I’m two or three days late in posting this, but it’s still relevant:   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/439664/hillary-clinton-even-more-dishonest-you-thought   The only electable alternative is Donald Trump.   Just think about that.     Read more

    I’m afraid that they’re likely right:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439677/middle-east-united-states-foreign-policy-isolationism     Read more

    It’s coming.   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/439703/promoting-infanticide-newsweek   In essence, it’s already here.     Read more

    I actually found myself unexpectedly tearing up just a bit at George Will’s eloquent tribute to the great Vin Scully:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439685/vin-scully-baseball-storyteller   His unique voice is among my very earliest memories, going back to when I was first coming to consciousness in San Gabriel, California.   In the seven long years of my father’s sad incapacity, following a stroke that suddenly left a very vigorous, active, and bright man blind and acutely aware that his intellectual ability had been... Read more

    My friend and longtime FARMS/Maxwell Institute colleague John Gee takes well-deserved aim at a remark that he recently heard from a “Mormon studies scholar”:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2016/09/just-nice-old-man-who-tells-stories.html   I might also suggest a glance at this very brief item, also from Dr. Gee, which seems to me clearly relevant:   http://fornspollfira.blogspot.com/2016/08/today-quote.html   May I submit, too, that an arrogant and spiritually undiscerning contemporary might have dismissed Jesus himself as little more than a Galilean peasant yokel who told stories?... Read more

    “Lord Kelvin was so satisfied with this triumph of science that he declared himself to be as certain of the existence of the ether as a man can be about anything. . . .  ‘When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. . . .’  Thus did Lord Kelvin lay down the law. And though quite wrong, this time he has the support of official modern Science.... Read more

    If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.   Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.   Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.   Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel laureate in economics   Read more

    Here’s a curious but ultimately encouraging little story:   Kenyan churches, mosques painted yellow to symbolize love     Read more

    We cannot and must not abandon the standards that the Lord has revealed.   However, we also cannot and must not ignore the (umm, rather centrally important) doctrine of the atonement of Christ, and of repentance, grace, and forgiveness.   Elizabeth Smart raises an important issue here to which we need to give serious reflection:   http://www.ldsliving.com/Elizabeth-Smart-Shares-How-Chastity-Lessons-in-Our-Culture-Can-Have-Harmful-Lasting-Effects/s/83107?utm_source=ldsliving&utm_medium=email   I served as an expert witness for the prosecution in the federal case against Brian David Mitchell, the man who... Read more

    No prior generation of humans has been able to see such things:   http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/03/health/jupiter-north-pole-irpt/index.html   Do I, as one critic accused me of doing, post some of these scientific things in order to cultivate an attitude of awe toward our vast and fascinating universe?   Yup. I do.  Guilty as charged.   Especially on the Sabbath.     Read more