A View from the Right Science, POLITICS, & Religion

“The Bible’s weird, but maybe not as weird as it seems at first.” — Robby Lashua, Stand to Reason This post is about one of those passages in the Bible that makes one say, “He did WHAT?!!” It is from Judges 11, in which the Israelites (specifically, those east of the River Jordan in the […]

“Disagreement isn’t discrimination, and the government can’t mislabel speech as discrimination to censor it.” — Kristen Waggoner, CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States finished up their latest term this past week, and, man, there were some big decisions with far-reaching ramifications! Most of the decisions are […]

“The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power — including power currently held by the executive branch — to the American people.” — Russ Vought, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Donald Trump […]

“Misleading research like this is one important reason I have lost faith in the overblown claims of evolutionary biology. It‘s mostly smoke and mirrors.” — Günter Bechly, German paleo-entomologist and former curator at the State Museum of Natural History (SMNS) in Stuttgart In a recent study on the origin of feathers, Rory L. Cooper and […]

“Reports from the time suggest that everybody enjoyed themselves immensely, and all went cheerfully off to dinner together afterwards.” — Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, commenting on the Huxley vs. Wilberforce debate As regular readers will remember, roughly a month ago I did a post about the infamous “conflict thesis” of science vs. religion. The […]

“Although the pandemic recession was the shortest recession on record, the economic chaos it created was incredible.” — Andrew F. Puzder, businessman and author This week I present an excerpt from a recent talk given by Andrew F. Puzder at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar. If, like me, you are not familiar with Puzder, […]

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment, during Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788 After nearly 250 years as a nation, Americans are still debating the actual […]

I found another section from Vivek Ramaswamy’s book, Woke, Inc., that I wanted to share. This is from Chapter 10, “Wokeness Is Like a Religion”, so it should be pretty obvious where this is going. The author discusses noted cases in the news, from James Damore to J.K. Rowling, in which individuals dared to question […]

“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” — Johannes Kepler, 16th/17th-century mathematician and astronomer, known for his Laws of Planetary Motion If you are at all […]

“That’s insane!” — Jared Dirac, Special Forces soldier The following conversation — technically just half of a conversation — is an excerpt from the science-fiction novel The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. Normally, I would be more likely to share something like this on my “Heroes and Aliens” blog. But, this section (and the book […]