Two Mormons running for president.

Another Mormon has entered the race to be President of the United States. First, former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, and now, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman have announced they are kicking off campaigns.

Mormons are a hot topic lately, what with the popular show Sister Wives on TLC and the satirical Broadway show, The Book of Mormon cleaning up this past weekend when winning nine Tony awards, and now campaigns by two Mormons to be president of the United States getting underway.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was born and raised Mormon but officially discontinued my membership when they backed Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in California. I had stopped believing in the church long before then. However, there are numerous things about the religion that I still think are good, their high regard for families being number one. Continue reading »

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Of Thee I Sing

Before taking on the Presidency Barack Obama penned two best selling books for adults : Dreams from my Father, and The Audacity of Hope. But his third book may make an even bigger splash on the best seller list.

Today Of Thee I Sing will hit book shelves all over. Written by our current president before he took office in January of 2009, and illustrated by high profile artist Loren Long famous for her work with the likes of Madonna and Frank McCourt, it sends an excellent message from a father’s point of view. Continue reading »

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Think twice before you let your kid play with your cell phone. Feed your children organic food whenever possible and don’t heat baby bottles or other plastics in the microwave. And don’t forget to test radon levels in your home.

These are just a few suggestions from the President’s Cancer Panel, which released its annual report yesterday.

There are thousands of cancer-causing agents in the air, food, and water which are posing “grievous harm” to Americans every day, the report concluded. Not nearly enough is being done to research and regulate these chemicals.

Although large studies have found no links between cell phone use and cancer, the report said that people would be wise to play it safe by wearing headsets and to make calls quickly, according to Reuters. Continue reading »

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Three out of four Oklahoma teenagers can’t name the first President of the United States.

That’s according to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, who commissioned a telephone survey of 1,000 Oklahoma high school students.  The teens were asked 10 questions from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services citizenship test, the test that immigrants need to take to become American citizens.  Only three percent of Oklahoma teens passed the test.  On the other hand, 92 percent of people applying for citizenship pass it on their first try.

Here are five questions from the survey — see how you measure up on the test below: Continue reading »

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A blog post on Gawker is generating all kinds of buzz. And you know how we all love buzz. Buzz buzz.

So here it is — Barack Obama Is Your New Binky. It’s a cute pic of the President hugging a child in a tender affectionate way.

Luckily the current political climate in the United States of America is calm and rational. Who could possibly have a problem with this image?

Um…

Let’s take a look at the comments from Gawker, and see if we can do better, shall we?

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It looks like teenage rebellion runs high in the Palin family. First the abstinence-touting family’s teen daughter gets pregnant, now their son comes out . . . as “not a Republican.”

Technically it was the former governor (oh, that’s so fun to say, isn’t it?) who let loose that son Track, who is serving in the U.S. military is registered as “non-partisan” (I think she means an independent). And he’s not the only member of the Palin family to go rogue. Continue reading »

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Forget getting a doctor’s note as an excuse for missing school, get a signed note from the President of the United States instead.  Barack Obama traveled to Green Bay, Wisconsin on Thursday for town hall on health care reform.  A man in the audience, who got the chance to step up to the mic, announced that he was proud to be there with his 10-year-old daughter who was skipping the last day of school to attend. Obama replied, “oh no! Do you need me to write a note?” The father quickly said Continue reading »

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