Supreme Court Justices Sonta Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson provided a strong dissent of the more conservative justices overturning a 40-year precedent that gave deference to federal agencies when the meaning of statutes are ambiguous. It will now be easier for businesses to bring lawsuits challenging agency actions. They said this would cause [...]
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“Trash By The Side of the Road”
“Trash by the Side of the Road” February 7, 2021 Yesterday was trash day. My job, each Saturday morning, is to gather all the trash from the house, including cardboard and cans to be recycled. I dutifully carry it off in the back of my pickup truck to our local recycling center and trash collection [...]
“The Restoration of Community”
“The Restoration of Community” January 17, 2021 I was in the Bernadine Center at the St Francis Hospital this week. I work in this hospital system and this past Wednesday I was given the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Medical literature reports two doses give from 94-95% immunity to the Covid-19 virus, which should [...]
“The Salvation of God”
“All Flesh Shall See the Salvation of God” January 10, 2021 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, while Annas and Ciaphas were [...]
“Angry Men”
“Angry Men” January 3, 2021 I was riding home yesterday coming from Home Depot, where I picked up 5 boards I needed to complete a storage project. Riding home, minding my own business, a red truck driven by an apparently angry man came behind me with an American flag placed in the back of his [...]
“Parting Thoughts”
“Parting Thoughts” The end of the year of our Lord 2020 cannot come too soon! This is the year “we would like to forget but will long remember,“ as I heard a narrator say on NBC tonight, closing out the old year. Are there any words to adequately express what any one of us feels [...]
“The Makings of a Coup”
“The Makings of a Coup” December 12, 2020 A “coup” is defined as “a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government” (Dictionary) The US Supreme Court battled down a legal challenge to the Democrat’s win in the state of Arizona with a terse, one sentence “application denied” order. (by Anthony Zurcher, [...]
A Celebration of Democracy”
“Chaos and Healing the State of the Union” November 29, 2020 Remember Aaron Van Langewelde, a Republican, and member of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, charged with certifying Michigan’s election results, which made official Joe Biden’s win over President Donald Trump. Biden beat Trump by 154,000 votes in Michigan. Van Langewelde is one common [...]
“Corruption, Corruption!”
“Corruption, Corruption” June 23, 2020 Having been silent these many days, it is now time that I say something more, owing to the fact that the general state of affairs of this nation and its current administration is going from bad, to very bad and now even worse than that; it is becoming obvious that [...]
“God’s Promised Presence”
“God’s Promised Presence” May 24, 2020 As we remember the many who have died supporting the cause of liberty and democracy in our young nation, as many have died to grant our freedoms of worship and democratic life, we pause to give thanks not only for these men and women but also for the Presence [...]
Tweety Bird 