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(CNN) — Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum mixed it up over their records on the debt, taxes and earmarks Wednesday night in the first Republican presidential debate in almost a month, and the first before three contests in the next 10 days followed by the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses on March 6. Answering a question [...]

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(ALPHAOMEGANEWS.ORG) — Admittedly, this is the first book I have read on the subject of spiritual warfare. More and more the subject has been coming up in my interactions with other Christians and at home. I have always a more skeptical approach to the subject and never considered it much more than a character of the [...]

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A reporter’s question about whether an Obama campaign video was shot at the White House wasn’t answered at the daily presidential news briefing today, because press secretary Jay Carney didn’t allow it to be asked. Instead, the tax-subsidized NPR was allowed eight questions, CBS and the Wall Street Journal five each and NBC, AP, CNN and [...]

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(THE HILL) — The crowd at Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate booed heartily when the candidates were asked about the recent controversy over contraception. And the candidates, after saying they didn’t want to talk about it, went on at length attacking President Obama on the issue. The issue has come to the forefront largely because of a [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Great Britain has dispatched additional [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia, the leader of [...]

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WASHINGTON – Some reporters are just ahead of their time. That is surely the case with WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi, a two-time No. 1 New York Times best-selling author, who penned, in 2006, “Atomic Iran,” a book that exposed, for the first time, the ugly truth about the imminent nuclear threat to America [...]

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At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, WND Editor Joseph Farah explained that every government concern is a moral issue. In an interview with CSPAN’s BookTV, Farah said he had “a very specific message for the tea-party movement” when he wrote “The Tea Party Manifesto: A Vision for an American Rebirth.” “I [...]

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By Jack Minor Experts on radical Islam say the U.S. military is sadly mistaken if it believes groveling at the feet of Muslims after copies of the Quran were accidentally burned will help win the hearts and minds of the world’s Islamic community. The reaction of the U.S. military toward a recent report that NATO forces may [...]

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – When Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio announces the findings of the first official law-enforcement investigation into the questions surrounding Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility for office at a news conference Thursday, March 1, WND TV will be there to provide exclusive live-streaming, founder and editor Joseph Farah announced today. In addition, WND will make available [...]

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David Brock, the embattled founder of Media Matters for America, once teamed up with the progressive radio company that developed, produced and launched the national career of Ed Schultz to call for the re-institution of the Fairness Doctrine. The now defunct company that launched Schultz’s national show, Democracy Radio Inc., was founded in 2002 by former [...]

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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga – who Barack Obama helped place in office in a power-sharing agreement to stop deadly rioting by Odinga’s followers – is now the target of a devastating book by a former top adviser that threatens his prospect for re-election. Miguna Miguna has handed over to WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. [...]

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A federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Navy over the manipulation of “gay” data used to convince Congress to overturn the centuries-old ban in the U.S. military on open homosexuality. The manipulation of the data was confirmed by the government itself, which in an inspector general’s report marked “For Official [...]

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HOLLYWOOD – Movie stars and film producers gathered to celebrate faith, family and inspirational films at the red-carpet awards show often hailed as the “Christian Oscars” earlier this month – and now Movieguide is asking Christians across the nation to show their support for Hollywood productions that glorify Christ by watching the event on TV [...]

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What if a 13-foot mosaic “Jesus” won the world’s largest art competition and no one noticed? While this may be a slight exaggeration, Grand Rapid’s marathon “ArtPrize” event and its winners have clearly been snubbed by much of the established art world and the press that serves them. Do they deserve it? This may be a protective [...]

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The embattled Media Matters for America has not responded to a series of reports documenting the organization’s purported unusual tactics, including compiling a de facto enemies list; announcing an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel; and reportedly seeking to investigate the personal lives of reporters and news personalities. The [...]

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CNN is not only broadcasting tonight’s Republican debate in Arizona, the cable network is also providing live streaming on the Internet. Click here to watch the debate online.

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By Jerry McGlothlin This video is based on Joseph Farah’s recent column “The walking Dems.” Jerry McGlothlin is the CEO of SpecialGuests.com, a publicity firm that for 25 years has provided expert guests to hundreds of news outlets and talk shows including Hannity, O’Reilly, and the “Today” show. He has had editorials published in USA Today, the [...]

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By Michael Master Mitt seems like a good man. He could be the best person for America. But America doesn’t hear him. After listening to him at the South Carolina debates, listening to his speech after the South Carolina primary election, listening to him on Chris Wallace in January and listening to him after his win in [...]

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After reading Jodi Kantor’s much discussed, allegedly critical look at the White House, “The Obamas,” I have to conclude that even those mainstream reporters who want to write a balanced political book no longer know how. Kantor, a young New York Times reporter, came under heavy fire for the book, especially for her portrayal of Michelle [...]

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Perhaps you missed this small death notice, published recently on an obscure page of the Times: “Logic and his twin brother, Reason, passed away quietly the same afternoon. They were found together in their nursing home, life-support equipment removed. Medical ethicists are reviewing the oversight. “They died following a long life of devoted service to humanity. They [...]

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What if actor Clint Eastwood gave an interview in which he explained why, in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for John McCain: “I voted for McCain because he was white. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them. … That’s American politics, pure and simple.” No, Eastwood did [...]

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What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if “one person, one vote” is just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance? What if democracy is dangerous to personal freedom? [...]

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Liberals adore force. While they hate any firearms they do not wield, and they abhor the notion of self-defense and self-preservation (because leftist ideology is fundamentally self-destructive), they exult in making the other fellow toe the line. From cradle to grave, every waking moment of a man’s life must be controlled if that [...]

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(OPEDNEWS) — In an all-day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro. Those attending were invited participants for the Intellectual Encounters for Peace and the Preservation of the Environment event at the Havana Convention Center. Topics discussed in the [...]

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(BBC) — Europe’s top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, has urged Germany to end the practice of surgically castrating sex offenders. The council’s anti-torture committee said such voluntary treatment, albeit rare in Germany, was “degrading”. In Germany no more than five sex offenders a year have been opting for castration, hoping it will lower their [...]

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As governor of one of the most liberal states in the union, Mitt Romney did something even Ronald Reagan didn’t do as governor of California: He balanced the budget without raising taxes. Romney became deeply pro-life as governor of the aforementioned liberal state and vetoed an embryonic stem-cell bill. (Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich lobbied President George W. [...]

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(LATIMESBLOGS.LATIMES) — Gay couples in Australia wanted to get the ear of the prime minister who opposes same-sex marriage. So they paid more than $33,000 to share her table. The Australian activist group GetUp! bought dinner with Prime Minister Julia Gillard at a charity auction last year. The couples finally dined with Gillard on Tuesday at [...]

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — Talk about adding insult injury. More and more U.S. emergency rooms won’t admit patients until they pony up a fee of $100 dollars or more for nonemergencies. The fees are meant to discourage people suffering from nothing worse, say, than a sore throat or a skinned knee from taking up time and resources better [...]

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President Obama is hoping to win over more moderate voters by pushing a reduction of the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent. However, Americans for Tax Reform says the complete Obama plan is light on reductions and heavy with additional tax burdens. Ryan Ellis is ATR’s director of tax policy. He tells WND [...]

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(KOB-TV) — Governor Susana Martinez has lost a hair stylist thanks to her position against gay marriage. Antonio Darden, a popular stylist who runs Antonio’s Hair Studio in Santa Fe, said he cut Martinez’ hair three times, but that’s it – unless she changes her mind about gay marriage. “The governor’s aides called not too long ago, [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — In the Dr. Seuss book, the Lorax speaks for trees, “for the trees have no tongues.” Lou Dobbs, on the other hand, most definitely has a tongue and he’s not afraid to wield it against the beloved children’s character. On a segment of Dobbs’ Fox Business Network show Tuesday night that was flagged by the [...]

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(PALMBEACHPOST) — School officials are grappling with fallout from the widespread release of a YouTube.com video showing two Santaluces High students making racial remarks about fellow students. The four-minute video, brought to officials’ attention late Monday, shows two female teens sitting in front of a camera, one of them brushing her hair, as they ramble about [...]

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For you are dust, and to dust you shall return Genesis 3:19

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Celebrates a milestone. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: While watching a football game, two friends are talking during a commercial. One [...]

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In an age when Christianity is openly under attack, one book that champions the Bible as absolute truth is surprising even longtime Christians with amazing facts many people simply don’t know are included in the pages of Holy Scripture. “If you think you really know the Bible, better think again,” warns Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. “Your [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — A 20-year-old woman has been left brain dead – after she was Tasered by police and smacked her head on the ground. Danielle Maudsley had been taken to a Florida Highway Patrol Station after being arrested for a suspected hit-and-run in September. Handcuffed, she ran out of the door. But as footage from a police [...]

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(ADAGE) — Most marketers would love to be McDonald’s. It’s the world’s largest fast feeder by sales. Global same-store sales rose 5.6% last year over 2010 — its eighth consecutive year of positive same-store sales. It’s rated the world’s No. 6 brand by Interbrand, with a value of $35.6 billion. It’s the 26th-largest advertiser in the country, [...]

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(FOXNEWS) — As Congress pays lip service to Americans seeking tax reforms, an underrepresented constituency has a hairy proposition — getting lawmakers to approve a $250 tax refund for mustached Americans. Members of the American Mustache Institute traipsed up to Capitol Hill Monday — while lawmakers were out of town for President’s Day — to seek [...]

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(MSNBC) — Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and a prominent evangelical leader in his own right, waded into contentious waters Tuesday when asked for his views on the religious beliefs of President Obama and the GOP hopefuls. Graham, the CEO and president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, told a Morning Joe [...]

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(BBC) — A first U.K. helpline for victims of Islamophobia is being set up amid concerns that incidents are not being reported or properly categorised. Last year 2,000 hate crimes were recorded against different faiths in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Police say it is unclear how many were against Muslims as separate figures were not recorded. Faith [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Drinking coffee may cut the risk of diabetes, say researchers. Moderate consumption of coffee – four to five cups of coffee a day – may lower the chances of developing type 2 diabetes compared with those drinking it occasionally or not at all. A new study suggests a cut in risk of around 30 per [...]

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(NEWSROOM AMERICA) — Despite the Obama administration’s rule that Catholic and religious institutions provide free contraceptive coverage for employees, just over half of Americans – 53 percent – still want the president’s signature healthcare law repealed, a new survey said. In addition, 50 percent believe the law eventually will be overturned, a new Rasmussen Reports survey, [...]

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(FOXNEWS) — The Rhode Island teen who was recently thrust into the national spotlight for fighting to have a prayer banner at her high school removed, is now receiving a scholarship from an atheist group, MyFoxBoston.com reports. The American Humanist Association, a national atheist organization, says that Jessica Ahlquist, 16, of Cranston High School West, stood [...]

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(TODAY.MSNBC) — It seems controversy — and, of course, reality TV cameras — follows the members of the “Sister Wives” family wherever they go. Over the last year and a half, Kody Brown, his brides and their 17 kids have faced legal battles, angry neighbors and even bullying, but the latest hubbub is a new [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — The point of the CBS show ‘Undercover Boss’ is that the CEOs are supposed to stay ‘undercover’ as they work in the trenches of their own companies, their identities hidden from their employees. But Rick Silva, the head of Checkers & Rally’s drive-in hamburger restaurants, was so horrified at the abusive tone of one [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Teen and tween girls and boys are posting clips of themselves on to YouTube accompanied by the question ‘Am I ugly?’ A short search yields scores of videos from insecure 11, 12, 13 and 14-year-olds, their anxiety forcing them into the notoriously harsh world of online commentating to find an answer to their misguided [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — France has abolished the ‘sexist’ term Mademoiselle from all official documents because it suggests a woman is ‘available’. Prime minister Francois Fillon said the word – the French equivalent of ‘Miss’ – discriminates against women by asking them to reveal if they are married. He has also banned the phrase ‘nom de jeune fille’ meaning [...]

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(KHOU-TV) HOUSTON— Passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight bound for Houston Tuesday sprang into action to help a flight attendant having trouble with an unruly passenger. Twenty minutes after the plane departed Portland, pilots returned to the city where the FBI was waiting. Passengers said the unruly man was a problem from the beginning. After boarding Flight 1113, the man [...]

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(NEWSWITHVIEWS) — A growing number of attractive female teachers and women from all areas of society, who are anywhere from 23 -54 years old, are seducing teenage and pre-teenage boys between 10–17 years old, across the nation. Until, the last decade or so, it has been men who have been the primary sexual predators [...]

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(GRASSTOPSUSA) — Obama’s mandate requiring Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs to employees, through their insurers, has been widely condemned as an assault on religious freedom. What’s overlooked is the connection between the contraceptive diktat and population control spurred by the president’s anti-global-warming crusade. [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — In the annals of unexpected endorsements, it tops Fake Gorbachev slow-clapping for Sylvester Stallone at the end of “Rocky IV”: Last week, heavy metal guitarist Dave Mustaine — Megadeth front man, longtime earthly vessel of sonically demonic sturm und drang — sized up the Republican presidential field and expressed his greatest admiration [...]

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Outspoken New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had some rather harsh words for billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Tuesday. During a discussion with CNN’s Piers Morgan about tax rates, Christie made it known that he’s just about had it with Buffett, the world-famous investor who lent his name to a proposed tax hike [...]

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(CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER) — A Cleveland Heights woman with an apparent passion for animal rights remains in federal custody today. Federal prosecutors say she tried to hire an assassin through Facebook to kill “someone who is wearing fur.” Federal agents arrested Meredith Lowell, 27, Tuesday morning at her home, charged with solicitation to commit murder. After her [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 percent, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. Mr. [...]

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(MSNBC) — AP reports: At a concert tonight at the White House marking Black History Month and celebrating the blues, President Obama again took the mic. He was challenged by the musicians on stage to follow up his Al Green “I’m So In Love With You” performance, “You done started something, and you gotta keep [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers have long been accused of liberal bias, but critics say a group of potential buyers led by former Gov. Ed Rendell would turn the papers into mere mouthpieces of the Democratic Party in a 2012 swing state. Mr. Rendell, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is teaming [...]

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(USA TODAY) — PHOENIX – The last time the four Republican presidential contenders met for a debate, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was fending off a strong challenge from former House speaker Newt Gingrich in Florida and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was at about 15% in the national polls. What a difference three weeks [...]

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(OREGONLIVE) — Federal agents seized computers from a Northeast Portland man’s house this week as part of in investigation into his alleged threats against controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. FBI agents searched the house of Clifton Dawayne Brooks in the 6500 block of Northeast Prescott Street at 6 a.m. Monday. According to an affidavit in support of [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – The recent veto by Russia [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – The two Iranian warships that [...]

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Phoenix (CNN) – Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, briefed GOP contender Rick Santorum on his investigation into President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, the controversial law enforcement official told reporters Tuesday. After a speech to a Republican gathering in Phoenix where Santorum appeared earlier in the day, Arpaio explained he wanted to inform the [...]

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The chief of a homeschooling organization in Sweden, where officials recently made the activity illegal, has fled his home country because of the badgering, fines, court hearings and threats over the best way to teach his own children. According to a report in the New American, a publication of the John Birch Society, Jonas Himmelstrand of [...]

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A state commission in Indiana that was asked to review whether Barack Obama is eligible to be on the state’s 2012 ballot has scheduled a hearing for Friday, and warned the parties to the argument that those who fail to attend may be subject to a default decision. The notice was signed by Trent Deckard and [...]

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Comments unearthed from a 2008 speech about Satan’s influence on America made Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the target of derision and mockery today, but talk-radio host Michael Savage contends the former Pennsylvania senator is right, and his beliefs should only help his chances for the White House this fall. “I think Santorum is right, and [...]

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A consortium of progressive groups working with a marketing outfit that helped to sell Obamacare to the public recently recommended that President Obama make contraception a re-election issue, WND has learned. Billionaire George Soros is a primary funder to the progressive groups. The marketing outfit that coordinated the contraception campaign, the Herndon Alliance, received funds from the [...]

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A Democrat in the state House in Georgia has proposed the state regulate vasectomies because, “thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of a lack of state regulation.” Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the state’s 75th House district, said, “It is patently unfair that the men can avoid the [...]

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Two weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service announced a huge financial loss in the final quarter of 2011. The USPS says much of the problem lies in a substantial decline in mail volume. “We may not be able to return to profitability for the long term,” said Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe. Some in Congress blame overly generous [...]

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A battle over words erupted in Wisconsin after school officials censored messages of “Jesus Loves You” and “John 3:16″ brought by a student in response to an invitation to share Valentine’s Day cards and treats with classmates. The student, Dexter Thielhelm of James Madison Elementary School in Sheboygan, and his mother, Melissa Wolf, now are working [...]

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It was a billboard campaign launched shortly after Barack Obama moved into the White House that put the issue of his eligibility to be president on the front burner of American politics. And Joseph Farah, founder of WND.com and the creator of the billboard campaign, said it’s a revised version that will bring it back into [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – As Islamic supremacists – mainly [...]

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By Anita Crane As religious ministers and lay people across America protest President Obama’s abortion drugs mandate, on Friday the life-affirming movie “Doonby,” starring John Schneider, opens in Dallas, Texas, and Chattanooga, Tenn., with high praise from a Vatican official and other Christian leaders. In its Feb. 12 edition, L’Osservatore Romano, the semi-official newspaper of the Holy [...]

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The move to legalize “gay” marriage in Maryland now waits for a verdict from the State Senate. On Friday, traditional marriage advocates watched their majority position erode in the House of Delegates, as several members were convinced to back same-sex unions at the 11th hour. Delegate Don Dwyer led the effort to preserve traditional marriage in the [...]

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(CNSNEWS) — Unemployment in the U.S. rose to nine percent in mid-February, up from 8.3 percent a month earlier, according to a new Gallup survey. The polling company said this suggests that it is “premature” to assume the economy will not feature prominently in the 2012 election season. Gallup figures typically provide an indication of what the [...]

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Fierce battles continue around the country among school officials, teachers unions and parents about how best to evaluate teachers so that the incompetents can be terminated. Largely overlooked, however, is the vital need to evaluate principals. In many schools I’ve reported on over the years, it’s been clear that a principal can determine the learning [...]

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During a recent Fox News Channel debate about the Obama administration’s tax policies, Democrat Bob Beckel raised the issue of “fairness.” He pointed out that a child born to a poor woman in the Bronx enters the world with far worse prospects than a child born to an affluent couple in Connecticut. No one can deny that. [...]

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If one manages to graduate from high school without the rudiments of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, there are certain relatively high-paying careers probably off-limits for life – such as careers in architecture, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, medicine and certain technical fields. For example, one might meet all of the physical requirements to be a fighter [...]

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Imagine this family budget: Last year, you earned $24,700. But you spent $37,900, incurring $13,300 in debt, and you were already $153,500 in debt. So you say, “I promise I’ll spend $300 less this year!” Anyone can see that your cutback is pathetic and that you need to spend much less. Yet if you add eight zeroes, that’s [...]

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Did they teach you about “psychic income” in school? Great stuff. If you like your work, for example, you’re getting more income, “psychic income,” than your paycheck indicates. If you love your work, you’re getting even more. If you love your work and meet people who become lifetime keeper-treasures, you’re a [...]

