Emails received since 12:43 PM, yesterday: 174
Good emails: 10
Spam: 164
False positives: 1 (0.6%)
False negatives: 0 (0.0%)
Overall accuracy: 99.4%

Not bad. That’s even without a blacklist or whitelist! Three cheers for the Rev. Bayes and freeware.

Meanwhile, I’ve been using the McArthur Study Bible for my read-through in the NKJV this last year… I’ve had it with that study Bible. I realize that no study Bible is perfect, because no commentator is perfect, but man, some of this stuff is just wrong. I’m not going to get into specifics, but I will offer an example: in Matthew 11:12 and Luke 16:16, McArthur claims that the sense of the verse is that only the persistent press onward to receive the Kingdom. That’s just not the natural sense of the passages, nor does it seem fair to the text in translation terms. I’m going to stick with Ryrie and Nelson.

Finally, what the heck is this? The state of Oregon has a bill in the legislature (expected to pass) to offer in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants. Leaving that alone for a second, consider this: a majority of school districts in - you guessed it - the state of Oregon have decided to close early, some by 10% of the school year, due to budget cuts in education. Okay, so, rather than provide a basic education for the children of taxpaying, productive citizens and (legal) permanent residents, we’re opting to give financial incentives to people whose very presence in this country flies in the face of United States law?!??

Says Josh Bernstein of the National Immigration Law Center, “If they get an education, earn more money and pay more taxes, overall those numbers dwarf the cost of education.” But, that’s the whole point! These are illegal immigrants! Last I checked, illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes… Besides, why buy the cow, if you can get the milk for free? If the government is going to essentially pay for you to get a high school education, a college degree, even multiple doctorates, without requiring you to pay a dime in taxes, social security, or (maybe) even tuition, why in the world would you become a citizen? We might as well just move the New York Federal Reserve Bank out to Ellis Island and label it a free for all…

And now, to really knot your noodle, consider that this is actually provided for by national law! The 1996 (thank you, Bill Clinton) federal immigration-reform law says that states can offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrants, but only if they offer it to all legal U.S. residents, regardless of state of residence. Have we all gone mad???

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