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In a recent interview, J. Budziszewski, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin discussed the lifestyle of many college students. In discussing how to keep young people Christian when they leave for college he says “We haven’t a chance of getting people to live a Christian way of life if they…

An Ohio appeals court agreed with a woman and said her parking ticket should be dismissed because the law she broke was missing a coma. Andrea Cammelleri said she should not have been issued a ticket based on the wording of the law alone. The law lists several types of vehicles that cannot be parked…

Andrea Cammelleri fought the parking citation she received in 2014 and won on appeals because the lawmakers failed to include a comma between the words “vehicle” and “camper” Since her pickup does not fit the description of a “motor vehicle camper,” she argued that the law did not apply to her case.…

Parents often refer to the word, ”please” as the magic word, but now a school in North Carolina has banned teachers from using the word. Officials at Druid Hills Academy say the goal is make troubled children behave better. They say teachers have been trained to give concise, clear instructions in a…

A new ordinance in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has many people asking question the best way to care for the hungry. The city commission passed an ordinance that banned public sharing of food and requires any group feeding people in a public place to provide portable toilets as well. The commission maintains…

Perhaps you have seen in the news that some outside groups are critical of the Boy Scout’s devotion to their Code of Conduct and their membership admission standards. Membership has its privileges, but it also has its responsibilities. It is no different with Church membership. When we decide to follow…

In his book, Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In, Louis Zamperini writes, “My father had a rule: We pay our bills first, and then we eat. We all need a code of ethics to guide us, especially in tough times when everyone has to do their part for the greater good, for the family or the group to survive.” --Jim…

When Ira Karmiol paid his $278.00 electric bill online, he mistakenly entered an extra digit and paid The Public Service Company of New Mexico $2,787.00. He didn’t notice the error for a few days. When he discovered the error, he contacted the company who said they would act on his refund request in…

“We just have rules and regulations that we have to follow by,” explained a store employee when asked about the store putting an immobilizing boot on a working ambulance. The ambulance had responded to a call from the convenience store and EMTs were inside the store treating a heart attack victim. When…

It is hard to know what to do when the world keep changing. Does anybody know what the rules are anymore? Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus liken our world to Chinese Baseball, when they write, “Chinese baseball is played exactly the same way as American baseball with one major exception, and that is this:…

God and Michigan State District Judge Hugh Clarke Jr. play no favorites. Clarke has a rule in his courtroom; no cell phones. When the judge’s cell phone unexpectedly rang during a court session Clarke assessed himself a $50 fine, reached into his wallet, and paid his bailiff on the spot. “I am not above…

The city commission in Grand Rapids Michigan has decided to remove a 38 year-old section of the city code that forbids a person from willfully annoying someone else. The city attorney Catherine Mish has been going through the city’s books to find outdated ordinances and remove them. She found laws prohibiting…

A Michigan judge who demanded strict compliance with cell phone procedures in his courtroom had to cite himself for contempt after his phone disrupted a court proceeding. Judge Raymond Voet posted a policy stating that any electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions would result in…

Recently the Government presented the Catholic Church with a dilemma. They have passed a law that Catholics believe requires them to violate their conscience. They believe they would have to disobey God to obey the law. Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren commented on the situation by saying, “I’d go…

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster recently confessed to accepting under-the-table payments while he was in Tennessee, in violation of NCAA rules. It wasn’t an apology, it was a declaration. “There is nothing wrong with it and you are not going to convince me that there is.” The fact that it is…

Scripture calls us to a life of integrity. We are seeing less integrity displayed in the lives of our public figures including politicians, businessmen and athletes. We have given in to moral relativism and thus devalued the meaning of integrity. In sports it is the idea that any rule that seems unnecessary…

Did you know that among the eight leading world democracies only Switzerland has a better tax compliance rate than the United States, and that is only by one tenth of one percent? In reporting The Lying Game, as Time magazine calls it, they credit the religiosity of Americans as the reason our cheating…

People have tied a lot of tricks to get out of traffic tickets, but for a University of California physicist, a four page explanation of why he was not guilty of running a stop sign did the trick. The judge dismissed the ticket after Dmitri Krioukov submitted a paper entitled, “Proof of Innocence.” In…

A Louisiana church’s Mardi Gras outreach plan was stopped by police because they said the church did not have the proper permits. Hope Church from Metairie, LA was giving away free coffee and water along parade routes when they were ordered to stop by local authorities. Pastor Matt Tipton said they were…

You may not know the value of something until it’s gone. British journalist Mark Hales recently learned that he could lose his home and be forced into bankruptcy over an incident with a rare Porsche race car. Hales arranged to drive an original Porsche 917 car against a vintage Ferrari as part of a magazine…

A Kentucky pastor shocked lawmakers when he opened a recent session of the state legislature. Hershael York, pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort and a professor at Southern In the session, the Governor was scheduled to speak to lawmakers explaining why he wanted them to expand gambling in…

Police in Sicily recently issued a record fine for a car that had chalked up 2,000 years worth of interest for illegally parking. The owner of the car had to go to the hospital for a dizzy spell after opening the letter demanding 32,000 Euros ($44,500 US) in fines. Officials corrected the mistake after…

Sometimes patience is hard to achieve, and sometimes it is even hard to understand why it is necessary. A San Francisco man discovered why it may be prudent though. Impatient with a line of cars that had come to a standstill, he drove his Porsche 911 into an adjacent lane to go around. His high priced…

A recently published study has found that nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they turn 23 years of age. The data indicate a sharp increase from similar research conducted 40 years ago. The original study found 22 percent of youth were likely to be arrested before the age of 23. The…

Recently the white house has dropped many regulations that “conflict, that are not worth the cost or that are just plain dumb.” “The EPA will no longer classify spilled milk at a dairy farm as an oil spill, saving $146 million.” “The Transportation Department will apply certain kinds of railroad safety…