Well, you always knew your elected officials weren’t the sharpest knifes in the drawer, here’s confirmation: US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday. Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent…

So, I was reading some interesting stories over breakfast this morning and I thought I would share. Here’s a funny story about how modern technology makes stealing a phone a hazard (if you aren’t tech savvy): Ashlee Hutchens, 18, stopped to reorient herself while driving through an unfamiliar Cincinnati neighborhood this fall. A young man…

Well, it’s about time! Why the heck did it take them this long to understand that God isn’t a respecter of persons and that we’re all created in the image of God and therefore all have equal worth and value: A fundamentalist Christian University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial…

In his weekly address, Obama lets us know that he’s finally put his economic team to work to come up with a plan to create news jobs (road construction, school upgrades and making alternative energy): President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or…

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