Throwback Thursday is a weekly theme by social media users to post past photos of themselves. In that spirit I’m posting a 1960 picture of the Everly Brothers. Phil is on the left and his brother Don is on the right. I hadn’t thought about them in a long time, until I recently learned that Phil passed away. Continue reading
The failure of the new government-run, health-care web site has provided fodder for ridicule from both the left and the right of the political spectrum. It has given late night comedians material for their sarcastic jokes. Saturday Night Live mocked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a recent skit. And of course, various talk show hosts almost seem to smirk with an “I told you so” attitude. Continue reading
Yesterday as I drove to my office I encountered a traffic jam on I-470.
As soon as I merged from the ramp onto the highway, I could see it up ahead. “Oh, no,” I thought. “I wish I had gone a different way.” Then I saw one of those electronic highway signs messaging “Wreck at Raytown Road exit. Left lane closed.”
As I drove closer to the back up, the left lane was open. And I couldn’t see any obstruction ahead. So, I got over in the left lane and began passing everyone in the right and middle lane that were beginning to clog up. (Yes, I’m one of those kind of drivers.) Continue reading
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(This post received the 5th most hits from our readers in 2013)
Aaron and Melissa Klien have been the subject of protests. Boycotts. And Public outrage. In fact Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries has launched an official investigation.
“Everybody is entitled to their own beliefs, Commissioner Brad Avakian told The Oregonian but that doesn’t mean that folks have the right to discriminate.” Presumably in referring to the Klien’s, Avakian also said, “The goal is to rehabilitate.”
So who are Aaron and Melissa Klien? And what intolerable offense did they commit? Continue reading
Filed under 2013 Top Posts, Culture, Morality
Sean and Hannah Gastonguay were fed up.
They were fed up with governmental intrusion in their lives. Fed up with moral state of America. Fed up with unfair taxation. Hannah said as Christians they don’t believe in ‘‘abortion, homosexuality, in the state-controlled church.” U.S. ‘‘churches aren’t their own,’’ Gastonguay said, suggesting that government regulation interfered with religious independence.
So the northern Arizona family decided to do something about it. Continue reading
“Reader’s Digest” once told the story about a company who mailed out some special advertising business post cards with a mustard seed glued to it. The following caption read something like this: “If you have faith as small as this mustard seed in ( our product), you are guaranteed to get excellent results and be totally satisfied.”
— Signed, The Management Continue reading
I’ve heard the truism of all my life that “silence implies consent.” This was a maxim with regard to law advocated by Sir Thomas Moore in the 16th century. Philosophically, Plato, the Greek philosopher wrote, “your silence gives consent.”
Apparently, that is no longer so in our topsy-turvy, politically correct culture. Especially as it relates to homosexuals. Continue reading
“Marriage is a lie,” she confidently asserted.
“It’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist,” as the audience wildly applauded.
“Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there,” she added.
The speaker? Continue reading
“I don’t think there is a good reason for an abortion….“It’s not your body, it’s not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave it to you.”
Guess who said that?
Not the Pope. Not a preacher. Not a politician. It was Norma McCorvey. Don’t know her? She was a Texas woman who at age 21 was pregnant for the third time. She worked at a low paying job. And Norma didn’t need another child. Continue reading
The precious little children of the Newtown massacre have not even been buried yet and we are hearing about more laws and regulations so “this kind of thing never happens again.”
But can you regulate morality? Can more laws regulate the evil in a person’s heart? Can stricter gun laws diminish hate? Reverse revenge? Dispel anger? Continue reading
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