Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AmGreatness.com, Our elites are now viewed with the disdain they have earned on their own merits. And they are none too happy about it… Elites have always been ambiguous about the muscular classes who replace their tires, paint their homes, and cook their food. And the masses who tend… Continue reading The Worst & The Stupidest?
Mysterious Feedback (226A-230, Spoon Bending, Secret Cuban Missile Crisis, Ellen Gould White)
Podcast: Download MYS241a: Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including astrology, spoon bending, the secret Cuban missile crisis, and 7th Day Adventist prophet Ellen G. White, plus fan art and a poem. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode… Continue reading Mysterious Feedback (226A-230, Spoon Bending, Secret Cuban Missile Crisis, Ellen Gould White)
How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer.
A similar scenario played out in the 1990s, when a Tennessee naturalist named Lynn Faust read the confident published assertion of a scientist named Jon Copeland that there were no synchronous fireflies in North America. Faust knew then that what she had been watching for decades in the nearby woods was something remarkable. Faust invited… Continue reading How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer.
Ten Things That Inspired Me in 2022
The past few years have been a crash course in how to live through extraordinary, challenging times, and 2022 was no exception. It brought the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, fresh uncertainty after the end of Roe v. Wade, and gutting reminders about the persistence of gun violence in the United… Continue reading Ten Things That Inspired Me in 2022
Exorcist Diary: Demons Claim a Priest
I showed a photo of a man dressed in casual clothes to one of our specially gifted people: I said, “What do you see?” She responded, “Who is it?” I said, “I am not going to tell you. What do you see?” She said, “The man is covered with demons. The demons are saying, ‘We… Continue reading Exorcist Diary: Demons Claim a Priest
“Get A Warrant” – ATF Agents Attempt To Confiscate Solvent Trap Components
A new report from the gun blog website AmmoLand Shooting Sports News claims that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents are paying visits to law-abiding gun owners’ houses to confiscate solvent trap components. AmmoLand’s John Crump claims, “multiple law-abiding gun owners have contacted me about visitations by ATF agents attempting to get the individuals… Continue reading “Get A Warrant” – ATF Agents Attempt To Confiscate Solvent Trap Components
The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
Podcast: Download MYS228: The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 is well-known, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss it was followed in November by a second, secret Cuban missile crisis that the Soviets hid from the world. Get all new episodes automatically and for free: Follow by Email | Watch this episode and… Continue reading The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis (Mikoyan, Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev, November 1962)
A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved
Explore In the early 1950s, a group of researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study embarked on a high-tech project. At the behest of John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, the physicist Hedvig Selberg programmed the IAS’s 1,700-vacuum-tube computer to calculate curious mathematical sums whose origins stretched back to the 18th century. The sums were related to… Continue reading A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved
California’s Ambitious Decarbonization Plan Hasn’t Been Future-Proofed
This week the California Air Resources Board is expected to approve what’s known as its 2022 Scoping Plan, the blueprint to make the state, the world’s fourth-largest economy, carbon-neutral by 2045. The plan is beyond ambitious. “It’ll spur an economic transformation akin to the Industrial Revolution,” Gov. Gavin Newsom declared when it was released last… Continue reading California’s Ambitious Decarbonization Plan Hasn’t Been Future-Proofed
The Importance of Preaching – Fr. Ezra Sullivan
After prayer and the administration of the sacraments, preaching is the most important work that a priest is called to do. Preaching may be understood as a prophetic task, in which the priest stands in place of Christ and mediates the truths of God to the people to whom he is sent: here, by preaching,… Continue reading The Importance of Preaching – Fr. Ezra Sullivan