Will COVID-19 Help Sink Communism in China?

Last updated on: August 20, 2020 at 11:41 pm By Kermit Zarley

When I was in college, many moons ago, I had a charismatic, likable, political science professor who repeatedly and adamantly proclaimed that communism was destined to fail because it was a non-transparent system, unlike how democracy usually works. At that time, 1961, the U.S. and the communistic Soviet Union–which had its roots in the Russian Revolution by the Bolshevik Party in 1917–were getting seriously involved against each other in the Cold War, which went on for decades. And China had... Read more

Overpopulation?

Last updated on: August 18, 2020 at 12:19 pm By Kermit Zarley

The beginning of the Bible says (NRSV), “God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiple, and fill the earth and subdue it” (Gen 1.27-28). Bible readers generally have understood this pronouncement as a universal command that applies in a general sense to all of future humankind. This is certainly how religious Jews have understood it down... Read more

Trump Favors Oil Companies, Even Regarding Birds

Last updated on: August 15, 2020 at 10:04 am By Kermit Zarley

President Trump is always calling the giant wind turbines that are contributing to renewable energy in many places of the country “windmills” that “kill the birds.” But when it comes to oil companies killing the birds, Trump’s okay with that. Why? The oil companies have been big financial supporters of this president. The Washington Post reported Wednesday, “A federal judge in New York has invalidated rule changes by the Trump administration that allowed individuals and corporations to kill scores of... Read more

You Can’t Make School Teachers Go Back to Work

Last updated on: August 15, 2020 at 9:24 am By Kermit Zarley

U.S. President Donald Trump, the former real estate mogul who never governed, has been saying all summer long that schools must reopen despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has now killed nearly 170,000 Americans in five months and threatens to kill perhaps 300,000 by year’s end. But the government can’t make teachers go back to work. Not only can they quit teaching, they have teachers’ unions. And each of the nation’s school districts’ staffs may have something to say about... Read more

Collin Morikawa Wins PGA Championship

Last updated on: August 9, 2020 at 10:44 pm By Kermit Zarley

Twenty-three year old Collin Morikawa won the PGA Championship today, the first of four majors of this virus-shortened year, by two strokes today with a final round 6-under par 64, the lowest round of the day. In this his first year on the PGA Tour, it put him in some very elite status, being tied with three others who were the youngest winners of the PGA Championship at 23-years of age: Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy. Sweet-swinging Morikawa... Read more

Dustin Johnson Leads PGA Championship

Last updated on: August 8, 2020 at 8:54 pm By Kermit Zarley

Dustin Johnson was one of three players who shot 65, five-under par 70, at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco today to take a one stroke lead into tomorrow’s final round in the PGA Championship, the first of the four major championships of the year in this delayed PGA Tour season due to Covid-19. And that was despite a double-bogey 6 on the par four ninth hole, which used to be a short par five many moons ago. Scottie Scheffler... Read more

Trump Says Biden Is “Against the Bible” and “Against God”

Last updated on: August 7, 2020 at 11:06 am By Kermit Zarley

President Donald Trump was interviewed yesterday by Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera in which Trump twice said Joe Biden–his presumed Democratic opponent in the upcoming November presidential election–is “against the Bible.” Trump said specifically, referring to himself, “One of the polls said Trump is leading by one in Texas. Okay, I’m in favor of oil and gas. I’m in favor of the Bible. I’m in favor of the Second Amendment. Right? Biden is against all of those things. He’s against... Read more

NASA and SpaceX Together Made History Today

Last updated on: August 3, 2020 at 10:45 am By Kermit Zarley

The U.S. government’s NASA and the commercial space company named SpaceX made history by flying two astronauts on SpaceX’s Falcon rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 30th and returning them to Earth this morning. It happened because NASA had ended its decades-old Space Shuttle program back in 2011. They then invited and contracted with American commercial space companies to do the flying to space and back. But before that could happen, NASA contracted with Russia by flying... Read more

Justin Thomas Wins FedEx St. Jude

Last updated on: August 2, 2020 at 5:50 pm By Kermit Zarley

Justin Thomas came from behind to win the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational golf tournament on the PGA Tour at the Southwind TPC in Memphis, Tennessee, with a five-under par 65 today at 13-under par 267 total by three strokes over four players tied for 2nd place: Brooks Koepka, Daniel Berger, Tom Lewis and Phil Mickelson. Actually, the field was as bunched up at the top of leaderboard as you’ll ever see when the leaders entered the back nine today. Brendon Todd... Read more

Goodreads Bogus Review of Warrior from Heaven

Last updated on: July 30, 2020 at 9:06 am By Kermit Zarley

I just discovered an eleven-year old Goodreads book review by Sarah Sammis that I believe grossly misrepresents my book Warrior from Heaven, which is Book 2 in my Still Here series on biblical eschatology. Book 3 in this series, Moses Predicted COVID-19, was just published this month with KDP and is available at amazon.com. Goodreads is a social cataloging website that mostly lists, reviews, and recommends books. It was founded in 2006 and acquired by amazon.com in 2013. Last year,... Read more