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On my 12th birthday, my parents arranged a surprise visit to a really big radio station. I got to sit in with a host I’d listened to for years, be on the mic with him, talk to the producers on the other side of the glass and watch the whole ...

We already have a health care system that resembles a kind of centrist soup. With Obamacare, the exact proportions may be different, but the soup’s ingredients remain exactly the same. ‘Obamacare’, aka the Affordable Care Act, is now under implementation. It passed all three branches of the federal government including ...

Explaining the classic problem with a simple analogy Let’s say you’re passing by a bathroom door and you happen to look in and see a young child fall and slip under the water. Nobody else is around. What should you do? You’d probably reply that you should run in and ...

Homicides are down while gun ownership is up, rampages are not increasing, and gun laws don’t seem to have changed any homicide rates we can look at. So why are we so obsessed with gun control? ——— Do you believe in science? I do. I believe that truth can be ...

Death and comedy rarely mix. In the aftermath of a tragic event, we lose our collective sense of humor. Even among jovial, fun-loving people, if someone’s prank appears to lead to someone else’s tragedy, we sober up fast. But the apparent suicide of a nurse after she was pranked by ...

“Keep your prayer in the closet!” – Jesus Christ This week’s meeting of the Town of Quartzsite Council has an item on its agenda that piqued my interest: “Discussion of letter received from the Freedom from Religious Foundation [sic] and possible action to replace prayer with a moment of silence ...

The following things have all been opposed by the Christian church at various times and to various degrees throughout history. But aside from that important fact, can anybody tell me what they all have in common? • The rhythm method • Oral sex • The birth control pill • Anal ...

How some things in the bible only make sense if you understand the cosmology of the writers Look straight up at the sky. The top of that huge, beautiful crystalline dome extends out in all directions and then meets the horizon, where it is propped up by mountains and the ...