Essential to Totalitarian take-over and rule, the manipulation of the minds of millions is necessary, but is never sufficient. People always eventually see through the lies. Or do they? This is the fourth in a series of five Popular Rationalism Articles in the Open Society Series. The next article will be “The Wisdom of the […]
As the Neo-fascist government of Vladimir Putin amasses troops and armor along the Ukrainian border, his propaganda machine churns out a contradictory narrative that most in America would find risible. From the Moscow Times, quoting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: “We simply don’t have the right to exclude that the Kiev regime may embark on […]
Believing the unbelievable has consequences, sometimes very bad consequences. We expect our public officials to have IQs greater than shoe size and therefore to make wise decisions. That is increasingly not the case. And no political party (on the Left or Right) has a monopoly on stupidity. The British and their European allies are a […]
Lord God, please help the people of Texas! Protect the vulnerable and provide for sensible and common sense energy policy. Could the crisis and rolling blackouts Texas faced this week have been avoided? The answer is certainly yes. But the bigger question I am asking is was this avoidable winter crisis about inept leadership or […]
Time for an update on all of the crazy goings-on in the world this day. Let’s try to decipher things once again, as we anxiously await having righteousness blessedly restored—and more importantly as we eagerly anticipate the Rapture of all Believers in Jesus Christ, Believers that He was the Son of God who died for […]
There were two things that the Framers understood to be abundantly clear. One, the United States would necessarily be a nation comprised of individuals. And two, those individuals, no matter how strong in their beliefs, had to respect each other through the embrace of compromise. Today, the Marxist-Progressives of the Left are extending a call […]
Does it seem like the entire world, especially America, is frozen into a very surreal moment right now? Are you finding it difficult to know whom you can trust? Then you are in the majority of Americans at present. So, let’s take stock of where we sit right now, in terms of spiritual warfare—with regard […]
Fireworks and parades and ice cream cones and picnics…all a celebration of our Independence Day…won by so much blood and treasure. So many brave souls, many of whom we will never read about in print…these men and women of valor who put their own lives and desires aside for the betterment of future generations. A […]
A key U.S. ambassador this week suggested we are getting a glimpse of “the future of what oppression’s going to look like.” The backdrop for this forewarning was the release of the State Department’s annual international religious freedom report. It’s a report in which one global power’s transgressions have become more and more pronounced each […]
Metal and mineral needs are constant, constantly evolving, requiring new mines Civilization’s progress has always been heavily dependent on farming and mining. The Stone Age didn’t end because mankind ran out of stones. Instead, the discovery, mining and processing of metals like copper, bronze and iron, followed by the development of steel, led to progressively […]
