Centennial High School Students Rank High on List of Spring Break Arrests in Northwest Florida

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  Centennial High School in Franklin ranks high in the number of students arrested for spring break underage drinking, according to an article in the Northwest Florida Daily News. The newspaper compiled lists of the top 10 colleges and top 10 high schools with the highest number of underage drinking arrests so far in 2017, based on arrest records in Okaloosa and Walton counties. The article was published March 31, with three and a half weeks of spring break left. On the high school list, tying for first with 17 arrests were Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Alabama, and St. James High School in Montgomery, Alabama. Next came Centennial High School as well as Montgomery Academy of Montgomery, Alabama, with 13 arrests. The newspaper contacted a Williamson County Schools spokeswoman who said she could not confirm that Centennial students were the ones arrested because she did not have the arrest records. Other Nashville area high schools with fewer arrests but still making the top 10 were Independence High School, also in Williamson County and number nine on the list, and Pope John II High School in Hendersonville at number five. Christian Brothers High School in Memphis was number eight. Sgt. Jason…

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Kentucky Governor Says Bible Is Welcome In Kentucky Public Schools

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  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has signed two bills into law emphasizing that the Bible is welcome in state schools, the Baptist Press reports. This week the Republican governor signed legislation allowing students to take Bible literacy as an elective. Last month, he signed a bill clarifying that students can express religious and political viewpoints in K-12 schools and colleges. Bevin had declared 2017 the Year of the Bible. A Republican state senator sponsored the legislation about expression after a Johnson County elementary school took out biblical references from a presentation of Charlie Brown’s Christmas Carol. There are already rights in place for religious expression, but the law is intended to clear up misunderstandings on the part of some teachers and administrators. As for Bible literacy classes, some schools already offer them but the law will offer more protection. C.B. Embry, a Republican state senator from Morgantown, was quoted by the Baptist Press as saying that children need a basic understanding of the Bible. “I don’t think there is another document in the history of our culture that has had more impact on our culture, our society or our values than the Bible,” Embry said. Even most of the Democrats in…

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Is a Populist Christian Movement Needed to Renew the Faith?

George Rasley, ConservativeHQ Editor April 15, 2017 The populist movement that swept Donald Trump into the presidency here in America, forced the United Kingdom to exit the European Union and that has roiled the politics of other European countries has been driven by the ineffectiveness, arrogance, and the cultural and political corruption of the Western establishment elite. Citizens of Western democracies have finally had enough of politicians who force outrageous ideas of political correctness upon them, but leave the roads full of potholes, legions of citizens un-employed or under-employed, and neighborhoods rife with crime. And the objects of this populist rebellion are not only the politicians who have been voted out of office or defeated, like Hillary Clinton, they have been the other elite institutional enforcers of political correctness. After joining the politically correct Left in enforcing bizarre and dangerous rules allowing men to enter the women’s restrooms and dressing rooms at their stores, Target lost $20 billion in market capitalization as the company’s stock value plunged after the corporation publicly declared its support in April 2016 for the very unpopular “gender identity” transgender political agenda. The losers weren’t the elite company managers who chose to enforce their will on…

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Boss Doss Claim That Tennessee is Lowest Taxed State in Nation Contradicted by Kiplinger Report

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State Rep. Barry “Boss” Doss (R-Leoma), chairman of the House Transportation and champion of the IMPROVE Act “Tax Cut Act of 2017” claimed in the Finance, Ways and Means Committee last Tuesday that Tennessee is the lowest taxed state in the nation. The Kiplinger Report, a “leader in personal finance news and business forecasting” put together their list of “10 Best States to Live In For Taxes” in August 2016, and that list does not include Tennessee. In order, Kiplinger’s top 10 are: Wyoming, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, South Dakota, Mississippi and Delaware. Five states on the list, like Tennessee, do not have an income tax. Other robust criteria Kiplinger used for their ranking was property tax from U.S. Census’ American Community Survey, the Tax Foundation’s figure for average sales tax, fuel tax from The American Petroleum Institute, sin taxes from the state’s tax agency and the Tax Foundation, inheritance and gift taxes from each state’s tax agency, wireless taxes from the Tax Foundation, travel taxes from the state’s tax agency and a lodging tax study by HVS Convention Sports and Entertainment Consulting and the fiscal stability of the states by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.…

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Faith: Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 15

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  VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing April 15, Saturday Mark 15:46-47 46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. On this Saturday. Take time to read the entire 22 Psalm. Feel and relate God’s Word to us as you get to verse 19 let it resonate in your spirit, oh the praise and hope we have in His promise! Enjoy allowing Easter to penetrate your heart, soak into your body and fill your mind! Psalm 22 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? 2 My God, I…

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