Potato Chip Cookies
1 pound unsalted butter
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups crushed Ruffles® potato chips
1 cup chopped pecans
* powdered sugar, optional
by Anne McKeown
on August 5, 2010, 10:54 am
Our responsibility is to share the good news.
When I was in seminary I was in a preaching professor’s office one day to check on a new book he had ordered for several of us to read. Neither he nor I realized that someone else had also come into the waiting room behind me.
The professor had just received a box containing about thirty copies of a book he had written. These had been sent from the publisher for his own use; I knew other copies were already on shelves throughout the country, for I had seen some of them earlier in the seminary bookstore.
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill, Gazette Religion Editor
on August 5, 2010, 10:48 am
While I don’t typically recommend MTV, Addy and I happened to catch a new MTV reality show that is worth watching. If You Really Knew Me is about teenagers getting to the heart of who they are and then expressing it. In the process the high-schoolers learn tolerance for others.
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on August 5, 2010, 10:45 am
Active Couch Potatoes
“Somewhere, something incredible is
waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan
Warning: If these few paragraphs seem a bit rambling, that’s because I am, indeed, rambling. I’m on vacation. On the road. With my trusty laptop computer, though, I’m able to take a couple of hours to write. The weekly deadline has become a habit; in one week I’ll have penned this column ten years and I can’t seem to make the decision to stop, so here I am, in the wilds of America, typing away.
by Beth Jacks, Gazette Delta Editor
on August 5, 2010, 10:41 am
Sign of the times
If you could spend vast amounts of other people's money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn't you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers' money just by using the magic words “stimulus” and “jobs.”
by Thomas Sowell
on July 29, 2010, 1:45 pm
Gazpacho
1 garlic clove, peeled and mashed
1/3 cup oil
1/3 cup bell pepper, finely chopped
1 to 1-1/2 quarts Mott’s Clamato Juice™
1 cucumber, chopped
2 bay leaves
1 cup celery, chopped fine
4 or 5 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
1/3 cup onion, chopped fine
½ teaspoon fresh basil
½ teaspoon Beau Monde™
2 tablespoons Worcestershire®
1 lime juiced
2 dashes hot sauce
Mix all together and chill overnight. Serve with dollop of sour cream, parmesan cheese, and crackers.
by Anne McKeown
on July 29, 2010, 1:34 pm
The Democrats are depressed about their collapsing poll numbers, so it's time to start calling conservatives "racist."
As we now know from the Journolist list-serv, where hundreds of liberal journalists chat with one another, and which was leaked to Daily Caller this week, journalists cry "racism" whenever they need to distract from bad news for Obama. (Ironically, this story did not make headlines.)
by Ann Coulter
on July 29, 2010, 1:29 pm
They’re not hard to spot.
You know those situations where you just heard something so idiotic you absolutely cannot believe you heard right? The kind of remark that makes you want to bop yourself on the head because you know your ears have got to be completely clogged up? Or your brain has malfunctioned?
by Dawn Dillon Barrett, Gazette Contributing Editor
on July 29, 2010, 12:48 pm
Civility and diversity – we need them both.
Well, one more thought on this, the end of what I would call “independence month.” There have been a number of books written on the subject of civility, for the most part by those who grieve the demise of it.
By civility, I’m not talking about good manners, as one can possess those and still be as immoral as one who creates the problems of society and refuses to become part of the solutions. We lack a sense of civility in our “land of ‘disappearing’ plenty.”
by Rev. W. Lamar massingill, Gazette Religion Editor
on July 29, 2010, 12:24 pm
I heard a man on TV give some good advice to his wife about raising their teenage daughters. “It’s like driving a car,” he said. “When you cross the center line, you gently correct it. If there is a flat, you can’t move forward until the flat tire is removed, repaired and replaced.”
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on July 29, 2010, 12:19 pm
