"Hezbollah hit 19 IDF tanks today. That's $95M lost in 1 day. The IDF is a paper tiger," declared Ethan Levins on Twitter with a picture of a burned-out tank. He describes himself as an "independent journalist," "American Christian," and "truth seeker." The picture he posted was from 2006. His ...
What does it mean when a snow leopard, important to species survival, is deemed effectively sterile? That was the topic of conversation at the Louisville Zoo last week after a reproductive assessment of Meru, an 8-year-old snow leopard. The Louisville Zoo has been hoping since Meru's arrival ...
For a brief window this coming week, Passover and Holy Week, the sacred observances of Jews and Christians, respectively, will overlap. Jews around the world will gather this Wednesday and Thursday evenings for the Seder, which recounts the Exodus from Egypt and God's redemptive hand in history. And after Good Friday and Holy Saturday on Sunday, April 5, Christians will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise of eternal salvation. Two biblical traditions, distinct but from the same Abrahamic family tree, will thus find themselves marking holy seasons at the same ...
It's unclear if they taught this in those high school government courses that everybody slept through. But if somebody asked you what was the most important element in the legislative process, could you fake an answer to get a passing grade? The list of potential answers is far ...
If there is one thing I’ve learned in the past 12 months, it’s that as a general population, we love electricity. On Christmas Eve, December 1940, my family homestead farmhouse experienced the glow of artificial light for the first time. My Great-Uncle John wrote me a Christmas greeting and included a story about the first time they had power in the house. I read the letter the same day that we received our satellite internet for the farm in the mail, Christmas Eve, December 2021. The farmhouse, built in the 1920’s, has been home to now the 4th generation of the family lineage. ...
George Bernard Shaw’s quote, used by Robert F. Kennedy in his 1968 campaign, challenges us to dream. The full quote is: “Some men see things as they are and ask why, I dream things that never were and ask why not.” However, our instant focused society is moving so fast we don’t take enough time to contemplate, to dream. Archibald MacLeish in his prose “Crisis of The Heart” faults us for failing to (dream) imagine and desire. So many ills of society and culture remain and even deepen in their tragic suffering because we fail to (dream), imagine, and then desire. A CRISIS ...