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There is an old adage that nothing dies in Washington, especially if it’s a government program or agency. The wonderland otherwise known as our nation’s capital specializes in creating temporary programs that never disappear. Legions of government enterprises live on well beyond the crises that birthed them. Some of these programs [...]

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(DAILYCALLER) — Media Matters for America founder David Brock refused to answer a question Tuesday morning regarding his group’s relationship with the Obama White House. Video of the exchange was posted by Kerry Picket of The Washington Times. In the clip, an unidentified male with the “America’s Morning News” radio show asked Brock, “How accurate are reports [...]

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(REALCLEARPOLITICS) — White House press secretary Jay Carney first says Republicans “forced” President Obama to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Later in his press briefing, Carney says Obama didn’t turn down the pipeline. “In terms of Keystone, as you all know, the history here is pretty clear. And the fact is because Republicans [...]

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(RUSHLIMBAUGH) — RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program that Santorum, people have dug deep and they found a speech that he gave back in 2008 in Ave Maria, Florida, at Ave Maria University. Drudge has this plastered up. The Democrats have found it. It’s all over the place. Think Progress and whatever leftist think [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Comedian David Cross has fessed up to snorting cocaine in the same room as President Barack Obama and his Secret Service agents while at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Cross, who starred on the cult TV comedy, “Arrested Development,” confessed to the impulsive act in the March issue of Playboy magazine. He has [...]

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(THE HILL) — Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will reveal the findings of his office’s investigation into the authenticity of President Obama’s birth certificate on March 1, he announced Tuesday. “Once again I take my elected sheriff’s status very serious and when the people ask me to do something, I try to do it regardless of the [...]

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One of the most obvious realities in our world today is that the 2012 presidential election is truly epic. There have been “turning point” elections before, but many of us feel that the present administration is purposely leading the United States to its doom. There are plenty of credible sources who understand that we are on [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — The skeletal remains of a 14-year-old Ohio runaway who went missing in 1999 have been found after the home where she was last seen was demolished, according to police. The Lima News reports that Lima police on Saturday said the remains of Nicholle Coppler were found in a crawl space as the home’s foundation [...]

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(GUARDIAN) — She is an unlikely figurehead for the political protests that have rocked Russia over the last few months. Ksenia Sobchak, 30, is a family friend of Vladimir Putin and the host of a reality TV programme known for its scandalous scenes. But it is her new political talkshow that has caused a real [...]

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(NEWS) — Daniel Kish is completely blind but can still manage walking, hiking and even riding a dirt-bike by himself. He does it by using a revolutionary “bat-like” ability known as “Flash Sonar” to create a special picture of the world around him using clicking sounds made with his tongue. As he walks, Mr Kish uses the [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — The ultraconservative Arizona sheriff accused of threatening his ex-boyfriend with deportation said Monday that he’s the victim. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that his former lover “wanted to harm me.” The lawman, who has said that he is gay, was accused on Friday of pressuring a man identified only as “Jose” [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — High Street shops are buying “Adele-sized mannequins” as chains increasingly market clothes at curvier women. The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld caused a storm earlier this month by branding the singer “a little too fat”, but it appears that retailers are now embracing consumers with fuller figures. One of the UK’s largest shop mannequin companies has [...]

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(NYTIMES) — Even as government officials prepare to unveil new standards this week for how banks treat millions of Americans facing foreclosure, housing advocates and homeowners are skeptical the rules will be able to do something past efforts have not: provide a beleaguered borrower with one individual to help them navigate the mortgage maze. While the [...]

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(CHRISTIANPOST) — Jeremy Lin’s rise to fame has gotten the attention of many Chinese Christians, and inspire those who face religious persecution in their Communist homeland. Jeremy Lin isn’t Chinese, yet he has captured the heart of many people in China, including Christians who are often times persecuted. According to a Wall Street Journal Report, Beijing [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — The conversation was simple and innocent − and somehow dangerous − all at once. Just moments after his Knicks had beaten the Nets at the Garden on Feb. 4, Jeremy Lin excitedly called Stephen Chen, his pastor of 10 years. The Knicks’ new point guard had just seen his first extended playing time in [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — IF you are on a diet, look away now. Losing weight is twice as hard as thought, scientists said last night. After factoring in how metabolism slows down as we shed pounds, they announced that dieters’ expectations have been too high. And official guidance that cutting 500 calories a day will result in a pound [...]

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(BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN) — In an attempt to address Kern County’s alarmingly high rates of sexually transmitted disease and teen births, a new health initiative will let local teenagers order condoms online and receive the free shipment in the mail. The program, supported by the California Department of Public Health’s STD Control Branch and the nonprofit California [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — A high school math teacher known for his volcanic temper was yanked from his Queens classroom after a video caught him spewing spit into a student’s face. Expectorating educator David Pecoraro — labeled a serial spitter by students — was caught screaming at the unidentified Beach Channel High School kid just seconds before the [...]

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(WHDH-TV, Boston) — LYNN, Mass. — Two girls, apparently with a grudge, wailed on each other in a Lynn park. Many people stood by and watched, even recording the fight. Police saw the fight online and alerted the mayor. “There will be consequences for this. Not only for the girls in the fight, but also for the [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Dolphins are so intelligent that they should be thought of as ‘non-human persons’ and given their own bill of rights, it is claimed. A coalition of scientists, philosophers and animal welfare groups have come up with a declaration of dolphin rights which they hope will one day be enshrined in law. This would stop them [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Peter Skyllberg, the Swedish man who apparently survived more than two months of freezing winter in a snow-covered car had been living in the vehicle since last summer, when he was a regular customer at a local petrol station. Mr Skyllberg was said by doctors to have endured temperatures of -30C (-22F) as he [...]

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Mesa, Arizona (CNN) – In a whispering campaign not ready to go public, some senior Republicans are so anxious about the state of the GOP race they are actually considering the unheard of: a scenario that would lead to another candidate entering the Republican primary race, and potentially an open convention. They are not unhappy enough, [...]

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To pitch tent. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A loaded minivan pulls into the only remaining campsite. Four children leap from [...]

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As a variety of names are now being floated for presidential running mates, Republican candidate Ron Paul says ousted Fox News host Judge Andrew Napolitano might be at the top of his list. Paul was asked the question about whom he would like on a White House ticket with him at a recent public meeting, and [...]

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(JOURNALGAZETTE.NET) — Verbatim text of letter from Indiana state Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, to fellow lawmakers. February 18, 2012 Members of the Republic Caucus Dear Fellow Representatives: This past week I was asked to sign a House Resolution recognizing the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts of America. After talking to some well-informed constituents, I did a small amount [...]

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(PHILLY) — HERE’S A THOUGHT for Presidents Day: President Santorum. Did you just shiver? How in the name of all that’s holy is Rick Santorum atop national polls for the Republican nomination? Get it? All that’s holy? Maybe that’s the answer. You know, the Tebow factor; the Jeremy Lin effect? Well, I have another theory.

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You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — Did you know that according to a new Pew study, more than 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote? And that leading Democrats are fiercely opposing new laws that tighten voting requirements? This tells us, just as we suspected, that the zombie population is becoming a major Democratic constituency. No wonder the leading [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The big-money vehicle intended to raise astronomical sums to serve as the Democratic counter to similar action by Republican-funded super PACs and outside groups is failing miserably, federal documents filed Monday showed. Priorities USA Action, a super PAC that former top aides to President Obama left the White House last February to run, [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Frank Wuterich, who pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty in the killing of 27 unarmed Iraqis in 2005, has been discharged from the Marine Corps. Wuterich, 31, received a general discharge under honorable conditions, his attorney, Neal Puckett, told the North County Times. Such a discharge is one notch below an honorable discharge and [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the future of affirmative action at the nation’s colleges and universities, agreeing to hear an appeal from a white student in Texas who seeks an end to “racial preferences” in college admissions. The decision could either limit the use of affirmative action or broadly forbid [...]

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(REUTERS) LONDON — Sotheby’s will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” at an auction in New York on May 2, and expects it to fetch more than $80 million. The work is owned by Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen, whose father Thomas was a friend, neighbor and patron of Munch, the [...]

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(Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers agreed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) rescue for Greece on Tuesday to avert an imminent chaotic default after forcing Athens to commit to unpopular cuts and private bondholders to take bigger losses. The complex deal wrought in overnight negotiations buys time to stabilize the 17-nation currency bloc and strengthen its financial [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — An angry protest erupted outside a sprawling U.S.-run military installation on Tuesday after base personnel allegedly improperly disposed of religious materials, including Muslim holy books. Gen. John Allen, the U.S. Marine who commands Western forces in Afghanistan, apologized and promised the incident at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, would be fully investigated. Protests [...]

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TEHRAN, Iran (NBC NEWS) — Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered, the deputy head of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces was quoted by a semi-official news agency as saying Tuesday. “Our strategy now is that if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran’s national interests, [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A little boy who decided he was a girl trapped in a boy’s body has become one of the youngest-ever children to have his decision backed by the NHS – aged just four. With his blonde pigtails and purple tutu, Zach Avery, now five, has been living as a girl for more than a [...]

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NASHVILLE – WND’s Joseph Farah was presented with the “Ed McAteer Tree of Life Award” Sunday night at the annual National Religious Broadcasters convention by Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a group fighting anti-semitism and supporting the nation of Israel. The presentation was made by the group’s founder, Laurie Cardoza-Moore. PJTN educates media professionals, Christian leaders and [...]

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A new report compiled by several former Education Department insiders for the Pioneer Institute warns that the Obama administration is imposing a national school curriculum, even though the law doesn’t allow it, by making trades with districts seeking waivers from other program requirements. “In three short years, the present administration has placed the nation on the [...]

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A spokeswoman for a key pro-life organization says Rick Santorum is the right GOP nominee this year. The endorsement comes from Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony pro-life organization. “He does stand out,” she said. “We are really at a turning point. in the campaign. We’re definitely at the tipping point in history on the pro-life [...]

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One member of the GOP says his party should not have been willing to go along with Democratic plans to spend and borrow more money. It was Texas Rep. John Carter, the GOP conference secretary, who told Greg Corombos of Radio America in an interview for WND that he wouldn’t go along with the recent plan [...]

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More and more Americans are searching for “made in USA” goods these days, so it’s good to know there are websites out there to help us find those American-made – and union-made – products that many patriotic consumers are seeking. One of the best places to go for those American-made and union-made products is www.UnionHouse.com. Not [...]

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In this podcast, Jerry Robinson on “Follow the Money Weekly” visits with Prof. Laurence Kotlikoff, of Boston University, about the generational storm that could be coming. Kotlikoff explains the many economic challenges facing American and how Washington appears completely unable to face them directly. He explains he is so disgusted with the lack of real leadership in [...]

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A complaint has been filed asking Pennsylvania state officials to set aside Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential candidacy, because he cannot meet the state’s eligibility requirements. It’s another case in what is developing into a long list of states in which Obama’s candidacy is being challenge legally. A complaint recently was filed in Indiana, and Georgia’s dispute [...]

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WASHINGTON – A messianic rabbi from New Jersey is stunning audiences nationwide by revealing the striking parallels between the fall of ancient Israel and what he suggests are God’s early judgments of America. Jonathan Cahn of the Jerusalem Center-Beth Israel Congregation in Wayne, N.J., says an otherwise obscure passage in the Book of Isaiah is since [...]

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped broker a “special arrangement” between Congress and Freddie Mac in which the semi-private mortgage giant continued to enjoy subsidies as long as it made housing more “affordable” for low-income and minority borrowers, according to Freddie Mac insiders who spoke to WND on condition of anonymity. In fact, Gingrich championed the [...]

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By Marylou Barry Accusing state officials who want to see Barack Obama’s actual, hardcopy birth certificate of “birtherism” is like accusing the cop who wants to see your driver’s license of “driverism.” They’re both non-words that up until now have been non-concepts, and one makes just about as much sense as the other. Both officers making [...]

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Dear Dave, My boyfriend has a lot of debt. The other day a creditor called, and he wouldn’t answer the phone. Then, he told me it would be easier for him to pay off his debts if we were married because I could act as his accountability partner. I don’t want to be the money [...]

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Welcome to the real Obamacare, whereby a handful of leftists in Washington, D.C., impose the views of their big-money donors on more than 300 million Americans. If the Obama mandate for contraception remains intact, then liberals will next demand that Americans pay for other objectionable items that are not really medical care. We can expect future [...]

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I’d like to offer a simple proposal that, if enacted, could generate a great deal of a most precious resource: moral clarity. It concerns the death penalty. Opponents of capital punishment for murderers argue that the state has no right to take a murderer’s life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state [...]

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According to the Feb. 12 business section of the New York Times – concerning its leading Fourth-Estate rival, the Washington Post – reporter Jeremy Peters, in a long story, discloses: “Though company managers say privately that the Post is modestly profitable, its newspaper division, which also includes a group of community papers and the Herald of [...]

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The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of “some phony theology. … Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.” Given the opportunity on “Face the Nation” to amend his remarks, Santorum declined the offer and plunged on: “I don’t question the president’s [...]

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It is fascinating to see people accusing others of things that they themselves are doing, especially when their own sins are worse. Academics love to say that businesses are not paying enough to people who work for them. But where in business are there people who are paid absolutely nothing for strenuous work that involves risks [...]

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If you believe the Bible, as I do, the return of Israel as a nation after 2,000 years is a greater miracle than all that occurred during the Exodus. That’s what God says in Jeremiah 16:14-15: “Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up [...]

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The news was mildly aflutter for part of a day over the most recent bile from the gastrointestinal track that runs from Maxine Waters’ mind to her mouth. While speaking at the California Democratic Convention, in San Diego this month, Waters said: “I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our [convention] screens. [...]

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What is the real issue behind President Obama’s decree that insurance companies should provide contraceptive coverage for free? (Free meaning that all of us, whether we use contraceptives or not, pay for them!) The issue against the idea is simply this: We are a free people governed by a set of laws embodied in our Constitution [...]

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There is a tenet in law … if you allow a law to go unenforced, you give up your right to enforce it. We have allowed Obama to break the eligibility law for four years. We did not need his “birth certificate” to prove he was not natural born. His father was not a U.S. citizen [...]

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In his column “Why do you believe?” Vox Day lists off numerous reasons he thinks he believes the Christian gospel. But he’s mistaken. None of those reasons is sufficient to cause him or anyone else to believe the gospel. If he genuinely believes, then he does so for the very same reason anyone else believes: [...]

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As a subscriber to Whistleblower magazine and a daily reader of WND, I was frustrated that WND apparently did not carry any articles about women indeed being included in congressional testimony about the contraception mandate. (At least I could not find any.) I did some searching on WND and other places until I uncovered the truth [...]

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For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

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Has its day. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: In response to the emails concerning my dog: Please be advised I am sick [...]

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I recently watched a presentation by Michael Hyatt, chairman of Thomas Nelson publishers. It seems to be from a few years ago, but in his remarks, Hyatt – a publishing guru if there ever was one – lays out 10 reasons he’s still excited about Christian retail. This refers to those stores out there across this [...]

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“Our government … teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Louis D. Brandeis What do you do when you are faced with a lawless justice system? A Congress more interested in [...]

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President Obama served eight years on the board of a charity that is a top donor to the embattled Media Matters for America progressive activist organization. Obama is also tied to numerous other top Media Matters donors and fundraisers, including a foundation run by the finance chairman of his 2008 presidential campaign, Penny Pritzker, WND has [...]

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Despite his avowed non-interest and the fact he may not even be constitutionally eligible to hold the office, Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is the top choice of Republicans and independents for the vice-presidential slot on the Republican ticket this year, according to a brand-new poll. The national survey of 800 registered voters by Fairleigh Dickinson [...]

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(ENTER STAGE RIGHT) — Ever wonder why taking out a public notice costs so much money? It shouldn’t be that way. With the demise of print newspapers, it no longer makes sense to require that public notices be published only in newspapers. More people have access to the internet now than subscribe to print [...]

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(COMMONDREAMS.ORG) — The United States is headed for a plutocratic dystopia where a few gated communities sit like islands amidst a sea of bitterness, misery, and want. Why? Because the country is running on lies, myths, deceptions and distractions. Not surprisingly, they aren’t working very well for us. Let’s run through a few of the most destructive [...]

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(USA TODAY) — WASHINGTON – While most Republicans wish they had different choices in the party’s presidential field, a nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds overwhelming resistance to the idea of an old-styled brokered convention that would pick some new contender as the nominee. By 66%-29%, the Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed say it would be better [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A man believed to be the first in Britain to give birth has described his fears that his parents will want to “convert” him back to being a woman. The 27-year-old university graduate, who was born a woman but has had treatment to change his gender, gave birth to a girl in March last [...]

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(COURIER MAIL) — The man at the center of today’s murder suicide at Brisbane’s Story Bridge was a teacher at one of Brisbane’s most exclusive schools. Jason Lees, 40, who took his life and that of his two-year-old son in the early hours of this morning, taught Year 6 at Anglican Church Grammar School. Originally from Canada, [...]

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(CBSNEWS) — FLORENCE, Ariz. – Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu built a reputation as a rising, conservative star by taking a hardline stance against illegal immigration, attacking the Obama administration and appearing alongside Sen. John McCain in a 2010 re-election ad in which McCain urged federal officials to just “complete the danged fence.” But, on Saturday, [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — The world’s first test tube hamburger will be served up this October after scientists perfected the art of growing beef in the lab. By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they can create a product that is identical to a real burger. The process of culturing the artificial meat in the lab [...]

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(GUARDIAN) — It is the most valuable and fascinating drinks cabinet in the world. In a locked and chilled store room in what was once a cowshed, Bay van der Bunt pulls a dusty bottle from the very end of a wooden shelf filled with similarly dusty bottles. He pours the merest sliver of clear [...]

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(JTA) — An Orthodox Jew was found not guilty by a Hague appeals court of failing to produce an ID card on the Sabbath. The man had faced a fine of nearly $200 for failing to prove his identity when requested to do so by police, under a national ID law. Orthodox Jews are not permitted to [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A devout Christian is to launch legal action claiming she was forced from her job caring for disabled children because she refused to work on Sundays. Celestina Mba claims that the council she worked for pressured her to work on Sundays and threatened her with disciplinary measures – even though other workers were willing [...]

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(REUTERS) — Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Speaking after a high-level meeting of flu experts and U.S. security officials in Geneva, a [...]

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(INFORUM) — CHICAGO — A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics. It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution [...]

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(THISISHULLANDEASTRIDING) — A boy of seven is facing accusations of racism after asking a fellow pupil if he was “brown because he was from Africa”. Elliott Dearlove asked the question of the five-year-old boy at Griffin Primary School in Barham Road, east Hull. The younger boy’s mother complained to the school, which launched an investigation. Elliott’s mother, Hayley [...]

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(ARTICLES.LATIMES) — Reporting from Columbus, Ohio — Republican GOP hopeful Rick Santorum may be the most prominent homeschooler in America. So it might not have been surprising that, on Saturday, he told a conservative Christian audience that he intended to homeschool his children in the White House. In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, [...]

