Culture-Splitting Battle Quick … name one person, in all of world history, born as the result of a homosexual union. You can’t. It’s biologically impossible. Yet, we are seeing a neverending, culture-splitting battle to equate homosexual unions with those between men and women. No matter how you slice it, they’re not equivalent, and that’s...
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake today honored actress Bo Derek for her work to increase public awareness of the rehabilitative programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). “Ms. Derek has worked tirelessly to shine the public spotlight on veterans, especially those who have been severely injured while serving this nation,”...
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A spokesman says that the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been hit by shells containing white phosphorus. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, expressed “strong protest and outrage” to the Israeli Government over the attack. “The number of casualties...
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On Wednesday, Canadian energy company EnCana announced that it would pay a C$500,000 cash reward for information leading to an arrest and prosecution in four bombings of its natural gas pipelines. The explosions have occurred over the past three months in northeastern British Columbia. While the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been investigating...
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United States President-elect Barack Obama says that it is no longer essential to remove Osama bin Laden from the battle field. “My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him,” said Mr Obama yesterday. “But if we have so tightened the noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with...
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American politician Roland Burris of the United States Democratic Party was sworn in Thursday as US president-elect Barack Obama’s replacement in the United States Senate. Burris was not originally admitted to the Senate even though he was named to the position because Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was accused of selling the position and later...
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“Who is Number One?” was the flatly intoned question actor Patrick McGoohan posed during the opening credits of the 1960s cult British television series, The Prisoner. The two-time Emmy Award-winning American-born actor has died at the Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica, California. He died on January 13, following a short illness at the...
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As the country considers the inauguration of Barack Obama, I’m mindful of another inauguration that seems a long time ago, and which speaks volumes to the presidential transition we are about to witness. It was a January day in 1999, two hours before George W. Bush was inaugurated into his second term as Texas...
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TARP Inspector General Asked to Investigate Citigroup and Bank of America Donations to Rainbow/PUSH; Bailout Recipients Headline Jesse Jackson Fundraiser On Thursday, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) asked Neil M. Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), for a formal review of the sponsorship by Bank of...
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