Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. This is an outstanding article and worth your serious musing. At the very least Scott reminds every American that moral integrity does count and counts a lot. It is also a wake-up call for Christians to make their voices heard as well. See what you think.

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about what it means to be a good, virtuous person, much less saw those characteristics demonstrated regularly throughout our political system. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise,’ wrote C.S. Lewis. “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

It’s not only our politicians. It’s endemic to our culture, baked into the structure of our society. This corrosion of morality affects our businesses, schools, appetites, sports, and yes, churches. In my role as a seminary professor, I’ve interacted with seemingly innocuous colleagues who were eventually charged with heinous crimes and then went on to rationalize them, rather than take responsibility and offer remorse. I’ve seen administration manipulate faculty and students abuse professors, cheat on assignments, and rarely receive anything more than an academic penalty and an apologetic slap on the wrist. We don’t even have the appropriate safeguards in our churches to ensure those helming the ship aren’t sexualpredators.

It’s a tale as old as time. We sweep the sin under the rug and make the victim go away. In cowardice we fail to confront evil in our midst because we all too often care more about power and money (which is nothing more than monetized power) than we care about the integrity, the character, of our leaders and future leaders.

Don’t let this happen to you, Toots. We’ve got feelings, ya know.

Looks like there’s some hope for this highly addictive disease. See what you think.

Repetitive viewing of pornography resets neural pathways, creating the need for a type and level of stimulation not satiable in real life. The user is thrilled, then doomed. But the evolutionary plasticity of our mind makes this damage reversible. In “The Brain That Changes Itself,” psychiatrist Norman Doidge writes about patients who overused porn and were able to quit, cold turkey, and change their brains back. They just had to stop watching it. Completely.

Today would have been my mama’s 91st birthday, something she would have no doubt hated if she were alive today (it’s hard to grow old for one so young at heart). My mother was an exquisite role-model of motherhood. She loved me, spent time with me, loved me enough to instill what it meant to be a Maney, and disciplined me when I did not live up to that standard. I hated it at the time, but am grateful for it today. She allowed me to have a childhood that was second to none because she insisted that I be a kid and worked sacrificially to make that happen. In that regard, I miss her presence. But I cannot be sad because I would rather her be where she is than to be here with me and struggling with illness and infirmity.

Thank you mama, for being the mother you were. Thank you for all your sacrifice for me and for our family. Thank you for allowing me to grow up in a timely manner and not before it was my time to do so. Thank you for personifying sacrificial love for me. And thank you, dear God, for blessing me with the best parents a person could ever want or dream of having.

Happy birthday, mama. I love you. Enjoy your rest with the Lord who loves you and has claimed you from all eternity.

And for those of you whose mother is still living, make sure you remember your mama on Mothers’ Day this Sunday. Better yet, treat her like every day is Mothers’ Day. I know my mama would surely approve.

It is a good thing we have a governor like this in OH. A very good thing. The video is 10 minutes and I encourage you to watch it all.

From Fox News.

Really? Really??? Common, please meet sense. Please. At the very least, whatever happened to the notion of the punishment fitting the crime? Sheesh. Read the whole bizarre thing.

The 16-year-old was in a yard outside the school working on the experiment for an upcoming science project, according to the Bartow Police Dept. The project was not part of an official class assignment.

Wilmot told police she thought the concoction would result in a little smoke. Instead, according to the police report, the tiny bottle exploded.

Bartow High School Principal Ron Pritchard told television station WTSP that Wilmot had an exemplary record and she is known around campus as a good student.

“She’s is a good kid,” the principal said. “she has never been in trouble before. Ever.”

According to the police report, obtained by Fox News, Wilmot told police she was in no way trying to hurt anyone or create a disruption of school.

The principal agreed and said she simply made a bad decision.

“Honestly, I don’t think she meant to ever hurt anyone,” he told the television station. “She wanted to see what would happen when the chemicals mixed and was shocked by what it did. Her mother is shocked, too.”

The principal said the young lady was completely up front and honest about what happened.

“She didn’t run or try to hide the truth,” he said.

Nevertheless, the school district called the police, had her arrested and expelled her from school.

You learn something new everyday by reading the funnies.

Who knew?