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(WASHINGTONEXAMINER) — First lady Michelle Obama’s weekend jaunt to Aspen, Colorado for a President’s Day ski holiday with her daughters Sasha and Malia makes the 16th time members of the first family have gone on extended vacations during their three years in office. Their stay at the home of a major Chicago fundraiser for President Obama [...]

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(SEATTLE TIMES) — STEVENS PASS — Her buddy shouted “Avalanche!” but when things started sliding, it felt to professional skier Elyse Saugstad like just a tiny rush of loose snow beneath her skis. In an instant the weight and pressure grew so immense that she rocketed down the slope, banging into trees and rolling upside down. “The [...]

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In a guest editorial last Thursday in the New York Times (“Why China’s Political Model is Superior”), a Mr. Eric X. Li declared the American Republic dead, American democracy “a rule by demagogy” producing “paralysis and insolvency,” and extolled China’s “largest one-party state” as the superior model achieving “larger national ends” leading to “the second-largest [...]

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So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God. –Acts 18:11

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And a hard place. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Tim asked Bob, “What happened to your uncle’s boat?” “Ever notice that big [...]

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At first blush, it sounds like one more Bible verse: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.” While devoted Bible students might recognize that verse from Isaiah 9:10, it’s hardly a widely discussed scripture. But that may be changing with [...]

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(CNBC) — The world’s top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, appears to have cut both its oil production and export in December, according to the latest update by the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI), an official source of oil production, consumption and export data. The OPEC heavyweight saw production decline by 237,000 barrels per day (bpd) from [...]

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(FOXNEWS) — The U.S. and Britain on Sunday urged Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear program as the White House’s national security adviser arrived in the region, reflecting growing international jitters that the Israelis are poised to strike. In their warnings, both the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, and British [...]

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Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency R. James Woolsey told a radio host today that Americans “have to get ready” for Iran to retaliate against international pressure over its nuclear program with terrorist attacks, including, possibly, a strike on the Statue of Liberty. Woolsey, who currently serves as chairman of the Foundation for Defense of [...]

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Even as a challenge to Barack Obama’s name on the 2012 primary election ballot in Georgia moves to the appeals court level, the next state up for the arguments appears to be Indiana, which in just the last few weeks has removed a state official from office over eligibility issues. And there appear to be other [...]

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By Jerry McGlothlin This video explains Joseph Farah’s burgeoning No More Red Ink Campaign. Jerry McGlothlin is the CEO of SpecialGuests.com, a publicity firm that for 25 years has provided expert guests to hundreds of news outlets and talk shows including Hannity, O’Reilly, and the “Today” show. He has had editorials published in USA Today, the Chicago [...]

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As it now stands, with Republican presidential candidates seen as weak and damaged, it is likely that Barack Hussein Obama will be re-elected in 2012. Not that Romney, Santorum and Gingrich would be the solution to the nation’s ills – indeed, “We the People” must roll up our sleeves and wage a second American revolution [...]

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Editor’s note: Michael Ackley’s columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which. Ah! The wonderland that is California! You have heard, no doubt, that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has banned footballs and Frisbees from [...]

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I am out in Missoula, Mont., for the Big Sky Film Festival. Missoula is a mix of conservative Montana and a bit of the crunchy granola types that you find in many small college towns. The two headers in the Missoulian (the newspaper in the city) are ” Two sex assaults reporter near UM” followed [...]

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I just love it when news reports tell us that gas prices are up again and that they’ll soon top $4 a gallon. Thanks, Barack. That’s a laugh because in Northern California, depending on where you are, pump prices already are over that $4 level. It was a headline story in my local paper Saturday. [...]

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This is a question that most believers are asked at one time or another. Most recently, it was posed by Invictus at In Mala Fide, and it is a question that I believe always merits a direct answer. It is a question to which there are many different possible answers, and many different [...]

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A new study from the Federal Trade Commission is warning that mobile apps, those nifty downloadable programs that children love for their digital devices, may be collecting and using the kids’ personal information far beyond what the parents may believe possible. “Parents should be able to learn, before downloading an app for their children, what data [...]

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Capital Crime: One for the punishment of which death is inflicted, which punishment is called capital punishment (one or two examples: premeditated murder, burglary and rape, with additional bodily harm). Doing right: Actions which are fair, proper, good, upright, righteous, virtuous, moral, ethical, honorable, honest, lawful, legal. Doing wrong: Actions which involve crime, lawbreaking, lawlessness, criminality, misconduct, [...]

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I stated a few weeks ago that I believe former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum have shown the greatest passion for highlighting and fighting the war on religion (specifically Christianity) being unleashed by the Obama administration and other secular progressives. They are also avid supporters of Israel. However, in light of the [...]

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From being used by his hedonistic mother to create a court case challenging prayer in public schools to heading up the Religious Freedom Coalition, William Murray’s story of growing up as the pawn of the infamous Madalyn Murray O’Hair long has been out of print. Until now. WND Books early in March will release his classic bestseller, [...]

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A court has handed a Russian church that had been targeted by five apparently malicious lawsuits by a government prosecutor in just a few months a huge victory, according to officials with the Slavic Center for Law and Justice, an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice. The ruling comes from the Constitutional Court [...]

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In a stunning development in the case of Hannah Overton, a Texas woman sentenced to life without parole in 2007 after jurors convicted her of killing her 4-year-old foster son by giving him large amounts of salt, an appeals court has ordered the trial court to hear new evidence that may suggest her innocence. The ruling [...]

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(AMERICANPROGRESS.ORG) — The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus, turns 3 this week. Did it work? Michael Linden, Director of Tax and Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress, answers that question in a new video by looking at three broad but important indicators for the American economy. All [...]

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(NATIONAL REVIEW) — Have you seen the official White House version of what the New York Times headline writers call “A Responsible Budget”? My favorite bit is Chart 5-1 on page 58 of their 500-page appendix on “Analytical Perspectives.” This is entitled “Publicly Held Debt Under 2013 Budget Policy Projections.” It’s a straight line [...]

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A New Testament Professor is setting the world of Bible scholarship on fire with his claim that newly discovered fragments of early Christian writings could include a first-century version of the Gospel of Mark, the same century in which Jesus and the apostles lived. Daniel B. Wallace of the Dallas Theological Seminary made the stunning announcement [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Or maybe Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels and Paul Ryan. In the Republican presidential primary race, enthusiasm frequently turns toward the candidates not in the race. And as the August Republican national convention hastily sneaks up on the field, the fact that one candidate hasn’t [...]

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(SLTRIB) — Fake hero Xavier Alvarez lied to his fellow Californians. He never rescued an American ambassador. He was never a Marine. Most definitely, contrary to what he told a Southern California audience, Alvarez was never awarded the Medal of Honor. He lied, until he was caught. Now, the Supreme Court must decide whether the First Amendment [...]

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(NATIONAL JOURNAL) — Ron Paul said he doesn’t think that Rick Santorum can defeat President Obama in a general election. “I don’t see how that’s possible,” he said on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. Paul also jabbed at Santorum for his aim “to control peoples’ lives” and what he framed as Santorum’s hypocrisy on [...]

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(News.com.au) — A YOUNG woman left with shocking burns after she was set alight in Rivervale has been described by her family as vivacious and kind. Dana Vulin, 25, remains in Royal Perth Hospital in an induced coma and on life-support after yesterday’s shocking attack. She has suffered burns to 60 per cent of her body. “She has [...]

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(SMH) — The mother of a 21-year-old woman shot in the forehead says the bullet lodged in her brain is “not ever going to come out.” Karen Carlson, the mother of shooting victim Renae Sullivan, spoke to the Nine Network yesterday about her grief as Adam Scott Murray, 26, of Berkeley, appeared in Wollongong Local Court [...]

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(WMCTV) — A Bartlett man found thousands of dollars inside an item he bought on eBay. James Labrecque sold an old safe on eBay for $122.93. “I made a mistake, you know, that’s what it boils down to,” said Labrecque. “And it cost me dearly.” Labrecque, an eBay user for more than 15 years, said he did not [...]

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(THE DESTIN LOG) — It’s no hippie bus, but it is spreading love and peace. The bright colored bus, painted with the message, “Jesus Loves U” has been spotted along the Emerald Coast the last few days and has caused quite a stir in the Facebook world. But the man behind the wheel, Cas Sowinski, hopes to [...]

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(SHEBOYGAN PRESS) — The Sheboygan Area School District erred when it confiscated a second-grader’s Valentine’s Day messages because they included a religious passage, according to a lawyer who is representing the child’s mother. David French, an attorney with the American Center for Law and Justice, said James Madison Elementary School student Dexter Thielhelm should have been [...]

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(LATIMES) — It can be swallowed, injected, inhaled or delivered to the bloodstream through a time-release implant. Now scientists say they have devised a new way to give patients their medicine: through a fingertip-size microchip embedded in the body that doctors can control remotely via a wireless connection. The drug chip, more than a dozen years [...]

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(EDITION.CNN) — In middle school, Taylor LeBaron struggled to fit into his seat. The desks in class had a ceramic plate attached to the chair. “I was so large, I couldn’t fit in there,” said LeBaron, now 19. “Every other student could. I couldn’t get my legs to fit underneath the desk or my stomach to [...]

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(NBCPHILADELPHIA) — The lesbian couple that which initially denied entrance into a Valentine’s Day contest by St. Joseph’s University’s Alumni Association, and then later allowed entry following a social media push, has won the “How I Met My Hawk Mate” contest. Megan Edwards and Katie MacTurk were announced the winners Tuesday on the Alumni Association’s Facebook [...]

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(WASHINGTONTIMES) — For the 99 percent of colleges, it was a pretty good fundraising year. For the 1 percent of super-wealthy elite, it was a much better one that catapulted them even farther ahead of the pack. The latest annual college fundraising figures out Wednesday show donations to colleges and universities rose 8.2 percent in fiscal 2011, [...]

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(CHICAGO TRIBUNE) — The Chicago area logged the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction in the United States during the past 36 years, according to a report released today by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Federal prosecutors secured a total of 1,531 public corruption convictions in the Northern District of Illinois since 1976, [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Plans for Greece to default, potentially leaving the euro, have been drafted in Germany as the European Union begins to face up to the fact that Greek debt is spiraling out of control – with or without a second bailout. The German finance ministry is actively pushing for Greece to declare itself bankrupt and [...]

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(Richmond Times-Dispatch) – Political renegade and former U.S. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. of Franklin County is running for president. The Democrat turned independent turned Republican has filed his paperwork and is seeking the Constitution Party’s nomination. Goode, who lost his 5th District congressional seat to Democrat Tom Perriello in 2008, is running on a platform of [...]

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(WASHINGTONPOST) — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul warned the U.S. is “slipping into a fascist system” dominated by government and businesses as he held a fiery rally Saturday night upstaging established Republican Party banquets a short distance away. The Texas congressman drew a couple thousand standing and chanting people to Kansas City’s [...]

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(KSL) — Elizabeth Smart and Matthew Gilmour were married Saturday on the North Shore of the island of Oahu. The couple exchanged vows at the Laie Hawaii Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in front of a small group of immediate family members, according to a statement released by Smart family spokesman [...]

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(REUTERS) — Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped … we will sell our oil to new customers,” spokesman Alireza Nikzad was quoted [...]

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The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10

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Professional comparisons. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Two small boys met each other on the playground. “My name is Bobby. What’s yours?” [...]

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As ghosts go, she was rather a cultured specimen. The pale Edwardian figure made frequent visits to the mansion home of Alan Smith, always accompanied by the music of Chopin, according to the startled souls who bore witness. Her interest in the house was a mystery – until the discovery of a long-lost painting that appeared to [...]

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A bad boy who was left with half a head following a dramatic accident has spoken out for the first time – blaming his astonishing appearance on a drink and drugs binge. Carlos ‘Halfy’ Rodriguez, who also goes by the name Sosa, lost a large portion of his brain and skull in a crash after flying [...]

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Hearing that stores like Target monitor their customers’ spending habits to determine their future ones may not be much of a shock to most. What may be more of one is that Target’s department for Guest Marketing Analytics is so in tune with their consumers based on their spending, they can predict major changes in their [...]

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A thriving community of micro-organisms nestles two meters below the surface of the ultra-arid Atacama desert in Chile. The discovery, made as part of a dry run for a potential robotic Mars mission, suggests microbes could find a toehold on the Red Planet – but that rovers may have to dig deep to find them. The [...]

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Lonely vocalists can now perform a duet with an unusual partner – a pair of musical gloves that manipulate computerized sound to mimic the human voice. Hand gestures replicate the movements of real vocal chords, allowing the gloves to produce a complex range of sounds, though it takes about 100 hours to learn how to play [...]

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It may look like an ordinary USB memory stick, but a little gadget that can sequence DNA while plugged into your laptop could have far-reaching effects on medicine and genetic research.

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Two studies reporting what makes the H5N1 bird flu virus transmissible in mammals should be published fully, with no details left out, say flu experts meeting at the World Health Organization in Geneva. They say the benefits to public health outweigh the risks of bioterrorism, but they concede that publication should be delayed so scientists can [...]

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By Kevin DeAnna MSNBC’s loss is the conservative movement’s gain, as Pat Buchanan is ready to make his voice heard after being forced out from the liberal cable news network. On Friday night, Buchanan and British author Timothy Stanley spoke to an overflow crowd at Washington, D.C., bookstore “Politics and Prose” on Stanley’s new book, “The Crusader: [...]

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Editor’s note: There is an image in the lower part of this story that may be a concern for some viewers. Prominent pro-life advocate Bryan Kemper is questioning Facebook after it removed his pro-life message, a move that followed on the heels of the company’s decision to allow the posting of directions on how to perform [...]

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The American Life League, or ALL, has seen enough of Planned Parenthood’s materials for children to conclude the nation’s leading abortion provider is deliberately pushing kids toward sexual activity in order to drive up its business. ALL, which calls itself the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States, has produced a video report [...]

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The arguments still are raging over whether several provisions in a national defense appropriations act authorize warrantless detentions of American citizens who may be described by Washington as “belligerents,” but states aren’t waiting for any final determination. The Virginia House already has passed – overwhelmingly – a “bill to prevent any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member [...]

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Are Romneycare and Obamacare identical? A recently published article by former New York Lt. Gov. and Defend Your Healthcare president and founder Dr. Betsy McCaughey says yes. She says claims that the two plans were alike prompted her to examine them both closely. “The reason that I went to the Massachusetts Health Care Law of 2006 [...]

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Guess who’s been seen on YouTube some 8 million times… It’s not a politician and it’s not a celebrity. It’s not staged and it’s not rehearsed. Well, maybe a little bit. It’s not the super-rich and it’s not some horrible but eye-catching tragedy. It’s two seniors, and a piano. The Christian Institute in the United Kingdom identified the married couple [...]

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As her silver casket was carried out of the church where she first sang as a child, Whitney Houston’s unforgettable voice could be heard singing her greatest hit I Will Always Love You, reducing many mourners to tears, as the star made her final journey before being laid to rest. Whitney’s mother Cissy followed right behind [...]

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After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety, pedophile priests and rumors of plots to kill the Pope, the Vatican is now facing a new $780 million-a-year tax bill as Rome seeks to head off European Commission censure over controversial property tax breaks enjoyed by the Church.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Physicists stunned the world last year by announcing they’d seen signs that particles called neutrinos were traveling faster than light — a feat thought to be proven impossible by Einstein. Ever since, other researchers have been racing to try the experiment on their own to see if the findings hold up. Some [...]

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An ancient royal garden has come back into bloom in a way, as scientists have reconstructed what it would’ve looked like some 2,500 years ago in the kingdom of the biblical Judah. Their reconstruction, which relied on analyses of excavated pollen, reveals a paradise of exotic plants.

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama’s Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a “different theology.” A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using “political science” [...]

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A senior Iranian intelligence official says an estimated 16,000 computers were infected by the Stuxnet virus. The powerful virus targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities and other industrial sites in 2010, and Tehran has acknowledged the malicious software affected a limited number of centrifuges – a key component in nuclear fuel production. But Iran has said its scientists [...]

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Syrian security forces fired on a huge protest against President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Saturday, soon after a Chinese envoy had appealed for a halt to 11 months of violence, opposition activists said. The shooting took place at the funerals of three youths killed on Friday in an anti-Assad protest that was one of the [...]

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While saying for the first time publicly that he is gay, rising Republican star Sheriff Paul Babeu used a dramatic news conference on Saturday in Arizona to angrily deny allegations that had been leveled against him by an ex-boyfriend in a newspaper report a day earlier. “I’m here to say that all these allegations that were [...]

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Theories about the purpose of Stonehenge range from a secular calendar to a place of spiritual worship. Now, an archaeologist suggests that the Stonehenge monument in southern England may have been an attempt to mimic a sound-based illusion.

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Oprah Winfrey has said she can’t believe in the biblical God because the Bible calls Him “jealous”; and jealousy, she asserts, is a destructive emotion incompatible with her understanding of a loving God. I, on the other hand, have no problem with a “jealous” God for two reasons: First, I’ve actually studied what the Bible means [...]

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Barack Obama repeatedly has said he wants to have Americans work together, share the burden, “spread the wealth” and have everyone play by the same rules. But that apparently comes only after Americans are divided up, categorized and separated by race, ethnicity, even religion. The evidence comes from Obama himself, even though he once said, ” I [...]

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(POST MEDIA NEWS) — One of the world’s most influential medical journals is warning that normal human grief could soon be classified a mental illness and routinely treated with antidepressant drugs. The Lancet, in a lead editorial published Thursday, says a proposed revision to psychiatry’s official manual of mental disorders that would allow doctors to diagnose [...]

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It’s a question that’s plagued Barack Obama since his 2008 campaign, and it appears it will be making its presence felt during the 2012 race: “Where’s the REAL birth certificate?” The question has been appearing on billboards throughout Obama’s occupancy of the Oval Office, and now it is beckoning voters in Anniston, Ala., at 5500 McClellan [...]

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(USA TODAY) — Complaints that the New International Version of the Bible (NIV) is inaccurate and too gender-inclusive are not going to stop one of the world’s largest Christian resource producers from selling it. Nashville-based Lifeway Christian Resources voted unanimously to keep selling the NIV Bible, while making clear the company doesn’t endorse it. That translation was [...]

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By Dave Tombers Six people peacefully protested the Obama administration’s mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-producing drugs by kneeling in prayer in front of the White House, and they quickly were arrested and whisked away by U.S. Park police. “Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel [...]

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(ST. LOUIS DISPATCH TODAY) — Making methamphetamine also can make strange bedfellows, police said after federal charges revealed an alliance between what they describe as a white supremacist and a black inner-city gang member. The partnership blossomed when Richard Treis met an associate of Robert “Biz” Swinney’s at a halfway house in St. Louis, investigators said. Treis, [...]

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(AP) — A federal judge has ordered a central Missouri school district to stop using its Internet filtering software to restrict access to educational websites about gay, lesbian and transgender issues.

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It’s easy to look with hindsight on Germany in the 1930s and wonder how such a bright, well-educated, church-going population could be deceived by Adolf Hitler’s propaganda machine. But a new book released this month by WND Books and best-selling author Ray Comfort, “Hitler, God, and the Bible”, shows American society under an equally deadly cloud [...]

