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Light-hearted Tebow Super Bowl Ad Disarms Critics | Print |  E-mail
Written by Dave Bohon   
Monday, 08 February 2010 10:00

Tebow adA 30-second Super Bowl ad, which pro-abortion and feminist groups had feared would offer a strong pro-life, anti-abortion message, instead did what the its sponsor said it would: celebrate family and life. The ad, in keeping with the comic tone of the majority of the advertisements running during the game, featured Pam Tebow, the mother of college football standout Tim Tebow, reminiscing about the struggles she faced in seeing her future Heisman Trophy-winning son come into the world.

 
Obama Misses Point on Prayer Breakfast | Print |  E-mail
Written by Bruce Walker   
Saturday, 06 February 2010 12:00

ObamaIt is hard to imagine how a National Prayer Breakfast could be controversial, but it has become that. This tradition stretching back through five decades of American political life and including every American president during that period, has become controversial under President Obama. A gathering which has included people as diverse as Tony Blair and Mother Teresa has somehow come to be seen as exclusionary. How?

 
Abstinence Education Effective, Study Finds | Print |  E-mail
Written by Dave Bohon   
Friday, 05 February 2010 13:15

kidsA study released February 1 by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is giving proponents of abstinence-only sex education programs reason to cheer. The federally funded project, published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, found that abstinence education models are more effective than their comprehensive sex education counterparts in encouraging pre-teens from having sex.

 
Tebow Pro-family Ad Garners Pre-Super Bowl Hype | Print |  E-mail
Written by Dave Bohon   
Thursday, 04 February 2010 11:30

Focus on the Family’s desire to run a pro-life advocacy advertisement during the Super Bowl on February 7 has gained the traditional values group far more publicity than its leadership could ever have imagined.

 
An Educator's Woes | Print |  E-mail
Written by Lenore Poe   
Monday, 01 February 2010 10:00

After just three years as a Florida educator, I have grown jaded by all facets of education. Between the lack of administrative or parental support, and the continually lowered standards set by school districts, teachers have become more powerless and less influential in the classroom. What’s worse is that I am one of many teachers who feel this way!