April 1, 2018
“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 […]
Tags: crucifixion of Jesus, Easter, God is with us, II Corinthians 2 & 4, Isaiah 53, Justin Brierley, Luke 4, Psalm 22, Resurrection of Christ, suffering, the Incarnation, trusting God in hardship, Unbelievable?
Posted in Religion |
March 25, 2018
“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 […]
Tags: China, Executive Branch, foreign policy, H.R. McMaster, interventionist, Iran, John Bolton, military options, national security, National Security Advisor, North Korea, President Trump, president's inner circle, Russia, security hawk, Trump administration
Posted in Politics |
March 18, 2018
“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 […]
Tags: Center for Individual Freedom, CFIF, cyber attack, cyber-espionage, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, denial of service, infrastructure, internet bots, Locked Shields, malicious hackers, Samuel Bocetta, state-backed, Symantec, threat actors
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
March 11, 2018
“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 […]
Tags: Anglos in the synagogue, Gentiles, Jesus, Jewishness of the Gospel, Jews, Jews for Jesus, Messianic congregations, Messianic Judaism, non-Jewish rabbis, Yeshua the Messiah
Posted in Religion |
March 4, 2018
“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 […]
Tags: 2nd Amendment rights, ATF, bump stock ban, bump-fire stock, Chris Cillizza, Dept of Justice, executive fiat, firearm regulations, gun control, Jeff Sessions, President Trump, rate increasing devices, Second Amendment, semi-automatic rifles, Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Posted in Politics |
February 25, 2018
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 […]
Tags: 2nd Amendment rights, age to purchase a rifle, FBI Uniform Crime Report, firearms in the U.S., gun control, homicide statistics, homicides by different firearms, off-duty carry, pointless reforms, raising legal age to purchase
Posted in Politics |
February 18, 2018
“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 […]
Tags: 25 cents per gallon, Dan Clifton, Erin Coates, gas prices, gas tax, gasoline and diesel, Heritage Foundation, Highway Trust Fund, highways, intrastructure funding, public transit, Stephen Moore, Strategas Research, tax hike, Trump administration, Trump infrastructure plan
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February 12, 2018
“[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 […]
Tags: #MeToo, Ben Shapiro, Diocese of Washington DC, divine feminine, divine pronouns, Dr. Michael Brown, Dr. Nassar, El Shaddai, Episcopal Church, feminist theology, gendered language for God, God with breasts, liberal theology, Linda R. Calkins, making sinners into victims, Michael F. Haverluck, neutering God, ridiculous biblical interpretation, secular humanist judaism, sexual assault, social gospel, Tamara Kolton, the assault of Eve, twisting Scripture
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
February 4, 2018
“He pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the leaders and all the people in it. And the dead he killed at his death were more than those he had killed in his life.” — Judges 16:30b (HCSB) It wasn’t all that long ago — certainly within my lifetime — that instances […]
Tags: agent of divine retribution, Book of Judges, casualties of battle, destruction of the Canaanites, eyes gouged out, fight the infidel, flawed heroes, God's judgment, Greg Koukl, innocent civilians, jihadism, oppressors of the Israelites, Philistines, radical Muslim, Samson, suicide bombers, suicide mission, Surah 9, Temple of Dagon
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
January 28, 2018
Most of us — well, those of us on the political Right, anyway — are frustrated with the fact that Obamacare (ACA) has not been completely done away with. When the Senate failed to pass the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), which would have been at least a partial repeal, the President received […]
Tags: 1000 steps vs all-at-once, 340B drug discount program, ACA, AHCA, American Health Care Act of 2017, Association Health Plans, CMS, FDA, generic drugs approval, health care, healthcare reform, market stabilization measures, Newt Gingrich, Obamacare, President Trump's failures, prevent price gouging, reducing fraud, repeal & replace, suspended taxes, Trump administration
Posted in Politics |