Promising Program Brings Back Classical Education
In the ongoing effort by concerned parents and disillusioned educators to find ways of improving education for today’s youngsters, there’s a new kid on the block. And, from all appearances, one...
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Barna Study: 41% Can’t Point to a Most Influential Christian Leader
While churches, pastors, and Christians everywhere bemoan the state of spirituality in today’s culture, Americans can point to few notable Christian leaders in the nation. The findings of a November 21...
UK Girl in “Waking Coma” After Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Britain's Daily Mail reported on November 21 that 13-year-old Lucy Hinks has been left debilitated, likely from injections of the Cervarix cervical cancer vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline’s version of Gardasil, which is manufactured...
Tax Increase May Drive Jack Daniel’s to Michigan
When Jack Daniel founded a whiskey distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee (left), in 1875, he could little have guessed that over a century and a quarter later, the company would be so...
Obama Seeks to Subsidize Foreign Investments
At an APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit last weekend in Hawaii, President Barack Obama told CNSNews that the United States needs to step up its courtship of foreign dollars. He said America...
Do We Need Federal Agencies Such as FEMA?
As a resident of tiny Smithville, Texas (between Austin and Houston), this past Labor Day I was able to observe firsthand the largest and most horrific wildfire in Texas history (which...
Mississippi to Consider Defining Personhood
According to U.S. News for October 14, Mississippi voters will be presented with Amendment 26 on their November ballots, an initiative redefining "personhood.” U.S. News wrote: "The amendment would, if enacted, add...
U.S. Government — Tracking Cash Cards?
The U.S. government has found another way to invade privacy in the name of fighting terrorism by proposing legislation that would track prepaid debit cards. As usual, the real losers would...
Rick Perry Proposed Bi-National Health Insurance with Mexico
As media attention intensifies about Texas Governor Rick Perry's run for the presidential nomination, an activist in Tyler, Texas, was prompted to say "More checking under the hood needed before we...
Rick Perry Signed Hate Crimes Bill in Texas
Not long after Rick Perry became Governor of Texas, according to an Associated Press release on May 12, 2001 he signed the James Byrd Hate Crimes Act (HB 587) named for a...
Texas Republican Liberty Caucus Compiling Perry Dossier
As the newest entrant into the GOP presidential race, Texas Governor Rick Perry is finding some tough sledding in the early going — from a group of Republicans in his own...
Rick Perry and the Largest Tax Hike In Texas
In Rick Perry’s August 13 presidential announcement speech in South Carolina the Texas Governor (photo at left) stated: .…we have led Texas based on some just really pretty simple guiding principles....
GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Perry
After much networking, private fundraising, and even some preliminary campaign staffing, Texas Governor Rick Perry finally tossed his Stetson into the GOP 2012 presidential ring on August 13, the day of...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry Now Running for President
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States at a RedState bloggers gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday. The event also...
“The Help” — A Review
Kathryn Stockett could not have written The Help 50 years ago. Which is the point of the story. But the Jackson, Mississippi, native has joined Margaret Mitchell, Harper Lee, Donna Tartt,...