The United States of America Is Not United The United States of America is betraying its name of being “united.” Despite the social upheaval and opposition to the Vietnam War during the 1960s, I think our political landscape is more divided than I’ve seen in my lifetime. We better get our act together or America is going down. And as I’ve posted before, President Trump’s “America First,” demonstrated by his enormous tariffs he is slapping on almost every country in... Read more
Trump’s “America First” Donald Trump is six months into his second four-year term as the U.S. president. His campaign motto for this go-round as president has been “America First.” He never really defined what that meant. His argument has been that other nations have “mistreated” the U.S., such as in trade. That’s why on April 2nd he announced his trade tariffs that he would impose against all nations as part of his foreign policy. Calling it “Independence Day,” the tariff... Read more
God Is a God of Love AND Justice The Bible says a lot about God being a God of love and also a God of justice. And that is how the Bible teaches God’s people to behave. That is, Bible believers should love God and support justice in the world when it is carried out. An attempt has now begun to do just that—prosecute “crimes of aggression” committed by Russia against Ukraine. A Special Tribunal to Prosecute Russian Leaders Yesterday,... Read more
Making Donald Trump Feel Good About Himself Online Rolling Stone has an article today entitled “Dear Leader.” It’s introduction says, “How Trump’s administration is marshaling vast public resources and more than $1 billion worth of taxpayer money to make the president feel good about himself.” This article explains, “Bondi, the nation’s attorney general, is one of more than two dozen billionaires, conspiracy theorists, television hosts, and otherwise diehard MAGA personalities that Republicans allowed Trump to install in the most important... Read more
Texas Defies Supreme Court By Requiring Display of Ten Commandments in Schools Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the state’s legislature have defied the federal government by passing a law requiring that the Bible’s “Ten Commandments,” in Exodus 20.2-17, be displayed in a 16″x20″ frame in all public schools and state-funded universities in Texas. This has happened before. In 1980, Kentucky did the same, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Alabama went through this last year. And... Read more
Justice Sotomayor’s Dissent Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor slammed six of her Court colleagues for “rewarding lawlessness” regarding President Donald Trump. In a scathing 19-page dissent, joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson on an immigration case in which the Court overruled an appeals Court and thereby favored the government deporting illegal immigrants to foreign countries other than their own country of origin. The six justices whose majority ruled in the government’s favor did not provide any rationale... Read more
Last week Israel bombed Iran, saying it destroyed over a hundred targets in the theocratic, Islamist state. Israel claimed that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon. U.S. intelligence claimed that was untrue, that Iran still remains years away from achieving that. U.S. intelligence surely knows what it is talking about. Israel knows that too. Then, why did Israel really bomb Iran last week? There is a unanimous consent among western nations that Iran—which is a rogue state advocating... Read more
“Mexico Will Pay For It” When Donald Trump was elected to a second term as U.S. president last November, he then said he would “not start wars but stop them.” For instance, he had been campaigning that if elected president he would end the Russian war in Ukraine on the first day of his presidency. There isn’t even sniff in the air of that war coming to an end. Trump had said Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to make a... Read more
Christianity seems to have been in decline in the U.S. in this century witnessed by a decline in church attendance. Yet, in other places in the world for the past few decades, especially Africa and South Korea, Christianity has been flourishing witnessed by an increase in the number of churches and church attendance. However, Bible reading in the U.S. seems to be on the incline. The American Bible Society’s Annual Report on Bible Reading In recent years, there has been... Read more
American J. J. Spaun won the U.S. Open at the famed Oakmont Country Club golf course near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—despite a rain delay but in great style—by holing a mammoth 64-foot putt on the final, 72nd hole to win by two strokes over Robert McIntyre of Scotland. I Had Picked Spaun to Win Before the day’s play today, I picked Spaun to win the tournament. Early this year, I had never known about him. He is 34 years old. He had... Read more
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