, expected changes
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