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Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:46:28 +0000 – By Noel SheppardAssociate Editor, Newsbusters.org Imagine for a moment you were more concerned with the economy than politics, and you truly wanted to increase consumer confidence as well as consumer spending. What would you do? How about putting more money in people’s wallets? …

This week Michael Sam arrived at training camp with the St. Louis Rams. Emotions are running high. As the first openly-gay player on an NFL team, will his sexual orientation cause distractions? If my experience playing high school football is any indication, the answer is, “No.” Three years ago, when …

The best compliment I’ve received in a long time was “Really? You’re a pastor?” It was on an airplane and it was from the man seated next to me. We had been talking for over an hour, mostly about the business trip he was on. When he finally asked me …

Most people, perhaps even the super-wealthy, who are usually accountable to auditors, want to know where their money goes. This is especially true when they detect money for which they can’t account. Not so with the federal government. Some recent headlines reflect a disturbing pattern that has contributed to our …

When my old boss Ronald Reagan gave the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984, the tradition was for the president to give the first salute only to the top 100 graduates. Reagan decided to break with tradition and saluted every single graduate, nearly 1,000 of them, …

It’s been almost a year since Hurricane Helene reshaped Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia.But as a native of that region, I remember it like it was yesterday: the reports of catastrophic flooding, thousands of mudslides, and infrastructure failures—from interstate closures to cell towers being offline. Four days after the …

For weeks, the nation’s attention has been drawn to the storm in Madison over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to limit the power of government unions. Yet 500 miles to the southeast, in Columbus, Ohio, Gov. John Kasich is on the verge of passing a more extensive reform. Under the …

Although the issue of climate change may not be making headlines at the present, it remains very much alive and well. It is our intention to present an alternative view relating to the popular “Catastrophic Climate Change” issue and it’s consequences for creation. This view draws from science, politics, Biblical …

As the United States inches closer to maxing out its credit card (with a whopping $14.3 trillion on its balance sheet), lawmakers will soon be faced with a big decision, the one they face every year: whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. Congress has never voted against increasing …

Guilty until proven innocent. That’s a parent’s lot in life as headline after headline howls the news of children’s struggles – falling test scores, rising sexually transmitted disease rates, swelling waistlines and the like– And whose to blame? The parents of course. But for those who believe that poisonous water …