Archive for February, 2008
Posted in February 27th, 2008
By ANNE FLAHERTY WASHINGTON (AP) – In an about-face, Senate Republicans on Tuesday agreed with Democrats to advance an anti-war bill because they said the debate would give them time to hail progress in Iraq. The change of heart came after months of blocking similar measures. But unlike most of last year, security conditions in [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
DailyTech World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year. Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ― The IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ over a speech Sen. Barack Obama gave at its national meeting last year after he became a candidate for president, the denomination said Tuesday. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, belongs to the 1.2 million-member Protestant group through his Chicago congregation. In a letter [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – Despite a congressional mandate banning the sale of common incandescent light bulbs by 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning that their compact fluorescent replacements are not safe to use everywhere. The EPA says breakage of the energy-saving, mercury-containing CFLs can cause health hazards, especially for children and pregnant women, suggesting [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
WorldNetDaily A family that fled to the United Kingdom because of the German government’s crackdown on homeschooling has told a British newspaper of the intolerance they left behind. “It feels like persecution,” Klaus Landahl told The Observer in London. “We had to get to safety to protect our family.” WND reported when the Landahl family [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – A group of hundreds of prominent Israeli rabbis this week urged a religious partner of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government to immediately bolt the Israeli leader’s coalition amid rampant media reports Jerusalem is up for negotiations. The rabbis warned that if the Orthodox Shas party remains in Olmert’s government, they [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
DAVID KUPELIAN So there I was, listening intently to local radio talker Bob White interviewing a witch. Yes, a real witch – and a male one at that. The guest sounded New Agey and effeminate, but harmless enough, and painted a colorful picture of what modern-day witches, or “Wiccans,” believe and do. You know, god-and-goddess [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
HOLLYWOOD, CA (ANS) — Movieguide®, a family guide to movies and entertainment founded in 1985 by media literacy teacher and pundit Dr. Ted Baehr, has picked Oscar® contender “There Will Be Blood” as the worst, most anti-Christian “Rotten Banana” of the 2007 film season. “‘There Will Be Blood’” has one of the worst, most superficial [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Allie Martin – OneNewsNow A Christian publishing house is spearheading a campaign to send four-million Bibles to Africa. Dwight Hall, president of Remnant Publications, met with church leaders in Africa two years ago and was told of the need for Bibles in that nation. Hall then launched a campaign called “Bibles for Africa,” with a [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
The Australian IDENTICAL twin sisters have led British scientists to a breakthrough in leukemia research that promises more effective therapies with fewer side effects. By comparing Olivia Murphy, 4, who is in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and her healthy sister, Isabella, researchers have traced the tumour stem cells that drive the most common form [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
King James Version O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. New International Version O Lord, you brought me up from the grave; you spared me from going down into the pit.
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
By Aaron Klein WorldNetDaily JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama has spoken at fundraisers for Palestinians living in what the United Nations terms refugee camps, WND has learned. Palestinians have long demanded the “right of return” for millions of “refugees,” a formula Israeli officials across the political spectrum warn is code for Israel’s destruction by flooding [...]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
National Post Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966. The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was [...]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
By BURT HERMAN PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) – The New York Philharmonic performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” for North Korea’s communist elite on Tuesday – a feat of musical diplomacy aimed at improving ties with the isolated nuclear-armed country that considers the U.S. its mortal enemy. The Philharmonic is the first major American cultural group to [...]
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Posted in February 26th, 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of homes facing foreclosure jumped 57 percent in January compared to a year ago, with lenders increasingly forced to take possession of homes they couldn’t unload at auctions, a mortgage research firm said Monday.Nationwide, some 233,001 homes received at least one notice from lenders last month related to overdue [...]
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