Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1106

A presidential executive order is urgently needed

    It is imperative that the rule barring military personnel at recruiting stations from carrying firearms be eliminated.   These are invariably weapons-trained people.  Many if not most or all of them are combat veterans.  One of those murdered in Tennessee was a two-time recipient of the Purple Heart.   Yet they are obvious [Read More...]

“Can We Count on Legal Protection for Our Beliefs?”

    As usual, Cassandra Hedelius doesn’t disappoint.  Here’s an insightful warning from her about the mounting threat to religious liberty in the United States:   http://ldsmag.com/can-we-count-on-leg...   Must reading, it seems to me, for anyone who cares about the future of our First Amendment rights.   Posted from Santa Fe, New Mexico    

“Obama’s Nuclear Deal with Iran: Worse Than We Could Have Imagined”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   This is the kind of thing that you get when you elect (and then re-elect!) a weak, inexperienced, and incompetent leftist to the presidency of the United States.   But he’s a nice guy, and a good father, and it was genuinely good to have elected somebody with black ancestry.   [Read More...]

“Talking Past Each Other: ‘Love Wins’ vs. Human Nature”

    The invaluable Ralph Hancock weighs in on disagreements about the nature and purpose of marriage:   http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/201...   Posted from Santa Fe, New Mexico    

“Astronomers discover our long-lost ‘solar twin’”

    This is potentially really important.  It’s certainly interesting:   http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2015...   Posted from Santa Fe, New Mexico    

An addendum to my previous post about Elder Packer

    I got a kick out of Elder Ballard’s expression of gratitude to Sister Packer, at the funeral, for her role in convincing Elder Packer not to call his fellow apostles at 5 AM.   For the link, see here.   That suggests that my experience of getting a really early morning phone call [Read More...]

Personal Encounters with Elder Packer (Part 4)

    I regret that I was unable to attend or watch the funeral services for President Boyd K. Packer on Friday.  He has been a titanic presence in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for my entire adult life.   Fortunately, those services are online, and I intend to watch them when [Read More...]

How to judge the man

    “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Nelson Mandela

“Is the Multiverse science?”

    This is a really interesting topic, and a really interesting question:   https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang...    

“Free Speech and Religious Liberty Are Under Siege”

    This isn’t even remotely surprising — except perhaps in the lightning fast manner with which it’s occurring:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   I had expected perhaps a few weeks of truce.   I was naïve.