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Editorial: Church attendance is declining

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A new Pew Survey (October 17, 2019) reports a decline of Christianity in the United States and the rise of the “nones” – those who have no religious affiliation. According to the report, “65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile,…

Letter: Collaboration versus resistance

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The U.S. Labor Department recently reported the unemployment rate in the United States has dropped to a 50-year low of 3.5%.  More than 6.1 million new jobs have been created (created not saved) since President Trump took office in January 2017.  In addition, the stock market (Dow Jones Industrial Average) has grown from 18,142 on…

Letter: An Open Letter to President Trump:

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On October 22nd, CBN News reported U.S. tax dollars are being used to purchase aborted baby body parts, and experiments are being conducted by our government, merging those baby body parts with mice. The report says last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded 200 similar studies across 50 different institutions, mostly universities, in…

Editorial: Trump seeks to protect our troops

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One of the most serious decisions by a president is to send our troops overseas in harm’s way. President Donald Trump said when he ran for office that he was going to stop the endless undeclared wars that were fostered by former presidents. Trump was correct in withdrawing our forces from Syria. Syria is a…

Editorial: Kamala Harris and Chi-Coms

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What does U.S Sen. Kamala Harris have in common with the leaders of Communist China? A lot, but specifically, Harris, the ultra-liberal Democrat from California who is running for president, doesn’t believe in freedom of speech even though it is imbedded in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. During the October 15 Democrat…

Editorial: The right decision on pay raises

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The Legislative Compensation Board has voted to raise the salary for state representatives and senators to $47,500 a year. This is a proper decision. Lawmakers have no say in these pay decisions. In fact, in 2017 the board arbitrarily cut the pay by 8.8%. Board Chairman Wes Milbourn at that time said the move was…

Letter: SCOTUS should not grant special rights to homosexuals

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There was a time in America when employers hired people strictly on the basis of who they thought could best do the job.  Of course, there were some who deviated from that plan, and hired friends and relatives who were not always the best people for that job.  That’s to be expected in any human…

Letter: America: a nation without God

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A big portion of America lost its way without God.  Evidence of this is everywhere!    From the halls of Congress, where defaming the president, and those who come before them, is a regular thing, to wicked judges who trash God and our Constitution, and many television news companies that daily attack and defame a Constitutionally-elected…

Letter: Leftist fiasco is ruining California

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Fifty-three percent of Californians, per a survey report in February, were considering leaving, which was up from 49% a year earlier, per a CNBC news article, so who could even imagine what the percentage might now be, with their ever growing number of homeless people, and the increased tax burden the problem is going to…

Editorial: NBA leaders bow to the Chinese

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NBA officials and players got a taste of Chinese communism recently after Chinese officials reacted to a tweet by Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey. Morey had the audacity to tweet in support of the protesters in Hong Kong who are battling the oppression of the Chinese communist leaders. Free speech is not allowed in…