When the Christian left exhort Christians to make one of their election criteria the poor, I cringe because I believe that caring for the poor should be something the church looks to itself to do. It used to be that the church was happy to minister to those in need, now we want to shift…

Hmmm…it must be inflation. Maybe the transportation cost of the drugs have risen due to the cost of gasoline: Prices for cocaine and methamphetamine have risen for the fourth quarter in a row, a trend law enforcement officials say indicates supply has dropped. The price for a pure gram of cocaine increased 47% since October…

It’s amazing that this has turned into an illegal immigration story. I bet this kid regrets running off with his teacher because he is now unable to return to America: A 13-year-old student with whom a middle school teacher is accused of fleeing to create a romantic life in the boy’s native Mexico may be…

Evidently, someone has sought a patent for a jacket that would resist shocks like a taser. Do you think they’ll call it “Don’t tase me, bro?” Gregory Russell Schultz apparently empathizes with this demographic, and has filed a patent for an “energy weapon protection device” — essentially a jacket embedded with alternating layers of conductive…

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