Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 75
May 26, 2017
Now someone in the administration is leaking British secrets
President Trump has been bedeviled by someone in his administration leaking damaging information about him and his staff. Now someone in his administration is leaking British secrets! About the Manchester terror attack, no less. British law enforcement agencies shared photographs of evidence in the terror attack–a bloody backpack, an electronic device, and a piece of [Read More...]
May 25, 2017
“Now He Is Very Near”
Some people think that Christ’s ascension into Heaven means that He is no longer with us. Not so.
“Now he is very near”
Some people think that Christ’s ascension into Heaven means that He is no longer with us. Not so.
Fact checking the fact checkers
In this climate of “fake news,” professional fact checkers have risen to new prominence. But an academic study of two of the most prominent media fact checkers has found that in one out of five times, the two come to opposite conclusions about whether something is true or a lie. After the jump, an editorial [Read More...]
Trump is good business for the liberal media
Ratings for the conservative Fox News are way down. The liberal MNBC, once hardly watched by anyone, is now the most-watched cable news network. The New York Times not long ago was hemorrhaging readers. Now the number of subscribers is soaring. Stephen Colbert was recently in danger of losing his late night show, such were [Read More...]
May 24, 2017
The invention of breakfast cereal and other wacky church history
You need to know about Luke T. Harrington, a Missouri Synod Lutheran who like me lives in Oklahoma. He writes, among other places, at Christ and Pop Culture. He has a series D-List Saints on “the many less-than-impressive moments in Christian history.” For example, the time the Catholics had three popes; the story of Oliver [Read More...]
Trump tried to get intelligence officials to deny collusion
More comes out about President Trump interfering in the investigation of Russian connections with his campaign. He asked the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, and the Director of the National Security Agency, Michael Rogers, separately to deny publicly that any collusion took place. Both refused the request as inappropriate. Dan Coats is the former Republican [Read More...]
Google will now track your brick & mortar purchases
Google will now track credit and debit card transactions at retail stores, in an effort to assess the effectiveness of their online advertising. It will work like this: A retailer places an ad with Google, which then targets likely buyers based on all the data it collects from our online visits. With a tie-in to [Read More...]
May 23, 2017
The cup for the laity
The communion practice of the Roman Catholic Church, up until Vatican II, was for the priests to drink the wine. Laypeople were only given the bread. Brian Stiller, writing on the Christianity Today site, reflects on Luther and the Reformation as he sits in the City Church of Wittenberg. He sees a detail in Lucas Cranach’s [Read More...]
Trump’s “taxpayer first” budget
President Trump has released his detailed budget proposal for 2018, an ambitious document that will encourage his supporters and enrage many of his critics. His team was reportedly told to examine each line item and ask the question, “Would taxpayers want their money spent on this?” The budget cuts many social welfare benefits and what was [Read More...]
