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Selling Babies: How WA State Is Becoming a Global Marketplace for Children

Selling Babies - How Washington State is Becoming a Global Marketplace for Children

“‘Human decency’ died in the dark this morning around 1 a.m. at your WA State Capitol. House Democrats voted to legalize the purchase and sale of human babies in the wee hours of the morning,” according to Washington State Representative Liz Pike.[1] Effective January 1, 2019, human babies will become commodities for sale….

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Is a School Shooting Coming to Your Community?

Is a School Shooting Coming to Your Community

Listening to the top of the hour news update while driving, I was appalled by a soundbite addressing how sometimes students of the past hid under their desks to prepare for a nuclear attack, but today’s students are always hiding under their desks because they are always under attack. The speaker claimed students are being…

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Why Have School Shootings Become a Part of Our Culture?

Why Have School Shootings Become a Part of Our Culture

Gone are the days when chewing gum ranked among the top problems in public schools. When tragedy strikes, it is natural to opine for the “good ole days” of yesteryear when times were simpler, and morals mattered. In such moments, we are reminded of what our nation has sacrificed on its journey into relativism, and…

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Did the NFL Rig the Patriots vs. Jaguars Game?

Did the NFL Rig the Patriots Jaguars Game

Once more, the New England Patriots made history on January 21 when they secured their eighth AFC Championship in 16 years after defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars in a fourth-quarter comeback. Despite an injury to his throwing hand, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady delivered 138 passing yards, two touchdowns, and a 136.3 passer rating in the fourth…

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What 5 Months of Missing Texts Reveals about Us as Americans

What 5 Months of Missing Texts Reveals about Us as Americans

A pattern is emerging. When asked to provide potentially incriminating documentation, those within the United States government conveniently cannot access those records. Recently, the Department of Justice discovered five months of missing texts in the transcripts of text messages provided to the House Judiciary Committee between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page…

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Really? Fake News Coverage of the President’s Fake News Awards

Fake News Coverage of the President's Fake News Awards

“Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ were a Huge Flop,” blared a Washington Post headline. According to the article, this is because many who tried to access the website where the President’s picks were listed were met with an error message. Also, the Post concluded that the President had “no plan,” which resulted in his choosing reports…

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Why the Fake News Awards Are Not a Joke, Revenge, or Irrelevant

The President's Fake News Awards

It is no secret that President Trump and the media have an antagonistic relationship. According to PBS News Hour, “In President Trump’s first year in office, he tweeted about fake news and fake media 174 times. That is an average of once every two days.”[1] And now the President has published his “fake news awards,”–a…

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What Is Meant by “Fake News”?

What is Fake News

Having experienced an unprecedented usage increase of 365% since 2016, “fake news” is the Collins English Dictionary’s 2017 word of the year.[1] Although officially defined as “false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting,”[2] fake news has come to mean many things in the year 2017. Headlines such as “Death Row Inmate…

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Why Does the Church Focus on Sexual Issues?

Why Does the Church Focus on Sexual Issues?

“Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty!” splashed across the front pages of The New York Daily News in 1952 when George Jorgensen Jr. returned home from a sex-reassignment surgery in Sweden as Christine Jorgensen. Six decades before Caitlyn Jenner, and among the first to undergo such a procedure, Christine Jorgensen was America’s original transgender sweetheart.[1] Crowned Woman of…

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