Phil Mickelson Leads the PGA Championship

Last updated on: May 22, 2021 at 6:40 pm By Kermit Zarley

Aging superstar Phil Mickelson, with five major titles to his credit, took a one-stroke lead today into the final round tomorrow of the PGA Championship. Being played on the PGA Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, South Caroline, the PGA Championship is one of the four coveted major championships in professional golf in the world. (The others are the Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open.) Brooks Koepka, who has won four majors much more recently, is left-hander Mickelson’s closest pursuer. Both... Read more

Gun-Happy U.S. Needs to Protect Its Capitol

Last updated on: May 21, 2021 at 10:29 am By Kermit Zarley

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill to protect its Capitol Building in consequence of the Capitol riot on Certification Day last January 6th. That is when President Trump stirred up thousands of his supporters to attack the Capitol because he lost the election. The U.S. escaped what could have been a far more devastating destruction, since not one of those 535 members of Congress who were meeting to affirm the election results was killed or injured.... Read more

Will Florida Governor Save Trump Doral with a Casino?

Last updated on: May 20, 2021 at 11:10 pm By Kermit Zarley

The Doral Open, in Miami, Florida, used to be one my favorite tournaments and venues on the PGA Tour. I usually roomed there at the hotel, which overlooked the golf course we played, called The Blue Monster. In my second year on the Tour, in 1966, I had my first chance to win, and it was there at Doral. I took the lead the first round with a seven-under par 65 in windy conditions. I then led the tournament wire-to-wire,... Read more

Israel’s Gilad Erdan Speaks Before UN Security Council

Last updated on: May 20, 2021 at 10:53 am By Kermit Zarley

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, is now speaking before the UN Security Council as it deliberates the current, armed conflict between Israel and Hamas which governs the Palestinians’ Gaza Strip. The two are trading ballistic missiles, with Gaza undergoing far more casualties and physical damages, as is always the case. The last “war” between them was in 2014. Although I support the existence of the State of Israel, I also strongly support the concept of an independent, sovereign... Read more

China to Decrease Muslim Births

Last updated on: May 11, 2021 at 9:17 am By Kermit Zarley

China has a Muslim population of 11 million people in its Xinjiang province in the far northwest. They are mostly of Uighur descent from Eastern Turkey. China has been oppressing the Uighurs unmercifully for the past few years. China says they must crack down on Uighurs because they foment terrorism and radicalism/extremism. China has “re-education” camps for Uighurs in Xinjiang. The Chinese Embassy in the UK explained concerning them, “Since the measures have been taken, there’s no single terrorist incident in... Read more

Outdoor Transmission of COVID-19 Is Very Rare

Last updated on: May 11, 2021 at 8:01 am By Kermit Zarley

I’ve blogged before about this: the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) in the U.S.–supposedly the best source in the world concerning diseases–sometimes doesn’t communicate very effectively. A recent example is that last month the CDC stated that “less than 10 percent” of people who have contracted COVID-19 got it while outdoors. But that could mean any number less than 10 percent, which is quite inexact. Although it is difficult to make such a measurement, authorities have been saying for... Read more

I Had a Good Mother

Last updated on: May 10, 2021 at 8:23 am By Kermit Zarley

I had a good mother. Barbara Mae Zarley died in the night on March 11, 2021, in her nursing home in the Kirkland, Washington, area, a suburb of Seattle. She lacked four days of making it to what would have been her 101st birthday, on March 15th. She had avoided contracting this terrible coronavirus, COVID-19, that came upon the world right about that time a year ago. And it first hit the U.S. in nursing homes in the very area... Read more

McIlroy and Cjeka Win on Mother’s Day

Last updated on: May 10, 2021 at 12:19 am By Kermit Zarley

Just minutes ago on this Mother’s Day, and after an 18-month hiatus from the winners circle, Rory McIlroy won for the third time the PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship at obviously one of his favorite venues–Quail Hollow CC in Charlotte, North Carolina. The well-liked, Irishman superstar had a two-stroke lead teeing off on the par-four, final hole today. Although he played somewhat safe by hitting a 3-metalwood, it was surprisingly an errant shot that hooked left of... Read more

Trump May Never Trumpet Again

Last updated on: May 5, 2021 at 10:44 pm By Kermit Zarley

Yesterday, Facebook decided to continue banning former President Donald Trump from having an account on its platform. His FB account was extinguished on January 7th. The day prior, called Certification Day, he had gathered together a large crowd and incited many of them to storm the nearby Capitol to try to stop the 535 members of Congress gathered there to certify the Electoral College votes and declare Joe Biden the next president. Trump had been constantly declaring, and still is,... Read more

Maybe Voter Fraud Was More for Trump than Biden

Last updated on: May 4, 2021 at 11:21 am By Kermit Zarley

A bare few voter fraud cases have surfaced from the 2020 Election, and it appears that these votes were more for Trump than for Biden. Yet these voter fraud cases only amount to a few dozen throughout the nation. It seems to affirm that former President Donald Trump’s still constant claim that the election, which Biden won, was “stolen” from him due to “voter fraud” is just what it’s being called by most Americans: “the Big Lie”! Three Republican voters... Read more