Random

✽ Surprise! Grey whale spotted off the coast of Israel ~ link

✽ Financially stressed Crystal Cathedral has sold its retreat center. Will the institutions we are creating now become a burden to the next generation? ~ link

✽ Android-based phones are outselling iPhones. It was just a matter of time. ~ link

✽ Now illegal aliens are smuggling chicken pox into the US. And this is news? ~ link

✽ More important to Arizonans than immigration is the issue of "state's rights." And in many ways the whole half-baked immigration bill is really more about Arizona attempting to push a particular version of federalism than it is about addressing the porous border to the south. Politics. ~ link

✽ More than 1 million Arizonans are on food stamps -- up 30% in a year. ~ link