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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 […]
Following the Parkland school shooting, the issues of who’s to blame and “what kind of gun control can we pass now?” have been at the top of Current Events news here in the States for several days. It’s the usual stuff — lots of calls for banning guns, reinforced by slogans and “information” by activists […]
“I’d hate to see a new tax siphon off 20 percent of the $1,000 tax reform bonuses back to the swamp this year.” — Adam Brandon, President of FreedomWorks If we needed another reminder that President Trump is, shall we say, inconsistent in his newly-adopted conservatism, we got tariffs imposed on solar panels and washing […]
“[S]tupid. Asinine. Ridiculous. Ludicrous. Imbecilic. Witless. Obtuse. Fatuous. Harebrained. Doltish. Preposterous.” — Ben Shapiro, commenting on Rabbi Kolton’s claims Originally, I was going to blog on something more politically-oriented this week, like infamous memos & dossiers, or maybe the budget deal. But, I came across something else that piqued my interest much more, so… The […]
