50 crazy laws, and other links

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• 50 of the Craziest Laws in Every State -- "In Colorado ... It's Illegal to Keep a Couch on Your Porch."
• A Christmas Open Letter to His Royal Highness – Prince Charles -- "Your view of Muhammed is coloured by your desire to believe that Islam is at core fundamentally just another religion like Christianity and it really does mean peace."
• A Quick Course in Rational Thought (and Persuasive Argument): “Thought 101” -- " ...red herring arguments violate “Thought 101” and should not be taken seriously."
• Christians Need To Stop Being So Naive About Muslim Immigration -- "Can they not observe the differences in today’s world between countries dominated by Islam and Western countries founded on Christian and Enlightenment values?"
• Meet the Two Women on Trump's Supreme Court Short List -- "...Diane Sykes and Joan Larsen are under serious consideration."
• Non-Ruckmanite Answers To Anti-KJV Questions -- "Unfortunately, Hudson did not care to clarify that the majority of KJV advocates are not of the Ruckmanite origin or stripe."
• Religious War? A Christian Was Killed For Their Faith Every 6 Minutes In 2016 -- "Nearly 90,000 Christians were killed for their faith in 2016, equivalent to one every six minutes, according to a new study by the Italy-based Center for Studies on New Religions."
• Ten ‘Prophecies’ for Society/Culture in 2017 -- "Brexit will be blamed for everything!"
• The Case For Independent Baptist Churches -- "Being accustomed to the various Baptist groups such as Southern Baptist Convention, the Associations, or one of the organized Fellowships and others, they cannot comprehend the nature of a church that is not affiliated with any of these."
• The Five Not-So-Scandalous Women in Jesus’s Genealogy -- "Granted, any human in the genealogy of the Son of God is evidence of God’s great grace to sinners."
• Tiny church finds original King James Bible -- "The ornate old Bible that had been sitting in plain view on a table near the last row of pews for longer than anyone could remember is an original King James Bible..."
• Winter storm fells one of California’s iconic drive-through tunnel trees, carved in the 1880s -- "One hundred and thirty-seven years ago the land’s owners carved an enormous hole in the base of one of its sequoia trees."