SpaceX Dragon Flies Like the Future Dragon

Last updated on: May 2, 2021 at 1:23 pm By Kermit Zarley

The International Space Station orbits the earth about 200 miles away in space. Always traveling at 17,500 miles per hour, it takes ISS one-and-a-half hours to travel one full orbit around Earth. There are always astronauts living in ISS, performing experiments and doing things to increase human knowledge about space. NASA and other national space agencies are involved with ISS, which they almost scrapped some time back. Nowadays, NASA contracts with various American, commercial enterprises rather than do all of... Read more

More Evidence Paul Kept Moses’ Food Laws

Last updated on: May 1, 2021 at 8:50 pm By Kermit Zarley

The thesis of my book, Moses Predicted COVID-19, is that there is a surprising and largely undiscovered correlation between the past nine major zoonotic diseases–an animal transmitting a deadly coronavirus to a human–and Moses’ food laws in the Bible. I conclude in this book that if the world (Gentiles) would take notice of this and make some adjustments accordingly, it would prevent a lot of these pandemics such as the present COVID-19 that we have been suffering for over a... Read more

Simon & Schuster in Upheaval about Trump Books

Last updated on: April 28, 2021 at 11:26 am By Kermit Zarley

We all know the cliche, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” But what about the book industry cliche, “You can’t judge a book by its author”? Book publishers are now reconsidering this one for various reasons. W.W. Norton just took a financial hit by canceling two books by author Blake Bailey–Phillip Roth: The Biography, released only two weeks ago, and The Splendid Things We Planned. It is due to a bunch of sexual allegations that have just come out... Read more

Stewart Cink Wins RBC Heritage

Last updated on: April 19, 2021 at 12:34 am By Kermit Zarley

Stewart Cink–who is six feet, four inches tall, and forty-seven years old–won his eighth tournament today on the PGA Tour in a twenty-five year career out there. It was the RBC Heritage held at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where he had won before. Starting today with a five-stroke lead, Cink cruised to an easy one-under par 70 with no serious challengers to finish four strokes ahead the field at a 19-under par 265 total.... Read more

Thomas Friedman Also Says We Need the Wall

Last updated on: April 16, 2021 at 8:24 pm By Kermit Zarley

I’ve blogged before about how I think Thomas L Friedman so often knows what he’s talking about. He is an American political commentator, author, winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, and has a weekly column in The New York Times. Even though I’ve blogged so much as a critic of Donald Trump as president (and so has Friedman), and now I’m about to publish a book about it, I have agreed with Trump–actually long before I ever knew about his views of... Read more

No COVID-19 Outdoors

Last updated on: April 16, 2021 at 7:56 pm By Kermit Zarley

In writing nonfiction books, authors thinks a lot about trying to be accurate and truthful since such screeds are so permanent. In my last book, Moses Predicted COVID-19, published July 1, 202o, I was even more focused on that because I was writing about a novel (=new) coronavirus that experts were just learning about since its inception in late 2019. Plus, I didn’t have access to libraries since they were closed due to the pandemic shutdown. But I have been... Read more

Should Liberty University Sue Its Former President Jerry Falwell Jr.?

Last updated on: April 16, 2021 at 3:35 pm By Kermit Zarley

Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, is the largest evangelical school on the planet. Yesterday, it filed a lawsuit against its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., seeking $10 M in damages. Jerry Jr. is the son of deceased Jerry Falwell Sr., a famous Baptist pastor who founded both this school and the socio-political, but now long defunct, Moral Majority. The situation with Jerry Jr. appears to be anything but moral. Last year, Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned his presidency in the midst... Read more

Congress Is Now Considering Slavery Reparations

Last updated on: April 15, 2021 at 10:40 am By Kermit Zarley

In the midst of the growing racial tensions and constant eruptions of alleged police brutality against especially African-Americans in the U.S., the House Judiciary Committee yesterday voted to recommend for the first time the creation of a commission to consider monetary reparations to Blacks along with a “national apology” for the United States’ history of slavery. This is a necessary movement that has been a long time coming. I think its objective eventually will be accomplished. Some White Americans, especially some... Read more

Matsuyama Wins the Masters

Last updated on: April 11, 2021 at 8:14 pm By Kermit Zarley

Twenty-nine year old Hideki Matsuyama shot a one-over par 73 round today to win the Masters by one stroke over 24-year old Will Zalatoris with a 10-under par total of 278. It was his sixth win on the PGA Tour and his first major. Hideki thereby became the first Japanese male to win a major championship in professional golf. It will no doubt be a very historic occasion in Japanese sports if not Asian sports as well. For, Japan is... Read more

The Religious Creed of Benjamin Franklin

Last updated on: April 11, 2021 at 10:55 am By Kermit Zarley

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the foremost founders of the United States of America. He was born in Boston to devout Christian parents who were Puritans. As members of its famous Old South Church, they embraced Calvinist theology and so taught their children. Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty in human affairs to the extent that all acts in the universe, thus all human actions, are preordained, predetermined by God so that there is no such thing as the freedom of... Read more