Donald Trump visited Washington D.C. this week for the first time since he, as president, inflicted its Capitol with an insurrection on January 6, 2020, due to losing reelection weeks earlier, and departed the place in haste and a huff two weeks later, on Inauguration Day. It is being reported by various sources that Trump met with a group of House Republicans and said to them, “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.” He meant the... Read more
The New York Times revisits the origin of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic that so disrupted life with today’s article, “Two Covid Theories,” by David Leonhardt. It begins with these two paragraphs, “The origin of the Covid virus remains the pandemic’s biggest mystery. Did the virus jump to human beings from animals being sold at a food market in Wuhan, China? Or did the virus leak from a laboratory in Wuhan? “U.S. officials remain divided. The F.B.I. and the Department of... Read more
Scottie Scheffler survived the loss of his four-stroke lead starting today to win the PGA Tour’s signature event Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, by one stroke over playing partner Collin Morikawa. It was Scheffler’s fifth win on the big circuit this year in eight tournaments played and the eleventh win of his career. It is causing golf fans to start comparing the 27-year old popular pro with the legendary Tiger Woods. After all, Scottie not... Read more
Scottie Scheffler—the #1 pro golfer in the world for nearly two years—is continuing his hot streak this week by shooting a one-under par 71 today in Jack Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, to take a four stroke lead into tomorrow’s final round. Tied for second place are Collin Morikawa, Sepp Straka, and Adam Hadwin. On the front nine, it looked like Scheffler might run away from this stellar field in the Tour’s 7th “signature... Read more
Meta–whose face is the leading social media platform, namely Facebook, that was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, an American Jew–is increasingly being accused of discrimination against Palestinians in their decades-long conflict with Israel to establish their own state. For instance, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg last December accusing Meta platforms, which would be mostly Facebook, of censorship against the Palestinian cause. This letter was co-signed by ninety human rights and civil rights organizations.... Read more
Just minutes ago, a Manhattan jury of all twelve members, all of them New York City citizens, rendered former U.S. President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 felony charges brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. and his team of prosecutors. Judge Juan Merchan set July 11th as the date he will render his judgment of sentencing. That will be only three days before the Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin. The Republican Party already has... Read more
Scottie Scheffler is a prominent Christian on the PGA Tour and the world’s #1 pro golfer for more than the past year. On May 17th, at just after 5:00 AM during the second round of the PGA Championship, Scottie was arrested and jailed. He had been driving his tournament-marked car, and was about to turn into the entrance to the Valhalla Golf Club, located in Louisville, Kentucky, when a uniformed Louisville police officer arrested him, put him in handcuffs, and... Read more
Today is Memorial Day. It is our national holiday when Americans honor and mourn all those who died in the service of our nation as members of the United States Armed Forces. I served seven years in the reserves in both the Army and Air Force, with six months active duty in the Army. My dad served in the U.S. Army in World War II (WWII), and so did some of my uncles and thereafter. That was back during the... Read more
Leading New Testament professor, Dr. Scot X. McKnight, announced early this year that he would be resigning from the embattled Northern Seminary, located near Chicago, due to a toxic culture in its leadership. Scot recently announced that he will resume his teaching career in my old hometown of “Heavenly Houston,” as I like to call it. McKnight will be teaching New Testament and leading the DMin program at the Houston Theological Seminary, a school within Houston Christian University (HCU). This... Read more
SCOTUS–the Supreme Court of the United States–is The New Untouchables. That is, we Americans are now realizing that, due to our brand of democracy as set forth in our Constitution, our Supreme Court justices always have been “the untouchables,” and we just never knew it. How so? Their integrity never needed to be challenged until now. And there is no code of conduct by which SCOTUS justices can be measured. There is no branch of the U.S. government that conducts... Read more
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