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Well the cat is out of the bag as they say. Rand Paul opined aloud the hypocrisy of the GOP in regards to budget deficits. For the past nine years the GOP wrung their hands and gnashed their teeth over deficits by the past administration, yet over the past few months have tacked on another approximate two trillion dollars (most likely under estimated). What say ye, deficit hawks?

When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8 The Conversion of John Newton Captain John Newton wrote in his book, Thought s Upon the African Slave Trade : With our ships, the great object is to be full. When the ship is there, it is thought desirable, she should take as many [slaves] as possible. The cargo of a vessel of a hundred...

[Start the song now.] MARRY ME, M. Only once was I offered a hand in marriage just what I needed -- the sanctity.  It could have been the look in those eyes, in that moment you could be mine.  Our hands entwined for all to see I dreamed that dream believed it could be  You couldn’t understand why I hesitated, it wasn’t your fault, your spirit soared free.  You couldn’t really know why I let my...

John Unlike Me is a pseudonym, a symbol even, for a truly amazing man that I met during the post-modern 1990's. I had newly come to faith in God in the mid-90's and I was progressing through a six-week interval some of you may be conscious of or have observed in new believers: It is a stage most noticeable in men by a new found sense of hugging or embracing other men as a form of...

When Were You Ever Pressed Into Service? How Did It Make You Feel? As a teen male, I was first pressed into service in an unappreciated role of "gay" high-schooler. Of course, in those years, it was nowhere a positive look. My life was a lonely, terribly unspectacular tale of beatings, spittings, and being trespassed against. Just kidding! Yes, really. I was a very...

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."  -- Groucho

One Newstalkers’ objective is a comment structure that encourages discussion and debate.   Oddly, many sites have resorted to strict linear comments 1, 2, 3, … n.  (In part because this is very easy to implement.)  Each new comment simply falls at the end of the list.   This works fine for small discussions but does not scale.   Very quickly, people lose track of who is responding to whom....

It totally amazes me that there are actually people defending this president for using profanity to denigrate entire groups of people. The president's defenders are falling into two categories; those who state that adults use profanity and that we should all put on our big boy and big girl pants and suck it up, and those who are arguing that the president is saying only that which most...

  Hurricanes are the most violent and destructive storms in nature. There’s a smaller, yet potentially destructive, storm raging between climate scientists and climate skeptics about the nature of hurricanes. The scientific evidence points to the fact that global warming  causes hurricanes to be more intense. Skeptics would like to convince everyone that global warming has not made any...

What is a Tracker? A tracker is a mechanism built within a discussion forum that tracks comment activity and presents a custom record of this tracking for each user.  The tracker is based on the idea that each user wants to follow activity on one or more articles (a discussion or a blog).   With a tracker, a user can quickly identify the new comments across all articles the user is...

Who says discussion sites can't change opinions?  The recent talks about Christmas have shifted my position on the use of the word 'Christmas,' that does bother a certain group of secular thinkers. While right wingers are being a little too dramatic about the term 'Christmas' being under assault, their fears are not completely unfounded.  There does exist a significant group of logical...

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