October is National Book Month in the USA. It is a time to honor the best books and authors. If you want to get smart, read books. But it will help more if you don’t just read fiction books. How so? Publishers that make non-fiction books get experts to write them because it’s a business, and if they just get anybody who is not an expert to write on some topic, that publisher likely will soon go bankrupt. So, you’ll... Read more
I’ve blogged before about my respect for House Speaker and Democrat Nancy Pelosi, how she “prays” for Trump while he denies it. Yet we all have experiences about how we wish people well, maybe even pray for them, yet at other times we might feel like Pelosi, that she’d like to punch the guy out. That’s what we learned yesterday from the Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots on January 6th. Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra, an HBO film maker, was there... Read more
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot held its last, televised meeting today from 1:00 PM to 3:33 PM with a ten-minute mid-term recess. The first half was largely a review of the committee’s past work with some new video and emails. The primary thrust of the hearing was that former President Donald Trump was the foremost person trying to overturn the 2020 election result which Joe Biden won. The committee showed substantial evidence in which Trump... Read more
The Eastern Mediterranean Seabed contains considerable natural gas wealth for Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and somewhat for Turkey. But toxic politics between these countries, which involves disputes about offshore national boundaries, has held up exploration and therefore the attaining of wealth for some of these countries, especially Lebanon. Israel has been drilling and producing natural gas from offshore fields for over two decades. And so has Cyprus, though not as long. But poverty-stricken Lebanon has not. Israel and Lebanon do not... Read more
Twenty-year old, fledgling, pro golf star Tom Kim won his second PGA Tour tournament yesterday–the Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas by three strokes over the embarrassed, eight-time PGA Tour winner Patrick Cantlay because of a bad drive on the last hole. Both players had started the day tied for the lead at 19-under par total. So, they were playing together in the last threesome. When they reached the 18th tee, they were still tied, well in... Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been repeatedly threatening to use nuclear weapons in his “special military operation” in Ukraine. It caused U.S. President Joe Biden to say this week at a fundraiser dinner speech in New York City, “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.” This Biden remark has... Read more
Patrick Cantlay shot 60 and Tom Kim shot 62 to tie each other for first place at 19-under par at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada, after three rounds of play today in the PGA Tour’s Shriners Children’s Open. The scores were low today, with another 62 and three 63s on the par 71 layout that I used to play on the Senior/Champions Tour. Cantlay missed a 24-foot putt on the 18th hole to just miss shooting in the... Read more
Elon Musk has been a strong supporter of Ukraine in its defense against Russia the aggressor in this nearly eight-month war. But he is now being heavily criticized for a recent, four-point proposal for ending it. In a Twitter dialogue today, he said, “There are no angels in war.” We know what he means, that there is often cruelty on both sides in warfare. But if you take Musk’s remark literally, it’s not true according to the Bible. The Bible... Read more
The traditional two-state solution is dead. Time for a new one, with two states of separated peoples truly lying side-by-side like it was 3,000 years ago: Israelites and Philistines living side-by-side. Please sign my petition (below) to make this happen. Go here and sign: https://www.change.org/two-state-solution-for-israel-palestine. Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to ramp up his rhetoric about his war of aggression in invadingRussia’s immediate neighbor Ukraine. Just in the past week, Putin has called up 300,000 additional troops as reservists or conscripts to send rather untrained to the war’s front line. As a result, tens of thousands of Russian men have been leaving their families and possessions and fleeing across Russian borders to avoid this call-up. They could face imprisonment of up to 15 years if... Read more
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