No More Bibles Published?

Last updated on: July 10, 2019 at 12:33 am By Kermit Zarley

CBS News online reports that President Trump’s proposed and impending 25% tariffs on a bunch more Chinese imports, including paper products, would massively reduce the printing of Bibles in the U.S. The reason is that Bibles are printed on extremely thin paper with sophisticated machines. About thirty years ago, the largest Bible publishers in the U.S.–HarperCollins owns Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, which publishes 38% of Bibles sold in the U.S.–moved their Bible print business to China, so that they have... Read more

Trump Doral Strip Club Golf Tournament

Last updated on: July 9, 2019 at 11:57 pm By Kermit Zarley

Donald Trump bought Miami’s famed Doral Hotel and Golf Resort in 2012. He renamed it Trump National Doral Miami. The PGA Tour had the Doral Open in late winter every year there for over fifty years. It was one of my favorite venues on Tour. I loved to stay at this nice hotel and not have to drive a car, or be driven, to the course. But I also liked the golf course and usually the warm weather. I had... Read more

Charles Darwin’s Beliefs About Religion

Last updated on: July 10, 2019 at 9:41 pm By Kermit Zarley

I was just reading the last chapter of Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species. Published in 1859, it is regarded as the foundation of evolutionary biology. He teaches in it that natural selection is the cause of the development of the species. This book became a focus of many public debates between religion and science in the English-speaking world during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. It is one of the most important books... Read more

Matthew Wolff Wins 3M Championship

Last updated on: July 7, 2019 at 5:03 pm By Kermit Zarley

Strange-swinging, long-hitting, twenty-year old Matthew Wolff took the PGA Tour by storm today by winning the 3M Championship by one stroke with a twenty-five foot eagle putt from off the green on the last hole at TPC Twin Cities golf course in Blaine, Minnesota. Wolff, as a member of Oklahoma State University’s mens golf team, had just won the individual NCAA championship six weeks earlier and then turned pro. Wolff and twenty-two year old Collin Morikawa were paired together in... Read more

Bone Spur Trump Promotes Military on July 4th

Last updated on: July 4, 2019 at 11:59 pm By Kermit Zarley

It appears that President Donald Trump avoided the military draft during the Vietnam War when a doctor claimed he had bone spurs on his heels. I believe he simply got a doctor to lie about this to get the draft deferment. I’ve blogged about this multiple times. Last year, the two daughters of that doctor, who is now deceased, said this rumor about Donald Trump’s bone spur(s) circulated around metro-New York City for decades, and it is true. (Trump has never... Read more

DNA Proves the Philistines Came from Southern Europe

Last updated on: July 4, 2019 at 7:15 pm By Kermit Zarley

An article was published yesterday, that is online, in the journal Science Advances entitled, “Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines.” The lead author is Dr. Michael Feldman, genetic researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPISHH), located in Jena, Germany. Dr. Daniel M. Master was one of five other authors. This article is important to me since it relates to my book, Palestine Is Coming: The Revival of Ancient... Read more

Hooray for Justin Amash Quitting the Republican Party

Last updated on: July 4, 2019 at 8:05 pm By Kermit Zarley

Republican Representative Justin Amash of Michigan announced today in an op-ed, which he wrote and was published in The Washington Post today, that he has quit the Republican Party and is now a political Independent. This was quite a symbolical move, coming on July 4th, which is America’s holiday called Independence Day. This self-confessed “libertarian” really needed to do this since he had announced on May 19th that, on account of the Mueller report, Republican President Donald Trump should be impeached.... Read more

Mossad As Peace Maker?

Last updated on: July 2, 2019 at 9:28 pm By Kermit Zarley

Yossi Cohen is Director of Mossad–Israel’s national intelligence agency, the equivalent of the CIA in the U.S. Sunday, he delivered a speech alleging that Iran orchestrated the two recent attacks on Persian Gulf oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane for much of the world’s transported oil. Iran admitted to shooting down the large, unarmed, U.S. drone claiming it was in Iranian air space. Iran has denied responsibility for the tanker attacks whereas the U.S. administration... Read more

Nate Lashley Wins Rocket Mortgage Classic

Last updated on: June 30, 2019 at 8:17 pm By Kermit Zarley

Thirty-six year old journeyman Nate Lashley just won his first golf tournament on the PGA Tour today. In fact, he ran away with it, winning the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan, by six strokes. For years, Nate Lashley bounced around on lesser professional golf tours around the world, including the PGA Tour’s Nationwide Tour that was later renamed the Web.com Tour, as it is today. Moreover, five years ago he was spending most of his... Read more

Jimmy Carter Versus Donald Trump

Last updated on: June 30, 2019 at 2:43 am By Kermit Zarley

Democrat Jimmy Carter was our 39th USA president, from 1977 to 1981. He had been a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967 and the governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Although from the deep South, Carter was a strong, political anti-segregationist. Before that, he was a businessman who operated his family peanut farm. Mr. Carter’s most honorable legacy as U.S. president is his accomplishment of getting Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat together, resulting... Read more

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