On August 19, 2008, I joined a panel of Christian school educators on Steve Deace’s WHO AM-1040 Radio program to discuss a recent California Supreme Court ruling which upheld The University of California system’s right to deny college credit to students who had taken Christian school science classes which used textbooks teaching the biblical account [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:32 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Bipartisanship, Corruption, Earmarks, Economy, Featured, Integrity, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin, US Congress
A lot of you have seen the speech, some have not. Overall, high marks for contents. Very high. I think he brought out the right issues, positions, and comparisons with Obama. He’s working out the differences, which he needs to continue to do. Probably the three key areas that he addressed and should continue to [...]
My husband has been after me to contribute my thoughts to his blog instead of just hashing them out with him. After reading the story “Obama: My donors can help victims” in the Des Moines Register today, I decided it was time.
I confess I was taken in by Obama’s message of change. I [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 9:21 pm Filed Under: Child Development, Education, Parenting
I’ll admit that my experience in parenting is lame. My 15-year-old niece spent a year in our home. Our appreciation for parents skyrocketed within a week.
That said, I think we have significant challenges in raising a generation of people in our society that will carry on the American model of self-sufficiency, determination, competitiveness and aggressive [...]
By Dr Bob Stouffer. Posted Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm Filed Under: Evolution, Faith, Intelligent Design, Science
New Writer
Dr. Bob Stouffer is Superintendent of Des Moines Christian School in Urbandale, Iowa, and the newest addition to The Conservative Reader’s Editorial Team.
On Monday, April 14, 2008, I was privileged to join a large theater audience in Des Moines for a special viewing of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a documentary by Ben Stein [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Friday, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:05 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, English Only, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, POTUS, US Politics
I’ve got just one little point that I haven’t seen any comment as yet which I noticed while listening to a rebroadcast of last night’s debate between Clinton and Obama in Austin.
There was a question regarding having 2 languages spoken in the US (English and Spanish presumably). Here’s a transcript (courtesy of the Chicago [...]