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PHOENIX, Ariz. – Arizona lawmakers apparently are afraid of little. In recent years they adopted a law cracking down on illegal aliens when the federal government wouldn’t and demanded that presidential candidates prove their eligibility, although that plan was later vetoed. Now they’re working on a bill to stop profanity by teachers in classrooms, and like [...]

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(CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER) — Ohio Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown was more than four months delinquent in paying taxes on his Washington, D.C., apartment and had to pay a penalty and interest last week. This was not the first time, records show.

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(DAILY MAIL) — They share the same piercing gaze, defined jawline and stern mouth set off with a clipped moustache. But the Frenchman who believed he was the secret son of Adolf Hitler was never able to prove his family line before he died. He wasn’t even sure he wanted to. Now new information has emerged that [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — An oil substitute made with ‘artificial leaf’ technology could power ships and planes, according to a leading British expert. Scientists have applied a new twist to the process of photosynthesis – the method plants use to harness the energy of sunlight. Instead of producing organic material from carbon dioxide, as plants do, they plan [...]

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A stunning ruling from the state Supreme Court in Alabama is suggesting that states simply “reject” the concept of pre-viability abortion-at-will that comes from Roe v. Wade until the U.S. Supreme Court overrules the precedent. In a powerful statement that appears to affirm the concept of the “personhood” movement, through which pro-life advocates seek to have [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — An illicit affair between a physical education teacher and her student was unearthed when the two were found allegedly having sex in the school bathroom of the teacher’s office. The athletic director of Basalt High School outside of Aspen, Colorado, reportedly found 26-year-old Lauren Redfern and one of her male students engaged in [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — An astronomer who has spent three decades hunting for the source of a transmission which is believed by many to be proof of alien life says it may have come from an interstellar ‘lighthouse’. Since 1982, Robert Gray has been on a quest to solve the puzzle of the ‘Wow! signal’, an enigmatic [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — Broke students seeking new ways to put themselves through college are finding success in a new website which matches sugar daddies or mommies with sugar babies. Men and women young and old are turning to website www.seekingarrangement.com to look for something sweet in their lives. People who join this site are usually seeking a [...]

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(ART DAILY) — A federal judge on Friday signed off on a Spanish government plan to begin moving a vast shipwreck treasure from Florida to Spain next week, culminating a five-year legal battle with the treasure hunters who found and raised it off the Portuguese coast. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Pizzo ordered Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — Christians who argue they should be exempt from equalities legislation are no different from Muslims who want to impose sharia law in Britain, a human rights chief has declared. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said religious rules should end ‘at the door of the temple’ and give way [...]

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(LIFENEWS) — No charges will be filed in connection with a national scandal involving the destruction of Planned Parenthood records during HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ time as governor of Kansas. The Obama official has come under heavy fire from pro-life groups who are pointing out how a state attorney general she appointed in Kansas destroyed documents [...]

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(GLOBAL POST) — An ancient mine believed to be the source of gold that belonged to the queen of Sheba has been uncovered by British archaeologist Louise Schofield. Schofield, an archaelogist and former British Museum curator, led the excavaction on the high Gheralta plateau in northern Ethiopia, reported The Guardian.

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(CNN) — Leaked documents meant to embarrass rivals reveal infighting during thee week new cardinals were installed.

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie followed through on his word Friday, vetoing a gay marriage bill passed by the state’s legislature a day earlier. “I am adhering to what I’ve said since this bill was first introduced – an issue of this magnitude and importance, which requires a constitutional amendment, should be [...]

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This past week, Iran proudly hailed its domestically produced nuclear fuel rods. That announcement combined with the attempted murders of Israeli diplomats in multiple countries and recent statements advocating the killing of all Jews has greatly intensified the standoff in the Middle East. “Israel must take firm and determined steps to defend the people of their [...]

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Three years ago, a newly minted President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill into law. He and his allies declared the plan would stave off another massive depression and that unemployment would get no higher than eight percent if it was enacted. Ever since, Republicans have cited the stimulus as a symbol of Obama’s big-government vision [...]

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Earlier this month, Facebook began the process of going public by valuing itself at $10 billion. As investors decide whether to buy a sliver of the social-media giant, the Capitol Steps examine how the site has changed so many lives. Our guest is Capitol Steps star and co-founder Elaina Newport.

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By Joseph Harris There are some great champions for conservatism on talk radio and the Internet, and true conservatives owe a debt of gratitude for their insight and encouragement. They have captivated the hearts of millions of listeners who highly esteem their words and wisdom. Their influence has made a difference in awakening multitudes from their [...]

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It has been said that the tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. A story is told of an artist who sculpted a beautiful angel and wanted the master artist, Michelangelo, to inspect it and give his opinion. So Michelangelo carefully looked at the [...]

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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ~ Justice Harry Blackmun, dissent “Callins v. Collins” (1994) President Obama’s naked frontal attack upon Christianity (not just the Catholic Church, but against all religious faiths) via his latest policy moves by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and their arrogant attempts [...]

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NASHVILLE – Shabot shalom, y’all! I am here in the country music capital of the world this weekend to be honored by one of my favorite organizations – Laurie Cardoza-Moore’s “Proclaiming Justice to the Nations,” a staunch antidote to the virulent mental illness known as anti-Semitism. It’s my great honor to receive the “Ed McAteer Tree of [...]

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A succession of high-profile left-wing decisions and initiatives of recent weeks drive home the extent to which the left is changing the face of America. Notable among these are the decision of a federal appeals court in California to uphold a prior court decision finding California’s Proposition 8, defining marriage as between a man and a [...]

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Given all the (justifiable) hoopla surrounding Obama’s “contraception edict,” I’m surprised I haven’t heard more discussion about the nature of contraceptives themselves. Both common sense and the English language conspire to give most people the impression that the word “contraceptive” has something to do with preventing conception. Unfortunately, the courts ruled (in the ’80s, I [...]

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Dear Mr. Buchanan: I’m steamed … and annoyed … and sad for you. What you’ve had to endure at the hands of these people. I read your piece here at WND and decided to dash off this email, hoping to encourage you in your fight against the injustice of what has happened to you recently. But the [...]

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Dear Mr. Buchanan: I wrote Phil Griffin to express my disgust with him and other NBC officers. Regrettably, your message of truth can be extinguished by left-wing wackos, homosexuals and the Rev. Al. (Have you seen his show? It’s awful.) Good luck to you. I have enjoyed reading your works and watching you on television. There is [...]

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With the disclaimer that neither do I agree with all of Richard Rives’ teachings, I am compelled to comment on Ted Wegener’s very tired, wholly discredited and utterly illogical attack on the biblical doctrines of the Trinity and the deity of Christ. He is in serious need of some new material. I hereby also request that [...]

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Mr. Farah, Thank you so much for having the integrity and courage to write and say what America needs to hear. I know that your strength comes from the Lord Jesus, as does mine. My wife and I moved to rural New York from California three years ago – can’t say that I miss the Left Coast. [...]

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(ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) — Thai police Friday said they are searching for two more suspects – including an explosives expert – as their inquiry into a botched bombing plot targeting Israeli diplomats expands. Police already have three Iranian nationals in custody. Two were arrested in Bangkok, while a third who fled Thailand was arrested by authorities [...]

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(REUTERS) — Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. “Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Thursday) following permission from the Egyptian armed forces,” a source in the canal authority said on Friday. The destroyer and a supply ship [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) — China, the United States and two dozen other countries are looking at coordinated retaliation — including measures to squeeze European airlines and other industries — if Europe tries to enforce a new law requiring airlines to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. China has banned its airlines, such as China Eastern, from [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) — Shakila, 8 at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about how their family had been dishonored and about how they had not been paid. It turns [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Facebook, following the lead of Twitter and Google+, is verifying user accounts and allowing for pseudonyms. But the verification and policy change on nicknames — Facebook has previously mandated that users use their legal names — won’t be available to the general public. Instead, verified accounts are by invitation only and, for [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Rachel Prieur and her brother Ryan were captivated by a radio commercial flooding the airwaves in Dallas. It offered children a shot at stardom — maybe even a part on a Disney show — and all they had to do was show up for an audition.

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(THE LOCAL, GERMANY) — A witchcraft trial is re-opening in Cologne on Monday in the hope that one woman will have her name cleared, centuries after being burned at the stake. It is thought around 25,000 women were sentenced to death for witchcraft down the centuries in Germany – including Cologne native Katharina Henot. She was [...]

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(AP) — A teacher’s role may be to expand a student’s vocabulary, but one Arizona lawmaker wants to make sure that doesn’t include four-letter words. A state legislator has introduced a bill that would punish public school teachers if they use words that violate the obscenity and profanity guidelines set forth by the Federal Communications Commission.

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(THE LOCAL, GERMANY) — A group of German and American scientists have discovered what they believe is the smallest chameleon in the world on the island nation of Madagascar. Researchers from Munich, Darmstadt and Braunschweig, as well as California, have named the 16 millimetre-long beast Brookesia micra – Brookesia is the name of the genus the [...]

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(CNS NEWS) — The U.S. Education Department under President George W. Bush issued a regulation on Oct. 23, 2008 effectively disqualifying clergy and religion instructors from a student-loan forgiveness program enacted to help people who had dedicated their lives to jobs in the service of others. The regulation has drawn some attention in recent days because [...]

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(REUTERS) — More than one in 10 U.S. children live with an alcoholic parent and are at increased risk of developing a host of health problems of their own, according to a new government study released on Thursday. Researchers at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) analyzed national survey data from 2005 through [...]

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(MSNBC) — An Ohio drugmaker began releasing limited supplies of a crucial medication to treat childhood leukemia Thursday, sending hospital pharmacists facing life-threatening shortages scrambling for their share. Jerrod Milton, chief of pharmacy at Children’s Hospital of Colorado, was among those first in line as Ben Venue Laboratories began accepting new orders for the drug methotrexate, [...]

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(GALLUP) — An analysis of more than 676,000 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index interviews conducted in 2011 and 2010 finds that Americans who are the most religious have the highest levels of wellbeing. The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables.

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(HOT AIR) — Today we, er, celebrate the third anniversary of the 2009 stimulus package’s presidential signature. When Barack Obama applied his signature, he promised that the $800 billion authorized to his administration by a Democratic Congress would allow him to keep unemployment under 8% and revamp the American economy for long-term prosperity and solid [...]

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(HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS) — A high-ranking state figure in President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has sent an email seeking negative information about Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, and some Pennsylvania Democrats are angry about it. Obama for America Pennsylvania Director Bill Hyers sent the email, which calls for state party activists to “make sure the rest of [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) — Police responded yesterday about 5:30 p.m. to the Wal-Mart in Exton, where shoppers reported an unadvertised — and unappreciated — special: a naked man on display. West Whiteland Township police located the 32-year-old suspect, Verdon L. Taylor, inside the store, wearing only a pair of allegedly stolen socks. The 6-foot-4, 300-pound Downingtown resident [...]

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He’s eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into the woods. Investigators have clawed for clues, scouring cabins for fingerprints that match no one and chasing [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS) — Tykirk Harris and his girlfriend were well-known on their bustling Tacony block as lousy neighbors. They hogged parking spaces. They took their time in silencing their frequently tripped car alarms. They let their two dogs run outside unleashed, biting and barking at passers-by and leaving piles of poo polka-dotting neighbors’ yards. The couple’s [...]

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(AP) — Is James Peters one trigger-happy cop? Or just an aggressive police officer who happens to find himself in more than the usual number of explosive situations?Those are the questions police in Scottsdale are fielding after Peters was involved in his sixth deadly shooting over the past decade in the sprawling Phoenix suburb of [...]

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(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES) — Robert George said the ice has been thin this mild winter on the pond near his house off Third Lake, where children are normally able to skate and play hockey in a normal February. But on Thursday, that ice gave way when four young people ventured out, and George was among the Mariner’s [...]

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(MSNBC) — A new United Airlines fee set to take effect next month would dramatically increase the cost of shipping a pet home from Japan and surrounding areas to the United States — to as much as $3,900 for large animals — and may especially affect members of the military transferred under orders. The rule will [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — An elementary school teacher has been jailed for 40 years for having sex with a 14-year-old student. Shannon Alicia Schmieder, 39, was told she will have to serve 20 years – by far the toughest sentence ever handed out by a U.S. court to an educator accused of underage sex. Legal experts said the [...]

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(ALTERNET.ORG) — Despite some misguided triumphalism on the Right, America is not getting more conservative. In fact, if you look at lots of public opinion polls, you’ll find that just the opposite is true—Americans’ views on the most pressing issues of the day are actually solidly progressive, with strong support for the social safety [...]

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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6

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Drives away suitor. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A college freshman co-ed returned to her dorm one evening. Her roommate asked, [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Authorities have arrested a man allegedly on his way to the U.S. Capitol for what he thought would be a suicide attack on one of the nation’s most symbolic landmarks, Fox News has learned exclusively. The man, in his 30s and of Moroccan descent, was nabbed following a lengthy investigation by the FBI, [...]

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(AMERICANTHINKER) — Would Jack Abramoff be depicted as the arch-villain portrayed in the media if he were a Democrat? Maybe, but having the Washington Post latch onto you means you are not one of them. Abramoff was certainly not. He made his way as the new breed of conservative activists in college at Brandeis as a [...]

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(REUTERS) — Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes. The operation, co-ordinated by prosecutors from the southern Italian city of Potenza, was carried out by Italian and Swiss authorities after [...]

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(NATIONAL REVIEW) — he most evil thing about the Obama administration’s recent violation of the separation of church and state is its deceptiveness. With his order requiring inclusion of contraception and abortifacient drugs in insurance coverage, the president is smuggling the hidden premises of NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and other supporters of abortion into U.S. [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — When social conservatives were fighting to stop funding the National Endowment for the Arts in the 1990s, Rick Santorum was in Congress voting to preserve taxpayer funding — pitting him against many of the high-profile culture warriors with whom he is now most identified. NEA funding became a hot-button issue during the first [...]

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Within just a few weeks in 2009, Jenny Beth Martin went from losing her home to foreclosure and cleaning bathrooms to pay the bills to becoming one the key leaders of the grassroots tea-party movement. Martin tells us why she and her husband did not want to be part of big government programs that may have [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has begun discussing whether to attack Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and try to define him for a general-election audience, potentially breaking from its focus on Mitt Romney. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has gained ground in the GOP race, addresses the Detroit Economic Club Thursday. Obama [...]

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Rush Limbaugh Limbaugh asked this week, “Why are Democrats so determined to make birth control ‘free’?” He suggested that deep down, Democrats are disgusted by pregnancy and children (FREE audio): “Could it be that Democrats fear kids? I mean they are aborting their own people. The vast majority of people having abortions are Democrat voters.” “First they came [...]

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(AP) CRANSTON, R.I. –  A Rhode Island public school district committee on Thursday voted not to appeal a federal court decision ordering the removal of a prayer banner displayed in a high school in a lawsuit brought on behalf of a 16-year-old atheist. The Cranston School Committee voted 5-2 at a public hearing to discuss the [...]

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(AP) NEW YORK –  A federal judge cleared the way Thursday for a tiny Bronx church to continue meeting for religious services at a New York City public school despite an appeals court ruling upholding the city’s ban on use of the schools for worship services. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska on a [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — As they signed off on the payroll tax cut this week, lawmakers said nobody was a clear winner, but there was an undeniable loser: the federal deficit, which will be more than $100 billion deeper in the red this year thanks to the deal. It’s just the latest time that a bipartisan deal [...]

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(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) — San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, one of the Democratic Party’s most generous benefactors, is keeping her checkbook closed when President Obama holds high-priced California fundraisers this week. “I want to look him in the eye and say, ‘Thank you so much’ ” for his work, said Buell, who expresses deep disappointment [...]

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Mr. Norris, I suffer from chronic headaches. I’ve been to every specialist under the sun, and still they remain. I’ve done some reading on foods and headaches, but not much. Can things I eat head off headaches at the pass? – Mrs. S.D. Andrews, Martinez, Calif. There are two major types of headaches. The first is [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) –  In a major embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Christian Wulff resigned Friday after weeks of a brewing scandal over favors he allegedly received as an elected official before becoming the country’s head of state. Wulff, 52, acknowledged in a terse statement in Berlin that the controversy surrounding him had sapped [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — A confrontation between federal law enforcement agents erupted in gunfire Thursday evening in Long Beach, leaving one dead and another seriously injured, authorities said. The incident was sparked by an unspecified dispute between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building near the city’s oceanfront, according to law [...]

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The Rutherford Institute is expanding its fight against the federal government’s American Community Survey, a list of privacy-invading questions sent to some 3 million homes every year with instructions that answers must be provided under penalty of law. The questions ask for details about mortgages, marital histories, bathing habits, utility costs, telephone numbers and other personal [...]

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A Washington Post columnist to which Media Matters reportedly pushed its content has a previously undisclosed connection to President Obama – the two were part of a small group at Harvard University that met for three years purportedly to promote involvement with U.S. community institutions. Participants at the research project, which took place between 1997 and [...]

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As House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., moved closer to beginning a contempt-of-Congress process against Attorney General Eric Holder, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, reaffirmed his strong support of the investigation of the Department of Justice gun-tracing operation known as “Fast and Furious.” Issa spokesman Michael Steel rebuffed rumors that circulated during the [...]

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The investigation into the Gunwalker scandal code-named “Fast & Furious”has passed the one-year mark. During that time Congressional investigators have put barely a chip in the stone wall established by Eric Holder and his Justice Department. So far, fewer than 20 percent of the documents requested by congressional investigators have been produced by the DOJ. [...]

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By Jack Minor Parents in a Florida school district say their fight is not ending over district officials’ decision to openly promote a representative from the local Council on American-Islamic Relations group, whose national organization has ties to terrorism, to speak to their students and then refuse to listen to parental concerns. It was this week during [...]

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The dispute over Israel’s place in modern Christianity is “inside” the faith, pitting those who hold a more traditional stance that Jews are God’s chosen people and are accorded a position of significance against more progressive interests who accuse Israel of “occupying” Palestine and persecuting its Arab neighbors. Now one Christian ministry leader says she has [...]

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A state Superior Court in Georgia is being asked to review and overturn Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s decision, based on a recommendation from an administrative law judge, that Barack Obama’s name be on the state’s 2012 primary ballot. The appeal to the higher court says the recommendation from the administrative law judge, Michael Malihi, was [...]

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Barack Obama’s advisers may be saying that he won’t make any more changes in his Obamacare provision requiring contraception to be covered by health insurance policies – but what actually happens may depend on the outcome of a federal court lawsuit that targets the mandate. The legal challenge to Obama’s plans was filed by the American [...]

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By Addison Wiggin BALTIMORE, Md. – There’s talk of a halo effect from the pending IPO of Facebook. Talk about “riding on a smile and a shoeshine,” to borrow from Death of a Salesman. “You have 500 million people,” we wrote 13 months ago, the last time we deemed Facebook worthy of our attention, “playing Farmville and Mafia [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – With Europe going through an [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Although the United States seeks [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – As G2Bulletin has reported, India [...]

