The US Journal News-Feed http://www.eauclairejournal.com Click here for a look at our latest front pageTo read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/717575CC/the_latest_edition-front_page/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/717575CC/the_latest_edition-front_page/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-05-10T00:00:00-05:00 Many teachers believe that their job is a calling because they shape lives by encouraging students to enjoy learning, to discover and develop their individual talents, and to become productive members of our republic.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/0041F560/teacher_or_change_agent/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/0041F560/teacher_or_change_agent/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 As of today, a major showdown continues to unfold in the battle between statist ideologues vs. reality constitutionalists.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/017309CF/the_push_for_gun_control_to_continue/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/017309CF/the_push_for_gun_control_to_continue/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Homemade gourmet-type meals do not have to be complicated. They also don't have to take hours to plan and prepare. Turning your ordinary fare into something extraordinary takes little more than typical ingredients paired with an imagination and basic cooking skills.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/06DF2DA3/cooking_corner-hearty_herbed_frittata_with_sun-dried_tomatoes/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/06DF2DA3/cooking_corner-hearty_herbed_frittata_with_sun-dried_tomatoes/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Did you know that homosexuals are not in the majority? They make up about 1.7 percent of the population and yet they control Congress, the courts, the media, and our schools. We are in the majority, but we act like a minority. But even a minority can win.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/0F14489B/it_doesnt_take_a_majority_to_win/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/0F14489B/it_doesnt_take_a_majority_to_win/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00  "If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you," said Calvin Coolidge, who ever counseled patience over the rash response.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/1C1B9EBB/is_war_with_north_korea_inevitable/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/1C1B9EBB/is_war_with_north_korea_inevitable/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00  There are 13 assumptions that pave the road of good educational intentions. Most Christian parents who send their children to college have adopted eleven of the 13.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/218F4C81/13_assumptions_that_undermine_your_childrens_future/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/218F4C81/13_assumptions_that_undermine_your_childrens_future/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Only after the curfew in Watertown, Massachusetts, was lifted and alert resident David Hanberry went outside his home to get a smoke, according to news reports, did the case of the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt for suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev crack open. That was when Hanberry saw blood on the tarp of his dry-docked boat and called the police.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2614E89D/terrorist_found_because_freedom_was_restored/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2614E89D/terrorist_found_because_freedom_was_restored/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to their rule, and few things promote the thinking of "unapproved" thoughts like an education controlled by parents instead of the state.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/28F8D0AC/government_opposes_homeschooling/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/28F8D0AC/government_opposes_homeschooling/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00  Those who favor "universal" background checks on gun buyers make some ridiculous arguments. For example, opponents correctly point out that gun buyers with criminal intent will always find channels that require no background check. Gunrunning is among the oldest professions, and the black market will always be with us.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2953BD4A/the_absurdity_of_universal_background_checks/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2953BD4A/the_absurdity_of_universal_background_checks/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Bernard C. Seidling, 62, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison without parole, and fined $10,000, by Judge Barbara B. Crabb in United States District Court in Madison. Seidling was ordered to report to federal prison on May 21, 2013.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2D991645/con_man_sentenced_to_three_years_in_prison/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2D991645/con_man_sentenced_to_three_years_in_prison/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Review of empirical studies finds benefits, no negative effects from school choice programs across AmericaTo read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2E5A1355/study_shows_only_benefits_from_school_choice/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/2E5A1355/study_shows_only_benefits_from_school_choice/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 I offer the single most politically incorrect statement a modern American -- indeed a modern Westerner, period -- can make: I first look to the Bible for moral guidance and for wisdom.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/309F4469/the_bible_vs.the_heart/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/309F4469/the_bible_vs.the_heart/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Recently, I heard a man while speaking make reference to our newspaper.  He told about how reading the Journal depressed him.  Then he went on to speak on the need for hope and encouragement.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/32F14705/hope_for_america/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/32F14705/hope_for_america/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Bring Back Diaper Service, Free Advice to the GOP.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/36CBC858/letters_to_the_editor/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/36CBC858/letters_to_the_editor/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 [Drones are a] game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb-opening up possibilities that were fiction a generation earlier but also opening up perils that were unknown a generation ago."-Peter Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings InstitutionTo read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/37FF11EB/the_coming_micro-drone_revolution/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/37FF11EB/the_coming_micro-drone_revolution/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Each spring an empty farm field between Augusta and Fall Creek becomes home to migrating waterfowl as they make their way from winter retreats to summer breeding grounds.  This extra large "mud puddle" swells to the size of a pond as the snow melts and the April showers pour. To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/387D1D81/large_number_of_trumpeter_swans_visit_fall_creek/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/387D1D81/large_number_of_trumpeter_swans_visit_fall_creek/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 A young man neared the entrance to the Republican Party office during the 2008 presidential election.  The man at the door politely, but ignorantly, pointed him to the Democratic Party office which was located across the street. To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/3EC328F5/la_crosse_county_republican_shatters_the_stereotypes/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/3EC328F5/la_crosse_county_republican_shatters_the_stereotypes/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Presently there is a bill working its way through the Senate.  According to Stephen Ohlemacher of the Associated Press,    To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/460A6611/internet_sales_tax/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/460A6611/internet_sales_tax/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Bible Series Makes Record Sales, Most Religious Cities Voted for Romney, Broadcasters Trying to Win Back No TV Households, and more...To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/46F99A72/religion_headlines_0403/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/46F99A72/religion_headlines_0403/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 As lawmakers on the federal and state level scramble to use the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as a justification for the adoption of sweeping new gun control measures, one group, AbleChild, is asking a critical, and overlooked, question: Were psychiatric drugs a causative factor for the Sandy Hook shooter and for dozens of other school shootings?To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/4731B11F/are_psychiatric_drugs_a_factor_in_school_shootings/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/4731B11F/are_psychiatric_drugs_a_factor_in_school_shootings/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 The next time you're talking to some liberal hand-wringer who shrieks in horror like Dr. Zachary Smith from the old Lost in Space TV show at the prospect of ordinary citizens carrying guns, there's a way you might be able to calm them down somewhat and even give them a dose of education in the process.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/47C6FEE6/tell_em_the_west_was_not_wild/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/47C6FEE6/tell_em_the_west_was_not_wild/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 We're living in dark and difficult days, where the need for courageous leadership is in great demand. Despite the crises of unemployment and sinking economy, never have we had so much, while having so little.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/4A90A810/a_plea_for_courageous_leadership/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/4A90A810/a_plea_for_courageous_leadership/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Here in Northwest Wisconsin we have, so far, been spared from the widespread bed bug epidemic that has plagued much of the United States. Even in much of the other areas of Wisconsin, bed bugs are quite prevalent.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/52A8B97F/bed_bug_alert/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/52A8B97F/bed_bug_alert/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 Soldiers in the U.S. military have been told in a training briefing that evangelical Christians are the No. 1 extremist threat to America - ahead of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, KKK, Nation of Islam, al-Qaida, Hamas and others.To read the full article, please visit: http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/5CDE3811/military_warned_evangelicals_no.1_threat/ http://www.eauclairejournal.com/news/story.phtml/5CDE3811/military_warned_evangelicals_no.1_threat/?utm_source=RSS Feed&utm_medium=RSS Feed&utm_campaign=RSS Feed 2013-04-25T00:00:00-05:00