Politics Archives — R. L. Solberg

Letter From Birmingham Jail

The following is a letter I find so inspiring that I wanted to include it in its entirety here on my blog. It was written in longhand in August of 1963 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he sat in jail in Birmingham, Alabama. I read it every year on Martin Luther King Day. […]

R. L. Solberg 3 years agoJanuary 14, 2024

Book Reviews Culture Politics

Two Masters and Two Gospels

A review of Two Masters and Two Gospels Volume 1: The Teaching of Jesus vs. the “Leaven of the Pharisees” in Talk Radio and Cable News, by J. Michael Bennett, Ph.D. I recently received a copy of this book and was excited to dig in because I found the premise fascinating. The set-up in the […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Apologetics Culture Philosophy Politics

What’s Wrong With The World?

If you’re like me, some days you just need a break from the news. I often feel my blood pressure rising as I scan the headlines. Just this morning a perusal of several popular news sites including CNN, BBC, Fox, and others revealed dozens of articles on issues like terrorism, racism, Trumpism, violence, bigotry, starvation, […]

R. L. Solberg 7 years ago

Culture Politics

Happy Independence Day

The Prayer in the First Congress Given by Reverend Jacob Duché, Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m. “O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years ago

Culture Philosophy Politics

Please Help With My Racism

“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil — black gold! — ghettoizing and demeaning our creations and stealing […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years agoSeptember 15, 2023

Culture Philosophy Politics

The Wade Resonance

It’s like a science fiction horror plot; imagine an epidemic with a 100% mortality rate that suddenly pops up in the Australian outback. It spreads to the small towns, then to larger cities, and over the course of just two generations, it kills every man, woman, and child, leaving the entire island of Australia, 3 million square […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years ago

Culture Politics

Three Facts

Here are three facts. Feel free to draw your own conclusions: On September 11, 2001, nearly three thousand Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history. From that day until January 2009 there were no other radical Islamic terrorist attacks on US soil. Since January 2009 we’ve had the Fort Hood […]

R. L. Solberg 8 years ago