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(CHICAGO TRIBUNE) — An attorney challenging President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law before the U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday that Congress could require Americans to buy a car or other product if people were compelled to obtain medical insurance. But a former Obama administration attorney dismissed those concerns, calling them “absurd hypotheticals,” and defended the [...]

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(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) — President Barack Obama made a surprise lunch stop today in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Obama, wearing rolled up sleeves and no jacket, stopped by the Great Eastern Restaurant at 649 Jackson St. to pick up his take-out order, according to the White House Press Pool report. Unsuspecting patrons squealed in delight when Obama arrived [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Rep. Maxine Waters, no stranger to controversy, is turning heads once again, this time for describing House Republican leaders as “demons.” The California Democrat’s comments, which surfaced Wednesday, were made last weekend at a state party convention in San Diego. Video of her speech shows her rallying Democrats to win back control of [...]

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(MSNBC) — Dolly Parton stands to make a fortune following Whitney Houston’s untimely death. The country recording artist is the sole writer of one of Houston’s biggest hits, “I Will Always Love You,” which will likely bring in millions of dollars from royalties due to a surge in record sales. The late pop star’s musical catalog [...]

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(WLWT-TV, Cincinnati) — Police arrested a Harrison man accused of stealing items – including human remains – from a mortuary chapel where he worked. Officers said 26-year-old Alan Smith stole downspouts, an air conditioner, copper wiring and about 20 bronze urns Thursday from Hillside Chapel in Clifton. “What’s the sickest you’ve ever been, and your stomach is [...]

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Galatians 5:22

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Surprise. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: The truck driver looked suspiciously at the soup he had just been served in a [...]

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My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous. The calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. [...]

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(MEDIAITE) — Faithful America — an activist organization that seeks to address “pressing moral issues of our time” — is petitioning MSNBC to take Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, off the air. Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson personally delivered a petition with 20,000 signatures to the cable news network. The petition states: “The Family [...]

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(MEDIAITE) — Sarah Palin was the first guest on the first episode of Follow the Money, so it seemed natural for Eric Bolling to bring Palin back for his final show. In an extensive interview that began with Bolling asking Palin to explain how her life has changed since becoming Sen. John McCain‘s running mate [...]

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President Obama released his budget blueprint this week to typical reviews. Republicans called it more deficit spending and another attempt to soak the rich. Obama and his supporters say the plan institutes greater fairness into the system and advances the economic recovery Obama claims is taking place. Obama also got a win this week when Congressional [...]

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(KBAK-TV, Bakersfield) — An Oildale man accused of animal abuse is being held on a charge that specifically bans eating any animal commonly kept as a pet. As Eyewitness News first reported Monday, 35-year-old Jason Wilmert was arrested on two charges. One count is animal cruelty. The other is “animals commonly kept as pets or companions; [...]

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(CBS NEWS) — Who doesn’t love that factory fresh “new car smell”? It’s so well-liked that air fresheners and sprays have been produced in attempts to reclaim the odor. But according to a new study from the nonprofit Ecology Center and HealthyStuff.org, what you might actually be sniffing are toxic fumes from chemicals used to create [...]

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(WLWT-TV, Cincinnati) — An eastern Kentucky man is facing charges after being found in a grocery store covered in chocolate, peanut butter and little else. Kentucky State Trooper D. B. White said a manager of the Food World IGA in Neon arrived at work last week to find 22-year-old Andrew Allen Michael Toothman wearing only the [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The Department of Homeland Security monitors social media websites such as Twitter for breaking news of major disasters or other events, but generally doesn’t collect information about the people who post on them, officials said Thursday. “It’s the what, not the who, that we are concerned with,” Mary Ellen Callahan, Homeland Security’s chief [...]

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(WLWT-TV, Cincinnati) — A Hamilton County woman is accused of trying to kill a man who didn’t buy her a Valentine’s Day present. A report from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office states Kierra Reed, 22, got into an argument with Henry Brown at a Walden Glen Court apartment late Tuesday and began hitting and scratching him.

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This is a followup to Sowell’s column “The Progressive era’s legacy.” “Often wrong but never in doubt” is a phrase that summarizes much of what was done by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the two giants of the Progressive era, a century ago. Their legacy is very much alive today, both in their mindset – including [...]

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Headline from the Detroit Free Press website: “New Polls Show Rick Santorum Leading Mitt Romney in Michigan Primary Race.” That’s the welcome Romney received when he returned to campaign in his home state. The Free Press reports that an MRG Michigan Poll, conducted with Lansing-based Inside Michigan Politics, “showed Santorum up 43 percent-33 percent on Romney.” [...]

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Last week in Los Angeles, a twisted teacher accused of sexually abusing elementary school students was stuck in jail, where he’ll be for the foreseeable future. A Los Angeles County judge jacked his bail to $23 million from the initial $2.3 million at the request of prosecutors. Apparently, this judge understands that justice is [...]

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(AIM.ORG) — Fox News has aired several interviews with Daily Caller editors and reporters on the influence of Media Matters, the Soros-funded left-wing attack machine. A series of articles in The Daily Caller sheds new light on the operations of the group, which masquerades as a non-profit but has partisan political ties to the [...]

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A federal judge has suggested that churches in New York have a solid argument under the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses of the United States Constitution to be allowed to rent public school facilities like other organizations, and she has issued a temporary restraining order allowing that to continue for another 10 days. “Churches help communities; [...]

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One of the single largest donors to the embattled Media Matters for America is a controversial far-left clearinghouse that funds groups such as MoveOn.org, ACORN and a litany of anti-war organizations, WND has learned. The organization in question, the Tides Foundation, is funded in part by billionaire George Soros, himself a prominent Media Matters donor. Tides functions [...]

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(KDVR) — GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Grand Junction High School student is dropping out of choir rather than sing an Islamic song he says goes against his strong Christian beliefs. The song is “Zikr,” and was written by internationally acclaimed composer A.R. Rahman. Rahman won an Oscar and a Grammy for his songs in Slum Dog [...]

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Veteran South Florida lawyer Peter Feaman was listening to a pastor speak about the Quran at a Rotary Club meeting more than six years ago when his world was rattled. “The presentation was so negative,” Feaman told WND, “that I didn’t believe him.” “I had been told that Islam was a religion of peace, by our president [...]

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WASHINGTON – Two-time No. 1 New York Times best-seller Jerome Corsi explores the connection between Barack Obama and the radicalism of Saul Alinsky in a new e-book released in advance of the 2012 presidential election. “Saul Alinsky: The Evil Genius Behind Obama,” by the WND senior staff writer, is available for immediate download now from the [...]

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WASHINGTON – Do you remember when America celebrated George Washington’s birthday and Abraham Lincoln’s? Now America marks Presidents Day – which leaves some not so sure there’s a lot to celebrate. But the WND Superstore has the intellectual antidote. While the rest of America is shopping on Presidents Day, you can be brushing up on the eternal values [...]

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Obamacare, Barack Obama’s signature health-care takeover plan, would override any “religious, moral, or practice scruples” held by Americans in what a legal brief is describing as a “forcible economic rape.” The brief has been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, which is to consider the constitutionality of the administration’s demands that consumers buy government-picked health care [...]

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By F. Michael Maloof WASHINGTON – Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta believes that Israel could attack Iran in an April-to-June timeframe, and there apparently has been a decision made for the U.S. to help in an assault on the radical Islamic nation’s nuclear facilities. U.S. military sources tell WND that the Pentagon has begun preparations for “a [...]

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For the second time in just months, an attempt to assemble information such as names and addresses on all homeschool students in one Mississippi judicial district and provide those details to judges has been defeated. The latest attempt came in the form of a legislative proposal that would have added to each school attendance officer’s obligations [...]

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A district in Missouri has decided to allow images of zombies on its school walls but not posters promoting the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, which focuses on the abortions inflicted on American girls and women daily. In response, a lawsuit that has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, southern [...]

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An organization that reportedly received a grant from the lobbying arm of the embattled Media Matters for America helped the White House to craft and market Obamacare, according to a recently released book. Yesterday, as part of an in-depth investigative series on Media Matters, the Daily Caller revealed that the progressive media organization gave away $125,000 [...]

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After the “Climategate” scandal – revealing data manipulation and fraud by top global warming proponents – many climate change skeptics trumpeted victory, assuming perhaps that efforts to pass radical environmental taxes and regulations had lost their steam. But not U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. Warning that President Obama and his allies in Congress are still determined to [...]

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Current renditions of Jesus in art range from the cloyingly sentimental to glaringly hostile, but at least he’s still in the A-list as the world’s most famous celebrity. With thousands of distractions vying for our attention and time, artists have taken to vulgarity, shock and occasionally awe in portraying Jesus for widely varying motives. Last fall [...]

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Making fraudulent loans to corporate accounts that existed in name only was a key part of an alleged money-laundering scheme by the global bank HSBC, according to a whistleblower who has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of evidence. The evidence includes customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through which the financial institution was [...]

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By William J. Murray The mandate drafted under Obamacare which forces church organizations to purchase health-care policies that provide for contraceptives and sterilization and abortifacient pills is just one small step toward Barack Obama’s hard-left goal of establishing a centrally planned society. The effect of the health-care mandates is more far-reaching than even critics first reported. Under [...]

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Whitney Houston died at the age of 48. Most articles about her death said something like, “Houston struggled with drug and alcohol problems for years. …” But Houston also struggled with something else black Republicans and black non-Democrats can understand: ridicule and ostracism for “selling out,” or “acting white,” or not being “black enough.” Ebony, the [...]

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As we know, it is liberals’ proclivity for projection that compels black liberals to deride conservatives of color as sellouts, Uncle Toms and things of this nature, when it is they who are acceding to the dominion of progressive overlords and advancing that cause. Among the progressive overlords are factions that not only are conspiring [...]

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It’s not hard to see why Greece is one of the favored models the elitists on this side of the pond have chosen for America. Massive public employment. Early retirement. Generous pensions. Beautiful vacation villas. And ruins from the ancient seat of democracy. And did we mention – plenty of graft and corruption so the elitists [...]

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On Super Bowl Sunday, conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart joined the Tucker Carlson crew for a fabulous weather-dinner with retired terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. It was a memorable evening. In his CPAC speech last weekend, Breitbart called Ayers “The best damn cook I ever experienced.” He added, “There is zero chance that this incredible chef [...]

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Twenty years ago, Vice President Dan Quayle stepped on a liberal land mine by stating the obvious: The (then) extremely popular television show “Murphy Brown” was sending the wrong message to teenage girls about single motherhood. Murphy Brown was doing quite well. She made single motherhood look glamours and easy, but most single [...]

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The debate over Obama’s attempt to order religious organizations and insurance companies to offer specific coverage has until now centered on a threat to religious freedom. Most of this debate completely misses the philosophical and political issue we should be arguing, namely: What part of the United States Constitution mandates that citizens pay, through [...]

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When the federal government was created, those who risked their lives and their fortunes and their scared honors to secede from England were animated by recent events. The government did not come into existence in a vacuum. Rather, those who led the Revolutionary War joined those who fought and financed it to create a central [...]

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Otherwise dependable conservatives appear to be losing their minds in their zeal to vanquish the media-created first family from the White House. Ann Coulter, a one-time paragon of hard-core conservatism, has confirmed a growing suspicion that she possesses a latent liberal streak. By endorsing and singing the praises of Mitt-the-Flip, her open affection [...]

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I don’t how to say this more simply and emphatically: Conservatives need to stop listening to liberals. There are many liberals around these days who masquerade as conservatives and offer advice to make conservatism more relevant, more hip, more acceptable in polite company, more mainstream and, of course, ultimately, less conservative. This Fox News column by Margaret [...]

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So, who is really responsible for Jerome Corsi being fired for exposing the globalist money laundering scheme? ["Investment firm fires WND reporter for exposing scandal"] Of course it is the globalists that control the U.S. economy. You most likely will never hear their names or know exactly who these people are because of their neatly deceptive [...]

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Why are you a bigot? Anyone who would vote for a Republican must be absolutely nuts! They only care about money, money and more money; they do not care one bit about anything or anyone. President Obama cares about what happens to our country. You are un-American. President Obama is intelligent and caring. I can see [...]

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There are “sanctuary cities” that stand in defiance to federal immigration law. States, counties and cities pass laws to allow the cultivation, distribution and use of marijuana. If local governments are willing to stand up to the federal government on these matters, then why not stand up against federal laws or regulations that impede job [...]

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Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. Colossians 3:23

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Idea? Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: It was a terrible night, blowing cold and rain in a most frightful manner. The [...]

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One of the main reasons President Obama gave for enacting an individual mandate in the new health care laws was to shield responsible citizens from indirectly paying for huge medical bills piled up by the uninsured. But the Galen Institute and several other public policy firms have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court explaining [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — The investigation into payments by Rupert Murdoch’s Sun journalists to police and other officials is looking into “suspected criminality over a sustained period of time” involving tens of thousands of pounds, it can be disclosed. Police have arrested nine former and current senior Sun staff in recent weeks in an investigation looking into payments [...]

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President Obama is once again embracing his 2008 campaign policy of unilaterally reducing America’s nuclear arsenal by 80 percent. This stance conflicts with his stated goals in the 2010 START agreement with Russia, which calls for smaller reductions in nuclear weapons and modernizing our stockpile to ensure reliability. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is a member of [...]

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One theory for why Barack Obama pushed the contraception mandate right now is that it helps Rick Santorum. Others theorize it’s because Obama is an anti-religious bigot with a left-wing agenda. Reasonable minds can disagree on this. But it may end up helping Mitt Romney by reminding people that the “individual mandate” is the least of [...]

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(NEWS.YAHOO) — President Barack Obama launched his latest cross-country trawl for campaign cash Wednesday and an effort to highlight the rebounding economy at an auspicious moment — as his approval rating hit 50 percent. A New York Times/CBS News poll published on Wednesday provided the latest evidence that strengthening jobs growth and a quickening recovery are [...]

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(COMMONDREAMS.ORG) — The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich. For example, the rich can buy caviar and Champagne, but the Triple-R Rich can buy entire presidential campaigns. Take Sheldon Adelson, the moneybags who’s pumped $11 million so far into Newt Gingrich’s right-wing run. [...]

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(CENTREDAILY) — JERUSALEM — He’s considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Sir Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian who applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture, Hebrew and Jewish mysticism. Now Israel’s national library, an unlikely owner of a vast trove of Newton’s writings, has digitized his [...]

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(MSNBC.MSN) — General Motors Co said on Wednesday it will end traditional defined benefit pension plans for its U.S. white-collar employees, seen as consistent with its goal of lowering pension risk for investors. The move comes the day before GM reports fourth-quarter earnings, which are expected to show the weakest profit since the No. 1 U.S. [...]

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(NEW JERSEY STAR-LEDGER) Gov. Chris Christie plans to sign an executive order requesting flags on public buildings in New Jersey to fly at half-staff on the day of Jersey native Whitney Houston’s funeral. “Whitney Houston was an important part of the cultural fabric of this state,” Christie said during a press briefing today. “She was a [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — LOS ANGELES — The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius. All he did, after all, was enroll in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los Angeles Community College at age 9, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point [...]

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(THE HILL) — Republicans are demanding an apology Wednesday from President Obama’s campaign manager after a tweet that they argue was insulting toward Latino Americans. Jim Messina, who is helming the president’s reelection effort, tweeted a line from a column written by The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank, in which he argues that Republicans will struggle to [...]

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(TCPALM) — Martin County Sheriff Robert Crowder will step into the ring against U.S. Rep. Allen West as the hometown Republican candidate for a new proposed Treasure Coast-centric congressional seat. Crowder announced Tuesday he will compete in the August Republican primary against West, a national conservative tea party icon from Plantation. The winner of that GOP [...]

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(LATIMES) — McDonald’s Corp. says it wants its pork suppliers to start treating pregnant pigs better. The fast-food giant said Monday that it is requiring suppliers to provide plans by May to phase out stalls like the one in the photo above that restrict the movement of pregnant pigs. It made the announcement in a joint [...]

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(WASHINGTONTIMES) — If some Arizona lawmakers get their way, George Carlin’s “Seven Words” routine could be updated — “Seven Words You Can’t Say in School.” About a half-dozen Republican state senators want to crack down on classroom cursing — only, it’s not the students who are the targets. And it’s TV that sets the rules. Under legislation [...]

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(RASMUSSEN REPORTS) — Follow the bouncing ball. Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has now bounced to a 12-point lead over Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters finds Santorum with 39% support to the former Massachusetts governor’s 27%. Former House Speaker [...]

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(VISION FORUM) — America has become a nation of barbarians. For more than a decade, women representing the U.S. armed forces have been dying in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have reported on this fact numerous times at Vision Forum, previously highlighting a 2004 front page New York Times article which featured a gruesome cover [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, by far the biggest financial backer of Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid, is preparing to open his wallet again. But this time, the casino magnate appears to have more than one agenda. Sheldon Adelson, shown last year, is ready to use his cash to push Rick Santorum from his position [...]

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(SFGATE) — An Antioch man at home with his young son disarmed an 18-year-old man who kicked in his front door and shot him dead with his own gun, the second time in three months that a resident in the city has fought back with deadly results, police said Tuesday. The latest incident happened about 8:20 [...]

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(SUN-SENTINEL) — Even a frequent flier can be unnerved while going through an airport security checkpoint. As experienced traveler Gloria de Regalado gathered up her coat, boots, carry-on bag, purse and laptop bag after being screened at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last month, she forgot valuables that mattered even more. Security video shows the 43-year-old mother of [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — A United Nations delegate from Libya’s newly formed government told a human rights panel that gays and other groups threaten “reproduction of the human race,” drawing a stern rebuke from leaders of the international body. The remarks, reported by Geneva-based U.N. Watch, came just months after the North African nation’s membership was restored [...]

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(LATIMES) — President Obama greeted the Chinese heir apparent in the Oval Office on Tuesday morning, a venue where the U.S. president usually receives only the nation’s closest friends. But even as the two countries eye one another warily, the Obama administration wants to keep its options open with Vice President Xi Jinping as he prepares [...]

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(POLITICO) — Sarah Palin on Wednesday punted when asked if Mitt Romney is conservative, saying the answer is “subjective” as she hinted at the presidential candidate’s previous “flip flop.” “You know, that’s subjective,” Palin said on the set of “Fox & Friends” when asked if she believes Romney is conservative enough. “A lot of this has [...]

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(MIAMI HERALD) — WASHINGTON — Tina Fey’s red suit, flag pin and eyeglasses worn to channel her Sarah Palin parodies of the 2008 presidential race are going on view at the Newseum, along with items from journalists and candidates who made history in presidential politics. A new exhibit, “Every Four Years: Presidential Campaigns and the Press,” [...]

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(WASHINGTONTIMES) — Social Security’s bank account will go bust in 2022 — the first time the program’s combined trust funds will run a deficit, according to President Obama’s budget released Monday. One of Medicare’s trust funds also will be in the red for much of the next decade, according to the numbers in the briefing book [...]

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(REALCLEARPOLITICS) — In an interview with Atlanta’s local Fox affiliate WAGA-TV President Obama explains why he was unable to cut the deficit in half in his first term, a promise he made as a candidate. Obama was lobbed the question by a sympathetic reporter who said he is getting “pelted in the media” for making a [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — Their ranks have thinned over the past three years, but a renewed sense of optimism has appeared in the showrooms of the nation’s battered car dealers. Even as President Obama has taken to touting the rebound of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC after the 2008-09 taxpayer bailouts, the dealers who sell [...]

