A View from the Right Science, POLITICS, & Religion

“By the time the court rules, that may be discombobulating to our plan.” — Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to the Wall Street Journal I wrote early last year about then-Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s “new draft offshore oil and gas plan” which would make “over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage […]

It seems we have had a spate of recent discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology that got some attention in the popular press. The biggest one, of course, was the first image of an actual black hole — highlighted by its surrounding accretion disk, of course. That image became so popular that it was “honored” to […]

“Then the Day of Unleavened Bread came when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”… So they went and found [the guest room] just as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover.”  — Luke […]

“Its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm.”  — author/editor/publisher Martin Green Something a little different for you today… In 1946, Aldous Huxley wrote a Forward to the new edition of his Brave New World (1932). It was part retrospective, in which he […]

“[The Equality Act is the] most extreme threat to religious freedom, free speech, privacy, and to women’s rights that has ever been proposed by Congress. [It] will be used as a wrecking ball to churches, religious organizations, religious freedom, and free speech.”  — Liberty Counsel The Equality Act has been around for several years, and […]

“The collusion delusion is over.”  — President Donald Trump For three years now, America has been caught up in the “Russian collusion” investigation into Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. Roughly the past two of those years have been under the direction of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Plenty of people — both among those involved […]

“If the distances are wrong, then an object may appear small and dim not because it is incredibly distant, but because it really is small and dim. And faulty distances mean that any theory based on them — such as the big bang — is faulty too!”  — Andrew Rigg, freelance journalist and amateur astronomer, […]

“Ignore the economic solutions that work; and instead turn to failed socialist policies dictated by ideology rather than reality. That’s the California way.”  — writer at “Start Thinking Right” blog California is a beautiful place. Traveling the length and breadth of the state, one would see mountains, desert, forests, plateaus, beaches, grape and orange orchards, […]

“[The Commercial Crew Program] is one step closer to launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil.”  — NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine In Aug. 2016, I wrote about SpaceX’s repeated missions carrying cargo back-and-forth between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS) with its Dragon capsule. I also mentioned SpaceX’s plans for future manned […]

“Cohen’s consciousness of wrongdoing is fleeting… his remorse is minimal, and… his instinct to blame others is strong.”  — acting U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami of the Southern District of New York For twelve years, Michael Cohen served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney, complete with attorney-client privilege and a loyalty such that he would “take a […]