CNN is all fake news, of course, and totally devoted to deceiving real Americans — unlike the solid, unbiased reporting at Breitbart, InfoWars, Washington Summit Publishers, and The Stormtrooper — but I’m still grateful to Doug Ealy for calling this tissue of lies to my attention:   http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/us/refugees-jobs-drug-testing/index.html?sr=fbcnni032817refugees-jobs-drug-testing1200AMVODtopVideo&linkId=35908122     Read more

    Is anybody out there watching this?   https://moviepilot.com/p/the-expanse-mormons/4234072     Read more

    Thanks to Doug Ealy for bringing this exceptionally interesting and very positive article to my attention:   https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/how-utah-keeps-the-american-dream-alive   Apparently, Mormonism may not be the absolute blight on society — and “Utard” not quite the earthly Hell — that some critics portray them as being.     Read more

    A principle that I’ve seen illustrated more than a few times on social media:   “Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.”  Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor       Read more

    A serious legal point, and good news for those who (like myself) are strong defenders of property rights and opponents of both crony capitalism and the too-intrusive state:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/03/28/neil-gorsuch-opposes-the-kelo-decision-a-terrible-supreme-court-property-rights-ruling-that-trump-supports/?utm_term=.a2729cd9fee9     Read more

    New public health research has discovered a potentially alarming situation in and around the country where our friend Vladimir Putin lives:   http://www.theonion.com/article/study-finds-suspicious-circumstances-still-leading-55632?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing     Read more

    I’ve had several people unfriend me over the past few days because I’ve criticized President Donald J. Trump and/or because I’ve argued that Islam and the Qur’an aren’t fundamentally and murderously evil.  With regard to the former complaint, I want to share something:   On 7 May 1918, during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, an editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star.  In part, it read as follows:   The President is merely the most important among... Read more

    http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-palestinians-churches-idUSKBN15227H   We always take our Israel tour groups to visit this site, which I like.  Sometimes we talk with other tourists who are across the Jordan River (in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan).  The river is very narrow here — as, these days, it is everywhere else.   I believe that I first visited this specific site from the Jordanian side, with President Merrill J. Bateman of BYU and the president of the University of Jordan.  Prior to that,... Read more

    Scarcely earth-shattering or the crime of the century, but, still, this incident is revealing and perhaps a bit classless:   McCoy Mocks Chapman’s Mormon Faith During Iowa Senate Floor Debate     Read more

    A nice little find:   https://www.rt.com/viral/382281-4000yo-tomb-discovery-egypt/     Read more