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Randy Alcorn

VOICE OF REASON: God is an idea, not a fact, and a creation of man’s fear of death

In one of his recent campaign speeches, Mitt Romney told his audience that this nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and became great because it “trusted in god, not man.” Romney fears that departing from those principles and from that …

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Santa Barbara Blog Watch: EclipseMania, plastic bags and business

Sunday’s solar eclipse shined down on edhat.com. The community bulletin board was the local go-to site for stunning images of the eclipse, where the moon blocked out most

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Junior Spirit of Fiesta, Romney the Bully?

Junior SpiritDEAR EDITOR: The news that Sadee Broida, who is 12 years old and attends school in Ventura county, will share the Jr. Spirit title was most disappointing

DAILY SOUND EDITORIAL: Vote Yes on Measures X and W

California used to be a nationwide leader in education.But those days are long over.Massive budgets cuts statewide — more than $20 million locally — have decimated classrooms. The

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VOICE OF REASON: Bin Laden left us with a greater police state

Ever wonder what Osama bin-Laden found so entertaining watching TV at his Abbottabad lair? It was probably video feeds of humiliated Americans being herded through the indignities of

DAILY SOUND EDITORIAL: Vote Yes on Measure Y (POLL)

Developer Mark Lee is proposing to build 25 homes on undeveloped land in the Las Positas Valley.In addition to that, Lee also wants to restore an 1,800-foot-section of

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VOICE OF REASON: The ideologically inbred don’t understand that pennies equal dollars

With the federal debt at over $15 trillion and climbing by over $1 trillion per year the outlook for the U.S. is grim. Only fools and ostriches can

Let’s expand news coverage together

DEAR READER: For going on 7 years now the Daily Sound has maintained one goal: To provide the best local news coverage possible with our limited resources, and

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THE VOICE OF REASON: The Freedom to Suffer and Die

If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, should be euthanized by the Supreme Court, as many now believe it will be, then the nation may be

Randy Alcorn

RANDY ALCORN: INSTINCTUAL RACIAL PROFILING IS RAMPANT

Most people have a reflexive fear reaction to spiders and snakes. Intellectually, they understand that most of these creatures are harmless, but because they know some are deadly,