Some of you may be wondering why I’ve been paying attention to this whole Rush Limbaugh dust-up. If you have been reading my blog for any amount of time, then you no doubt know why. I believe it is an urgent priority to sound the alarm about President Obama’s HHS mandate.
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Mystery Girl’s Entire Family Killed by Tornado
Most of us in Louisville heard the news yesterday about a 2-year old little girl who was found alone in the middle of a field after yesterday’s deadly tornadoes. No one knew who she was or where her family was until today, and it’s not good news. Here’s the report:
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Close Call with a Tornado
My good friend and former colleague Lawrence Smith had a close call with a tornado yesterday. He’s a reporter for our local Fox affiliate, and he and his camera man caught on video their near miss with one of the many tornados that strafed Southern Indiana on Friday. Chances are that you have already seen the raw footage (see above) because every news outlet in the country has been running it this evening. It is terrifying. Lawrence’s report on the evening news is below. I am grateful that you are okay, brother Lawrence. Great reporting!
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Google+ Has Some Minuses
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the progress of Google+ since the big roll-out last year. The bottom line is that it’s not doing very well. Google likes to boast that they’ve had 90 million users sign-up since its launch last June—which at first blush sounds really impressive. But it turns out that people are simply signing-up for the service and then spending little to no time on it. The crucial stat is not how many users there are but how much time users spend on the network. When you look at that stat, it paints a pretty grim picture for Google+.
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Do You Have $3.5 Million in Your Attic?
I was an avid comic book collector as a kid. I had a notion that the rags I was collecting might someday be worth something, so I stored them all in little plastic bags. I don’t know what they’re worth today, but I’m sure that it’s far less than I was hoping when I was a kid. But that wasn’t the case for Michael Rorrer who recently found 345 comic books neatly stacked in a basement closet as he cleaned out his great-aunt’s Virginia home after her death. He didn’t know that they were collector’s items and sat on them for a long time. He mentioned something about them to…
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A Summer Youth Camp Like No Other
Boyce College and Southern Seminary will be hosting a youth camp this summer that is unlike anything you have seen before. It is called “D3: Leadership, Worldview, Missions.” Here’s a brief description:
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Pat Buchanan Explains His Ouster from MSNBC
The bottom line is this. Buchanan wrote a book, and liberal groups accused him of racism. The president of MSNBC subsequently said that he didn’t think Buchanan’s book “should be part of the national dialogue, much less part of the dialogue on MSNBC.” So they cut him loose. Read the rest here.
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MacArthur Study Bible to Be Released with NIV
Zondervan announced today that the MacArthur Study Bible notes will be available with the new NIV translation of the scripture beginning in the Fall of 2013. In Zondervan’s press release, John MacArthur says: The New International Version is read and studied by more English-speaking believers than any other modern translation of Scripture. I’m delighted that the MacArthur Study Bible notes will now be easily accessible to NIV readers. My prayer is that these insights and explanations, together with the acclaimed readability of the translation, will help illuminate the true meaning and unleash the divine power of Scripture for NIV readers. The MacArthur Study Bible has been available with a variety…
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The Media Only Told Half the Story
Mollie Hemmingway has been doing some fantastic reporting on media bias in the wake of the controversy involving the Komen foundation and Planned Parenthood. Today at CNN.com, she writes that the media have only told half the story. She writes, The media bought Planned Parenthood’s public relations campaign hook, line and sinker. Planned Parenthood argued that Komen’s decision to stop funding was “political.” This was the way most media outlets framed the entire story. But logic dictates that it’s not more political to stop funding Planned Parenthood than it is to keep funding it. We’re talking about the country’s largest abortion provider, an organization that performs 330,000 abortions a year.…
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More on the Media’s Abortion Blinders
Prominent journalism professor, Jay Rosen, says that the Komen foundation lost its status as a non-political organization when it defunded Planned Parenthood. He says that Komen’s claim, “We don’t do politics,” ceased to be true “when the board took the decision to cut off Planned Parenthood.” I don’t think he realizes it, but this statement reveals as much about Rosen as it does about Komen. For pro-choicers, perhaps, the Komen foundation was not viewed as a political organization before they defunded Planned Parenthood. But that is not the point of view of pro-lifers. Planned Parenthood is the main engine for abortion in the United States. For prolifers, Komen became political…