The Daily Web Roundup is a collection of links to the news, commentary, and information I found interesting or useful today. If you want to read more of what is found in this post, find links to my favorite news, commentary, and information sites at Dennis L Hitzeman’s News Reading List.

The World Watch Preview is a post that takes a look at news items that are currently making their way through the never ending 24-hour news cycle. The Preview calls attention to and provides a quick commentary on some of those events. This week: ‘Irony Is Everything’, ‘For Once, a Mainstream Media Article I Agree With’, ‘And, By the Way, Iran Is Still Trying to Build Nukes’.

I think every patriotic American struggles with how to be part of the solution. We sometimes see the cost of freedom as being impossibly high. What can a single soul, not gifted to be a soldier or a senator, do to help?

The tithe. How many of us understand the concept of giving back to God the first fruits of what He has given to us? How many of us actually give a twentieth of what we have, let alone a tenth?