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According to the Bureau of the Public Debt, the agency of the U.S. Department of Treasury tasked "to borrow the money needed to operate the federal government and to account for the resulting debt" — On October 1, 2010 the National Debt ticked past $13.6 Trillion for the first time ever. How much as $13.6 Trillion? READ MORE....JANUARY 2010
If you haven't already, you may soon be forwarded by someone you know a hoax email titled "Look what’s on your the 2010 Tax Return" [sic]. It is full of lies, distortions, and half-truths.The email in question asserts that the Obama administration has passed legislation which would require gun owners to list all their guns on their 1040 income tax form and pay a $50 tax on each one. And, of course, it’s simply not true. READ MORE.... DECEMBER 2009
I suspected, after reading Megan Basham's review, that the film The Blind Side would be worth seeing. So my wife and I went this weekend, and we were truly blindsided by a film abundantly rich in its humanity and unabashedly Christian in its underpinnings -- a modern day object lesson in Luke 10:25-37 and Matthew 25:31-47.Not only that, it's a true story. READ MORE.... JUNE 2009
Here is the now-famous 2001 assertion from Supreme Court Associate Justice designate Sonia Sotomayor, as quoted by The New York Times:"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." There's been a lot of controversy about this quote. In order to find out exactly why that might be, let's take a look at it again -- this time with a couple of parts made more "generic": "I would hope that a wise [ insert ethnic and gender reference here ] with the richness of ... experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a [ insert ethnic and gender reference here ] who hasn't lived that life." READ MORE.... MAY 2009
Allow me a slight flight of intellectual fancy, as I consider the uproar of recent weeks over (of all things) the off-the-cuff (and therefore remarkably poised) answer given by a beauty pageant contestant. Consider, if you will, the following slightly altered scenario.The question from Mr. Perez Hilton: "Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?" On at least three occasions, in front of video cameras and cheering audiences, the answer came from Presidential candidate Barack Obama: READ MORE.... APRIL 2009
I was watching cable news earlier this week and saw a news crawl that flipped the switch on my internal sensors.It seems that at Brown University, students were recently polled by the campus newspaper, and “67.2 percent of students support changing the name of Columbus Day, and 45.6 percent of undergraduates said they specifically favor changing the name to 'Fall Weekend'." I found the article in the online version of The Brown Daily Herald, and it reported this movement was in protest of "historical inaccuracies they believe the holiday celebrates" and in "recognition of the atrocities that [Columbus] committed." The Brown faculty soon thereafter voted (not unanimously) to drop the Columbus Day name in favor of Fall Weekend. READ MORE.... |
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