In the “old days” it was character, competence, and commitment that mattered in professional life. A man could become a lawyer, without college, by “reading the law” as did Abraham Lincoln and James Byrnes, former member of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941). But we are in a “more enlightened” day and everyone has to “jump […]
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Leave a Comment (Universities used to be places where students struggled with English, math, science, accounting, etc., with occasional breaks for a football or basketball game. Not anymore. There are numerous non-academic distractions, discussions, and debates that (after four years) produce frivolous, foolish frauds leaving with a degree that they can hardly read–literally! But they sure know how […]
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Leave a Comment (Parents are fools to pay huge tuition fees to prestigious universities who provide a degree but little education to their students. They should learn the lesson of the tulip mania. In early 1637 in the Netherlands, ordinary tulip bulbs (that bloom for about a week in the spring!) sold for more than 10 times the […]
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Leave a Comment (Every Wednesday I publish one of my earlier columns that I hope will be instructive, informative, inspiring, and maybe infuriating. The following column was first published in 2010: An old college friend asked me recently where I really think America is headed. I basically said that our nation is an out-of-control train running top speed […]
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Leave a Comment (Jim Wallis is a loosey-goosey religious leader who has been leading foolish followers out into left field in recent years. Jim used the tragedy in Sanford, Florida as an excuse to jump into the diseased depths of demagoguery where he is still trying to keep his head above the stinking, swirling water. If Jim would […]
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Leave a Comment (China has a complex, confusing, and convoluted religious structure; however, there is no question that it is having one of the greatest revivals in history! There are more real Christians in China than in America! Chinese Christians have been crushed since the Reds took over (with the help of the U.S. State Department!) in 1949, […]
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Leave a Comment (Every Wednesday I publish one of my earlier columns that I hope will be instructive, informative, inspiring, and at times, infuriating. The following column was first published in 2012: White students at Maryland’s Towson University want to start a White Student Union but are being opposed by bigots who are very supportive of their Black […]
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Leave a Comment (Many Christians in China attend an officially registered church and an illegal house church and there are even incidents of the government-approved Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) churches permitting unregistered house churches to meet in their building! But not very often! The illegal house-church movement has about 100 million worshippers nationwide, experts agree, and the […]
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Leave a Comment (…that treating cancer is a 115 billion dollar-a-year- business? …that many cancer specialists and nurses will give chemo to their patients but would refuse it for themselves and their families? …that for most cancers, chemo does not help you live any longer? …that up to 7 out of 10 cancers can be prevented? …that your […]
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Leave a Comment (Each Wednesday I publish one of my earlier columns that I hope will be informative, instructive, inspiring, and maybe infuriating. The following column was published in 2012: Egyptian President Morsi and other Middle East Muslim leaders have been lecturing the U.S. about freedom, yet they demand a worldwide law prohibiting any criticism of Islam! Maybe […]
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