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Arkansas Lottery Expecting Revenue to Decline by Millions Next Year

May 28, 2013JerryArkansas LotteryArkansas Lottery, Lottery Oversight

Last week the Arkansas Lottery Commission approved a budget for fiscal year 2014 predicting lottery revenue to decline by several million dollars.

According to an article in last week’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the decline will be $21 million altogether.

Reviewing the budget approved last week reveals that revenue itself is expected to go down by more than $9 million; the 2013 budget expected lottery ticket sales to top $98.5 million, while sales for 2014 are only expected to go as high as $89.5 million.

Additionally, charts accompanying the budget indicate lottery ticket sales are down for the spring of 2013 over the spring of 2012.

All of that means less money for the scholarships the lottery is supposed to provide, and verifies what we said before: Lottery ticket sales cannot stay high forever; eventually they drop, and they drag scholarships down with them.

Video: Ryan Anderson Offers a Primer on Marriage

May 16, 2013JerryMarriageMarriage, Same-Sex Marriage

Ryan Anderson from the Heritage Foundation offers a brief primer on marriage and why defending it is important in this video.

Scientists Reportedly Engage in Clone-and-Kill Research

May 15, 2013JerryAbortion, LifeAbortion, Human Cloning, Life, Medical Ethics, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life, Stem Cell Research

Oregon-based researchers claim to have cloned human embryos for the purpose of killing them to obtain their embryonic stem cells.

Oregon Health & Science University scientists published a paper in the online journal Cell reporting the use of cloning techniques to produce human embryos. Twenty-one of these embryos were developed until stem cells were present, after which the human embryos were killed and the stem cells harvested.

These human embryos were tiny, unborn children killed in the name of medical research. Embryonic stem cells have yet to produce any of their promised medical breakthroughs, while adult stem cells–obtained without any loss of life–have led to major medical advancements and do not involve this type of clone-and-kill research.