Archive for December 18th, 2006
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FoxNews MOSCOW — Russia is to begin supplying Iran with nuclear fuel early next year despite mounting concern in the West that this could accelerate Tehran’s plans to build a nuclear bomb. Sergei Shmatko, head of Atomstroyexport, Russia’s state nuclear fuel exporter, said last week that preparations to send fuel to Iran would start next [...]
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By Alan Sears This Christmas, while most Americans are looking for presents under the tree, the American Civil Liberties Union will be following their own hallowed holiday tradition: looking for scapegoats, under the guise of preserving liberty. Even now, the Tennessee ACLU is focusing on a lawsuit they’ve filed in federal court to eliminate what [...]
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WorldNetDaily A new report from the U.S. House of Representatives has condemned officials at the Smithsonian Institution for imposing a religious test on scientists who work there. And it suggests their attacks on a scientist who just edited an article on intelligent design are just the tip of the iceberg of an industry-wide fear of [...]
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Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union called Thursday for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, responding to recent comments by the Israeli prime minister that have been interpreted as acknowledging his country has a nuclear arsenal. In interview with a Germany television station broadcast Monday, Ehud Olmert appeared to list [...]
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Associated Press PARIS — France is to withdraw its 200-strong special forces from Afghanistan, all of its ground troops engaged in the U.S anti-terror operation there, authorities announced Sunday. The decision to pull the elite troops, based in the southeastern city of Jalalabad, comes as the Taliban militia are gaining strength despite the strong engagement [...]
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Reuters When railroads ruled, it was the sweating firemen shoveling coal into the furnace who kept the engines running. Now, nearly two centuries after Stephenson’s “Rocket” steam locomotive helped usher in the Industrial Revolution, that same coal could be the fuel that keeps the jet age aloft. But with a twist: The planes of the [...]
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Home School Legal Defense Association Charter schools are a new phenomenon rapidly gaining popularity across the country. All charter schools are created or “chartered” by public school boards, which establish a mission, educational program, and methods of assessment. Most charter schools are classroom based. However, some charter schools are home based. When parents enroll their [...]
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ACLJ Some of the issues surrounding the Christmas holiday in the schools borders on the absurd. This is certainly the case for students at Unity Drive Elementary School in New York. Zachary is a student at Unity Drive Elementary and was given an assignment by his teacher to decorate a Christmas ornament that would be [...]
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BCN One winter day some time ago, Fredrick (Rick) Larson was helping his daughter with Christmas decorations, when she asked about the star that led the wise men to the baby Jesus lying in a manger in Bethlehem. That simple question would prove to be the beginning of an amazing journey for Rick, one of [...]
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ASSIST News Service Tis the season to be jolly and a time for giving, they say, but it’s also the season to be reverent and consider the Greatest Gift of all, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. To that end, we at MOVIEGUIDE® would like to note some of our favorite movies [...]
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ASSIST Ministries BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (ANS) — “All is quiet in Bethlehem. On Manger Square, the Church of the Nativity stands in the pale gloom of dusk, its doors open to passing pilgrims. “But inside, the nave is empty of visitors and the collection boxes depleted of coins. “In the candlelit grotto downstairs, a silver [...]
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by Kate Nowak Though not always visible, there is within everyone and everything a divine and holy spark of goodness. Whenever we bless any person, situation, or thing in our lives, we are, in essence, recognizing that goodness, acknowledging its inherent value, and in so doing, fanning the spark into a flame. Each and every [...]
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King James Version “Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,” New International Version Show the wonder of your great love, [...]
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