Danbury blog The Hat City Blog reports that Mayor Mark Boughton will indeed run for Governor. This is based on their review of Internet records revealing that Boughton or someone representing him registered the domain name BoughtonForCT.com on Wednesday, January 20th. It’s claimed that Boughton has little name recognition outside of the Danbury area but [...]
Just a quick reminder to the readership that although I try to be responsible about what ads show on the site, occasionally something may show that I wouldn’t have personally chosen myself. When this happens we do try to deal with it but it can take a few hours for a given ad to be [...]
Thom Rainer, author of the recently released Simple Life: Time, Relationships, Money, God can help you figure it out.
What were some of the warning signs my team saw? Though the list is not exhaustive, these five issues were common. Some of the churches had a one or two on the list; some had all five.
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Governor Rell has signed an Executive Order (read here as a PDF) which keeps the State running. Quoted in the Courant, Mrs. Rell said,
Rell said Tuesday that while the negotiations continue, “first and foremost, people should rest assured that state government will continue to operate — services will be delivered; we will care for the [...]
Israel needs to find a new ally for its own good.
So says Dutch writer Leon de Winter in the Jerusalem Post. Has Mr. Obama’s Cairo speech forced the Israelis to rethink their relationship with America? While the President’s speech was lauded by many, Israelis who listened closely might have felt a chill wind coming out [...]
Power Line reports on the budget controversy in Minnesota, where the fur is flying.
Republicans are out of power in Washington and many other places around the country. They’re out of power here in Minnesota, too, except for Governor Tim Pawlenty. But in this case, one man has been enough–Pawlenty has faced down the Democrats and [...]
Chuck Colson talks about the latest trend among the apostate, or wanna-be apostates out there: getting a certificate of “de-baptism.”
There’s a bizarre trend going on in Great Britain. Former church members are getting “de-baptized.” As Time magazine reports, “More than 100,000 former Christians have downloaded ‘certificates of de-baptism’ in a bid to publicly renounce the [...]
John Piper can never be accused of not being thoughtful, so it’s interesting to hear why he’s tweeting.
Dangers, dangers everywhere. Yes. But it seems to us that aggressive efforts to saturate a media with the supremacy of God, the truth of Scripture, the glory of Christ, the joy of the gospel, the insanity of sin, [...]
When the chickens come home to roost as they eventually do it’s a safe bet that you don’t want to be sitting under the roost. So, I’m cringing as I think about how our debt habit is finally starting to hurt us in ways that really count. What’s going to get cut? Who’s going to [...]
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In today’s Courant, Dave Altimari has a good background piece explaining the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport’s lawsuit against the State of Connecticut.
In March, more than 4,000 Catholics descended on the Capitol to protest Bill 1098, which proposed having lay councils of seven to 13 people oversee the finances of local parishes, relegating Catholic pastors and [...]
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