Countering the MAGA East Wing Argument
Every time Trump breaks the law and tramples the Constitution, his followers make excuses for him. The White House East Wing situation is no different. From MAGAs: For more than a century, U.S. Presidents have been renovating, expanding, and modernizing the White House to meet the needs of the present day. The Information They’re Leaving Out Theodore Roosevelt’s West Wing (1902) Was approved and funded by Congress. Congress passed an appropriations bill authorizing $65,000 for Roosevelt’s major White House renovation in 1902. Taft’s Oval Office (1909) Was approved and funded by Congress. In 1909, Congress passed an appropriations bill on Taft’s inauguration day authorizing $40,000 for the expansion of Roosevelt’s…
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The Trump-Colombia Crisis
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A Not-Greedy Oil Company
What Do You Meme? (Update Oct 11)
Memes, memes, they’re everywhere! Some are funny, some are inspirational, and some are just designed to spread false or misleading information. As I find memes I want to feature, I will post them here. I will limit the number to about 20 per page. When this first page has less than 20, I’ll keep adding new ones to the top until it’s full, then I’ll move them to the next page and start filling the front page again. Please note that only this first page will show on the blog, and will be the only meme page with a comment box. Subjects will include politics, science, and whatever else moves…
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Bioengineered Foods – What’s the Big Deal?
Noah’s Ark (Part 1)
Oh No! A Solar Eclipse!
MAGAs Were Wrong About Food Stamp Cuts
MAGA politicians lied, as usual. Trump followers believed every bit of it, as usual. The left said: millions of Americans are going to lose food stamps. The right said: People will not lose their benefits. The left is scare-mongering. The left was telling the truth, and I hope MAGAs find crow delicious. Food stamp cuts will be rolled out in several phases over the next several years. The first phases go into affect as soon as October 1, 2025, although some states began implementing the changes already this month (September 2025). Millions of working poor American citizens, elderly and disabled are losing all or part of their benefits. Don’t believe…
Social Issues the Far Right Doesn’t Understand
Stop Calling Me Liberal When I disagree with MAGAs, they call me libtard. This happens even when I can PROVE that the narrative they are engaging in is false. I am actually pretty much in the middle. But don’t slap a political label on me. I am a Christ-following realist. MAGAs accuse me of getting my information from liberal fake news. This, when they watch FOX and NewsMax, both of which spread lies which are very easily debunked. I try to stick with news sources that are as close to the middle as possible. But even then, I don’t take their word for it. I fact check by seeking out…
Christian Nationalism in NAZI Germany
On March 5 1922 at the Reichstag, Hitler made a speech. In part, he said: “The national regime seeks in both Christian confessions the factors most important for the maintenance of our folkdom…. The national regime will concede and safeguard to the Christian confessions the influence due them, in school and education. It is concerned with the sincere cooperation of church and state. The struggle against a materialistic philosophy for the creation of a true folk community serves the interests of the German nation as well as our Christian belief.” The following month he delivered a speech at Munich, which contained this sentiment: “I say: my feeling as a Christian…
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Grief is the Only Response
Since I heard the news that Charlie Kirk died from the gunshot wound, I have been fighting back tears. I did not agree with his politics or social views, but he was a child of God, a loving family man, and he stood for what he believed in, as the Constitution gave him the right to do so. This type of tragedy should never happen. The very first posts I saw on Facebook after he was shot, and even before he was pronounced dead, was from my Democrat friends. They were shocked and stunned. “No, no, no,” they lamented. “We want change, but not like this. Violence is never the…
US National Debt
Just a few highlights of the national debt since the beginning. Maybe someday I’ll come back and make a more complete list, but I’m feeling lazy. NATIONAL DEBT BY YEAR AMOUNT EQUIVALENT TO 2025 DOLLARS 1791 (after Revolution) $75 Million $2.6 Billion 1835 Zero (Jackson paid it off) – 1860 $65 Million $2.4 Billion 1865 (after Civil War) $2.7 Billion $86 Billion 1918 (WW1) $22 Billion $207 Billion 1945 (WW2) $258.7 Billion $2.7 Trillion 2010 (Post 9/11 ME wars) $13.6 Trillion $18.9 Trillion 2017 (end of Obama’s term) $19.95 Trillion $26 Trillion 2020 (end of Trump’s 1st term) $27.75 Trillion $34.7 Trillion (Inflation rate 4.53% yearly since 2020 = cumulative…
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The Joro Spider
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Big Brother is Being Watched
George Orwell’s novel 1984 appeared to be prophetic – until it got stood on its head. Cameras, Cameras, Everywhere The first closed-circuit television system (CCTV), came into being in 1942 in NAZI Germany. It was invented by an engineer named Walter Bruch for the purpose of monitoring rocket launches at a safe, indoor location. It had no recording capability, which would have made it useless for security applications, but it set the groundwork for future technology. In 1966, Marie Van Brittan Brown patented the first home security video system, but due to the high production cost, nothing much came of it directly. However, it did garner recognition in the world…
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Christians Only (Update Aug 10)
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Christian Nationalism – a Dangerous Movement
This article was written by Art Jipson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton, who originally published it on The Conversation under a Creative Commons license so it can be freely reprinted. Here it is below, unedited. I didn’t change a single letter. My own thoughts follow the article. What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US? Vance Boelter, who allegedly shot Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband, Mark Hortman, on June 14, 2025, studied at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas. The group is a Bible school linked to the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR.…
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History of Presidential Pardons and Clemencies
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The Dope on Epstein & Trump
dope: (dohp) noun informal: a stupid person informal: information, especially from a reliable source We’re in the middle of the biggest presidential scandal since Watergate. Except I think this may keep getting bigger until it makes Watergate look like a Sunday picnic. I decided to take a brief break from the post I’ve been working on about an historical figure, and dash this one off. In my heart of hearts, I think Trump is probably guilty of, or somehow involved with, the sex trafficking and rape allegations. But my court judge mindset says they are only allegations. Nothing has been proven, and even though the circumstantial evidence is compelling, we…
The Case for Evolution
Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? My introduction to them came when my mother bought me a set of children’s encyclopedias. Maybe I was around four years old? I fell in love! Then, when I started to school, the library had books on dinosaurs. I was in heaven! Many decades later the internet came along. When Facebook got started, I found science-oriented groups to join, and I learned more about dinosaurs. And I’ve found so many wonderful videos and documentaries online at YouTube and other streaming sources. I’ve learned more about paleontology, anthropology and geology in a few years than I did my entire life before then. The Emergence of Paleontology Humans…
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The Last Supper
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Fake Auto News
Social Media Experiment
I seldom post anything political on my Facebook timeline because fights erupt amongst the commenters. Once in a while I’ll post something, though, but I include one or more links to provide the relevant facts. The other day, I saw the above meme. As is, it’s deceptive. I was going to post it with a link that clarified the details. But at the last second, I impulsively decided to omit the link, and in lieu of the link and explanation, I posted the statement, “You get what you vote for”. That was my amateur version of a sociological field experiment. I wanted to see how people would react. Oh My…
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Project 2025
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