Cairo, Egypt, Feb 28, 2012 Today at 5 am, as usual all over the Muslim world, the mosque loudspeakers blasted out the call for prayer. Over and over it said: “Allah is great and Mohammed is his only prophet.” As Christians we believe “God is Love. You can only come to him through Jesus.” But [...]
We think of the Scandinavian countries as being rich and egalitarian. But less than a hundred years ago, all Northern Europe had a few rich families and a horde of poor people–many of whom emigrated to the opportunity of the U.S. Norway and Sweden both had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent [...]
Racism is increasingly a justification given for all sorts of crimes, including a mass murder this week. And those attacked have to prove they weren’t racist. That’s the way it is in America today. No one points out this murderer’s paranoid delusion that he is justified in killing those who are firing him [...]
When a President tells NASA that its primary mission is to make Muslims feel good about their contribution to science, it’s clear why the US has fallen so far in science and technology. This is the type of patronizing psychobabble that only an affirmative action baby could truly believe in. The boss of the [...]
Swampeast Arkansas is bone dry. In our Delta, this is a crucial time of the year for strawberries. They have to send out new runners so we have good berries next year. They aren’t. They are dying. We hear about full rivers and lush pastures in Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, and even parts of Oklahoma. [...]
An anti-war magazine gets a General fired because he tells the truth? So unbelievably ridiculous. Yet emblematic of the government America voted into power less than two years ago. Here’s what happened. Our Bureaucrat-in-Chief gives a gaggle of bureaucrats overlapping responsibilities in Afghanistan and appoints General Stanley McChrystal to deal with all these idiots and [...]
On June 28, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms in a 5-4 vote. At the same time, a 50 year old university and government bureaucrat was schmoozing her way through confirmation hearings to become a Justice. The Court’s conservatives have had their last hurrah. Why would anyone say such a thing? [...]
Soccer could only have been created by a monotheistic society. The referee giveth and the referee taketh away. In European football, there is one referee. His word is law. His decisions are final. He doesn’t have to explain his decisions. You have to live with the consequences. Friday, America had a goal taken away by [...]
Needing some new puppies, we’re driving down to Sheridan. It’s a pleasant drive. First you go through the flat, fertile bottomlands of the Mississippi River. Then, at Pine Bluff, up a little into the piney woods which stretch all the way to Houston and Port Charles, Louisiana. We spent the trip down talking about plans [...]
Strong women and men don’t settle for second best. They look for potential and create the future. The first two professions, nomadic herder and settled farmer, are in eternal conflict. In the Bible and the Koran, these two are represented by Cain and Abel. God liked the nomad best, but the farmer won. The settler [...]