Category Archives: Religion

Lesson For Today

By Jon Jackson | Published: July 14, 2010
I've been trying to read through the Bible for a couple of years now. So far I'm in I Chronicles. Yeah, not so good. But there is good news: I'm learning things I never knew before. Like in chapter 13 of I Chronicles there is the story of the death of Uzzah. Who was Uzzah? [...]
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Case Study

By Jon Jackson | Published: February 21, 2010
We conservatives have long claimed that what we call the Main Stream Media (aka MSM, Dead Tree Press, Dinosaur Media, Drive By Media, State Controlled Media) has a definite leftward bias. A good case study is a piece last week in the NYT on the Texas state school board. Apparently some of the members of [...]
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Muny v. Kyl–Is Internet Gambling Really a Bad Bet?

By Jon Jackson | Published: January 26, 2010
Rich Muny, at BigGovernment.com, writes on Jon Kyl’s blocking of several Treasury Department nominations. The reason? Kyl apparently cares a great deal about offshore internet gambling. So much so that for over a decade he has worked on passing a set of enforcement regulations that resulted in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). You [...]
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Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By

By Jon Jackson | Published: January 20, 2010
You can do a lot of thinking on a car trip. Especially when it gets dark, the wife and kids fall asleep, and it’s just you and the road. Over the Christmas break I took the family to Arkansas to visit my Grandmother. And on the trip back, for some reason I started thinking about [...]
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