Iran Gains Clout in Lebanon

Last updated on: November 13, 2018 at 7:31 pm By Kermit Zarley

Monday, President Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal, which is called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The other nations in the deal–UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China–are remaining in it if Iran stays. One of Trump’s reasons for claiming this JCPOA, engineered by the Obama administration, is “disastrous” is that it does not address Iran’s influence in the Middle East. Trump claims Iran is the greatest “terrorist nation” on earth. Actually,... Read more

Again–Jesus Ascended to Heaven from the Mount of Olives, Not from Galilee

Last updated on: May 9, 2018 at 5:43 pm By Kermit Zarley

Bible-based films should stick to the Bible. That is, when the Bible states something as historical fact, it should not be changed in a Bible-based film. I blogged before, that the movie “Risen” wrongly has Jesus ascending to heaven from Galilee. I’ll go over this again. I’m going to restate this here because I am wondering how Randall Wallace and Mel Gibson are going to have Jesus’ heavenly ascension in their yet future film they are working on. It is... Read more

Trump Saying “Fake News” Hacks Me Off

Last updated on: May 9, 2018 at 12:54 pm By Kermit Zarley

To be discreet, I should write this title, “Trump Saying ‘Fake News’ Is Disturbing.” But that doesn’t get peoples’ attention. Folks, this is serious business. We’ve got a president in the Black House who doesn’t really believe in our form of government. See my post on January 26, 2017, right after Trump was inaugurated as president, “Do President Donald Trump and Steve Bannon Believe in Our Democracy?” Donald Trump has been the U.S. president, now, for over fifteen months. He... Read more

I Was Wrong–Trump Hasn’t Resigned

Last updated on: May 9, 2018 at 12:34 am By Kermit Zarley

One year ago today I made a rare prediction. I predicted that Donald Trump would resign the U.S. presidency within one year. In that post I said, “I’m going to make a prediction: Donald Trump will resign the U.S. presidency within a year. In doing so, I think he could throw up a smokescreen, giving as the sole reason for his departure that the federal government is treating his financial empire unfairly. That is another investigation that has just begun.”... Read more

Trump Ends U.S. Participation in Iran Nuclear Agreement

Last updated on: May 8, 2018 at 5:17 pm By Kermit Zarley

U.S. President Donald Trump announced today that he is pulling the U.S. out of the agreement that Iran signed in 2015 with the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China to end Iran’s development of nuclear fuel that could soon be made into nuclear weapons. The result of this agreement engineered by the U.S. President Obama administration, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is that the U.S. and other nations would end their economic and trade sanctions against... Read more

Will Cohen Flip?

Last updated on: May 6, 2018 at 5:33 pm By Kermit Zarley

After reading today’s article about his business history in the New York Times, it’s looking more and more as if Michael Cohen will “flip” and thus cooperate with the FBI division in the southern district of New York and probably with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the Russian probe. It seemed very improbable until recently because Cohen has been saying all along that it would “take a bullet” for Donald Trump, he loves him that much. But love can be... Read more

Day Makes his Day in Charlotte

Last updated on: May 6, 2018 at 5:02 pm By Kermit Zarley

Just minutes ago, PGA Tour golfing star Jason Day continued his effort to regain his #1 status in World Rankings by winning the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. He finished two strokes ahead of second-place finishers Aaron Wise and Nick Watney. It was Day’s second PGA Tour win this year. Jason Day started today’s play with a two-shot lead over the field. But uncharacteristically of him, the handsome and fit Australian with... Read more

What Would Abraham Lincoln Think of President Donald Trump?

Last updated on: May 5, 2018 at 4:31 pm By Kermit Zarley

As I said in my last post, President Donald Trump added his friend and former FBI agent and former New York City major Rudy Giuliani to the president’s legal team. So, Giuliani has been making the rounds this week doing interviews on television defending the president. One of the things he said this week of Donald Trump is this: “This is the best president in my memory.” This statement is reminiscent of President Trump’s statement about himself last July, in... Read more

“This Is the Best President in My Memory”

Last updated on: January 28, 2021 at 5:08 pm By Kermit Zarley

Rudy Giuliani was the big FBI crime fighter in New York back in the day. Then he became major of New York City, 9/11 happened under his watch, and he became a hero in helping to pull the nations together from such a tragedy. This week, President Donald Trump has added Giuliani, an old friend, to his legal team fighting the Russian probe into possible election campaign indiscretions directed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, himself a past director of the... Read more

Reinhold Niebuhr’s Influence on James Comey

Last updated on: May 1, 2018 at 2:51 pm By Kermit Zarley

As I mentioned in my last post, former FBI Director James Comey is a devout Christian and a former Sunday school teacher in Methodism. He is also a student of the teachings of Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971). Presidents Jimmy Carter and Barak Obama were keen students of Niebuhr’s teachings as well. While Comey has been on his book tour conducting interviews, one result is that he has been described as “a moralist.” I would be critical of Comey if he is... Read more

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