National Security is Threated By Not Filling Ambassadorships Currently, more than 40 U.S. embassies around the world are without ambassadors, threatening national security, according to Seattle Times guest columnists Claudia Kennedy and Stephen A. Cheney. National security should never be a partisan issue. During our years of service, we worked with diplomats appointed…
The United States: Forgetting What History Can Teach Us Think back to your U. S. History class and think about what you learn about the Sedition Act. I think you just smiled and told me you don’t remember anything about it or just that you know it deals with…
Transgenders Create New Questions What decides a person’s gender? For that matter, who gets to decide? This, along with a few other problems, have emerged for college officials as a growing number of transgender students are attempting to force the question. A growing number of openly transgender students have forced schools around the country…
Here are the winners and runner-ups from the Big Ten media day writers
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Expectations Tempered for SLU Hoops Last season the Billikens made a run in the NCAA tourney but those days are gone. SLU has lost five seniors that all had experience. This season will be a rebuild for Coach Jim Crews. Now he has six incoming freshman to work on that rebuild. Three guards, Devell…
The World Needs Kindness, Not Just Niceness Why can’t our society spend more time in reaching out and smother the world with kindness. I didn’t say niceness because there is a fundamental difference in the two words. Niceness is something that non-Christians do between Thanksgiving and Christmas by adding to the kettles that are asking…
This Might “Creep You Out” – A Good Gone Bad Some people just have good intention and something turns terribly wrong. This is the case of a lady on California that wanted to do a good but got her neighborhood to consider it “creepy”. A woman had issues when she…
Rinse Your Eyes I finished reading a book called The Gold Mine Effect by Rasmus Ankersen about cracking the secrets of high performance. It was at the end of the book, in the Epilogue, that he stated something that I find really intriguing about people in today’s society. He wrote:…
Childhood Innocence- When Do They Lose It? Isn’t it cool how children can be so innocent? But what happens to change them? When does it happen? The thought on this topic came to me as I was teaching an Adult Sunday School class and we discussed Mark Chapter 9:36-37. Jesus teaches us to be like…