Archive for February, 2006

BREAKING NEWS by Jean Snow

Friday, February 24th, 2006

This may be one of only a few opportunities I will have to cover a newsworthy event live and in person. I was invited to attend a luncheon presented by World Trade Center Alaska where Senator Lisa Murkowski was the featured speaker. (Thank you to my foreign affairs savvy son-in-law for [...]

CHILDREN, CHOICE, AND ADULT DENIAL by Jean Snow

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

It is a shocking reality that exploitation of children is on the rise. Several weeks ago my family and I stumbled across the NBC Dateline magazine special, To Catch A Predator III, covering a police sting of internet child predators. The police were overwhelmed with a wave of suspects who followed internet temptation [...]

THE MIRACULOUS GEORGE WASHINGTION by Jean Snow

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Historians, social scientists, and academics are loathe to invoke the word miracle in regard to human events and the outstanding leaders of those events. But when it comes to George Washington the consensus in everything I’ve read about this great man, may not use that word, but it invokes that kind of reverence and [...]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Ever read the Animorphs Series by K. A. Applegate? I’m reading it now with my son. Alien beings (Yeerks) that look like slugs come to earth, crawl into human heads and control their bodies. The Yeerk “Controllers” are planning to take over the earth.
I’m beginning to feel [...]

JIMMY CARTER IS A GOOD CHRISTIAN: POOR EX-PRESIDENT

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

JIMMY CARTER IS A GOOD CHRISTIAN. This point is made over and over with his photo ops at home building sites, third-world vote monitoring, and diplomatic missions (and the popular media’s fawning approval of Carter’s type of faith because, well, he’s a Christian AND a Democrat.) Because he is a “good man” I have [...]

GLOBAL [S]WARMING

Friday, February 10th, 2006

I wonder what the prophet Isaiah would say today concerning global warming and the efforts to counter it. I wonder if it might not go something like this, if written in the King James English:
“Oh man, who thinketh himself mighty, who relieth upon the strength of his own arm, who supposeth that, in [...]

BATTLES IN HEAVEN?

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

My nephew has been studying a monumental conflict that has captured his imagination. His study has spawned some daunting questions. He would like some answers from those who have some knowledge and insight to share.
Revelation 12:7-9 reads: “And there was a war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and [...]

SNOW DAY

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

SCHOOL WAS CANCELLED, THE PROVERBIAL SNOW DAY, but not because of snow, because of rain. Weeks of sub-zero temperatures were swept away by warming wind gusts which swept in Sunday afternoon and evening. And then came the rain. Rain on our abundant recently fallen snow turned the streets into ice rinks, the [...]

BELOW ZERO AND STILL BEAUTIFUL

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

It has been dang cold for over three weeks (I should keep the stats posted on a calendar, but I don’t, so I can’t be exact). Much of that time it has been between 20 and 30 below at my house. It warmed up to 9 below on Sunday, to zero on Monday [...]