Review: The Lost Symbol
Nov 26th
Apparently, Dan Brown is more afraid of Freemasons than he is of the Vatican.
This review, coming a couple of months into The Lost Symbol‘s run atop the New York Times bestseller list, will be short. Far better reviewers have already offered up more educated opinions of Brown’s latest novel than I can. But my personality disorder — the one that drove me to give up a ten-year career in steel sales for a talk radio job that paid less than half what I was making — compels me to force my opinion into the public arena.
To his credit, Brown has More >
Best Buy: Dhimmi all your lovin’…
Nov 25th
Tip of the headphones to Mike Heiser: Best Buy has found a holiday it can name without fear of backlash from the politically correct.
Eid al-Adha? Do we celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice in the U.S.? Have we ever?
Based on the CIA Factbook, Best Buy just devoted precious space in its Black Friday color ad to acknowledge a holiday celebrated by about 0.6% of the American population.
Hanukkah gets a mention (on a gift card), but the closest Best Buy comes to “Christmas” in its Black Friday flyer is images of wrapped packages and snowflakes.
Oh, yeah, and an ad for a “Feliz Navidad” More >
Climate change conspiracy
Nov 23rd
This is how the consensus has been shaped on global warming — discredit the dissidents:
In one e-mail, the [Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia]‘s director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University’s Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to More >
VFTB 024: Judd Burton — Interview With the Giant
Nov 22nd
DESPITE NEAR-UNIVERSAL skepticism from mainstream science — and most Christians — Judd Burton, director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology, believes that the giants of Genesis 6 are to be taken literally. In fact, he suggests in his new book Interview With the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim, that the nephilim may have planted the roots of mankind’s earliest known civilizations.
We discussed the evidence for the existence of the nephilim, both biblical and extrabiblical, their impact on the ancients, and their influence on the world today.
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VFTB 023: Dr. Henry Niman — Deadly Flu in Ukraine
Nov 19th
WESTERN MEDIA are beginning to notice the outbreak of flu in Ukraine. As of today, some 86,000 people there are hospitalized and 344 have died.
Dr. Henry Niman, founder and president of Recombinomics, Inc., discussed a newly-detected change in the genetic code of the virus that may have made it so dangerous, why he believes this is a natural occurrence, and why we should be concerned about the year ahead.
For his latest comments on this developing situation, visit his website, Recombinomics.com, or follow Dr. Niman on Twitter.
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