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(PALM BEACH POST) — TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature is on course for another culture wars fight, after a House panel approved a measure Monday that could authorize student-led prayer in elementary, middle- and high schools. The legislation (CS/SB 98) already has cleared the usually more moderate Senate. But the House Education Committee divided sharply along [...]

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(WASHINGTONPOST) — New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin’s underdog story and outspoken evangelical faith have some sportswriters dubbing him the “Taiwanese Tebow.” But while Lin and Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow share similar Christian convictions, Lin’s rise to stardom is even more miraculous. Just a few weeks ago, the Harvard University graduate was buried on the bench [...]

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — Beware of lipstick-stained lips before puckering up this Valentine’s Day. They could be covered in lead. Reuters first reported that a new study conducted by the FDA found that 400 lipsticks on the market tested positive for lead, according to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition that advocates for safer cosmetics and hygiene [...]

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(FOXNEWS) — Disrupted sleep was linked to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s in a new study by US scientists. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that the brains of people with poor sleep patterns have a greater build-up of amyloid plaque — clumps of protein that are a key marker [...]

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(SFGATE) — Vandals ruined a new auditorium at a Richmond elementary school Sunday, causing close to $1 million in damage, police said. The perpetrators broke into the new Nystrom Elementary School building in the afternoon, said Richmond police Lt. Bisa French. They flooded the auditorium floor, splattered paint over almost every surface and broke all the [...]

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(WASHINGTONTIMES) — A little-noticed proposed change in Internal Revenue Service regulations could have devastating effects for charter school teachers by making them ineligible for state retirement plans, and they could stand to lose much of the money that they already have accrued. The proposed rule, released with little fanfare near the end of last year, would [...]

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(AP) WASHINGTON –  The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, The Associated Press has learned. Even the most modest option now under consideration would be a historic and politically bold disarmament step in a [...]

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Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich encouraged California attorney Orly Taitz to continue her campaign to question Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility to hold office in a Southern California campaign appearance. Taitz, who has filed several lawsuits aimed at securing Obama’s certified birth certificate and introducing evidence of his ineligibility for office, rose to her feet to address Gingrich [...]

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TEHRAN (AP) — Iran claimed Wednesday that it has taken two major steps toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear program. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad oversaw the insertion of the first Iranian domestically-made fuel rod into a research reactor in northern Tehran, the [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — Navy secretary Ray Mabus, under fire from Congress and veterans for naming ships after fellow Democrats and social activists, plans to announce another round of ship names in the near future that will be more traditional, a Pentagon official tells The Washington Times. The official said Mr. Mabus has chosen names for five [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Simon Wiesenthal’s parents should not have been posthumously baptized, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acknowledged. And on Monday, an official with the church apologized. The uproar began last week when it was discovered that a member of the Mormon Church had submitted for posthumous baptism the names of [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) — In the split second after the blast, Lance Cpl. Cody Perkins thought he was still sitting in his unit’s Humvee, enveloped in blinding dust kicked up by the roadside bomb. It was only when he slammed with shattering force onto the pavement that the 20-year-old U.S. Marine realized he’d been ejected [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) — A 27-year-old man was arrested this morning and charged with shooting and killing a neighbor over dog droppings Tuesday afternoon in Tacony. Police said Tyrirk Harris fired his 9mm pistol at least six times, killing Franklin Manuel Santana, 47. Both men lived just doors apart on the 6500 block of Torresdale Avenue. Neighbors said Harris [...]

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(MSNBC) — Mounting shortages of crucial drugs are creating a new dilemma for the nation’s hospital pharmacists, who say they find themselves caught between following government rules for storage and safety — or throwing away vital and lifesaving medications. At one hospital in Florida, officials acknowledge they’ve discarded the scarce cancer drug doxorubicin, even as patients [...]

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(MSNBC) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A massive fire swept through a prison in Honduras and killed close to 360 people, including many inmates trapped inside their cells, officials said on Wednesday. Reuters reported that the attorney general’s office said at least 357 people died in the blaze that began late on Tuesday night at the prison in [...]

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(AP) — The Obama administration is weighing options for sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a reduction of up to 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons, The Associated Press has learned. Even the most modest option now under consideration would be an historic and politically bold disarmament step in a presidential [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — It’s been the backdrop for famous romances like that in Sleepless of Seattle, but the Empire State Building saw another historic romance this Valentine’s Day. Two women who met at the University of Alaska have become the first same-sex couple to be married at the Empire State Building after winning a competition by celebrity [...]

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A spokesman for the school board in Montgomery County, Md., says the slurs against a minority group by the superintendent are not an “issue.” That’s after Supt. Joshua Starr told students that a flyer sent home by an advocacy organization supporting those who have chosen to leave the homosexual lifestyle contained information that was “really, really [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Moscow has warned against Western [...]

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HOLLYWOOD – In what may appear to be an extraordinary twist, nearly 50 movie stars and film producers gathered to celebrate faith, family and inspirational films at the Hollywood awards show often hailed as the “Christian Oscars.” WND was on the scene last weekend as Movieguide hosted its 20th Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala and [...]

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And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 28: 2

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Falls flat. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: An eager salesman was trying to have a country storekeeper carry his product, and [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Egypt’s Supreme Council of the [...]

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By Bill Bonner BALTIMORE – We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past few months. Not much action in the markets of late, so let’s stop here and take stock. What we know so far… First, it was clear from the get-go that there was a bubble in finance and housing. The only people who couldn’t see [...]

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For the past several months, House Republicans have insisted that any extension of existing payroll-tax rates be offset with spending cuts to keep the program deficit-neutral. This week, GOP leaders changed that position and will now allow the tax rates to continue and add to the deficit. In exchange, Republicans are now trying to reduce the [...]

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A ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given a student at Valdosta State University in Georgia permission to go to court with his civil-rights claim and seek damages from former school president Ronald Zaccari personally. The ruling affirmed a judgment from the district court in the case brought by student Thomas [...]

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By Jerry McGlothlin This video is based on Joseph Farah’s column “Why I turned down spot on ‘The Daily Show.’”

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A Massachusetts judge has dismissed allegations by police officers in the town of Franklin of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest against a man carrying a pro-life message after determining authorities’ stories were “nonsense.” “It [the police report] says that if he did not produce an ID he was going to be placed under arrest for [...]

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We just returned from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. Every year it showcases the latest ideas and initiatives of the conservative movement. This year a new effort caught my eye because it has the potential to radically transform America. The campaign has been dubbed the “No More Red Ink Campaign,” by its strategic [...]

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Former Bill Clinton presidential adviser Dick Morris accused ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos of being a “paid Democratic hitman.” In a segment on the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” program, Morris further contended Stephanopoulos was “under orders” to question Republican presidential front-runner Gov. Mitt Romney about contraception during the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire last month [...]

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The Philadelphia Inquirer’s big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school police officers. Over the years, there’s been no discussion of what has happened to our youth that makes a school police force necessary in the first place. The [...]

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President Obama said in his State of the Union speech, “We’ve already agreed to more than $2 trillion in cuts and savings.” That was reassuring. The new budget he released this week promises $4 trillion in “deficit reduction” – about half in tax increases and half in spending cuts. But like most politicians, Obama misleads. Cato Institute [...]

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A few years ago, the folks on Martha’s Vineyard, a favorite Massachusetts island getaway for New England liberals, were under siege by a wild turkey named Tom. Unlike most turkeys who can be scared off by waving your hands or shouting at them, Tom enjoyed nothing better than attacking people. Shouting and waving [...]

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On Friday, President Obama offered an “accommodation” to a new Health and Human Services rule mandating contraception coverage for women at no cost. Obama will now allow religious institutions to reject paying for coverage they consider in violation of their beliefs.  Insurance companies will now pay those bills. “The mandate covers anything the FDA calls a [...]

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CPAC 2012 was last weekend. For the fourth year in a row, I did what the Conservative Political Action Conference refuses to do: Cover the central issue of our time, the issue that ought to be center-stage, prime time at CPAC: jihad. This year yet again, the puppet masters, Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan, managed to [...]

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Last week we arrived at the lowest moment in the never-too-high history of the United Nations. Up to now the failures of the United Nations have been mostly dashed expectations – good things the U.N. failed to make happen, rather than bad things the U.N. made happen. You could counter-argue that ever since the U.N. revealed [...]

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During the years I lobbied for Indian tribal government clients, I would frequently be asked to provide campaign advice. This was not counsel as to what was going on in the national elections – it was advice to keep my clients in office. My clients were elected members of tribal councils, and [...]

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The Obama administration appears so confident of its expansion of the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney surveillance of our personal lives – starting with the Patriot Act – that at times it is beginning to resemble the legendary FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who left many Americans fearful of saying or doing anything that could reveal [...]

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I don’t watch Rachel Maddow’s show on MSNBC. In fact, I don’t watch MSNBC. There’s a simple reason for that. If you lived through the Cold War like I did, you might remember why so many Soviet citizens didn’t watch Pravda or Izvestia, the official newspapers of the totalitarian state. “Pravda” is the Russian word for “truth.” [...]

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A series of investigative reports by WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi on money-laundering charges by banking giant HSBC has resulted in some shocking fallout for the news agency and the reporter. Yesterday WND reported that HSBC lodged a complaint that blocked Internet access to one of the WND stories. Now, Corsi says the HSBC series has [...]

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Dear Mr. Farah, I’m outraged that your IP EdgeCast Networks would block a carefully thought-out and edited exposé! ["Big bank retaliates against WND for exposé"] That’s such a knee-JERK reaction it’s astonishing. John Bryant

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Did you know that for now, our federal government sees the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) electronic, wireless, microchip as the premium human tracker for America and the world? Presently, it is already on the fast track and being introduced or used by governments and corporations in various countries. Besides being an invasion of our privacy [...]

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Mr. Farah, regarding your column “It’s not a winning issue,” I say, is too! (That argument makes me feel like kid again.) Andrew Breitbart should be asked: “Why would a man, sworn in as president, though he is constitutionally ineligible, feel he is bound by that same Constitution?” Answer: He doesn’t. The responsibility for Obamacare, Sotomayor, [...]

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So, let me get this right. Some think natural born refers to anyone born on American soil, right? So the young Chinese Communist man and woman came to America on student visas to go to university. They met and married while in school and had a child. Or maybe they didn’t marry; they just conceived [...]

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Taking Judge Napolitano off the air is worse than taking Jeremy Lin out of the New York Knicks’ starting lineup. The question is, who has created this poor product? They should be fired and right away! Andy Hrehorovich

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White House press secretary Jay Carney was described as “rude” when he dismissed without consideration a couple of questions from Les Kinsolving, WND’s correspondent at the White House, during the daily news briefing today. Kinsolving had prepared to ask a question or two about the court ruling in New York that lets school officials discriminate against [...]

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(CNSNEWS) — President Barack Obama listed rising gas prices as among the many reasons to extend the payroll tax cut Tuesday, flanked by individuals the White House promoted as being affected by $40 per paycheck the average American would lose if the tax cut is not extended at the end of February. The payroll tax funds [...]

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(FREEP) — In the latest setback for the solar energy industry, Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices said today that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and intends to sell its assets, including its main subsidiary United Solar Ovonic. “We firmly believe there is a strong and sustainable commercial market for Uni-Solar products,” Julian Hawkins, ECD’s CEO [...]

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It offers a stunning biblical look at one of today’s biggest problems – Islamic terror – and today only, WND readers can get “Prophecies for the Era of Muslim Terror” by Rabbi Menachem Kohen, for only $4.95, an incredible $20 discount off the regular $24.95 price! In this remarkable book, subtitled “A Torah Perspective On World [...]

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A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements. In fact, all of the students in the NC Pre-K program classroom at West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford had to accept a school lunch in addition [...]

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(SUN-SENTINEL) — As the 21-year-old driver pulled toward the intersection, the approaching headlights glinted only faintly in the distance. “They were very far away,” Heather Meyer said later. “I didn’t even know what kind of car it was.” In that oncoming car: Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Frank McCurrie, racing to aid a fellow officer with a traffic stop. [...]

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(WASHINGTONTIMES) — BOSTON — Troy Schoeller admits he could have chosen his words more carefully when he talked to a reporter about bodies he worked on as an embalmer at a funeral home. Among a litany of graphic remarks Mr. Schoeller made was that he hates embalming fat people. He also described the body of a [...]

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(AZCENTRAL) — As a white, male, middle-aged conservative talk radio host from Virginia, John Fredericks is something close to the Platonic ideal of a Fox News fan. And until last year, he was one. But then Fox’s treatment of the Republican primary race — the presentation of Karl Rove as a political analyst despite his having [...]

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ACROSS 1. What a lush Congressman might be told at 1 a.m. on Sunday night: 2 wds. 5. Segment of “Coast to Coast AM”, e.g. 9. Regulation of Catholic or Protestant (or, oddly, Jewish) religious law 10. Resembling “Arab Spring” revolutions in Egypt or Tunisia 11. Komen’s funding move against Planned Parenthood (which it abandoned immediately when pressured) 12. What some [...]

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(MCALL) — American motorists have seen the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rise above $3.50 a gallon on just three occasions, but it has never happened this early in the year. Analysts say it’s likely a sign that pain at the pump will rise to some of the highest levels ever seen [...]

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(THEHILL) — Nearly 2 million dead Americans are still on active voter registries, and 1 in every 8 registrations in the United States is invalid or has major inaccuracies, according to a new study. Research released Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States shows that the country is spending more on voter registration while getting [...]

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(LATIMES) — Elizabeth Valenzuela, a managing partner at a law firm in Sherman Oaks, has been an attorney for 26 years but sounds like a fresh law school grad when she talks about her work. “There is an excitement about what is around the corner,” says Valenzuela, 51, and to find out what lurks there, she [...]

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(GUARDIAN) — Italian prosecutors have filed an appeal against the acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia. Knox and Sollecito were initially handed 26- and 25-year sentences for the fatal stabbing of Kercher, who was found partially clothed with her neck slashed in her apartment [...]

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(REUTERS) — Russia came close to nuclear disaster in late December when a blaze engulfed a nuclear-powered submarine carrying atomic weapons, a leading Russian magazine reported, contradicting official assurances that it was not armed. Russian officials said at the time that all nuclear weapons aboard the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine had been unloaded well before a fire [...]

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(REUTERS) — A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday more than a month after Iran warned a different carrier — USS John C. Stennis — not to return to the Gulf as Iranian navy boats sailed by. Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, used for a third [...]

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(CBSNEWS) — Rick Santorum has pulled slightly ahead of Mitt Romney in Republican primary voters’ preference for the presidential nomination, a national CBS News/New York Times Poll shows. Santorum has the support of 30 percent of GOP primary voters in the poll, followed by Romney at 27 percent. Ron Paul is now in third at 12 [...]

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(MYFOXBOSTON) — A Middlesex Superior Court Judge is expected to issue a written decision on a controversial case involving the Pledge of Allegiance. Judge Jane Heggarty heard arguments on Monday in the case of an Action family who has filed suit against the Acton-Boxborough School District to take the words “under God” out of the Pledge [...]

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(CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL) — Some parents and activists rallied at Chicago Public School headquarters in the Loop Monday to accuse a chain of charter schools of overly harsh discipline. Protesters chanted: “Invest in us, stop arresting us.” Their chief complaint? Charter schools run by the Noble Network send students to detention for minor infractions and fine them $5.

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(CLEVELAND.CBSLOCAL) — A Cincinnati high school is paying its students to come to school. The Dohn Community High School has launched a $40,000 incentive program to get students to come to class. The school’s CEO Ken Furrier told CBS Cleveland that students will get Visa gift cards for showing up everyday for school, being on time for [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — RICHMOND — The Virginia House on Tuesday approved a so-called “personhood” measure that defines life as beginning at conception and another measure that would expand the state’s informed-consent law by requiring all women to undergo ultrasound imaging before having an abortion. Delegate Robert G. Marshall, Prince William Republican, said his personhood measure follows [...]

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(THE HILL) — Nearly 2 million dead Americans are still on active voter registries, and 1 in every 8 registrations in the United States is invalid or has major inaccuracies, according to a new study. Research released Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States shows that the country is spending more on voter registration while [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — Another great talent has been silenced, probably because of abusing dope or booze and the criminal, irresponsible lifestyle that goes with that insane behavior. What a waste. Whitney Houston possessed the most powerful, incredible, soaring and moving voice I have ever heard, and I have heard and revered them all. Her rendition of [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — Justin Bieber made a little Massachusetts girl with cancer the envy of millions by flying her to New York for a pre-Valentine’s Day date. Six-year-old Avalanna Routh even got to run her fingers through his famous hair. “I got Bieber fever,” she told NBC News later. Bieber appeared pleased that he could give a little girl [...]

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(CONSORTIUM NEWS) — In recent decades, the American Right has sought to rewrite the founding narrative of the United States through selective “scholarship,” by snatching a few quotes out of context and then relying on a vast propaganda machine (and much ignorance about U.S. history) to turn the Constitution inside out. According to the Right’s revisionist [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) RICHMOND — The General Assembly on Monday signed off on a major priority of Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, approving a constitutional amendment stipulating that private property can only be taken for public use. “It has been seven long years of effort, but with today’s vote our citizens are one step closer to [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) REPORTING FROM LONDON — A radical Islamic preacher who has been under detention for most of the last six and a half years but never formally charged with an offense was released from jail Monday amid public criticism over why he is being allowed to remain in Britain. Abu Qatada, 51, was let [...]

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In this podcast, Jerry Robinson on “Follow the Money Weekly” talks about five potential streams of income for those who are looking to develop more income. He’s joined by his wife and business partner, Jennifer, to discuss ways to create additional revenue. “I believe that it is vital in this current economy for you to cultivate multiple [...]

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(THE SUN) — Whitney Houston’s doctors will be quizzed to see if she illegally obtained a collection of prescription pills that may have killed her. The star could have been dead before she became submerged in the LA hotel bath where her body was discovered, it was reported last night. It is feared the tragic singer may [...]

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(LIFESITENEWS) — As politicians in both political parties debate Mitt Romney’s role in implementing a 2005 statute requiring Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts to dispense Plan B – an “emergency contraceptive” that studies and the pill’s manufacturer have suggested can cause early abortions – a leader in the state’s pro-life movement puts the blame squarely on [...]

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A brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court argues that Arizona’s contested state law allowing law-enforcement officers to ask about the legal status of people they encounter is justified because of the virtual “invasion” of the state by outsiders. “As provided in the Constitution, the power to repel against invasions was … granted to both [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Israel has dispatched a number [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Out of the sight of [...]

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Two radical Muslims who have set up a base of operations in the United Kingdom are calling for a revolution in India, the installation of Shariah Islamic law there and the implementation of an Islamic state. The alarming call to action was the subject of a report by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, [...]

