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On Rachel Maddow’s television program, she pointed out that the reason the Obama Justice Department was allowed to snoop around in the Associated Press’ phone records is because there is not a federal shield law that would prevent it- blocked, naturally, by those dastardly Republicans. Maddow also pointed out that Obama supported and sponsored a [...]
Read more...Putting advocacy for the homeless on the same level as fighting for civil rights for blacks is absurd and insults the memory of those who fought for those rights. Yet modern-day activists in Bloomington see themselves as the heirs to the civil rights struggle and are determined to stand against “oppression” from “The Man.” No [...]
Read more...The following is an open letter to the Bloomington City Council. Councilors, I am writing you to once again express my opposition to Planned Parenthood’s request for funding through the city’s John Hopkins social services funding program. I would like to draw your attention to two statements made by Planned Parenthood representatives: When Planned Parenthood [...]
Read more...The world will be a much better place when evil Syrian tyrant Bashir Assad is dead. It is possible (though not certain by any means) that the Syrian people will be better off if and when his regime falls – especially if he is using chemical weapons against his own people, as is suspected. But [...]
Read more...A federal appeals court ruled in May of 2008 that interactive content providers are not legally liable for content posted on their sites, in that case MySpace.com, after a teenage girl was sexually assaulted by a man she met through the social networking site. The family had alleged that MySpace.com did not properly protect teens [...]
Read more...Steve Chapman illustrates the problem with libertarians who place purist ideology over common sense, resulting in an anti-libertarian stance. Giving birth control to pre-teen girls is not a libertarian position for two very big reasons. First, it violates parental rights. The state has traditionally deferred to parents’ authority in matters of child-rearing. For the government [...]
Read more...There has been a sea change in the issue of homosexual marriage, and many Christians are wondering how we got to the point where a culture that was once heavily influenced by Biblical teaching is now about to put a state sanction on something clearly prohibited by Scripture. It should not be a surprise that [...]
Read more...And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. — Job 29:17 The most shocking thing about the rape case in Steubenville, Ohio was not that two young men raped a 16 year old girl who was so drunk she blacked out. Sadly, the fact that men sexually [...]
Read more...There have been a number of problems in Monroe County government over the last several years, from the abuse of county government credit cards to significant loss of revenue from improperly filing paperwork with the state. One of the reasons for this (but not the only reason for it) is the loss of institutional knowledge [...]
Read more...Don’t we have enough conflict in our society without looking for things to fight about where no fight actually exists? Sarah Palin is writing a book about the mythical “War on Christmas.” I absolutely hate this “war on Christmas” nonsense that we hear about every year in November and December. Yes, there are a tiny [...]
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