I keep pretty good track of my statistics for this and my other sites and I’ve noticed something really interesting, in the month of December 2009, the most popular search term that brought people to this site was:
john hagee site:damascusgate.com
For those of you that don’t know what that means, in Google, if you type [...]
This is a tough question that I’ve been pondering ever since I graduated from undergrad in 2000. On the one hand, student loans give you the best interest rates by far. My student interest rates were only 3.5% and I was pretty sure I could do better than that with other investments elsewhere so I [...]
I came across an article by Gary Burge, a professor at Wheaton College, that cleared up a lot of things for me about dispensationalism, convenant theology, and the arguments related to Christian Zionism. If you want to download the entire article, here is the link.
Why I am not a Christian Zionist, Academically Speaking – by [...]
I recently had a letter to the editor published in the Michigan Daily. Here is the letter…
Does Israel have the right to defend itself?
In their viewpoint, Danielle DePriest and Naomi Scheinerman assert Israel’s right to defend itself according to international law (The blame game and Israel, 10/11/09). The mantra of self-defense is useful for Israel [...]
One of the often forgotten benefits of investing in real estate is that it’s fairly easy to borrow money for the investment. No bank will lend you money to buy stocks or gold but banks will lend you money to buy real estate. Why? Because real estate is a tangible asset that is generally considered [...]
My wife and I recently closed on our second house since we became students at the University of Michigan. With the prices of housing dropping so much recently, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to buy. That said, not having a job made getting loans a little bit trickier although not impossible. I’m going to [...]