The Guardian
Russia has thrown down a new gauntlet to Barack Obama with an announcement that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles.
In the latest of a series of combative moves by the Kremlin, a senior government official in Moscow said the Russian military would commission 70 strategic missiles [...]

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Media Research Center
The Media Research Center today announced its Best Notable Quotables of 2008: The 21st Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting, and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “won” the dubious honor of Quote of the Year for gushing over a Barack Obama speech back in February: “I [...]

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WorldNetDaily
President George W. Bush today added a convicted methamphetamine dealer, a cocaine distributor and two marijuana suppliers to the list of drug operators he’s pardoned while in office, bringing his total of drug suppliers who have been pardoned or had their sentences [...]

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Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow
A retired teacher has written a book encouraging parents to leave their children in public schools, rather than sending them to private and religious institutions.
The title of Dennis Ray’s book is The Stakes Are High: God’s Wisdom for Our Public Schools. He tells OneNewsNow that the atmosphere has changed [...]

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Chad Groening – OneNewsNow
It’s not acceptable, says a retired employee of the Veterans Administration, that Bibles and crosses are no longer being placed on the altars of VA facilities across the country.
Bob Wieters is a Vietnam veteran who retired from the VA in 1996 after more than 32 years of [...]

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CNSNews.com –
As Nazareth’s Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they are playing down the appearance of a confrontational Islamic banner that challenges a elemental Christian belief.
Journalists visiting the city saw two large banners – one in English, one in Arabic – hanging in the plaza in front of the Basilica of the [...]

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WorldNetDaily

A New York man has won a battle with the New York Department of Transportation over a trailer he parked on his private property along a public [...]

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Reuters

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King James Version
For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
New International Version
For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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WorldNetDaily 
An openly homosexual Time magazine reporter calls Barack Obama a “bigot” and a “problem for gays” following the president-elect’s invitation to Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his upcoming inauguration ceremony.
John Cloud has written a variety of articles for Time, with topics ranging from his 11-page article about Ann Coulter to Eliot [...]

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DEBKAfile
An American military intelligence official says Russia’s sale of S-300 long-range missiles to Iran presents a “decision point for Israel, since once the anti-aircraft system is in place it could deter any strike” against Iran’s nuclear sites. In this first gloomy statement, the American source did not rule out such a strike but implied it [...]

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Associated Press
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved Monday to undermine the popularity of the Iraqi who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, saying the journalist confessed that the mastermind of the attack was a militant known for slitting his victims’ throats.
Tensions over the case also spilled into parliament, as a move to oust [...]

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Washington Times
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort [...]

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WorldNetDaily
California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is responsible for defending the state’s laws and constitution from challenges, is urging the state Supreme Court to toss a voter-approved definition of marriage that now is part of the state constitution.
In a new statement on the dispute over Proposition 8, through which voters in November approved limiting [...]

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WorldNetDaily

Monica Ramos embraces her husband, former U.S. Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos, two days before he was sentenced to 11 years in prison (Courtesy El Paso Times)

An organization working in support of jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean is suggesting Christmas meetings for the former officers who are [...]

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