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No doubt the authors of The Lost Gospel, a new book making the claims asserted in the headline above, expected it to incite sales-generating outrage. Unfortunately, the daily swill of viral tweets, videos, and pictures has so desensitized the entire world that these seemingly outrageous claims about Jesus Christ have not even made it into… Read more.
Today, scientists at the European Space Agency hailed the successful landing of their Rosetta Spacecraft’s robotic probe (named Philae), after a 10-year journey, on a comet (named 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko), which is hurtling through space, 317 miles from Earth, at 41,000 mph: a first for mankind, and very impressive indeed. Given their jubilation (with high-fiving, backslapping,… Read more.
I urge you to listen carefully for anything that convinces you that his war on terrorism (against ISIS) will be any more successful than Bush’s ill-fated war on terrorism (against al-Qaeda). Just be mindful that JFK convinced the American people that his war on communism (in Vietnam) would be more successful than his predecessor Truman’s war… Read more.
Evidently, many people were seized with shock and dismay yesterday as they listened to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev deliver his keynote speech at a forum marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Germans invited him, of course, because he played such a pivotal role in facilitating the peaceful reunification of… Read more.
I find this illustration so poignant because it gives the impression that the boy could also be kneeling at his bedside praying with an equally aggrieved look. The point for me, of course, is that his letter/prayer couldn’t be any less effective than a bunch of American celebrities – who couldn’t tell Boko Haram from an Arab… Read more.
Germany will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this weekend. Every country in the West should be celebrating too. Fall of the Berlin Wall Of course, the fall of the Berlin Wall (on November 9, 1989) led to the reunification of Germany. But it also led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the… Read more.
Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed ‘supercookies’ — markers so powerful that it’s difficult for even savvy users to escape them. The technology has allowed the companies to monitor which sites their customers visit, cataloging their tastes and interests. Consumers… Read more.
I’ve coined the term “irrational intelligence” to define that which informs people to do and say plainly ignorant things … with the conviction of a genius (or a saint). Think, for example, of people who say that President Obama is an incompetent leader whose socialist policies have ruined the economy. (Incidentally, polls indicated that the… Read more.
Jeffrey Goldberg is the critically acclaimed correspondent for The Atlantic, America’s top news and ideas magazine. His October 28 report, “The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relationship Is Officially Here,” set political and media tongues a wagging from Washington to Jerusalem and all points in between. And nothing in his report caused more wagging than Goldberg quoting… Read more.
Minister Louis Farrakhan began preaching about Black empowerment and self-reliance long before President Barack Obama was born. And, based on his appearance at last week’s crusade in Jamaica to mark the 19th anniversary of his Million Man March, the eighty-one-year-old Farrakhan will probably be preaching about the same long after Obama leaves The White House.… Read more.
