
It's Sunday and I feel like preaching.
Time for a little evangelical journalism.
It's time to pray that a Brazilian federal judge does the next right thing, especially with Rio getting the Olympic nod.

I was puttering around the other night and got the urge to find the Jesters most recent tax returns.
I found them on Guidestar and armed with a yellow highlighter, sticky notes and legal pad, began scanning the categories, dollars and answers reported.

Disclaimer and Adult Content Warning: This is called a "newsitorial" because investigative journalism doesn't need to be dry, dull and boooring.

Former Judge Ronald Tills is being sentenced tomorrow for pleading guilty to violating the Mann Act.

Richard Schair's motion to dismiss was granted last Friday after defendant Newsvine moved his
libel and defamation complaint against the MSNBC online subsidiary to federal court.

Leaders from the Society of Professional Journalists spent yesterday and today on Capitol Hill advising our nation's law makers why they should support a federal version of the reporter shield law.
From this SPJ press release:

Adult content warning and disclaimer: Linked court documents describe acts and images of an adult nature and were legally and lawfully obtained while publically available on the United States Federal Court PACER system.

Here are updates in two Shriner and Jester court cases, news that the owner of the fishing tour business who took members of the Royal Order of Jesters (ROJ) fishing on the Amazon has closed shop and has been indicted by Brazilian authorities as well as my reaction to a ROJ spoke …

Editor's Note:
This resource was created as a public service for those wanting to know more about the Shriners' secret sub-group, the Royal Order of Jesters.

The recent news and commentaries about Shriners and the Shriners Hospitals for Children have caused many questions and a surge of interest by the public.

According to national media, the Shriners aren't as well endowed as they used to be.
Shriners Hospital in danger of closingSource: WWLP - News
The hospital that's been a lifeline for children since the 1920's may soon be forced to pull the plug. Twenty-two Shriners Hospitals throughout the country rely solely on the generosity of the public to pay their bills, but donations are dropping 1 million dollars a day.
With Shriners shuttered, pediatric burn patients have no place to go Source: KHOU
Another news story about the implications of the Shriners keeping SHC Galveston closed and what it means to a lifelong Shriner when his own grandson, who was badly burned, can't be treated quickly by the hospitals he's spent his life supporting.
From the article:

The Shriners Hospitals help millions of children each year. Children who have been burned, born with birth defects and injuries are helped every hour by the Shriners Hospitals. I should know my daughter and granddaughter are Shriner Patients.

"There is nothing wrong with America that Faith, Love of Freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens can not cure." -Dwight Eisenhower