Today, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter issued his written ruling, 44 pages in length, in the lawsuit accusing former President Trump’s attorney John Eastman of trying to overturn the 2020 election of Joe Biden as president. Eastman had presented Trump with a plan to get Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral votes, which had Biden winning the election, and calling for a reelection, and Trump following this plan on January 6th, which caused the Capitol riot. Carter... Read more
After many years of psychiatric debate about treating people who unnecessarily grieve the death of a loved one for a very extensive period of time, last week the American Psychiatric Association added a new and somewhat controversial “mental disorder” to its revised, 5th edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is abbreviated DSM-5. It is that mourning the death of a loved one is a mental disorder that can be clinically treated as such, and the... Read more
That is what Tim Costello asks in his article published in The Guardian on March 5th. He is a fellow in the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney, Australia. He explains how the concept of Russian World, which Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly embraces, is interwoven with the Orthodox Church. And Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the supreme leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, said publicly ten years ago that Vladimir Putin, who had arisen out of atheistic Soviet communism, had... Read more
On October 19, 2016–thus only days before the presidential election in which Donald Trump won an upset victory over Hilary Clinton–I blogged with this title, “Trump Is Already a Bad Loser.” The piece is about the polls having Clinton in the lead and Trump claiming the election process is “rigged.” Hours later, after I posted that, on October 19, 2016, I posted another piece that was titled, “I Told You So.” It was more of the same, but with greater... Read more
Phil Mickelson–three time winner of the Masters, winner of three other majors, and longtime fan favorite on the PGA Tour–will not play in the Masters this year, which begins April 7, because his reputation took a huge hit recently. It has caused him to hide out from the public for a while. The last time Phil Mickelson did not compete in the Masters was 1994. Lefty certainly is eligible even though he is 51 years old since he became the... Read more
Former superstar pro golfer Greg Norman is still at it, trying to dethrone the PGA Tour. As the CEO of LIV Golf International, he announced this week the schedule this year for the anticipated, Saudi-backed Super Golf League. LIV Golf will run it and it will have eight tournaments with a total prize money of an astronomical amount–$250 million. It will be funded by the Public Investment Fund, which is the sovereign wealth fund of the government of Saudi Arabia.... Read more
Defending champion Sam Burns today defeated his friend David Riley on the second extra hole of a sudden death playoff in the PGA Tour ‘s Valspar Championship at Innsbrook Resort’s Copper Course in Palm Harbor, Florida. Both are 25 years old in the second and first years, respectively, on the PGA Tour. Burns rimmed his 30-foot birdie putt into the hole to get the win after Riley then hit his chip shot from only a few feet away that missed... Read more
Qin Gang, China’s ambassador to the U.S., issued a statement Tuesday about Russia’s unprovoked invasion and war in Ukraine. It comes in the aftermath of the public meeting at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, on February 4 this year between China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The last time they met in person had been two years prior. Although China and Russia do not have a formal alliance, the purpose of their meeting was to issue... Read more
A new study about boys from religious families indicates that they do better in school and life than boys who come from non-religious families. Dr. Llana M. Horowitz, an assistant professor of Jewish studies and sociology at Tulane University, followed the lives of American teenage boys who came from families that attended evangelical churches regularly. Being Jewish, she says the results of her study also prove true for Jewish boys from religious families. Dr. Horowitz had an op-ed piece in... Read more
In my previous post, Part 1 of this subject, I quoted at length from the recent “A Declaration on the ‘Russian World’ (Ruskii Mir) Teaching.” Signed by over 500 church leaders around the world, it condemns the growing teaching called “Russian World” in which people like Russia’s President Vladimir Putin call for the formation an ultra, ethno-nationalism that would go even beyond the geography occupied by the former Soviet Union to replicate the Russian Empire of medieval times, which included... Read more
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