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Silverware is one of those categories where cheap, Chinese-made offerings abound on the shelves of retail stores across America. Many Americans believe, and understandably so, that American-made flatware simply isn’t available anymore, especially since Oneida closed its last American factory nearly 10 years ago. Fortunately, Americans no longer will be stuck with tableware from China. Sherrill Manufacturing, [...]

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Rick Santorum seems to be (if the bloom isn’t off by the time this article comes out) the latest anybody-but-Romney Flavor of the Week, so it’s worth taking a look at his economic ideas. I know, I know: he’s got some interesting, er, cultural baggage. But I’ll leave that to the culture warriors. The first thing that [...]

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Pressure is mounting on a state-run social services agency in Sweden to return to his parents a 10-year-old boy who was taken into custody because he was being homeschooled, after the European Court of Human Rights ruled such separations can cause harm to children. Domenic Johansson, then 7, was grabbed by police officers who descended on [...]

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JERUSALEM – Just one week after the Palestinian Authority entered into a unity government with Hamas, the U.S. announced the continuation of a $100 million, five-year program to construct “environmentally and socially sustainable” buildings for the Palestinians. The website for the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem posted the plans, which include a community center and school to [...]

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On Monday, President Obama unveiled his new budget plan. As expected the president continues his spending priorities and advocates for higher taxes on wealthier Americans. “Obama’s budget shows his priorities are wrong … his priorities show he’s playing the politics of division,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) tells WND. Stutzman sits on the House Budget Committee and says [...]

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President Obama is nothing if not an incorrigible spendaholic, as his new budget reconfirms in spades. While the nation drowns in debt, Obama wants to buy new expensive Tinkertoys to indulge his utopian fantasies. Legend has it that prior to embarking on his mission to conquer the known world, Alexander the Great, who had not yet [...]

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Although Barack Obama is the first black president of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and disasters [...]

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The one subject that hasn’t been broached, in the midst of Black History Month, is the rage and constant anger that far too many blacks harbor toward civility. It is the elephant in the center of the room that few are willing to admit exists. And, even when there is an admission of [...]

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Our War Party has been temporarily diverted from its clamor for war on Iran by the insurrection against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Estimates of the dead since the Syrian uprising began a year ago approach 6,000. And responsibility for the carnage is being laid at the feet of the president who succeeded his dictator-father [...]

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I remember those words. “It’s not a winning issue.” That’s what Andrew Breitbart told me at the Tea Party Nation Convention in Nashville a couple years ago after I used my keynote speech to attack Barack Obama’s flouting of the Constitution – especially with regard to his cavalier stonewalling concerning his eligibility for office. “It’s not a winning [...]

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Many Catholic and Protestant entities are self insuring because they wanted to avoid problems on the state level; now it has hit the federal level, and they can’t go along with it. It makes a big difference. This Obamacare mandate really about religious freedom. Obama has stuck his big, anti-Christian nose in the Christian tent. He [...]

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Thank you for posting the article by Chuck Norris on Rick Santorum’s political record ["Why I chose Newt over Santorum"]. We really appreciate it. We have not made our final decision concerning our primary vote, but we were wondering if you would please consider writing a detailed article on Rep. Ron Paul’s foreign policy. We would [...]

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Regarding “100,000 line up to back Sheriff Joe”, 

I cannot understand why WND continue to write and print such “trash” about this fiction regarding the president’s birth certificate. How the hell does [sic] these clowns know better than the Secret Service, State Department, CIA, FBI, the Department of Justice, which handles forgery at the level of [...]

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O LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. Isaiah 33:2

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(WSOCTV) — STANLY CO., N.C. — A local father who captured worldwide attention after posting a YouTube rant about his daughter is now responding to all the attention. Tommy Jordan, from Stanly County, got mad after his daughter complained about doing chores on her Facebook page. In the video, titled “Facebook Parenting for the troubled teen” shows [...]

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(BUSINESS INSIDER) — Moody’s just downgraded the sovereign debt ratings on Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. They also issued negative outlooks for Austria, France, and UK who are all Aaa rated.

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — Gasoline prices could soon hit $4 a gallon, a threshold they haven’t flirted with since last spring. The average price paid by U.S. drivers for a gallon of regular now stands at $3.52, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which released its latest figures this afternoon. That price represents an increase of 0.04 [...]

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(PEOPLESWORLD.ORG) — WASHINGTON – More than 1,200 labor and community activists, as estimated by the AFL-CIO, turned out in force at a boisterous rally Friday outside the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). A many as 700 shut down Woodley Road at midday with an impromptu sit-in and a brief takeover of the driveway at [...]

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(CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by an intruder armed with a machete while Breyer was vacationing on the Caribbean island of Nevis, court officials said Monday. Breyer, his wife and two other guests were in the justice’s vacation home at the time, but officials said no one was hurt in [...]

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(DAILYCALLER) — An internal Media Matters For America memo obtained by The Daily Caller reveals that the left-wing media watchdog group employs an “opposition research team” to target its political enemies. Included in the list of targets are right-leaning websites, conservative think tanks, prominent financiers and donors, and more than a dozen specific Fox News Channel [...]

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(CNSNEWS) — A sweeping alliance of fiscal, social and national security conservatives and leaders of the Tea Party movement came together on Monday to denounce the attack that President Barack Obama has launched on the free exercise of religion by ordering virtually all Americans to buy health insurance plans that pay for sterilizations, contraceptives and [...]

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Drama. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: What do you call a law student who tries to sue himself? Self tort. Got a great [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – A top Muslim Brotherhood official has warned that any cuts in U.S. aid to Egypt could affect Cairo’s peace treaty with Israel – the latest sign that Egypt’s emerging political forces intend to call Washington’s bluff over the diplomatic dispute triggered by a crackdown on non-governmental organizations. Egyptian judges have referred 16 Americans and [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – Twenty-five Notre Dame faculty members–led by the university’s top ethics expert, and including some of the school’s most eminent scholars–have signed a statement declaring that President Barack Obama’s latest version of his administration’s mandate that all health insurance plans in the United States must cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that [...]

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For every Joel Osteen “book,” there are quite a few good titles on the shelves, and, occasionally, something really stands out in a number of ways. Catherine Herridge’s effort, “The Next Wave,” certainly qualifies – an investigation of the lethal terror threats that still confront us here in America. Subtitled “On the Hunt for Al Qaeda’s American [...]

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(AMERICAN THINKER) — A strong case could be made that Rick Santorum owes much of the credit for his recent surge to Rush Limbaugh — whether Rush wants that credit or not. Events of this past week seem to indicate that Senator Santorum would concur. In the past few days his campaign [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The Pentagon is not cutting just manpower to reach deficit-reduction targets: Its 2013 budget released Monday shows the military will spend less on new weapons after two grueling wars. The procurement line in the $525 billion spending plan calls for $108 billion next year to buy big and small weapon systems such as [...]

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9LOS ANGELES TIMES) — GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum described last week’s court ruling striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage as “almost absurd” and an example of “judicial tyranny.” “Judicial tyranny is a serious issue in this race and in this country,” he said Sunday. “We need judges who respect the people’s voice. Let the [...]

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(ROLLING STONE) — Tony Bennett took home two more Grammy Awards last night, including one for his achingly romantic duet with the late Amy Winehouse on “Body and Soul.” That brings his career total to 17 Grammys, beginning with his first for 1962′s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” “I love it,” Bennett told [...]

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(Reuters) – The White House announced plans on Monday to help “Arab Spring” countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt. In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years [...]

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The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he’ll shut his farm down altogether. The decision has enraged [...]

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(NEWS) — THE United States government is seeking software that can mine social media to predict everything from future terrorist attacks to foreign uprisings, according to requests posted online by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Hundreds of intelligence analysts already sift overseas Twitter and Facebook posts to track events such as the Arab Spring. But in [...]

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(TWINCITIES) — West St. Paul City Council member Ed Hansen has a Confederate battle flag hanging off the back deck of his house and says “it’s cool.” Others, including the city’s mayor, have a different opinion of the flag, which is visible off busy Butler Avenue and to visitors at nearby Thompson Park. Written on the [...]

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(NEWS.YAHOO) — The top U.S. Navy official in the Gulf said Sunday he takes Iran’s military capabilities seriously but insists his forces are prepared to confront any Iranian aggression in the region. Vice Adm. Mark Fox, commander of the 5th Fleet, told reporters at the naval force’s Bahrain headquarters that the Navy has “built a wide [...]

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(NYTIMES) — Newt Gingrich recently joined Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on a conference call with more than 50 “bundlers” who had powered Mr. Perry’s formidable campaign-cash machine. Mr. Perry asked his top financial rainmakers to raise money for Mr. Gingrich, telling the group, according to one participant, that he fully supported the former House speaker. But [...]

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(GOOGLE) — World aviation bosses warned on Monday of a potential trade war over a carbon tax imposed by the European Union, which expressed readiness to compromise while insisting on its environmental agenda. In a conference on the eve of the Singapore Airshow, one of Asia’s largest aviation trade fairs, representatives of the airline and plane [...]

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(NEWS.YAHOO) — President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to create an $8 billion fund to train community college students for high-growth industries, part of his broader pitch to make higher education more affordable for all Americans. The fund was part of Obama’s proposed budget for 2013. The overall package aims to achieve $4 trillion in [...]

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(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) — A 5-year-old girl was miraculously pulled from her home in southern Kosovo after it was destroyed in an avalanche which claimed the lives of her parents and several relatives, authorities said Sunday. The child, identified as Asmira Reka, was trapped beneath 33 feet of snow and rubble for at least 10 [...]

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(WPXI-TV) PITTSBURGH — Authorities said a Pittsburgh man brutally beat his girlfriend’s son to death because he hadn’t vacuumed their Knoxville apartment. Investigators said 11-year-old Donovan McKee endured nine hours of abuse Saturday before his mother returned to their apartment at the Rochelle Towers on Knox Avenue after work. The woman found her son unresponsive and [...]

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(JEWISH JOURNAL) — Like so many Americans, I’ve been caught up in Lin-sanity. The numbers being put up by Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin are jaw-dropping. And don’t call him Tim Tebow 2.0. He’s no gimmick; he’s a true point guard who absolutely savaged the Lakers on Friday night. The only real comparisons between Tebow and [...]

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(CENTRE DAILY TIMES) — A Centre County jury will hear the child sex abuse case against Jerry Sandusky, a judge ruled this morning. Senior Judge John M. Cleland denied prosecutors’ request to bring in out-of-county jurors. Prosecutors had argued that the intense publicity surrounding the case and residents’ deep connection to Penn State would taint a potential [...]

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(MEDICAL NEWS TODAY) — New research from UCLA shows that stimulating key area of the brain can improve the memory. Perhaps we’ll soon be free from those annoying afternoons, scrambling about looking for the dog’s leash or the car keys.

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(DAILYMAIL) — Overeating could more than double the risk of memory loss among elderly people, a study has found. Researchers discovered that those who consumed more than 2,100 calories a day were far more likely to have ‘mild cognitive impairment’ than those who ate less. The findings suggest that keeping to a low-calorie diet in old age [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Mothers of several pupils at a primary school have complained after a parents’ association held a male strip show featuring full frontal nudity to raise funds. Several parents expressed their disgust at the “vile” ladies’ night organised to raise money for Clavering Primary School in Essex. A group of over 100 women were given performances [...]

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The parents of two boys who say the teens were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they’re being victimized again — this time because they aren’t being allowed to play sports after switching schools. State rules prevent high school students from switching districts just to play sports, ostensibly to prevent star athletes from essentially [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Los Angeles County coroner’s officials said Monday they have not established a link between prescription drugs and the death of Whitney Houston, adding such a determination could only come after toxicology tests are completed. “The investigation is ongoing,” said coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter at a news conference. “It’s too early to tell.” The [...]

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(NEWS.YAHOO) — David Brock was smoking a cigarette on the roof of his Washington, D.C. office one day in the late fall of 2010 when his assistant and two bodyguards suddenly appeared and whisked him and his colleague Eric Burns down the stairs. Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit Media Matters for America, had told [...]

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — It will be so fast it could be one of those gut-gripping, blackout-inducing rides at an amusement park. It is the latest in elevator technology and will used by thousands of people every day. China is currently building the world’s tallest skyscraper. The Shanghai Tower will stand 2,073 feet high, or 128 stories. To [...]

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“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither.” – Benjamin Franklin They’re coming for it and show no signs of letting up. Once they get their foot in the door and before you know it, you’ll be worried and thinking twice about what you’re posting on your blog or [...]

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Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child. Diane Aulger had her labor induced and gave birth to their daughter Jan. 18. When tiny Savannah was placed in [...]

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(MSNBC) U.S. Marines were shown how to kill a cobra then offered the chance to drink the snake’s blood as part of a jungle survival training course in Thailand on Monday. The training, which also featured edible bugs and at least one beheaded chicken, is part of a joint military exercise involving 13,180 personnel from more than 20 [...]

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(MSNBC) ATHENS, Greece — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy. At least 45 buildings were burned, including one of the capital’s oldest restored [...]

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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu squarely blamed Iran for the two apparently coordinated car bomb attacks against Israeli embassies in India and Georgia today. Calling Iran “the world’s top initiator of terror,” Netanyahu said that over the past few months “we have seen attempts to hurt Israelis in Azerbaijan and in Thailand. All of [...]

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New technology continues to boggle the mind, providing amazing opportunities for writers, to such an extent that I can barely believe we were so bound to traditional publishing for so long. I recently purchased a MacBook Air – I could brag on it for days – and from the Apple Store was able to download the [...]

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(REUTERS) — When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler’s neighbors were initially angry and confused. Some even considered calling the police. But what they witnessed on Friday was not an offensive [...]

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(GOOGLE) — BERLIN — American billionaire George Soros slammed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview published on Sunday, warning that her policies could lead to a repeat of the Great Depression. “I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership. But unfortunately she is taking Europe in the wrong direction,” the financier and philanthropist told the weekly [...]

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(SFGATE) — Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The historic vote paves the way for Greece’s European partners and the International Monetary Fund to release $170 billion (euro130 [...]

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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. – Galatians 3:28-29

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The pundits and media just don’t get it. It’s the Republican Party versus the new conservative party! I am mad as hell! I now believe that it is time to split the GOP into two separate political parties. People like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin and many in the media, many on Fox News, have [...]

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Re: “Time to impeach Ruth Bader Ginsburg” by Joseph Farah and “Justice Ginsburg’s diabolical lineage” by Ellis Washington: I loved both of your columns, gentlemen. You both hit the nail on the head where this woman is concerned. I said right from Day One when Bill Clinton nominated her for the highest court in the land: [...]

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I’d like someone to ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg to write a new constitution, just to see what it would be. Reading it might be a chore, but it would sure be educational. Max Harper

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Mr. Farah, As a loyal reader of Whistleblower, I would strongly recommend that you either get rid of your moustache or return it to its natural color! Either that, or put on glasses and go on tour as Groucho Marx. It looks silly, and distracts from your very important message. D. Vernon Willis

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Re: “Is your church having a ‘Cinderella Sunday’?” Mr. Ray Comfort has got to be a stage name. “Comfort notes that there are a few holes in the theory, and that perhaps “churches that are celebrating ‘Evolution Sunday’ this weekend … consider having other fairytale celebrations.” Churches already have fairytale celebrations – every Sunday. James Comerota

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President Obama is an “extreme liberal” whose proposed defense cuts are aimed at “disarming America,” claims Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In a radio interview today, Inhofe also accused Obama of using his economic policies for “social engineering.” “He is an extreme liberal,” said Inhofe. “And let’s face it. [...]

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Editor’s note: This is another in a series of “WND/WENZEL POLLS” conducted exclusively for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. Wonder what Americans think about the judiciary? Because if it’s anything close to their opinions on the other two branches of government, Congress and the executive, the country could be in [...]

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There are many theories about why Russia and China last week vetoed a United Nations resolution endorsing an Arab League plan to transfer power from Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Some say Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to go against a fellow strongman because a lot of them have been losing power lately, and he doesn’t want [...]

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TEL AVIV – If the U.S. or Israel strikes Iran, fringe elements of the Pakistani intelligence apparatus that allegedly work with al-Qaida may attempt to coordinate terrorist attacks internationally, including using unconventional weapons, according to Arab diplomats in Pakistan. The Arab diplomats, speaking to WND, said they did not have specifics on the nature of the [...]

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Hitting the box office big this week (and just before Valentine’s Day) is the romantic date movie, “The Vow,” inspired by a true story with a fascinating premise that sounds like it was written for the silver screen. The film follows a newlywed couple who get into a car accident that leaves the wife with a [...]

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Reports coming out of Iran say persecution of Christians is only growing more bold and brazen, as Iranian authorities once again raided a house church – this time in Shiraz – and arrested between 6 to 10 members of the congregation. The detainees are being held in an undisclosed location. Jihad Watch publisher Robert Spencer says that [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Iranian leaders publicly are backing [...]

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(UNITED NATIONS) – Nuclear fears between the United Kingdom and Argentina are real, according to a White House source. The source? President Ronald Reagan, who once worried about London giving Buenos Aires “a big one.” On Friday, at United Nations headquarters, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant and Argentina’s Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman, were debating new charges that a [...]

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Officials with Grassfire Nation, a key coordinating group for tea-party-type activities and issues, say the Department of Justice’s investigation of Maricopa, Ariz., County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is nothing more than a political attack. And to offer encouragement to the sheriff, Darla Dawald, representing the Grassfire Nation group, has presented Arpaio with a petition of some 100,000 [...]

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Editor’s note: Michael Ackley’s columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which. In refusing to back off its order that religious organizations – specifically Roman Catholic organizations – provide contraceptive and abortion services for their employees, [...]

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The Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, is the annual gathering of conservatives from around the country to hear speeches, visit booths on topics they are interested in and exchange ideas with fellow patriots and compatriots all over the country. There are often people dressed up as Minutemen, as well as other costumes such as [...]

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It’s sad. A once prosperous country with a thriving economy is turning into a bloody mess and sliding into a 21st century Third-World status. No, not Zimbabwe, which after becoming “free” devolved into chaos, starvation and economic helplessness under its “elected” dictator, Robert Mugabe. It echoes Iraq, now that it’s “free” and has “elections” and, of course, [...]

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The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had [...]

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Most Americans are opposed to the federal government requiring them to buy a health insurance policy in which the terms of coverage will be dictated by the government and the cost will be dictated by the health insurance companies. But this dictate is the culmination of a trend of government dictates that has been building [...]

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A lifestyle consists of more than just what you eat, what you wear and an exercise routine. Your lifestyle consists of moral precepts that govern your life. In other words, in addition to how you live in the material world, lifestyle also incorporates your moral compass. This is crucial if you have children. Psychologists have [...]

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CAIRO (AP) — The Arab League called Sunday for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad’s regime, the League’s latest effort to bring an end the violence that has killed more than 5,000 people. Syria immediately rejected the [...]

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In 2008 when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Listen in this video how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for the Oval Office.) Just three [...]

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Barack Obama is a not only an abortion zealot, he’s also a fascist control freak – determined to make government the ultimate arbiter of morality on all matters political and economic. That’s the only conclusion one can reach from his efforts to force individuals like me, institutions like the Catholic Church, insurance companies and employers nationwide [...]

