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April 2018

April 16, 2018

Backpage Knew It Was Trafficking Children for Sex

The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which passed with an overwhelming bi-partisan majority, was signed into...

April 03, 2018

Law Makes Websites Liable for Sex Trafficking

Congress has passed a law holding websites criminally liable if they are used for sex...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

Might the Russians Have Flipped the Election to Trump?

The indictment filed by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller against 13 Russians and a Kremlin-connected organization...

February 19, 2018

Mueller Indicts 13 Russians for Interfering with the Election

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has issued indictments against 13 Russians and 3 Russian organizations for...

February 15, 2018

School Shooting in Florida Kills 17

A gunman went into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and killed at least...

February 05, 2018

Get the Memo: Democrats Support Police & Republicans Support Civil Liberties

The memo from the House Intelligence Committee on the FBI's use of the discredited Steele...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

Investigating the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Trump administration is being investigated by the FBI. But now the FBI is also...

January 11, 2018

The Osage Murders

We often say of a good book that "I couldn't put it down," a hyperbole...

December 2017

December 07, 2017

The Case of the Gay Wedding Cake

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, v....

December 06, 2017

President Trump’s Legal Problems

The Russia issue will not go away for President Trump, and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

An LCMS Murder

A man identified as the "youth pastor" of Grace Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Chester, Virginia, shot...

November 17, 2017

The Connection Between Domestic Abuse and Church Shootings

Research does show that a large percentage of church shootings do also involve domestic violence....

November 09, 2017

Dear Next Mass Church Murderer,

The whole “death” thing raises a very important point. Ours is a Christian church and...

November 08, 2017

Why Violence Doesn’t Stop the Church

Officials are saying that the church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was not due to...

November 06, 2017

Nearly 30 Killed in Deadliest U.S. Church Shooting

A gunman walked into First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday morning and...

November 01, 2017

Russia Investigation Indicts Three

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller and his grand jury investigating allegations of the Trump campaign's Russia...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Conservatives–and Christians?–for Marijuana Legalization

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans support the legalization of marijuana. More than half (51%) of...

October 02, 2017

Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History!

Fifty people were killed and more than 400 were wounded in Las Vegas in what...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Trump blames both alt-left and alt-right

Having issued a tepid blame-both-sides statement about the Charlottesville killing, President Trump on the next...

August 03, 2017

JFK assassination files are unsealed–and reveal doubts about the Warren Commission

In 1992, a law was passed requiring the release in 25 years of all government...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

How to criminalize Christianity

The United States has freedom of religion, and to say Christians are "persecuted" here is...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Murder by text

Seventeen-year-old Michelle Carter had a boyfriend, Conrad Roy, who was 18. Conrad was plagued by...

June 27, 2017

Paying to upgrade your accommodations in prison

Convicted felons in California can often upgrade their prison cells--for a price. For $100 a...

June 15, 2017

Gunman attacks Republican congressmen

Seventeen Republican congressmen, two senators, and various staffers, family members, and friends (26 in all)...

June 06, 2017

NSA report says Russia hacked voting technology company

The big news is that a leaker of top secret intelligence information has been arrested....

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Now someone in the administration is leaking British secrets

President Trump has been bedeviled by someone in his administration leaking damaging information about him...

May 23, 2017

Terrorism hits a concert

An explosion killed at least 19 and injured 50 at a concert by American pop...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

The pastor who baptized a murderer

Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death for murdering nine African-Americans at a Bible study,...

February 13, 2017

An obituary for a contemptible life

Obituaries summarize the events of the life of the deceased, a way of honoring the...

October 2016

October 05, 2016

U.S. no longer makes the “free country” top 10 list

The United States is no longer in the top 10 of the world's most free...