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Are You Frugal?

The most valuable edition of your local newspaper is the Sunday Edition.  Why?  Because the coupons that can be found in that edition could pay for the paper itself—if you took the time to clip out the ones that interest you. The problem, most of the time, is that it’s hard to find the time [...]

Make Money Taking Surveys

There are multiple ways to make money online.  You can have a product or service that you are trying to sell, you can write—software or content (like blogging), but one other way that I know of to make money is to fill out Paid Surveys. I have had friends that have filled out surveys, tested [...]

Should NPR Continue to be Publically Funded?

National Public Radio was created to get the news heard.  It helped get radio stations in small towns.  It provided programming with public dollars so that you could hear what was going on in the world. And today, it’s no more than a liberal mouthpiece that continues to use public money to pay its executives [...]

Who Is Esaias Anyway?

For a moment, let’s accept the KJV Only argument that the King James is the best translation from a manuscript standpoint as well as from tradition.  My question, that has yet to be answered, is “Why has it not been updated since the 1800?” To give a reference, here’s something that always baffled me as [...]

Female Teachers Haven’t Stopped

In the many years that the female teacher-male student scandals were thrust into our view, you would think that these would have abated, and yet exactly the opposite has happened. It doesn’t seem that a week goes by that another teacher is accused of having physical relations with a member of her class, with no [...]

Herbert Hoover Economics?

Is cutting spending what led us into the Great Depression?  Certain economists would like us to think so.  The problem is, that idea runs counter to reality: From 1924 to 1928 Uncle Sam’s real per-capita spending fell by 4.3 percent. But this spending rose significantly during Hoover’s term in the White House. From 1928 to [...]

Gender-Neutral Bible–NIV 2011

I didn’t like it when they did it to state and local Constitutions, and I don’t like it when they do it to the Bible. What I’m talking about is the wholesale editing of an historical document to make it say something something that it hasn’t said and does not say for the purpose of [...]

How Engaged Should The President Be?

Last week, while Japan was in the middle of a nuclear crisis and many were wondering whether fall out would reach the United States, the “Leader of the Free World” was on ESPN announcing his picks for March Madness. The rest of the week he spent golfing, and then in Brazil. Many have made the [...]

Should States Have Their Own Currency?

This isn’t the first place that I’ve heard desiring of having something anchored to gold or silver rather than to the Fed, and somehow I doubt it’ll be the last:

Creation and Child Labor

In the article When Republicans win, Children Lose at Nuts and Dolts, the author gets it wrong on two key issues.

The List No One Wants To Be On

Our culture is conflicted.  While it preaches “safe” and “random” sexual encounters, those that engage in this activity still wish to appear that they are not as active as they really are. So, whereas the culture should look at what happened in Westchester County as a badge of pride, the “smut list” was instead a [...]

Seriously, You Think This is a Dress?

So it’s come out that Kate Middleton (the future wife of Prince William) caught his eye wearing the “outfit” that you see to the right—and this can all be yours at an upcoming London auction! I wouldn’t call this a dress, nor would I call it a skirt: The garment was initially intended to be [...]

75% of World Persecution Targeted At Christians

To hear them talk, you would believe that atheists were the most persecuted bunch.  It seems that it’s hard to go very long without hearing about some Christian symbol that offends some Atheist, or a motto on a dollar bill that shouldn’t be there, and you get the impression that Christians are persecuting those of [...]

Could I Please Have Some More Credit?

What would happen if you told the bank that you were underwater financially, that you were paying more than you were taking in, and for the forsee-able future the situation would just get worse… and then you ask them to raise your credit limit? I would think that they would probably laugh you out of [...]

It Takes Two

It was High School.  Eleventh Grade.  I was in Social Studies class and the teacher, a younger guy who was still full of energy and wanting to teach, decided that it would be interesting to get a class debate together decided on the topic of abortion. Abortion is a weird topic for teens, because many [...]

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