If you have a newish car, you can already integrate it with your smartphone, answering your cell with a button on your steering wheel and carrying on cellphone conversations through your car’s speakers. You can even buy “apps” for your car. But when your car
Not long ago, advocates of gay marriage were saying that since marriage laws are set by each state, gay marriage is an issue for individual states to decide. Some, more socially liberal states, might approve same sex marriage, while socially conservative states wouldn’t have
The Democrats’ big new issue is “income inequality.” What they are referring to is that wealthier people are benefiting more from the current economic growth than those with lower incomes and that there is a growing economic gap between the two. The Democrats want to
Archaeologists keep digging up interesting discoveries. Christianity Today lists the top 10 finds in Biblical archaeology of the past year. (more…)
The group that is trying to erect a statue of Baphomet next to the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma state capitol represents a new strain of Satanism. It isn’t just about black masses, occultism, and deliberate acts of evil. The new Satanism is allying itself
A 58-year old woman in Utah is serving as a surrogate mother for her daughter. The woman had already gone through menopause but she took a treatment of hormone shots to get herself back into the child-bearing mode. So far, the pregnancy is going well,
In the context of a discussion about “income inequality” (we’ll discuss that later), Kathleen Parker talks about political rhetoric and the different styles of each party. Republicans, she says, use “dog whistles,” using loaded terms (big government! tax-and-spend! anti-family!) to summon the true believers. Democrats
I grew up in northern Oklahoma, so I’ve been noting with bemusement how Osage County all of a sudden has a presence in popular culture. First there was Ree Drummond, a.k.a. the Pioneer Woman, whose show on the Food Network has introduced foodies to the
Rolling Stone Magazine published an economics manifesto that “Millennials should be fighting for.” You can read it after the jump, but I’ll summarize it for you here. Author Jesse A. Myerson says that “unemployment blows,” so that the government should guarantee work for everybody. But
Another example of Baptists wanting what Lutherans have but have neglected in order to be more like Baptists: Some Baptist leaders are saying that what their churches need in order to address decreasing attendance and to combat religious illiteracy is a catechism! (more…)
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