Rapture Jacks :: By Tom Clark

When I was a little kid, I used to watch my two older sisters play a game called Jacks. Sometimes they would deign to let baby brother play with them, and thus I learned this simple game from them. They would draw a circle (usually with chalk) on the ground and dump out a bag […]

10 Mar 2026

Cyrus’s gold: How wealthy outsiders funded Jerusalem’s rebirth and why the left fears it Persian gold flowed into Jerusalem more than 2,500 years ago, not as plunder but as deliberate investment. Cyrus the Great, the wealthiest and most powerful ruler of his era, issued a decree that sent Jewish exiles back to their capital, returned […]