Trump Didn’t Know What Iran Would Do Donald Trump has just provided what may be the strongest evidence showing why he was never qualified to be president of the United States of America. Last week, he spoke in his typical and falsely absolutism style about his war of choice alongside Israel against Iran, which began 19 days ago. He said of Iran’s retaliation of striking facilities in neighboring Gulf nations and stopping shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, “Nobody expected... Read more
Trump Told Zelensky, “You Have No Cards” U.S. President Donald Trump and and his Vice President J. D. Vance spoke shamefully to Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky last year in a televised meeting in the White House. Trump told Zelensky, “You have no cards.” He meant that President Zelensky, who was there to ask the U.S. for continued financial and military support in its unprovoked war against aggressor Russia—invading and taking its land, killing its people, and accomplishing much destruction—had no... Read more
Thiel’s Eschatology Is Pure Confusion During the past year, Peter Thiel (pronounced “Teel”)—a bigtime billionaire investor from Silicon Valley and a former evangelical Christian who gets a lot of media hype—has been delivering lectures about the end times Antichrist to private, invited-only audiences that last a few days and are held in different locations. He does not allow for the lectures to be videotaped or for journalists to attend and report on what he says. But his message leaks out... Read more
American Cameron Young finally broke through to capture the PGA Tour’s The Players championship by one stroke over Matt Fitzpatrick today in a pressure-packed finish that saw the leaderboard changing what seemed like every minute during the back nine. Sweden’s tall, twenty-six year old Ludvig Aberg (pronounced Oberg) started the day at 13 under par with a two stroke lead over 24-year old Michael Thorbjornsen. They played together in the last duo-pairing. After ten holes today, Aberg was still at... Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump has given conflicting information about why he decided for the U.S. to attack Iran in a war that is now over twelve days old. He has said he did it to help Iran protestors overthrow their Islamic Republic, to force a regime change, to destroy Iran’s capability to make nuclear weapons and deliver them. Of course, Trump could have multiple reasons for pursuing this war. But the last one makes more sense to most Americans, who... Read more
I have a chapter about Christian Zionism in my 1990 book Palestine Is Coming: The Revival of Ancient Philistia. Christian Zionism refers to Christians giving the State of Israel uncritical, carte blanche support, even advocating with some of its leaders Greater Israel, which usually means Israel aggressively now taking all of the promised land, referring to the land God promised to Abraham’s descendants through Isaac. That is a very misguided approach. Mike Huckabee, a former church pastor, governor of Arkansas,... Read more
The Great Isaiah Scroll is 2100 years old. It was discovered in 1947 in a cave on the western side of the Dead Sea by Bedouin shepherds. So, it is among a collection of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. They include both biblical and non-canonical scrolls dating from the third century BCE to the first century CE. Jews known as Essenes lived there in a community as religious separatists much devoted to the canonical scriptures. Qumran and the Essenes In... Read more
Pete Hegseth is the U.S. Secretary of Defense. (I refuse to call it by President’s Trump’s name change Department of War, which I understand came from Hegseth.) Hegseth has been orchestrating a program of teaching U.S. military commanders that the new Iran War (now one week old) is Armageddon to enhance the second coming of Christ. What a lie! Whatever it is they’re teaching, anything that Christians believe about eschatology should have no place in what the military leadership of... Read more
A 2012 Gallup poll showed that 66% of Palestinians living in the West Bank supported the traditional two-state solution. It is that a Palestinian state be created in all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with a necessary twenty-mile corridor joining them. In my book, Palestine Is Coming: The Revival of Ancient Philistia, published way back in 1990, I wrote that it was a non-starter and explained why. This solution was based merely on demographics, and I was... Read more
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Republican President Donald Trump’s main political agenda this second term of his presidential career—tariffs. Ever since the 1980s, as a New York real estate tycoon and builder, he had publicly exclaimed that other national governments were “ripping off” the U.S. in various ways, especially with tariffs. He reasoned for all the years since that the U.S. national debt was caused mostly by the U.S. trade imbalance. That occurs when U.S. consumers purchase more... Read more
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