Delta Airlines announced a new strategy today that no company has put forward yet that I know of to fight this COVID-19 pandemic and its new and strong variant called Delta. The airlines will require all of its employees to be vaccinated or else, for those who refuse, the company will increase their health insurance premiums that the company pays for them by $200 per month. That may be the only way to get a bunch of these non-vaxxers to... Read more
That’s what my Army sergeant said to me in 1962 when I was in active duty Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. “Fort Sam,” as it is usually called, was and still is largely a medical facility. Thus, I was a medic in the Army. I had chose this MOS when I signed up, and I got it. Why? Being a Christian, I just decided that if I had a choice, I’d rather try to save... Read more
Journeyman Tony Finau outlasted Cameron Smith today in a four-hole, sudden-death playoff to emerge victorious in The Northern Trust tournament on the PGA Tour in Jersey City, New Jersey. It ended Finau’s victory drought that had lasted over five years. He had been the winner of only one PGA Tour tournament even though he was constantly knocking on the door during that drought, with eleven top three finishes. The Liberty National Golf Course, where the tournament was conducted, is... Read more
I was a Facebook investor long before it became a public company. I believed in the concept. And it was a good investment for me; I made some money. But as the years rolled on, I began to have my doubts about Facebook regarding its effect on society. What I didn’t like was that Facebook could be used for evil just as much as it could for good. And I was learning about a lot of evil spreading on... Read more
Mike Lindell, CEO of the ubiquitous MyPillow company in TV commercials, is still at it. Now, he is recasting his earlier prediction. For months, he had been telling us that, due to alleged 2020 election fraud, former President Donald Trump would be “reinstated” as president on Friday the 13th, thus nine days ago. It wasn’t Lindell’s or Trump’s lucky day since that August 13th came and went without fanfare. Lindell had been saying for weeks, “By the morning of August... Read more
On Wednesday, Pope Francis released a public service video message encouraging people to get vaccinated against the ongoing and worldwide pandemic COVID-19. The popular pontiff stated wisely, “Being vaccinated with vaccines authorized by the competent authorities is an act of love. And contributing to ensure the majority of people are vaccinated is an act of love. Vaccination is a simple but profound way of promoting the common good and caring for each other, especially the most vulnerable.” Indeed, vaccination... Read more
America can trust that its democracy is in safe hands with Democrat President Joe Biden after his Republican predecessor Donald Trump almost became our first dictator. But Mr. Biden just ended his seven-month honeymoon as president by making a huge mistake in how he began withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan to end America’s longest war, which went on for twenty years. The decision to leave was a difficult one; but it’s how it was done that has brought intense criticism... Read more
Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 rather humorously, “In this world nothing is certain, except death and taxes.” That’s right. But what about the next world? Some people don’t think there will be one, but that this life is all there ever will be. Not according to Jesus. Like many Jews of his time, he spoke of “the world-to-come” (Matt. 12.32; Mark 10.30; Luke 18.30; cf. Hebrews 2.5; 6.5) And he believed every human who has ever lived will be there,... Read more
George and Kellyanne Conway Washington attorney George Conway is still at it, ragging on former President Donald Trump. What Republican lawyer in Washington, who was primed to serve in the Trump administration and got rejected, does it more, and perhaps better, than George. Yet he is still married to Kellyanne Conway, the former chief advisor for Donald Trump during his entire presidency. She seemed to have coined the expression “alternative facts” by applying it to Trump’s lies and falsehoods, as... Read more
Yesterday, the new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the plea from eight students at Indiana University claiming the school’s recent vaccination mandate for all students, except those claiming religious objections or having a medical risk, violates their “Constitutional rights.” (But see my post, “Religious Exemption from Vaccine Mandates Is Morally Wrong.”) Justice Barrett made the ruling surprisingly without any statement of justification. She could have decided to include the other justices. I guess she deemed it unnecessary,... Read more
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