I’ve used the word neo-Ottoman to describe Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan before, but it’s only just hit me how accurate that is.Continue Reading

Remember when they called Jerome Corsi crazy for his Internet conspiracy theory about the North American Union? “They” are the same people are backing Hillary. And she says: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”Continue Reading

Hurricane Matthew hasn’t even made landfall in the US yet and already it’s an example of why people need to vote Hillary — at least, it is if you’re a reporter for NBC. Not only that, the just-ratified Paris climate deal is “designed to stop” storms like this. Wow! Science!Continue Reading

Watching a prominent pastor on TV tonight. No names. This isn’t about me vs. him. But great googly moogly, he’s teaching his (very large) congregation that the key to success is praying like you’re a child asking for your favorite toy on your birthday. Seriously. I have to turn this off beforeContinue Reading

THE BIBLE was not written in a vacuum. Richard Burke, author of the Raising Up Pharaoh series of novels, has invested 30,000 hours of research into the ancient world to make his fictional realm believable.Continue Reading

Forty years ago, I’d never have guessed that I would define a fun Saturday night as one where I found fascinating nuggets of information in scholarly papers published in obscure academic journals.Continue Reading

The Fed opted not to raise its key interest rate yesterday.  If it had raised the rate, the economy almost certainly would have tanked before Election Day. Of course, Fed chair Janet Yellen had to defend herself against claims by Donald Trump that she’s keeping rates artificially low to pumpContinue Reading

Watching Hillary’s new TV spot didn’t convince me to support her, it made me want to vote against all the Republicans in the ad. And I don’t live in any of their states.Continue Reading