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In the spirit of enjoying the process: There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. v.24 Martha doesn’t begin to grasp the “good thing” here in Ecclesiastes 2:24-26. In fact, the prospect here isn’t just good, there is nothing better. The Preacher reveals the absolute best available under the sun, and it is superlative in that this is the best. There is nothing better. This is the genuine high life. And note who this applies to: for a person. Here is a universal and timeless statement. Joy is...

An Irvine-based housing consultant said in a forecast released Tuesday that new home prices will go up in Orange County next year, but only by about 4.4 percent. "We foresee Year 2007 as being a stable year in terms of market conditions," a report by Real Estate Economics stated.

A lot of government officials, and media folks, attempt to convince us that illegal immigration isn’t such a bad thing, because illegal immigrants are “doing jobs that Americans won’t do.” Sorry, but Americans will do just about anything, if the money is right. It’s not that there are “jobs that Americans won’t do,” it’s the simple fact that Americans don’t want to be paid chicken feed for the work that they do. Since some businesses don’t want to pay what workers feel the job should pay, the jobs go unfilled. These businesses instead hire illegal aliens and attempt to justify...