What I’ve Been Reading, Listening to, and Watching this Week
Change could weaken fair lending office at consumer bureau
What CNN Says: “Nestled inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an office that goes after financial companies whenever they discriminate against Americans. That office just lost its teeth.”
My Take: Mick Mulvaney is reining in the out of control Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In this case, he is also eliminating enforcement protocols that treat everything as racist if blacks are involved.
The Constitutional Right to a Long Goodbye
What Mark Steyn Says: “For example, a judge called Katherine B Forrest has just discovered that the Founding Fathers cannily provided illegal immigrants with a constitutional right to say goodbye. … The “prominent activist” in question – Ravi Ragbir – is a convicted mortagage fraudster who lost his residency claims after he was sent to jail in the year 2000. That’s eighteen years ago. Upon his release from prison, he was turned over to ICE for deportation. ICE kept him in custody for a couple of years, and then in 2008 released him under “supervision”, meaning he’s required to check in every six months to see if that deportation’s come through yet. 2008 is ten years ago. Which one would have thought would be long enough for a thousand choruses of “So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu, adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu…” But apparently there are a few yieus he hasn’t had time to adieu …what with him being “a part of our community fabric” and all.”
My Take: It is amazing how our country lets people like Judge Forest get away with making up stuff and pretending it has some rational connection to the law or morality. We really do need to wake up.
Is Dr. Jordan Peterson A Gateway Drug to Christianity, Or Just A Highbrow Joel Osteen?
What Peter Burfeind Says: “There’s a lot to love about Dr. Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto who made headlines for refusing to use transgendered pronouns. … Peterson is fostering our cultural Gnosticism. Consider his understanding of God, what he calls his first hypothesis: God is the abstraction of a human ideal formalized over millions of years of human development in the myths and teachings of any religion. … In the end, Peterson’s fundamental argument, though profound, falls flat. His psychological advice, while insightful, makes him little more than a highbrow Joel Osteen. Still, his defense of the West against the leftist ideologies of the day is fresh, and well worth the investment in time.”
My Take: I appreciate what Dr. Peterson has done to fight back against the PC elites who want to shut down free speech, but anyone who denies the existence of God will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of the truth.
The Intelligent Design Glitch
What Doug Wilson Says: “Some ID advocates don’t argue for the existence of God but rather for an ambiguous somebody. There is a fatal flaw in this argumentation; they should say that they are creationists. The intelligent design movement must have a God.”
My Take: I attended an outreach luncheon for young professionals at a Baptist church years ago. In an attempt to haul in the unchurched and unbelievers, the speaker spent the entire time talking about morality and happiness without talking about God. I felt like I needed to take a bath afterward. We don’t have to cite Scripture to back up everything we say every time we say it, but I don’t see how one can leave God out of the picture when the conversation is about righteousness or creation.
The Greatest Home Run Ever
What Chuck Thompson Says: “Here’s the swing and a high fly ball toward deep left. This may do it. Back to the wall goes Bera. It is over the fence. Homer. And the Pirates win.”
My Take: I’ve known about Mazeroski’s home run to win Game 7 of the 1960 World Series for decades. But until recently, I didn’t know anything about the game itself. I’ll describe it this way: if you watched Game 5 of the Astros-Dodgers World Series last year, what you saw was just about a carbon copy of Pirates beating the Yankees in 1960. Except the 1960 version was won with a walk-off home run in Game 7 that ended the World Series. It doesn’t get any more exciting than that.
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