A Different Perspective

Area Woman Becomes Republican Vice Presidential Candidate

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If gas prices stay where they are for one year, we will have $700 billion dollars shifted from oil companies to consumers compared to the previous 12 months.
Had the price of gas stayed where it is at now over the entire Bush administration, there would have been roughly two trillion dollars shifted from oil companies [...]

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Christians on the religious right have an opportunity with the upcoming Obama administration, but I doubt seriously evangelicals will take advantage of the chance they have been given.
I’ve already let my opinion on Legislating Morality be known, so I won’t rehash it now. The time has come for Christians to shift from talk and reliance [...]

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Barack Obama on Election Night from CNN Video

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Just wanted to go on the record to say these are the lowest gas prices I’ve seen, probably in the entire second term of the Bush administration.
Prices dropped throughout October, and… I predicted it.

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I received a small amount of justice yesterday.
It appears that Van Nuys Superior Court Commissioner Martin Wegman thinks I deserve the chance to be innocent…
I posted earlier about the possibility that I could not afford to be “not guilty.” It was going to cost me $381 to have my day in court. Evidently, the L.A. [...]

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Terms get thrown around and we get desensitized to them. One of them is “waterboarding.” Most of us know it is a form of torture, but few know what it even is or what it is like.
This may seem like an awful post on Christmas Eve, but as I read this post from Boing Boing [...]

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The Environment. Global warming. Universal Health Care. Poverty. War.
These are all issues we must be concerned about.
Do you feel a “but” coming?
But…
There’s a danger in big ideas. The danger is we transfer one cause for another. This is especially dangerous in the emerging church. Many of us have come out of church situations where [...]

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Evidently Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee isn’t releasing sermons he’s preached. Julie Clawson wonders if he is “embarrassed by what he preached? Has his theology changed? Is he just afraid of controversy?”
She brings up a reasonable observation that it seems both pastors and politicians have an aversion to admitting they’ve changed their minds about something. I, [...]

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