The City Wire—a newspaper covering the Fort Smith area—just reported that the Arkansas Lottery’s sales would “surpass $1 billion in the next 24 hours.” For some, this might be a grand milestone, but in reality, there’s nothing exciting about so much money being zapped from our state’s economy.
NPR interviews members of the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil in this audio clip from KUAF’s Ozarks at Large. The interview starts around the 1:20 mark.
[audio:http://www.kuaf.com/sites/default/files/10-18-11.mp3|titles=NPR Interviews Pro-Lifers]
America needs H.R. 358, the Protect Life Act, in order to prevent public tax dollars from being used to pay for abortions under the new federal healthcare law.