Archive for December, 2008
Posted in December 23rd, 2008
WorldNetDaily Authorities in Egypt are starving children ages 2 and 4 to try to force their mother to abandon Christianity and return to Islam, according to reports from several ministry organizations. The Egypt for Christ Ministry is reporting the woman, who converted to Christianity about five years ago and was arrested as she tried to [...]
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Posted in December 23rd, 2008
Then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church (AP photo) CNSNews.com– It will be up to President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team whether Pastor Rick Warren’s prayer at the inauguration is vetted in advance, a spokeswoman for Warren’s Saddleback Church tells CNSNews.com. The spokeswoman would not say whether Warren would object to [...]
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Posted in December 21st, 2008
CNSNews.com) – Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland that Santa Claus will have access to special air space on Christmas Eve used by the United States Air Force. Major General Ralph Jodice of the Air Force District of Washington said this will allow Santa to deliver [...]
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Posted in December 21st, 2008
DENVER (AP) – A Continental Airlines jet taking off from Denver veered off the runway into a ravine Saturday night, forcing passengers to evacuate on emergency slides as the plane burned, officials said. Two people were critically injured and 36 others were taken to hospitals. Denver Fire Department Division Chief Patrick Hynes said a fire [...]
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Posted in December 21st, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) – Gov. Rod Blagojevich is legendary in Illinois political circles for not picking up the phone or returning calls, even from important figures like the state’s senior senator, Dick Durbin. But there was always one call Blagojevich regularly took, say his aides, and that was from Rahm Emanuel – his congressman, his one-time [...]
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Posted in December 20th, 2008
The Christian Post Most American Christians believe many religions can lead to eternal life and among them, the vast majority says you don’t even have to be Christian to go to heaven, a new survey shows. Sixty-five percent of all Christians say there are multiple paths to eternal life, ultimately rejecting the exclusivity of Christ [...]
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Posted in December 20th, 2008
WorldNetDaily Debra LaFave, teacher convicted of having sex with 14-year-old boy student In the wake of one the most publicized stories of a female teacher sexually abusing an underage student, the case of the beautiful Debra LaFave, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer asked a psychologist TV guest “why someone who looks like a living Barbie Doll [...]
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Posted in December 20th, 2008
WorldNetDaily Seven Christian students in Quebec have been handed suspensions in the last few days – and could face expulsions – for refusing to participate in a new mandatory Ethics and Religious Culture course that, according to a critic, is a “superficial mishmash of trendy theoretical platitudes” with the goal of convincing children that “all [...]
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Posted in December 20th, 2008
WorldNetDaily 6th-grader Andrew White A public school teacher in Mississippi marked down an eleven-year-old’s Christmas poem assignment and told the boy to rewrite it because he used the word “Jesus,” which, the instructor explained, is a name not allowed in school. Liberty Counsel, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, reports that sixth-grader Andrew [...]
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Posted in December 19th, 2008
CNSNews.com – A senior citizens’ group notes that members of Congress will get an automatic $4,700 pay raise beginning in January, bringing their annual salaries to $174,000. The increase will cost taxpayers more than $2.5 million. Based on salary alone, each lawmaker will rank in the top six percent of American households, The Senior Citizens [...]
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Posted in December 17th, 2008
There are a handful of you who are very generous and faithful. My Heartfelt Thanks to each of you who donated during 2008 and kept the site and newsletter published. We were still a far cry from breaking even (Monthly donations averaged < $50.00 month)… A few of you have advised me to charge a [...]
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Posted in December 17th, 2008
WorldNetDaily A public policy organization has issued an urgent alert stating affirmative votes are needed from only two more states before a Constitutional Convention could be assembled in which “today’s corrupt politicians and judges” could formally change the U.S. Constitution’s “‘problematic’ provisions to reflect the philosophical and social mores of our contemporary society.” “Don’t for [...]
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Posted in December 17th, 2008
Bloomberg U.S. stocks rallied and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index climbed to a five-week high after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low and said it will employ “all available tools” to revive the economy. Citigroup Inc. jumped 11 percent and JPMorgan Chase & Co. rose 13 percent after [...]
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Posted in December 17th, 2008
Washington (AP) – A record plunge in consumer prices in November puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to act decisively to guard against a debilitating bout of deflation. The Fed wraps up a two-day meeting Tuesday. Economists expect the central bank to cut the federal funds rate, already at a low of 1 percent, by [...]
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Posted in December 17th, 2008
Washington (AP) – The Washington, D.C., city council has passed more regulations on gun owners months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its previous ban of handguns. The council voted Tuesday to require gun owners to register their weapons every three years and receive training by a certified firearms instructor. The court ruled in [...]
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