The Difference Between Ivanka and Hunter

Last updated on: December 10, 2020 at 10:57 am By Kermit Zarley

In the past two weeks, there has been a notable difference in responses by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter in their public announcements about governmental investigations being conducted about each them regarding the paying of taxes. With Ivanka, the New York state investigation is about her being paid by her father’s Trump Organization for large, and thus questionable, consulting fees the Organization had written off as expenses on its tax returns. With Hunter, the... Read more

Dunn on Jesus’ “I Am” Sayings in John

Last updated on: April 28, 2025 at 11:46 am By Kermit Zarley

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Britisher James D. G. Dunn–known as Jimmy Dunn to his many friends, which included me–was a leading New Testament scholar. He was professor at Durham University, England, from 1982 until recently. Jimmy was humble, kind, personable, and a delight to be with, all striking characteristics in such a towering intellect. We suffered a great loss when Jimmy died this past June. He was such an accomplished biblical scholar who wrote many books and trained many people as their PhD dissertation... Read more

Trump and Jesus on Being a Loser: Part One of Three

Last updated on: September 27, 2024 at 8:26 pm By Kermit Zarley

Republican President Donald Trump cannot accept losing the presidential election held nearly four weeks ago. Democratic President-elect Joe Biden gained nearly 7 million votes more than Trump did in the popular count. But that doesn’t count in the USA’s electoral system. In what counts–the Electoral College–Biden tallied 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. Biden only needed 270 electoral votes to win. Biden’s 306 electoral votes is the same number Trump garnered in 2016 in defeating Hilary Clinton to gain the... Read more

Carbon Neutral Is the Future

Last updated on: November 27, 2020 at 8:23 pm By Kermit Zarley

Manmade global warming is a scientific fact. The temperature of Earth’s atmosphere has increased about 2% since the Industrial Revolution began in the latter part of the 19th century. Scientists tells us that humans are almost the sole cause of this increase in Earth’s temperature. Yet global warming has become a divisive factor in American politics of late. That is, many millions of American deny that humans are causing this global warming. But I believe this denial of science will... Read more

U.S. Supreme Court Rules for Religion Against Health

Last updated on: November 27, 2020 at 12:29 pm By Kermit Zarley

Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of freedom of religion versus New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent restrictions imposed on houses of worship in his state for the purpose of preventing mass spreading of the deadly pandemic called COVID-19 that has now killed over 263,000 Americans this year. This vote concerned the Constitution’s First Amendment Free Exercise Clause concerning religion. The vote applies to other states as well, thus also California and Nevada were similar... Read more

Biden To Return America to Its Values

Last updated on: November 25, 2020 at 9:57 pm By Kermit Zarley

Yesterday in Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden held a televised, on-stage presentation of many of his new cabinet picks. I watched most of it and thought it was at times an emotionally-stirring event as each person gave a brief speech. The main idea that came across was that the Biden team intends to restore U.S. values in especially foreign policy, thereby hoping to regain integrity at least with its allies. And, of course, Mr. Biden made it quite clear, as... Read more

CDC Communication

Last updated on: November 23, 2020 at 10:56 pm By Kermit Zarley

The abbreviation CDC refers to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the. It is a U.S. government agency under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The CDC generally is regarded as the world’s premier source of information for health and therefore for COVID-19. I have been noticing that sometimes I don’t think the CDC communicates very well to the public. An example is today’s CDC message which says, “The prevention benefit of masking is... Read more

Could Republicans Want Trump Behind Bars?

Last updated on: November 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm By Kermit Zarley

As I posted days ago (Could Trump Sabotage the Georgia Senatorial Runoff?), Republican President Trump’s refusal to concede defeat to Joe Biden as President-elect, moreover, Trump’s many legal and political challenges against our constitutional, democratic process may thwart the candidacy of the two Republican senators from Georgia, Perdue and Loeffler, in their upcoming January runoff due to a voter backlash. If that happens, it will gives Democrats the majority in the Senate and thus the Blue Wave Democrats were hoping... Read more

Nero Fiddled and Trump Golfed

Last updated on: November 22, 2020 at 12:44 am By Kermit Zarley

The story goes that when Rome caught fire and much of it burned down, madman Emperor Nero resorted to playing his fiddle, thereby ignoring the known crisis. A parallel occurred yesterday when U.S. President Donald Trump joined the virtual G-20 meeting of the world’s leaders, hosted by Saudi Arabia this time; but when it turned to discussing the worldwide health crisis called COVID-19, which has now killed 1.3 million people, with over 255,000 of them Americans, and has had a... Read more

Palestinian Authority to Resume Contact with Israel

Last updated on: November 21, 2020 at 11:59 pm By Kermit Zarley

Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president brings back a sliver of hope for the Palestinian Authority which governs West Bank Palestinians. President Trump had been very partisan about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He highly favored Israel and ignored the Palestinians and their aspirations for attaining their own independent state. Christians who adopt this viewpoint are called Zionist Christians, and I believe they are quite deceived about this matter. Because Joe Biden takes an even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian... Read more