August 18, 2019
“We’re open for business, not for sale.” — Greenland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Q: What is roughly 836,000+ sq mi, has fewer than 56,000 citizens, is acknowledged to be the world’s largest island, and has sparked an unusual amount of attention lately? A: Greenland, of course. As you may have heard, President Trump recently began […]
Tags: buy Greenland, characteristics of a continent, Denmark, geopolitical value, Greenland's history, Harry S Truman, mining interests, Missile Early Warning System, NATO, natural resources, President Trump, strategic loction, Thule Air Base, Why isn't Greenland a continent?, William Seward
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August 11, 2019
“We have reason to believe that Google is knowingly, deliberately, strategically manipulating people’s thinking and behavior from the very first character people type into the search box.” — Dr. Robert Epstein This past July, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee — specifically, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution — held a Congressional hearing about unethical […]
Tags: "Go Vote", answer-bot effect, Big Tech, congressional hearing, data manipulation, Democrat bias, election interference, Facebook, Google, Robert Epstein, search engine manipulation effect, search suggestion effect, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Ted Cruz, Twitter, unethical behavior, voter manipulation on a massive scale
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August 4, 2019
In case you hadn’t heard, Joshua Harris (no relation), one of the leading lights of “purity culture”, is no longer promoting the practices he wrote about in the popular I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997/2003). But, this is only part of the serious and surprising changes going on with Harris. Harris would follow up that first […]
Tags: a Christian leader leaves the faith, apology to LGBTQ, apostate, bestselling author, C. Michael Patton, cultural gospel, how not to react, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris, loss of faith in Jesus, purity culture leader gets divorce
Posted in Religion |
July 28, 2019
“MINAHASA: an Indonesian people inhabiting the Minahasa Peninsula of northeast Sulawesi” — Merriam-Webster Do you ever get really grossed out when you see or hear what certain other cultures eat? Certainly, missionaries and other visitors from one part of the world to another will encounter some “delicacies” that seem awfully strange, even disgusting. Why is […]
Tags: Acts 10-11, ANE customs and worldviews, Asian diets, biblical lessons about food, biologically edible vs. culturally edible, Brandon O'Brien, cultural blinders, cultural mores, Jewish dietary laws, Minahasan people, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, misunderstanding Scripture, Peter's vision, Randy Richards, redneck cuisine, weird food, Western presuppositions
Posted in Religion |
July 21, 2019
I didn’t post one in June, but this week I’d like to continue my series of excerpts from Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed., about scientific measurements for distance and, especially, time (e.g., the age of the Earth and certain things on it). Whereas in May we looked at radiometric dating, this […]
Tags: 100000-year periodic cycle, Antarctica, crosschecking dating methods, eccentricity of Earth's orbit, Greenland, Hugh Ross, ice core dating, lost squadron, melt and freezing layers, seasonal changes, sediment core dating, validates radiometric dating, World War II fighters buried in Greenland ice, WW2 planes buried in ice
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
July 14, 2019
“Forty years ago, Liam Neeson roamed in Black neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland looking for an innocent Black man to attack—a Black man like me….” — Samuel Sey I have recently become aware of the writings of Samuel Sey at the Slow To Write blog. Sey is a Ghanaian-born Canadian who writes with brutal honesty — […]
Tags: apology, decades-old sin, forgiveness, Good Morning America, Liam Neeson, Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, racism, Samuel Sey
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
July 7, 2019
“It seems anything this president does or tries to do, Democrats object and go after him for — and that’s just wrong. It’s gotten so tiresome.” — a New York-based attendee, father of four and a military veteran No sooner had Trump announced the “A Salute to America” event in Washington, D.C. and that he […]
Tags: A Salute to America, anti-Trump fearmongering, Charlie Pierce, David French, display of military strength, Donald Trump, expected disasters, Fourth of July, Independence Day 2019, jet flyovers, Jonathan Bernstein, Joy Reid, July 4th celebration in Washington D.C., Lincoln Memorial, Maggie Haberman, Margaret Brennan, military coup, tanks in Washington, typical of authoritarian regimes, unifying speech
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June 30, 2019
“The truth is that Iran and the United States are now engaged in a great chess match. But the stakes are not those of intellectual gymnastics. The game is no game, for it involves the lives, and possible deaths, of thousands.” — Victor Davis Hanson, noted author/historian/professor For the past couple days, the biggest Trump […]
Tags: aborted retaliatory strike, Arab oil supply, failed nuclear deal, foreign policy, Heritage Foundation, international diplomacy, Iranian aggression, James Phillips, measured response, Middle Eastern oil, military restraint, nuclear power, oil tanker attacks, oil-dependent economies, patience, President Trump, sanctions, shot down drone, Trump administration, uranium enrichment, Victor Davis Hanson
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June 23, 2019
MORES (pronounced like “morays”): “folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group” — Webster’s Dictionary Bible reading can be… confusing, at times. And, even when it doesn’t seem to be, sometimes we misunderstand what is actually being advised, commanded, described, or otherwise referred to. One of the […]
Tags: ANE customs and worldviews, biblical lessons about money, Brandon O'Brien, Christian modesty in dress, cultural blinders, cultural mores, economical modesty, I Corinthians 11, I Timothy 2, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, misunderstanding Scripture, Randy Richards, sexual modesty, Western presuppositions, women's head covering
Posted in Religion |
June 16, 2019
“[I]t seems to me to be very unfair; it’s called freedom of speech.” — President Trump to CNN Just to be clear up front, the particular “problematic” women I’m referring to are not those who are actually a problem for the President — e.g., Omarosa or Stormy or Nancy. Rather, I’m talking about influential women […]
Tags: Candace Owens, Communications Director, freedom of speech, Hans von Spakovsky, Hatch Act violations, Henry Kerner, Kellyanne Conway, OSC charges, Pat Cipollone, recommended firing, resignation, Ryan Saavedra, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, search for replacement, Senior Counselor to the President, Stephanie Grisham, The Daily Signal, Trump administration, U.S. Office of Special Counsel, White House Press Secretary, White House response
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