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

Not MAGA but TIKA

Last updated on: November 19, 2020 at 9:02 pm By Kermit Zarley

Not MAGA=Make America Great Again, but TIKA=Trumpenstein Is Killing America. Here’s how: Trump refuses to concede the election to Biden, who clearly won it. Trump is trying to overturn an election that he clearly lost. Trump is meddling with state legislators to vote contrary in the Electoral College. Trump is undermining our treasured institutions. Trump is undermining our very democracy. Trump has disappeared from public view, thus given up on governing. Trump is AWOL on COVID-19, which is now killing... Read more

How Much Do Americans Study Religious Texts?

Last updated on: November 18, 2020 at 4:31 pm By Kermit Zarley

The results of an interesting and stellar survey, at least to me, and the first of its kind, has just been released concerning how much U.S. citizens study religious texts, which would be mostly the Bible. It is entitled “The Humanities in American Life: Insights for Religious Studies.” It was administered by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators by conducting interviews with a diverse range of over 5,000 individuals. I was surprised to learn from this survey that... Read more

COVID Deniers or COVID Idiots?

Last updated on: November 18, 2020 at 10:46 am By Kermit Zarley

Even though this current novel coronavirus, designated COVID-19, is surging into this winter and has killed over 250,000 Americans in the past nine months, there are still many Americans who deny the existence of it and therefore refuse to wear masks and do social distancing as both medical and political authorities advise. Many of these Covid deniers are also climate deniers, meaning they deny that man-made greenhouse gases have contributed to the nearly two percent increase in Earth’s atmospheric temperature... Read more

Could Trump Sabotage the Georgia Senatorial Runoff?

Last updated on: November 18, 2020 at 12:43 am By Kermit Zarley

Yesterday, Tweeter Trump used his usual tweeting to fire Chris Krebs, his Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, for publicly contradicting the president by saying through his committee, “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. . . .There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” This, of course, contradicts what President Trump has been saying since the Election, that it was a fraud... Read more

Boy Scouts Corruption

Last updated on: November 17, 2020 at 10:37 am By Kermit Zarley

The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910 to help boys grow in character and thereby mature into adulthood. It has done a lot of good, a whole lot of good, but some not so good. In recent years, an increasing number of men have been coming forward and claiming that they were sexually abused by adult scout masters when they were boys in the Boy Scouts of America. So, they claim these men as scout leaders were sexual... Read more

Dustin Johnson Wins The Masters

Last updated on: November 15, 2020 at 10:56 pm By Kermit Zarley

Dustin Johnson proved today that he is indeed the world’s #1 pro golfer by shooting a final round 68, four-under par, to win the Masters by five strokes. And he set an all-time scoring record in doing so with a total score of 268, twenty-under par. Thus, he beat the record of eighteen-under par 270 first set by Tiger Woods in 1997 and tied by Jordan Spieth in 2015. It was Johnson’s 24th win on the PGA Tour and his... Read more

Polls Aren’t Perfect

Last updated on: November 13, 2020 at 9:33 am By Kermit Zarley

Americans have been complaining about pollster inaccuracy regarding the last two presidential elections–in 2016 and 2020, that is, the one just held on November 3 this year. But these polls actually were better this year for this recent election than in the past. That seems surprising. Polling is difficult. The way they make polls is that pollsters cold-call people on their phones and ask them questions. A lot of people refuse to answer, regarding it as spam I guess,... Read more

Nicklaus Needs a Mulligan

Last updated on: November 12, 2020 at 11:54 pm By Kermit Zarley

Most golfers know about “a mulligan.” That’s when you tee off on the first hole and hit a lousy tee shot and then promptly hit another tee shot, and if your second one is better, you play that one and thus abandon your first tee shot. So, in normal language it’s called “a do-over.” But not for David Bernard Mulligan, an amateur golfer in Montreal back in 1952. Sportswriter Don Mackintosh reported in the Sudbury Star that Mr. Mulligan said... Read more

Will Trump Burn the House Down?

Last updated on: November 12, 2020 at 10:37 pm By Kermit Zarley

Barbara Res, a construction executive for the Trump Organization who led the building of Trump Tower, says in a new book that Republican President Donald Trump will do everything possible to win, and if not, “he will burn the house down.” It’s in her new book, Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him, published just three weeks ago. Res said in a recent interview that President Trump will “do anything” to overturn that... Read more