The Oxford English Dictionary defines “snake oil” as “a quack remedy or panacea.” A panacea is a difficulty or a disease. Trump claims to be able to solve the difficulty of an election fraud (except no such difficulty exists) by getting states to recount their ballots. He convinced this Republican state I live in, Arizona, to do just that. The Republican-controlled state legislature decided to have a ballot recount. To make matters worse, they hired an outfit to... Read more
The hearings of the House select committee to investigate the Capitol riots that happened on January 6th last year–which led to the House’ second impeachment of President Donald Trump due to accusing him of inciting an insurrection that day–are scheduled to begin next Tuesday. Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi of California, has been in charge of selecting and approving committee members. We need this investigation. The Democrat-controlled House shouldn’t even have had to do this. It’s because the... Read more
In recent days and perhaps weeks, Americans who have refused to get vaccinated for COVID-19 have caused this disease to spike in all 50 states, thus causing them or some of their local communities to have to decide to curtail recent efforts to reopen their economies. For example, last week the largest populated county in the U.S., Los Angelos County, reimposed both mask-wearing and social distancing at indoor gatherings. And these new measures are proliferating in other renewed hot spots... Read more
Just one hour ago, twenty-four year old Collin Morikawa added the coveted Claret Jug to his collection of now two major trophies. He did it by shooting a four-under par 66 to win The (British) Open golf tournament by two strokes ahead of three-time major winner Jordan Spieth, who also shot a 66. Morikawa’s 15-under par 265 total at the famed Royal St. George layout–located in Sandwich, Kent, England–was also four strokes ahead of Spaniard Jon Rahm and South African Louis... Read more
With one round left to play, South African Louis Oosthuizen has a one shot lead over Collin Morikawa in the British Open at Royal St George’s. “King Loui,” as the tabloids are calling him, had lost the last major golf title last month, the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines near San Diego, to Spaniard Jon Rahm. It was Rahm’s first major title. And both 38-year old Oosthuizen and 24-year old Morikawa have won one major each, Louis the British Open... Read more
People often ask, “What is the best Bible?” There used to be pretty much only one Bible–the famous King James Version (KJV) produced in 1611. The King of England, King James, had commissioned it. When I first began studying the Bible, as a freshman in college, like most of my Christian friends and the church where I attended, I used only the KJV. But beginning in the late 19th century until now, there have been many so-called “modern” translations of... Read more
People often ask this question. They also ask, Which is the best Bible? That’s because there used to be pretty much only one Bible in the English-speaking world–the King James Version (KJV) that was produced in 1611. But since the late 19th century until now, there have been dozens of so-called “modern” English Bible translations, also called “versions.” I’ll speak to this in a followup post tomorrow. When people ask me these questions, I usually explain that all modern versions... Read more
Critical Trump books are proliferating, and they allegedly have some pretty shocking revelations. (I have one coming soon as well.) None are more revelatory than those written by people who were in the Trump presidential orbit or media reporters based in Washington D.C. One to be released next week is by Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of The Washington Post, Philp Rucker and Carol Leonning, that is entitled I Alone Can Fix It. This title is a public expression Donald... Read more
Parts of the U.S. are undergoing a third or fourth wave of this coronavirus pandemic called COVID-19 that the world has suffered for now 1.5 years. It also is happening around the world in different places, mostly because of variants. In the U.S., it is the variant called Delta that has become so prevalent. Way over half of all Americans now contracting this virus are contracting the Delta variant. These variants, including Delta, are much more contagious than the original... Read more
Jim Furyk, the unorthodox-swinging golf pro with 17 career wins on the regular PGA Tour won the top tournament among the 50 years and over crowd on the Champions Tour today–the U.S. Senior Open. He held off Retief Goosen and Mike Weir to finish ahead of them by three strokes with a one-over par 71 and a total of 7-under par 273 at the Omaha Country Club in Omaha, Nebraska. This win fits nicely together with his U.S. Open in... Read more
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