LifeWay doesn't disclose on its web site (that I can find) who they outsource their background checks to.

The nice thing about a censorship system like this (for governments) is that once it is in place, you can use it to censor anything. Imagine contacting your ISP to unblock religious topics.

(I have documentation in a blog article about everything I've said here.)

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/011/discernment/warren-gurus.htm

http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_articles.asp?sourceid=scott1329m

Another factor may be similar to how clothing is sold. People only buy things when the item is half price and they have a 20% off coupon, so book prices have to get higher and higher to mark them down.

And I should be grateful that America is turning into Soviet Russia with less choice, shoddy products, skimping everywhere - all to pad out the bottom line of big corporations?

Neil from Tucson, haven't you noticed all manufacturers do the same thing? There is no choice. When my toilet tissue brand made the rolls smaller, I bought another brand. It was smaller too. Some old rolls in another brand were larger, but as soon as those sold out, that brand was smaller, too.

The recession is mainly an excuse for opportunistic gouging, like Kleenex reducing their 300 ct box to 240, and the cable TV companies deleting more channels from their basic packages.

Since 2008, I've been looking hard for any signs of hard times, and just don't see it. Our modern-day austerity looks like runaway prosperity to someone who grew up in a true poverty situation. I don't think anyone would be able to go back to real poverty.