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Now living in Arizona, Richard Kelly retired in 1997 after a 33-year career as a manufacturing executive. He started writing in 1998, publishing his first book in 2007. At one time an avid Republican, Kelly now considers himself a fiscal conservative and social libertarian. Read more about Dick Kelly at Richard E. Kelly. You can email Dick at RKelly@JustOneOpinion.com.
Most Americans know more “things that ain’t so” about the U.S. Health Care System than any other subject. Economist Tsung-Mei Cheng’s tongue-in-cheek The Universal Law of Health Care Systems sheds some light on this anomaly: 1) No matter how good the health care is in a particular country, people will complain about it; 2) No [...]
Joel Fuhrman asserts that U.S. citizens know less about nutrition than any other subject. But then again – he’s a nutritionist. In his bestseller, Eat To Live, Dr. Fuhrman proves his point by making a strong case for people to focus on their health and not just their weight. I read the book twice in [...]
What do we do about the new Health Care Law? Accept the Law as currently written? Tweak it to improve it? Repeal it? If repealed, with what do we replace it?
This is the third and last post related to what is known by most Christians about the Bible that ain’t so. While much of this information is reported in Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus, the following facts have been well known to well-informed, objective Bible scholars.
As I moved from table to table playing east/west, my opponents commented on the title, How Starbucks Saved My Life, with a wide range of observations and questions, although I had no idea what the book was about.
Intelligent Design proponents provide no testable hypotheses to substantiate their claims nor do they provide a model that meets the stringent criteria of scientific theory. Calling ID (creationism) a theory is inappropriate, as it doesn’t begin to approach the robustness of scientific theory.
Most Americans are ignorant of the contents of the Bible and almost completely in the dark about what scholars have been saying about it for over two centuries.
The Bible makes better sense if readers acknowledge its inconsistencies, instead of staunchly insisting that there absolutely are none within its pages.
If the United States wants energy security and not be forced to depend on foreign oil, then why do we appear to be overlooking natural gas?
For as long as I can remember, books and and the written word have been an important part of my life. In fact, I wouldn’t be who I am without them. So for me, it was a very special privilege to be invited to participate, along with four hundred other authors, in the first annual [...]
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