February gave Texas the cold shoulder this weekend as an extreme winter storm pounded the entire state. As of this morning, power had not been restored to more than 4 million Texans. Hundreds of thousands have also lost water after the water treatment plants in Fort Worth, Abilene, and elsewhere suffered power outages. A handful […]
For Black History Month this year, we wanted to highlight a few black heroes that were early political leaders. The first black US Senator was Hiram Rhodes Revels. Revels (1827-1901) attended a seminary in Indiana before becoming a preacher in 1845. He was jailed in 1854 for preaching to slaves in St. Louis, even though […]
Environmentalists falsely claim weed-prevention chemical threatens 1,800 threatened species Modern American agriculture has wrought miracles over the past 70 years. Conventional farm production per acre and overall nearly tripled, corn (maize) production increased 500% from 20% less land – and farmers used less water, less fuel, less fertilizer, and fewer pesticides and other chemicals for […]
It’s time for a new era of Republican leadership and we can start right now We on the conservative Right are quick to castigate “The Swamp” and the “Deep State” in Washington, DC, and rightly so. Neither serve the American people, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green, whatever denomination. But just under the indignation is a reluctant […]
With the popular culture wrought with ubiquitous licentiousness and carnal provocation, those favoring more traditional depictions of love and erotic intimacy can often find themselves wandering in a wilderness of depravity. But one has only to turn to some of Hollywood’s finest films to find that love can still be a many splendored thing. Here […]
In 1919, E.M. Hull wrote a book titled The Sheik. Seething with romance and rampant passion, this book issued in paperback would fall into the hands of two teenage girls many, many years later. A gangly red head and slightly chubby blonde, best friends, trekked from Northeast Portland across the Willamette River to a bookstore […]
Zoo closes to guests, but red pandas, beavers and other animals have fun in the snow It was a winter wonderland at the Oregon Zoo today, as animals romped around in the season’s first major snowfall. Unsafe roads and walkways caused the zoo to close to guests, but keepers say the red pandas, river otters […]
PROLONGED WINTER WEATHER EVENT TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY… .A series of Pacific storms will bring a mix of freezing rain, sleet and snow to portions of northwest Oregon and southwest Washington through the weekend. The next storm will arrive tonight and bring a high potential for significant freezing rain accumulations in the Coast Range, Willapa Hills, […]
The windstorm in East Clackamas County last week took us by surprise. It might have begun in the late afternoon, but we were not really aware of it until after dark. To be honest, we didn’t pay much attention till the power went out. We spent the rest of the night idly considering whether we […]
SB 6 by Arkansas Senator Jason Rapert, Representative Mary Bentley, and other courageous Legislators, is the first immediate statewide ban on abortion to be based on The Moral Outcry Petition. Thank you for your prayers. Keep praying! Next week it will be voted on by the full Arkansas Senate Here is the link to the […]