January kicked off with bone-chilling, pipe-bursting temperatures. By the end of the month, Missouri and Kansas residents can expect energy bills, many topping $200, extending their wintertime misery. Those energy bills — ...
Read More »Investigation of Biden family finances widens after committee views documents
Concerns about President Biden and his family profiting from his position increased after members of Congress viewed relevant documents at the U.S. Treasury Department this week. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and ...
Read More »Majority of evangelicals believe everyone is born innocent: survey
The overwhelming majority of U.S. evangelicals have accepted a view of human identity that aligns more with American society than the teaching of the Bible. The results are from a new survey ...
Read More »What Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter teach us about power
My dad gave me J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Fellowship of the Ring, and the book awakened my mind and imagination in ways I didn’t fully understand at the time. For many years as ...
Read More »The killing of Jesus and the defeat of corruption
The Merriam-Webster dictionary states corruption as, “dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people.” Further, it is described as a departure from the original, purest form. Mankind had its original, purest form ...
Read More »State Board of Accountancy opens investigation of Auditor Nicole Galloway
Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway, who also is the Democrat candidate for governor, is now under investigation by the Missouri State Board of Accountancy. The investigation is in response to a complaint filed ...
Read More »Democrats change rules, eliminate Tulsi Gabbard from debate
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has again changed the qualifying criteria for primary debates, eliminating the last woman in the race. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) will now be barred from appearing next to the ...
Read More »Lebanese protesters gain strength, call for gov’t to resign
Lebanese citizens continue to protest in the street against a government that they say cannot run the nation. Lebanese police fired water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas in response on Sunday ...
Read More »Classic movie ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ offers lessons for today
Who hasn’t heard of the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”? Everyone should see this movie. What I discovered via a little research was that iconic film director Frank Capra and iconic ...
Read More »Washington Post ‘fact checker’ gets fact checked, issues apology
The primary “fact checker” at the Washington Post had to issue a correction himself after he was fact-checked for tweeting false information concerning the impeachment hearing on Nov. 15. Glenn Kessler, editor and chief ...
Read More »Ukraine president: ‘There was no blackmail’
The president of Ukraine is rebutting false news reports that assert President Trump used blackmail during the phone call now at the heart of the Democrats’ presidential impeachment inquiry. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...
Read More »Federal judge in Kansas reprimanded for affair with convict, harassment
A federal judge in Kansas was publicly reprimanded for judicial misconduct Monday, after admitting he sexually harassed female co-workers, and engaged in extramarital relations with a felon. U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia, a ...
Read More »Nigerians cry foul after policemen felled by Nigerian Army
Nigerians are recoiling in shock about the killing of three Nigerian cops last week at the hands of Nigerian army. This week U.S. critics of the Nigerian government and human rights advocates ...
Read More »Switzerland suspends funding to Palestinian ‘refugee’ agency
An ethics report that found gross mismanagement in the UN agency for Palestinian “refugees” has led to Switzerland to suspend all funding. The report discovered mismanagement and abuse of authority at the ...
Read More »Defying odds, Chicago Christians get political
You wouldn’t necessarily think of Chicago as a center of organized Christian political activism. It’s not part of the Bible belt, is one of the largest and most liberal urban areas in ...
Read More »IRS admits it targeted conservative groups during Obama
After years of denial, the IRS has admitted it targeted conservative groups during the Obama administration and punished those groups for purely political reasons. In a historic settlement, a judge this week ...
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