One of the most important and long-lasting acts of an American president is to nominate someone to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.   What kind of nominees would a President Trump send to the Senate for confirmation?   His enthusiastic support of government seizure of the property of little people for the benefit of large corporations probably affords one important clue.  (On that issue, see this article, published way back in April 2011, when... Read more

      http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historic-church-discovered-in-turkeys-nevsehir-could-change-history-of-orthodoxy.aspx?PageID=238&NID=94309&NewsCatID=375     Read more

    http://www.popsci.com/biggest-solar-system-ever-found-is-very-very-big     Read more

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430427/marco-rubio-iowa-surge-viral-video     Read more

    My longtime friend John Tvedtnes presented these remarks at the August 2004 FAIR conference:   http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2004-fair-conference/2004-the-king-follett-discourse-in-the-light-of-ancient-and-medieval-jewish-and-christian-beliefs     Read more

      A few brief notes on today’s reading, which is 2 Nephi 10.   Especially if one views of the Book of Mormon as a modern production, and especially in the light of the horrific treatment of Jews that has repeatedly scarred human history during the years intervening since 1830, it would be easy to suspect that 2 Nephi 10:3 is an expression of antisemitism when it refers to “the Jews, . . . those who are the more wicked part of the... Read more

    “The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”  Milton Friedman           Read more

    http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-astronomers-will-actually-image-the-solar-systems-ninth-planet?trk_source=homepage-lede     Read more

    I’ve been watching for this over the past week or two.  It’s significant.  Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for bringing these specific items to my attention:   “Morocco Declaration: Muslim Nations Should Protect Christians from Persecution” Here’s the actual (English) text of the document in question: Marrakesh Declaration Read more

    The CBS television series Criminal Minds regularly closes with some quotation or other that supplies insight, or makes a point, relevant to the theme of the story that’s just concluded.  It gives the quotation and then the name of the quotation’s author.  No more.  Nothing is said about the author beyond his or her name.   Season 11’s episode 13 seems to have aired just last night.  (My wife and I were out with a friend to see... Read more