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One correction to the article … there are Catholic Charismatics (the article implied it was only a Protestant movement).

I would say the same thing of Netanyahu that I say of Trump and other Politicians ... Deeds, not words. [The new millennium has brought an age when words mean NOTHING.] So, I watch and wait.

News articles and words are unnecessary. It is exactly what it looks like.

Not really a surprise. “Peace” was never in the air. The US wants an end to an Iranian Nuclear Weapon program more than anything else (Iran is refusing to budge on that point). Iran wants the blockade lifted so they can get the shipment of anti-aircraft missiles that China has promised them...

Actually, it is your money …

FYI: $4 billion in 9 years is just under $500 million per year for Human Space Exploration $500 million per year is about the same amount of money that the Government gives to Planned Parenthood. If we can afford Planned Parenthood, we can afford a Moon Base (cost is not the issue). The issue...

NASA needs to shift back to a DARPA-like role of pushing frontiers to create a foothold for Commercial to build upon. The ISS should have been a NASA power Module in LEO that anyone could connect a module to and build a destination. Then it would still be growing with new Bigelow and Spacex...

We have the lessons from the Apollo Program ... It only needs to last until China abandons its plans (plus 1 Presidential Election), then it can be abandoned (like Apollo and Skylab and the Shuttle and Ares V ... and the ISS imminently). It is the reason that we have so little real progress...

I think it is less sinister and more petty. In the 1960's Russia launched a rocket into orbit and a man into orbit first, so the US was not going to be "beat" by Russia and set a goal of a "man on the moon by the end of the decade" to PROVE that we were better than the "bad guys". [Typical...

We have successfully regained the Apollo 8 (1968) capability to fly around the moon without landing on it after only 54 years of progress in Manned Spaceflight following the end of the Apollo Program. [Just for the record, both the ISS and Artemis mission could have been achieved in the...

Hank is 70 years old with a Masters in Divinity from Moody. He long ago abandoned arguing with people. Now, whenever anyone wants to argue about "religion", Hank begins with "Let me tell you about my grandkids ..." 1) there is nothing threatening about talking about your grandchildren. 2)...

"Can I get an AMEN?" ;)

Sure, what could possibly go wrong by taking pot shots at the religious leader of 1.4 billion people world wide and about 20% of the US population. :) (Not that the “Holy Father” hasn’t invited POLITICAL criticism.)

US closes the Straight of Hormuz to all traffic. OPEN to all or CLOSED to all.

I read an analysis of the EU that described it as “tired and old” … like an old man past his prime. Statistically, they have fallen below the replacement birth rate for quite a while now. In real and practical terms, that means a native population that is shrinking and older (on average) which...