Archive for November, 2006
Posted in November 30th, 2006
TownHall.Com
Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran.
He should not be allowed to do so — not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
London Telegraph
Thousands of British Airways passengers were caught in a radiation scare last night after traces of a substance, thought to be the same that killed the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, were found on two planes.
Around 33,000 passengers are believed to have flown on 221 flights across Europe since the traces were found [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
Telegraph
The morale of Royal Marines serving on the front line in Afghanistan has plummeted after a £3,000 allowance was deducted from their wages following a “dreadful blunder” by Royal Navy administrators.
The revelation will come as an acute embarrassment for Tony Blair, who only last week was photographed among Royal Marines as he promoted Britain’s [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
Minuteman Project
Conservative speakers have long been the targets of such illiberal treatment. The violent reception given to Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, an anti-illegal immigration group, at Columbia University in October is a recent example. Gilchrist had been invited to speak by the Columbia University College Republicans, but was prevented from doing so [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
Reuters
Following all the rules, Indian national Sanjay Mehta came to the United States on a temporary work visa in 1997, hoping to build a glittering career in the fast-moving information technology sector.
But nine years later his application for a green card remains snarled up in a bureaucratic logjam, and he looks with frustration at [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
CNSNews
With parents rushing out to buy video games for their kids this holiday season, the National Institute on Media and the Family claims the video industry is exercising more responsibility, but that it remains up to parents to protect their children from the violence contained in the games.
“Video games are becoming a key part of [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
Associated Press
The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s potential to expand in the nation’s eighth-largest city.
The measure, approved on a 5-3 vote, prohibits stores of more than 90,000 square feet that use 10 percent of space to sell groceries and other merchandise [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
Home News Tribune- NJ
A former teacher at Perth Amboy’s William C. McGinnis School who had an “inappropriate relationship” with a 13-year-old male student has pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and official misconduct.
Amy Burke, 32, of Carteret, agreed to forfeit her teacher’s certificate and serve up to four years in prison, [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
by Jan Hunt, M.Sc.
As homeschooling parents, my husband and I sometimes wonder who is learning more in our family, the parents or the child. The topic we seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself. The term “homeschooling”, however, has proven to be misleading. Homeschooling children do not spend all [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
WorldNetDaily
A new program from Voice of the Martyrs has just shipped its 100,000th Bible under a program that puts God’s Word in the hands of those who want to know about Jesus but are in nations that limit access to Bibles.
Officials for the Bibles Unbound outreach say the program, launched because of those government limits [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
AgapePress
Do human beings — Christians included — have the right to alter God’s purposes in matters of marriage and family? When God’s will is clear, if we deviate from His way it is counted as disobedience, even when we act with the best of intentions…
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
BosNewsLife
Two Pakistani Christian men spent another day in prison Monday, November 27, after a court jailed them for 10 years on charges of “blasphemy” against the Quran, considered a holy book by Muslims.
Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws Judge Muhammad Islam of Faisalabad’s Anti-Terrorism Court delivered the prison sentence and a 25,000 rupee (US$414) this weekend in [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
AgapePress
A pro-family leader is wondering who’s minding the net for the National Hockey League, given its support for a homosexual movie that features an 11-year-old drag queen.
The Toronto Maple Leafs and the NHL have given permission for their logos to be used in a forthcoming Canadian film called Breakfast With Scot, which portrays a former [...]
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
CBN
Surrounded by seven cops, a depressed Tommy McGouey had staged “the perfect suicide.” He drew his weapon fully expecting to be shot down. But God had other plans…
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Posted in November 30th, 2006
King James Version
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
New International Version
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; he has compassion [...]
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