Politics

What About Greenland?

Posted by on August 18, 2019 at 6:13 pm

“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 […]

Big Tech’s Manipulation of Election Votes

Posted by on August 11, 2019 at 10:42 pm

“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 […]

Forgiving Liam Neeson

Posted by on July 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm

“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 — […]

Trump, Tanks, and Patriotism

Posted by on July 7, 2019 at 7:37 pm

“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 […]

An Appropriate U.S. Response to Iran

Posted by on June 30, 2019 at 10:48 pm

“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 […]

The President’s Problematic Women

Posted by on June 16, 2019 at 9:26 pm

“[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 […]

Three Cheers for Pastor Platt!

Posted by on June 9, 2019 at 9:07 pm

“If you think President Trump is a terrible person and you’re mad that a pastor chose to pray for him, then you need to swiftly reexamine the gospel message — and your own heart. Trump’s sin should not deflect our desire and responsibility to pray for Him — indeed the more sin we observe the […]

Soda Taxes Hurt the Poor and Don’t Work

Posted by on May 26, 2019 at 9:15 pm

“Sin tax proponents have shifted gears by arguing that taxation is mainly aimed at compensating society for the drains sinners impose on the public healthcare budget and reducing the harm consumers do to themselves. With this new push, the limits of what defines a sin steadily are being expanded.”  — “‘Sin Tax’ Costs Outweigh Benefits” […]

Responding to Trump Derangement Syndrome

Posted by on May 12, 2019 at 11:10 pm

My friend Todd was recently involved in a brief Facebook thread, responding to a post from a mutual FB friend — well, Todd knows him much better than I do — and one other. Knowing that Todd comes from a much more libertarian perspective than I do and is more critical of the administration, I […]

Trump Puts Offshore Drilling Plans on Indefinite Hold

Posted by on May 5, 2019 at 9:02 pm

“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 […]