U.S. President Ronald Reagan always dreamed of a shining city on a hill. It seemed to give him hope and comfort. He said in his farewell speech to the nation, “I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all... Read more
Several fact checkers agree with The Washington Post and The New York Times saying Donald Trump, during his 3.5 year presidency, has outright lied or made misleading, public statements over 20,000 times. The Ninth of the Bible’s Ten Commandments says, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20.16; cf. Deuteronomy 5.20 NRSV). Donald Trump has to be the most lying president this nation could have ever imagined before he came along. He is truly FAKE NEWS. President Donald... Read more
Jon Rahm–a possible superstar Spaniard in the making–won the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, by several strokes over Ryan Palmer to become the #1 in World Rankings for the first time in his four-year career. For a while, Rahm looked like a runaway freight train when he increased his four-stroke lead starting the day to an eight-stroke lead after the front nine. But a bogey and double bogey at the 10th and 11th holes soon... Read more
In another life, Donald Trump used to build things–big things. Last night, President Donald Trump held a telephone political rally targeted to voters in Arizona, where I live and which is now an election swing state. On this phone rally, Trump said of former Vice President Joe Biden–Trump’s presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election–that if Biden is elected president in November he will tear down the wall Trump is having built on the U.S.-Mexico border. As with Trump’s... Read more
Today, on the back nine of Muirfield Village–the course that Jack built–Jon Rahm came from four strokes back of leader Tony Finau to birdie four consecutive holes and head for Jack’s (club) house with a four-stroke lead over Finau, now in second place, after 54 holes of the 72 holes of regulation being played in the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio. Jack, of course, is legendary Jack Nicklaus, whose boyhood home of Columbus is right next door. Jack... Read more
It is well known that Donald Trump has an insane theory about exercise. He believes it is actually bad for your health. At the same time, he defends himself against those who accuse him of getting insufficient exercise. His doctor reportedly tells him to get more exercise. Trump told Reuters news service after his 2018 physical test results were made public, “I get exercise. I mean I walk, I this, I that.” That’s a pretty strange way to describe your exercise–“I... Read more
President Donald Trump and his administration are getting crossways with the medical-scientific community as the latter tries to control a pandemic that may wind up killing hundreds of thousands of Americans before year’s end. It has already killed 140,000 Americans in less than five months. COVID-19 is the worst health crisis the U.S. has faced since the Spanish Flu of 1918, which was 102 years ago. This animosity toward health experts looks to me like an evil darkness surrounding the... Read more
One summer I took my family for a lovely, week’s vacation near Ashville, North Carolina, which is known for its summer tourism. I remember seeing a one-of-a-kind nine-hole golf course there which the legendary Bobby Jones had designed. Of course, North Carolina was part of the Southern Confederacy during the American Civil War. Last night, the Ashville City Council voted unanimously to approve a reparations resolution for its Black community due to the region’s history regarding slavery and further discrimination... Read more
Donald Trump has been president of the United States of America for almost 3.5 years now. During this time, he has constantly and publicly berated the news media in general by saying of it or tweeting it in capitals as “FAKE NEWS!” Sometimes, he has done so specifically by naming The New York Times and/or The Washington Post. (See my other similar posts about this, such as “Trump Saying FAKE NEWS Hacks Me Off!;” “Fake President.”) I admit I am... Read more
A Pew Research Center poll after the 2016 presidential election showed that among professing evangelical Christians who voted, 81% of them voted for Donald Trump. Yet voters knew quite well that Donald Trump reflected anything but the values that Evangelicals embrace. Yet Trump was promising them the main things they wanted if he was elected: trying to overturn Roe v. Wade that provided for legal abortion, getting rid of same-sex marriage, and nominating politically-conservative judges, with one or two of... Read more
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