2016-03-01T21:04:03-07:00

    I have to confess that these two women puzzle me.  Drug-dealing, counterfeiting, unwed cohabitation, out of wedlock pregnancies . . . and wearing the hijab?   In fact, the family as a whole seems curious, with its drug-dealing, welfare dependency, shoplifting, implications in multiple murders . . . and its devotion to some odd form of Islam that, apparently, sees no problem in such things.   (I know of no such form.)   Anyway, I agree that they... Read more

2016-03-01T19:22:10-07:00

    It all seemed so simple and straightforward, the way it was taught to be in high school:  Little particles, like marbles or billiard balls.  Three different kinds of them: electrons, protons, and neutrons.   Simple.   No longer:   https://www.sciencenews.org/article/reactor-data-hint-existence-fourth-neutrino   The universe is very complex.   Thanks to David Wills, of Adelaide, South Australia, for bringing this item to my attention (with a nod toward Doctrine and Covenants 131:7).   I had something to say about a... Read more

2016-03-01T14:43:51-07:00

    Forget the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of Caesarotrumpism, famine in sub-Saharan Africa, the threat of worldwide pandemics, the possibility of a terrorist attack on American soil, and global warming.  There’s a real horror out there.   Go fetch your smelling salts before you read any further.  And be sure that you first surround yourself with pillows, lest you faint dead away and injure yourself.   It seems that somebody connected with the Provo Utah Young Single Adult 9th Ward... Read more

2016-03-01T11:41:23-07:00

    ““Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people,” said John Adams, the first man to live in the White House as president. “It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other.”   David French, a Harvard-educated Evangelical lawyer and a veteran of the war in Iraq, cites Mr. Adams in his “Open Letter to Super Tuesday Voters.”   I wish that what he says might have wide circulation and influence, but I confess that I’m... Read more

2016-03-01T09:42:23-07:00

    For the first time in its history, the Christian Post, which claims to be the most widely read Evangelical news website in the United States and, indeed, in the world, has taken an official editorial stance on a political candidate.   It hasn’t endorsed anybody.  It has done the opposite.  In just one case:   http://m.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-scam-evangelical-voters-back-away-cp-editorial-158813/?m=1   This may be too little, too late.  I suspect that it is.  But it’s very welcome, nonetheless.     Read more

2016-03-01T00:08:05-07:00

    The bulk of Jacob 7, today’s reading, is about Jacob’s encounter with the antichrist Sherem.  But that’s not what I’m going to focus on today.   I’ve always been struck by the note of melancholy with which the book of Jacob closes:   I conclude this record, declaring that I have written according to the best of my knowledge, by saying that the time passed away with us, and also our lives passed away like as it were unto us... Read more

2016-02-29T23:59:07-07:00

    All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Attributed to Edmund Burke     Read more

2016-02-29T21:51:49-07:00

    Thanks to Renee Contreras De Loach for alerting me to this . . . umm, spirited piece:   http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/dear-trump-fan-so-you-want-someone-to-tell-it-like-it-is-ok-here-you-go/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons     Read more

2016-03-01T10:01:48-07:00

    The Donald on Mormonism   “Does Anyone Actually Believe Trump is Being Audited Because He’s a ‘Strong Christian’?”     Read more

2016-02-29T17:02:15-07:00

    If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, I predict that the party will experience an electoral disaster on a grander scale, possibly, than Senator Barry Goldwater’s 1964 defeat.  The Supreme Court — to which Mrs. Clinton, the overwhelmingly likely Democratic nominee, will appoint at least three justices — will go further to the left and will remain that way for at least a generation.   From a Republican point of view, and from a conservative point of... Read more

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