Archive for January, 2008
Posted in January 30th, 2008
Associated Press MIAMI — Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida primary Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination ahead of next week’s contests across 21 states. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared ready to quit the race. “It shows one thing. I’m the [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
Associated Press WASHINGTON – The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, who heads of U.S. Northern Command, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
BALTIMORE (AP) – President Bush is talking more openly lately about his old drinking habit, and on Tuesday he offered perhaps his most pointed assessment yet by saying plainly that the term “addiction” had applied to him. “Addiction is hard to overcome. As you might remember, I drank too much at one time in my [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Following his third place finish in Florida, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out of the presidential race today and endorse Sen. John McCain. Last night, Giuliani stopped short of announcing he was stepping down, but delivered a valedictory speech that was more farewell than fight-on. The [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York chapter of The National Organization for Women accused Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of betraying women with his endorsement of Barack Obama, prompting the organization’s national office to come to the Massachusetts senator’s defense. “Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal,” NOW’s New York State chapter said in a [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
London Telegraph It’s been called the Noah’s Ark for plants and the planet’s insurance policy. The outside of the vault (top) and the tunnel during construction Now, after years of planning and construction the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will shortly open its armoured doors on the remote Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. Housed in a concrete [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
Officials at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix have decided to reverse their earlier decision to deny a certificate to a journalism student because she wrote about actor Kirk Cameron’s Christian faith. The American Center for Law & Justice confirmed that the school had notified the student, Sara Sloan, a degree and certificate she had [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
By Marilisa Sachteleben Lent begins each year with the Imposition of the Ashes on Ash Wednesday, which in the western calendar for 2008 will begin very early on February 6. Lent begins a 40 day journey of fasting, acts of mercy and spiritual pilgrimage. We try to live, in our poor humble human way, in [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
WorldNetDaily A Baptist church in Ohio is being accused of religious intolerance for allegedly thwarting a plan to build a mosque on nearby property. The board of zoning appeals in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio, insists its 5-0 vote against a variance request that would have permitted the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton to build the mosque [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
WorldNetDaily Advocates for the unborn in Arizona are celebrating a court opinion that concluded the state was not allowed to censor a “Choose Life” message from a program that allows special interest groups to obtain license plates with their slogans, an issue that has been resolved similarly in other states. The ruling comes from the [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
By Craig von Buseck Many people have criticized Christianity and believers in Jesus Christ as being too narrow-minded because we preach that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. They point to the numerous other religions of the world and say, “How can your way be the only way?” One of the answers to [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
MARIETTA, Georgia, Jan. 30 /Christian Newswire/ — Next week, the international prayer coalition, Pray for France, is inviting Christians from around the world to intercede for France from February 6 through March 16. “Things are happening in France.” said David Broussard, president of the Christian Community Foundation of France, one of the coalition partners. “In [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
Independent.co.uk Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works. The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man’s appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man’s brain and stimulated with [...]
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Posted in January 30th, 2008
King James Version For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. New International Version For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
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Posted in January 29th, 2008
By Jerome R. Corsi / WND U.S. central banks may have less than half the gold they claim to possess in their vaults, charges a watchdog group in an ad scheduled for publication in the Wall Street Journal this week. As WND reported, the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, or GATA, claims the Federal Reserve and [...]
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