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…That’s what little boys are made of. Now we can add cars.
In one case six year old Josh Barber of Broomfield, Colorado, woke up hungry.
His mother was recovering from surgery and his grandmother was in charge of the little guy. She was still asleep.
Josh decided he was hungry and wanted to go to [...]

On Sunday Senators Trent Lott and Chuck Schumer debated the S-Chip program on Fox News Sunday.
After reading the full transcript I can’t understand how the Congresscritters who voted for this increase realistically plan to pay for the program.
Senator Schumer says it’s pay as you go.
In one way or another, they lose out for the rest [...]

Two high school boys in Waterford, CA, were fighting. The punishment is normally suspension. Instead of suspending the students the principal made them get down on their hands and knees, look at each other through a chair and promise they would not engage in that behavior again.
One mother is suing.
Take a look at [...]

In what has to be a big disappointment for Mary Winkler, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of her husband and is now on probation, a judge issued a stay preventing her from having the supervised visit with her daughters as planned yesterday.
JACKSON, Tenn. — An appeals court Friday blocked a supervised [...]

Mary Winkler, the preacher’s wife who was convicted of killing him, has been granted supervised visits with her daughters while a custody battle with her former in-laws still is ongoing.
Her former in-laws want to remove her parental rights and adopt the girls, ages 10, 8 and 2.
A woman who killed her minister husband with a [...]

This must be the British version of American Idol and while I am not usually into reality type programming, a friend sent this off to me and watching it to its conclusion, I admit I had the same reaction as the female judge in this competition. What a lovely little girl and what a [...]

Mary Winkler, the woman who killed her preacher husband, is now asking the court to grant her custody or, at least, more frequent visits to her three daughters.
A petition filed in Carroll County Chancery Court argues that Mary Winkler’s continued separation from the girls — ages 2, 8 and 10 — is “unconscionable and detrimental” [...]

Do you remember those Wassup commercials that captivated so many a while back? Here’s a take off on those that is just too funny.

I hope you have all enjoyed a wonderful Labor Day weekend and before heading back off to work or school this video gave you a bit of a chuckle.
HT: Evangelical Outpost. [...]

If this wasn’t so sad it would be funny.
In a nation called the world’s superpower, only 17 percent of young adults in the United States could find Afghanistan on a map, according to a new worldwide survey released today.
The young U.S. citizens received poor marks generally in geography. But then, as results showed, their [...]

I just don’t understand this administration. I try but I just can’t. Why can’t we take just a few billion from Iraq and put it towards full coverage for our children?
The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it [...]

In today’s world we often have both parents working and a lot of grandparents watching the grandchildren.
Sue and my husband and I are just such grandparents. I can tell you, and I’m sure Sue can affirm, that watching our grandchildren grow and learn is one of life’s most wonderful experiences.
To see a little one [...]

Mike Adams is a professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He teaches criminal justice.
He also writes a column at Townhall.com, and today has an excellent column aimed at his first year students.
Almost every year at UNCW, I see a feminist professor or administrator (sometimes both) handing out condoms to students in the [...]

Remember those days when your children or grandchildren were babies and you thought you would never sleep through the night again? Or those exhausting weeks when you thought each day should be comprised of 48 hours so all the chores could be accomplished, meals cooked and homework completed. How about those years when [...]

Well, here we go. Conservatives crying social medicine Democrats crying for the poor children and we will fall for the bull the way we always do. Screaming at each other for either being for socialism or being against the children. What a bunch of crap. I’m going to stay out of this one.
The Senate [...]

First NYC banned cigarettes, then trans fats and now they are banning baby formula. That’s right, they want all mothers to use breast milk on their babies.
First they moved against smoking, and then trans fats. Now, city health officials are taking on the bottle — as in a baby’s bottle.
On Tuesday they announced a [...]

I admit it, I am a sucker for a child’s smile.
When I saw these beautiful little ones at Jack Army this morning, it reminded me once again that the simplest things in life can bring delight to such precious cargo.
While the pictures are few, they are precious. Thanks Sgt. Nichols, for sharing with them [...]

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has proclaimed sex education for kindergarteners is “the right thing to do”.
ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is “age-appropriate,” is “the right thing to do.”
“I remember Alan Keyes . . . I [...]

Wait one minute Grassley and Hatch are against the President vetoing the bill?
Do you think that maybe they really do care? I do.
yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children, saying that expanding the program would [...]

I just finished reading this story of a man who found out long after his divorce and child support payments that his youngest “son” was not his son at all, but was the biological son of the child’s godfather.
The NJ Supreme Court unanimously rejected the divorced non-biological father’s request for a refund of his child [...]

Have we forgotten those serving in Afghanistan (both our forces and those of other nations)?
I know I am guilty of focusing primarily on Iraq, as that is where the news seems mired daily.
Via, US Central Command one of those feel good stories we seldom see.
THE REAL KITE RUNNERS FLYING THE AFGHAN SKIES
Even though best-selling books [...]

Minnesota police have found the bodies of three babies in recent years, all dumped in the Mississippi River.
Two of the children appear to be from the same mother and are caucasion. The third, a little girl, appears to be of American Indian descent.
A couple from Florida took the first two bodies and buried them [...]

This video stirred emotions in me which had been dormant for a very long time. It reminded me of a time (and I was one of these kids) when another war became unpopular in this country due to politics and how our returning military members were treated.
From the site which posted and composed the [...]

The Anchoress is asking for help for a family which certainly seems to be in need and also for a good friend.
It is the type of help which I am certain will be offered by many of us who read, comment and write here at “J’s.”

Despite other stories on this site this morning I am going to attempt to not Bush-Cheney bash, but tell something else of what’s going on in the world.
A six-year old boy (estimated age because birthdays are not kept track of in Afghanistan) was told by the taliban to put on a belt and when he [...]

Saw these pictures and just had to share.
Check out the little one in the shades..what a prize winning shot that is!
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Many days the news if filled with information which is cycled over and over until we all feel we could recite it in our sleep.
Once in a while there are a few stories which could apply to any of us which get one quick sound bite and then are gone into news history.
While we have [...]

Sue pointed me to this from Red State.
I have watched it twice and have gone through the gamut of positive and hopeful emotions except at the end.

May God bless this couple with many more healthy children.

I have just finished reading two very touching stories on the refusal of parents to terminate a pregnancy.
One turns out to have a happy ending.
In “Fighting for Claire,” we read about two parents, already blessed with two children, whose third pregnancy - in which the baby was diagnosed with encephalocele (a portion of the [...]

We read in Proverbs 22:6 these words:
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
In Ephesians 6:4 Paul tells us:
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
The Bible [...]