Making fun of religious people, which in our country usually means Christians, has been a staple of the entertainment industry for years. It's an easy laugh, and religious people dish up more material than all the scriptwriters in Hollywood could ever use.

In this country, the second most contentious arguments, besides the country’s debt, is abortion and contraception.  Both are related to the ongoing attempts to overturn or prevent the Affordable Care Act from happening in 2014.

Summer is just around the corner and so are the tasty fruits and vegetables in season for May and June. Fruits and vegetables that are in season are higher quality and less expensive than where they are not in season.  You can also find a good selection of local produce when they are in season.

Here’s an item you didn’t see making headlines either in print or online, and it speaks to why the media is as mistrusted as Congress:

  Someone made a bad decision by giving out trophies 4 p.m. Sat. and opening up the strip to traffic Sunday.

 I believe that if Trayvon Martin had been a 17 year old white boy dressed in a polo shirt, wearing nice trousers while walking in George Zimmerman's neighborhood that night he would be alive today.

On the day our two oldest sons were being dedicated, a windstorm knocked out power at our church.

What can be more amazing than a week afloat, visiting exotic ports of calls, enjoying gourmet food and being pampered like a movie star?  Combine this luxury at sea with a non-stop dose of your favorite things on earth and it can make for the best vacation of your life.

Missouri's lawmakers choose to waste taxpayer's money once again and are rehashing Civil War issues in 2012. The Missouri House of Representatives has just passed House Bill 1534 which makes it against the law for anyone in Missouri to implement any part of the new federal Universal Healthcare Law.

 The NRA and gun enthusiasts like to say, "Guns don't kill people. people kill people." It would be more accurate to say, "No, people with guns kill people." Countries like England, Australia and Canada have fewer handgun related deaths per capita than the United States of America. This is a fact and why is this so?
Because they have strict gun laws in these countries.

People often accuse the media of having a liberal bias, but a new study suggests that political slant doesn't exist after all. If anything, the opposite may actually be true.

    In the last congressional elections, republicans, conservatives, the Tea Party, the religious right swept the democrats in a landslide. The results put the republicans in control of the house and the senate remained in the hands of the democrats by a narrow margin.

Unlike many general elections, the 2012 presidential decision cycle will clearly help to define how the United States of America foundationally identifies itself and then commits to wholly becoming for the next couple of generations.

As if the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, the Titanic Anniversary and the glory of Great Britain itself isn’t enough to lure you across the pond this year, perhaps the Golden Anniversary of the most iconic film franchise in history will do it.

There are probably thousands of, "Doomsday Preppers" out there locked in their disaster-proof shelters trembling while rocking back and forth waiting for the nuclear explosion that never came. How embarrassing for North Korea. They built a shiny new intercontinental ballistic delivery rocket.

Seven Camdenton High School Science Research students came away with excellent results in competition at the University of Central Missouri annual ‘Science Day’ March 30,” shares sponsor Christopher Reeves.

It was a quiet and inglorious end to a once hopeful new political movement, but the Tea Party seems to be DOA. Where once the national news was filled with reports of their well attended rallies and hundreds flocked to what was hoped would be a new national political movement, now they receive but scant attention.

    Sometimes people ask me to tell them about my most interesting interviews. They get really quiet, expecting to hear me rattle off a list of famous names that I've scratched down in my skinny reporter's notebook.

One of the recurring pieces of spam I tend to get in my in box is about this mythical beast called "early retirement."
And I'm puzzled, because don't these people know that nobody is dreaming about early retirement anymore?

George Zimmerman decided a young black man wearing a, "Hoodie," carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea while simply walking down the street was in his words, "acting suspicious."