Last spring we wrote a blog post called “10 Lottery Predictions That Came True.” It highlighted 10 things we said would happen if the Arkansas Lottery were established.
Last week we told you about a proposal to bring video lotteries to Arkansas. We predicted this back in 2009, when the Arkansas Lottery first set up shop. Below is a video we released at the time discussing this issue. Watch it, and see if what we predicted about the lottery is coming true.
Rasmussen Reports has published some interesting poll results on Christmas in the past couple of weeks.
According to Rasmussen,
This tracks with a poll from 2012 that found 60% of Americans celebrate Christmas primarily as a religious holiday.
While these numbers are interesting by themselves, on the whole they show Americans overwhelmingly celebrate Christmas and that Christmas is viewed as a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is also legitimately recognized as a federal holiday. With that in mind, why are there so many efforts underway right now to try to make Christmas about something other than Christ or prevent Christmas from being celebrated publicly? Why should a public official or public Christmas display be expected to recognize any element of the Christmas celebration except the very event Christmas celebrates?
The following blog post is by Family Council staff member Deborah Beuerman.
The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah this year received much more attention in the news than usual because Hanukkah and Thanksgiving overlapped for the first time in over 100 years.
Like most non-Jews, I knew little about this festival. I knew it is called The Festival of Lights, that one more candle on a candle stand called a menorah is lighted each day for about a week, that the celebration somehow commemorates a battle, that potato pancakes and dreidels are involved, that it is a minor holiday, and that in this country many Jewish children are given gifts because their parents don’t want them to be envious of Christian children who receive Christmas gifts around the same time.
I was enlightened by a caller to a talk show who explained the meaning of Hanukkah and offered some very thought-provoking insight into the situation in our country today.