The incandescent light bulb, one of the most venerable inventions of its era but deemed too inefficient for our own, will be phased off the U.S. market beginning in 2012 under the new energy law just approved by Congress. Although this will reduce electricity costs and minimize new bulb purchases in every household in America, you may be feeling in the dark about the loss of your old, relatively reliable source of light. Here’s a primer on the light bulb phase-out and what will mean to you:
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics. Read the rest of this entry »

By Philip PullellaTue Dec 18, 7:40 AM ET

An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday” and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on. Read the rest of this entry »

I saw this statement on a tshirt on a stuffed cat yesterday. I thought it was brilliant and very true. I know that my cat lies all the time, spoiled little thing that she is. She has had thirteen years to work on her strategy and it’s almost perfect. My husband thinks he is going to teach her to change her ways. He’s had all this time to teach her but she still does what she wants. Are there some spiritual anologies here?

By JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press Writer Wed Dec 5, 5:34 PM ET

SALT LAKE CITY - Polygamy, missionaries on bicycles and the Osmonds.

What most people know or think they know about Mormons might be summed up in those few words. The renowned Tabernacle Choir and, perhaps, quarterback Steve Young could also fit on that list.

Despite 170 years of history, much about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — the church of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — remains a mystery to most.

Questions about his faith, which some mainline religious groups discount as a non-Christian cult, have dogged Romney throughout his campaign, and on Thursday he’ll tackle the issue at the George H.W. Bush Library on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Romney isn’t expected to focus on the details of Mormonism, but it’s in those details that evangelicals and other Christians sometimes break with Latter-day Saints.

The fundamental issue: the nature of God.

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