Welcome to the STD epidemic

Prince Ernest was hopelessly in love with the lovely widow, Harriet. Harriet felt the same and threw herself into the German prince’s bed for what she assumed would be an evening of passion.

There was a problem: the prince had syphilis.

To his credit, he was able to gather himself and deter the inflamed, young woman from making a mistake that could haunt her the rest of her life. You can watch the melodrama unfold in this scene from the PBS hit series, “Victoria.”

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Time to try some bottom-up gun laws

Democrats are the party of Government. The bigger the better.

Following each successive mass shooting, and they just don’t stop coming at us, Democrats cry out in unison for more top down gun laws. 

There is seldom any discussion as to the why so many people want to kill as many people as they can. Nor is there any discussion as to the why the laws already on the books continue to fail…

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Top ten religious movies for Lent

By Tom Quiner Integrating God and faith into movies doesn’t always work. Sometimes, directors who are ardent believers try so hard to convey their fervor that the audience feels like they’ve been clubbed over the head. Other times, a director of little or no faith is able to convey a timeless story of faith with…

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Is the smoking gun the smoking gun?

Since 1982, the incidence of deaths attributed to mass public shootings was 1.52 per 100 million people in the U.S. However, there was a ten year dip in the middle (1996 through 2006) when the rate dipped to 1.0. Why?

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