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By Jerry Newcombe How well is President Obama doing on fixing the nation’s financial crisis? Not very, say most Americans. A Rasmussen poll notes that only 36 percent of Americans feel the president is doing a good job on the economy. But now we know who’s really to blame for all this – Jesus. The president spoke about [...]

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(NEWS) — A security breach forced Australian Federal Police to confiscate a taser gun which was hidden in a cabin bag on an Adelaide-bound Virgin flight at Melbourne Airport. The tarmac drama occurred as flight crew on DJ 229 closed overhead compartments in preparation for takeoff and discovered a taser gun which had fallen out of [...]

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(NEWS) — OFFICE workers are ditching casual Friday and dressing more formally because they are worried about keeping their job in tough economic times. Global recruitment company Hays said many of its biggest clients had told staff to suit up or ship out, ending the gradual trend to casual work attire. Hays regional manager Lynne Beggs said [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Fears for thousands of British jobs and the future of Vauxhall’s UK car plant have surfaced after bosses at U.S. parent company General Motors warned of ‘horrendous’ losses in Europe to be announced next week. Executives of the American car giant in Detroit say they are considering closing the Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — A landmark legal ruling banning the tradition of saying prayers at council meetings was denounced last night as an ‘assault on Britain’s Christian heritage’. The High Court controversially backed an anti-religious campaign to abolish official acts of worship. Christians and politicians reacted with dismay after a judge overturned centuries of custom by outlawing a town [...]

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(MISSOULIAN) — WHITEFISH – A national organization of atheists and agnostics filed a lawsuit Wednesday demanding that a statue of Jesus be removed from a small parcel of federal land on the Whitefish Mountain Resort ski area. The group, Freedom From Religion Foundation, filed the legal action in U.S. District Court in Missoula. The lawsuit follows [...]

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(BBC) — Three US citizens who lost their sight in childhood have reported a dramatic improvement in vision after having gene therapy in both eyes. There was some improvement after the genetic fault in one eye was corrected four years ago. Now, one woman has described her joy at seeing her children’s faces, after her second eye [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — Scientists have located a certain area of the brain that could be responsible for weight gain and obesity. The central nervous system helps to control food intake and it has long been known that the brain influences how and what we eat. However the latest finding suggest overweight individuals’ brains could be wired in [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — A bus driver has been praised for her quick thinking after rushing a group of schoolchildren off her vehicle moments before it burst into flames. Lindora Richardson was taking the youngsters home from their North Carolina school when she noticed a ‘burning smell’ and pulled over to check it out. As she did so, smoke [...]

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(KTLA) — Police and prosecutors are seeking the public’s help identifying potential additional victims of a former high school basketball coach, charged with having an unlawful sexual relationship with a student beginning when she was 14 years old. John Tran Nguyen, 21, of Fountain Valley, is charged with one felony count of unlawful sexual intercourse and [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — The singer Lady Gaga made a surprise appearance at a school conference in Los Angeles, where she confessed to being “delusional” as a teenager, and to having suffered from an eating disorder. Speaking to a live audience in the gymnasium of Brentwood School in LA, the 25-year-old star confessed her eating disorder in public [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A man convicted of threatening to kill Madonna is on the loose on the streets of Los Angeles after slipping out of the mental health facility where he was being held. Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in 1996 after being arrested for scaling a wall around the singer’s [...]

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(TMZ) — Barack Obama’s politics meant nothing to Samuel L. Jackson because the “Pulp Fiction” star only voted for the president for one reason and one reason only … because he’s black. In an interview with Ebony magazine, Jackson explained, “I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Whitney Houston, who died Saturday in Beverly Hills, burst on the scene with her debut album in February 1985. There have been turbulent times in the last decade or so, but Houston’s status as one of the top-selling female singers ever is not questioned. As of 2010, Houston had won the most awards [...]

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From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world’s best-selling artists wowing audiences with her powerful and effortless voice. The showbiz world was rocked today with the tragic news that one of music’s biggest legends Whitney Houston had died. We look back at the life and times of the Grammy and Emmy-Award [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Mitt Romney edged out Ron Paul to win the Maine Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, capping a strong day for the campaign following a string of setbacks earlier in the week. The Maine GOP announced Saturday evening that Romney received 39 percent of the vote in the state’s nonbinding contest. Paul came in second, [...]

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The Montana-based organization that has challenged the assumption by Washington that it can regulate intrastate commerce through the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause is joining the fight against Obamacare because both disputes could end up putting limits on the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution. Officials who have worked on the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, which [...]

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Analysts have begun warning that the recent increase in violent protests in Egypt is putting the nation’s millennia-old minority Christian community in great danger, and members may be forced to leave their homeland. “Tolerance is not a characteristic Islamists embrace,” said Michael Rubin, Middle East analyst for the American Enterprise Institute. “Just as Arab nationalists drove Jews [...]

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WASHINGTON – Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch” on Fox Business Channel, arguably the most hard-hitting conservative show on TV, is being dropped by the network later this month in a major shakeup of the lineup. FBC is also dropping shows by David Asman and Eric Bolling. The network will repeat earlier shows, “The Willis Report,” “Cavuto” [...]

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(AP) LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48. Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster, said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of [...]

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By Reza Khalili WASHINGTON – Iranian nuclear experts have completed the component for a nuclear bomb trigger, overcoming a major obstacle in obtaining the bomb, according to sources within Iran. As reported last May, the Iranian nuclear and military industries, under the order of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were to weaponize at least two warheads [...]

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(THE HILL) — Rick Santorum has taken the lead nationally in the Republican presidential race for the first time, a new poll showed. Less than a week after besting Romney in primary contests in three states, Rick Santorum has a 15-point lead on the former Massachusetts governor, according to a national poll released Saturday by Democratic [...]

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Editor’s note: WARNING – the following video contains language that is not suitable for all audiences. WASHINGTON – Attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park in the District of Columbia were alerted this weekend to the sound of the police intercepting Occupy protesters. While some members of the Occupy movement came into the [...]

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This is the day the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24

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Heads south. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: My wife went out shopping and brought home the escalator. It was marked “down.” Got a [...]

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A state worker faces disciplinary action after sending an official e-mail to hundreds of recipients in which he offered a prize for the girl with the biggest breasts. The e-mail was distributed by an employee of the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID), which has been searching for people to honour at an upcoming tornado safety conference. But many [...]

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The man charged with trying to kidnap a 7-year-old girl from a west Georgia Wal-Mart waived a first appearance hearing Friday morning. Thomas Andrew Woods, 25, of Austell, was convicted of killing his uncle in 2004 in DeKalb County, according to documents obtained Thursday. Woods was taken into custody and questioned before being arrested Wednesday afternoon, Bremen Police [...]

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(AP) — When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas’ public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead. One of the pilots is among those asking why. A spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District said officials took only boys [...]

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NICASIO, California (AP) — Luke Skywalker would be proud. A rebel alliance has formed in the hills north of San Francisco to fight a perceived Evil Empire. The alliance is a group of Marin County homeowners. Their phantom menace is George Lucas, the world-renowned filmmaker whose Star Wars Trilogy sky-rocketed him to acclaim and fortune. The plot [...]

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WASHINGTON – “Can we defeat Barack Obama in 2012?” asked former Republican governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, keynote speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. “Yes, we can!” she insisted to a standing ovation, echoing a central Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign slogan. Palin brought the CPAC convention to a rousing close today with a well-crafted [...]

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HOLLYWOOD – At its 20th annual awards gala Feb. 10, Movieguide took on the giants of the industry and honored filmmakers and stars who strive to create inspirational and morally uplifting movies and television shows. Many refer to the event as the “Christian Oscars,” and along with the Report to the Entertainment Industry, it has led [...]

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(POLITICO) — Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential straw poll with 38 percent of the vote, finishing with a single-digit lead over runner-up Rick Santorum, who pulled 31 percent support. Newt Gingrich was a distant third, with 15 percent, followed by Ron Paul, with 12 percent. The poll is a welcome symbolic win for Romney, who [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) — An airline just for pets was an act of genius, Martha Hamilton figured. No cold cargo holds for Phoebe, her 10-year-old miniature schnauzer. Attendants would check on her regularly during the flight. There would even be a pet lounge for the emotional goodbye at the airport. But Ms. Hamilton and Phoebe just [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — President Obama’s budget request to Congress Monday will forecast a deficit of $1.33 trillion in the current fiscal year and calls for $1.5 trillion in tax increases over the next decade, senior administration officials said Friday night. The spending plan for fiscal 2013 also anticipates a deficit of $901 billion next year and [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — A top official with the National Rifle Association said Friday that President Obama will move to “destroy” gun rights and “erase” the Second Amendment if he is re-elected in November. While delivering one of the liveliest and best-received speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The National Park Service announced on Friday it will correct a paraphrased “drum major” quote etched into the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial to “more accurately reflect” King’s words. For months, observers said the truncated version etched into granite — “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness” — was [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Jill Kinmont Boothe was the national women’s slalom champion and on the cover of Sports Illustrated when she set out to win a 1955 race that would help put her on the U.S. Olympic ski team. As she sped down a Utah mountain slope, she lost control on an icy bump, [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The Navy Friday announced it would name a combat ship after former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned from Congress last month to recover from a grievous gunshot wound she suffered in January 2011. “The name this ship bears … will inspire all those who come in contact with her,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — The U.S. government could lose $2.7 billion as a result of the loansand loan guarantees it offered to clean-energy companies, according to a White House-commissioned study carried out in the wake of Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy. The Obama administration, which has defended its aid for clean energy in the wake of the solar-panel [...]

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(MSNBC) — Helicopter pilot Mike Schaeffer was wrapping up a tour when he spotted this incredible weather phenomenon along the coast of Panama City Beach, Fl. on Sunday. As soon as he landed, he alerted Panhandle Helicopter owner JR Hott of the “cloud form waves,” and together they went up for a better view. They [...]

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(LONDON TELEGRAPH) — The album features black and white images of the Nazi leader using expressive hand gestures and unusual poses taken by his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. In one, he is seen raising his fist in the air while in another, he appears to be pointing to an imaginary audience. He is also seen leaning [...]

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(LONDON TELEGRAPH) — Bosses behind the drama have been accused of mistreating their equine stars by animal rights group Peta, after two of them were put down after being injured during filming. The horses were injured while racing on two separate occasions, one on the set of the pilot episode and the other during the filming [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — Catholic bishops said Friday night that they would not support the Obama administration’s proposed compromise on a controversial rule that requires most employers to fully cover contraception in their workers’ health plans. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which had led opposition to the regulation, issued a statement saying that they didn’t [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — A Marine sergeant fatally shot by an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy in a dark San Clemente high school parking lot this week was not armed and the incident doesn’t appear to be alcohol- or drug-related, sheriff’s officials said. A sheriff’s spokesman said the deputy feared for the safety of two young girls [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — More than a year after the diagnosis, Maureen Bryant had grown accustomed to making excuses for her husband. When Stu stood behind a tattooed woman in line at Panda Express, and said loudly, “Wow, that’s a lot of tattoos,” Moe stepped between him and the woman and apologized. When he repeatedly wandered into [...]

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Best. Parent. Ever. Tommy Jordan for president. That’s the response Jordan is getting from tens of thousands of people on the Internet after a YouTube video featuring the North Carolina dad shooting up his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop with a .45 went viral this week. The shooting part — which has provided a glorious moment of catharsis to [...]

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DETROIT (AP) — A Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane began his path to terrorism with a text message from a top al-Qaida figure in Yemen, the U.S. government said Friday in a court filing that discloses new details about their relationship. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab faces life in prison at [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The Tejon Ranch has agreed to pay $136,500 in fines and restitution for illegally killing at least 11 mountain lions to prevent them from competing for game with high-paying trophy hunters, the Kern County district attorney’s office announced Friday. The settlement capped a 10-month investigation by the California Department of Fish and [...]

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(CBN NEWS) BARCELONA, Spain — Bullfighting is now illegal in the Spanish province of Catalonia. Some arenas have been converted into business spaces. But Muslims want to turn the most famous arena, the Coliseum, into a giant mosque. In fact, some cities in Spain now look more like the Middle East. Muslims, who once ruled most of [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – A senior Chinese military colonel [...]

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Press freedom in India is under attack, not only from Hindu and Muslim radicals, but also from government forces insistent that reporters don’t “offend” the very religious extremists that threaten them harm. Committee to Protect Journalists India consultant Mannika Chopra reports, for example, that organizers of a documentary screening cancelled the event after protests from Hindu [...]

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WASHINGTON – “Barack Obama is the poster child for the arrogance of government,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told a packed and appreciative CPAC audience today. Romney began his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference on a light note, getting a laugh when he explained Obama was a “good community organizer” for his ability to [...]

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WASHINGTON – Characterizing Barack Obama as a “Saul Alinsky president,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told an appreciative CPAC audience that he intended to be a “pay-stamp president,” not a “food -stamp president.” Gingrich was introduced today at the Conservative Political Action Conference by his wife, Callista, in an apparent effort to counter negative [...]

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The author of a new book that shows how America is buying into Adolf Hitler’s belief system that there are human beings who actually are less than human is telling churches that are celebrating “Evolution Weekend” to go the rest of the way and also have a “Cinderella Sunday.” “The only thing scientific about the theory [...]

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By Anita Crane Christians who balked at Barack Obama’s requirements that they pay for abortion pills through their health insurance plans say his concession to accommodate their faith and beliefs just doesn’t do enough. “The Obama administration’s rule change doesn’t change anything. Employees will still pay for this coverage,” said Senior Counsel Doug Napier of the Alliance [...]

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By David R. Usher Government, politicians and the media writhe about the record numbers of households living in poverty, with homes foreclosed, needing food stamps and lacking health care. For decades we have been told that economic downturns and joblessness are the primary cause. The facts prove otherwise. The leading hierarchical driver of [...]

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There is a lot of talk about who the next occupant of the White House will be. And while I believe that Christians should find a candidate who represents a biblical worldview as much as possible and then vote for that candidate, we also need to understand at the same time that no congressman or [...]

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There is always a tendency for an older generation to wax nostalgic about the past. While I am not old, in my opinion at least, what I have observed in recent years about our nation’s youth and their use of smart phones in particular, which facilitate their constant access to social media like Facebook, Twitter, [...]

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Several of the Republican candidates have said that the 2012 elections are the most important elections in our lifetime. They are. The current powers in Washington, most of the media, as well as academia, want the nation to abandon, or at least to reinterpret, the U.S. Constitution to justify the Marxist idea that government should [...]

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Lately I’ve been feeling quite depressed about the state of our nation. I guess I’m suffering from political burnout. That’s an amazing thing when you consider I haven’t exactly immersed myself in politics. We don’t have television reception, and so I haven’t seen any televised debates. Nor have I made any real effort [...]

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Rumors abound this week of secret negotiations, backdoor meetings and veiled threats aimed at halting Rep. Issa’s investigation of the Fast and Furious scandal. Regretfully, such rumors are all too credible given Speaker Boehner’s history of always seeking a compromise even when victory is in sight. This is what passes for pragmatism in Republican leadership circles: [...]

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“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great [...]

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always been a sorry excuse for a Supreme Court justice. I remember when she justified the consideration of foreign law in considering cases before America’s high court. It’s hard to imagine a more serious infraction against our Constitution or a bigger betrayal of the oath justices are required to take upon their lifetime [...]

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WND is a great news source. I have a suggestion for a topic whose time has come. I think it is high time and way over due that there be public excommunication of Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius and Joe Biden from the Catholic Church. Ted Kennedy should have been publicly excommunicated 30 or 40 years ago [...]

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It would appear you are in the enemy’s camp! ["20% of Republicans leaning toward Obama!"] How in the hell can you possibly print anything more negative, when we have a full head of steam, with the president trashing freedom of speech and religion all at one time! Come on! We have the man on the [...]

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Earlier this week, President Obama announced steps he says will assist struggling homeowners – including $2,000 for those already foreclosed upon and refinancing at historically low rates for mortgage-holders currently under water. But as the impact of the housing collapse continues, the Capitol Steps explain how this mess got started. Our guest is Steps co-founder Elaina [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — On Tuesday night’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News contributor, media guru, and reformed liberal Bernie Goldberg denounced the “strain of bigotry” within the American conservative movement. Inspired by the One Million Moms Project’s demand that JC Penny fire Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson – because she is gay –Mr. [...]

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Control of his faculties. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: An angel appears at a faculty meeting and tells the dean, “In [...]

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It is to a man’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. Proverbs 20:3

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(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) — Shocking photos of accused pedophile Mark Berndt offer a glimpse into his disturbing behavior at scandal-rocked Miramonte Elementary School in South Los Angeles. In the newly-surfaced pictures, the 61-year-old is seen wearing a bizarre costume clearly geared to the Disney set. He sports Mickey Mouse ears, a form-fitting black shirt and tiny [...]

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(AP) WASHINGTON — Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and warns that the trend could continue to weigh on the economy for years. The Federal Reserve chairman drew the connection between home values and consumer spending, which fuels 70 percent of economic activity, on Friday [...]

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(Washington Free Beacon) — Warren Buffett’s stake in Bank of America Corp. increased in value by $154 million after President Obama and the U.S. Justice Department announced a $25 billion foreclosure abuse settlement with the five largest U.S. banks Thursday, records show. Buffett invested $5 billion in Bank of America (BofA) on Aug. 25, 2011. As [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — When The Times asked auto information company Edmunds.com to rank the 10 worst cars ever sold in America, one of the vehicles they left off the list was the AMC Pacer. An Edmunds editor said the much-reviled Pacer almost made the list, but that it had a some interesting styling features that [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — A bright purple squirrel trapped by a Pennsylvania couple has experts offering all sorts of theories — but no concrete answers. Percy and Connie Emert from Jersey Shore, Pa., trapped the brightly colored creature while trying to keep the birds safe in their backyard feeder, reported Accuweather.com. They told the weather service they [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — A decorated Marine who was fatally shot by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy in a high school parking lot was described as a deeply religious man who regularly went to the campus track with his young daughters for early-morning prayer walks. Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr.was shot to death during the predawn hours [...]

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(NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE ) — A federal grand jury is investigating whether city vendors gave former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gratuities ranging from plane tickets to materials and equipment for his family’s granite-countertop business and also helped the firm land an exclusive installation deal with a retailing giant while Nagin was in office, according [...]

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(AP) LINCOLN, Neb. — An American Indian tribe sued some of the world’s largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and [...]

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(AP) WASHINGTON — Hold the mystery meat: Military bases will soon be serving more fruits, vegetables and low-fat dishes under the first program in 20 years to improve nutrition standards across the armed services. First lady Michelle Obama and Pentagon officials planned to announce the effort Thursday during a visit to Little Rock Air Force Base [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The judge presiding over the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case set a tentative trial date of May 14 and said he will rule quickly on several pending issues raised in a pretrial hearing on Friday. Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach accused of sexual contact with 10 boys over [...]

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(MSNBC) — Saudia Arabia would move quickly to acquire nuclear weapons if Iran successfully tests an atomic bomb, according to a report. Citing an unidentified Saudi Arabian source, the Times newspaper in the U.K. (which operates behind a paywall) said that the kingdom would seek to buy ready-made warheads and also begin its own program to enrich [...]

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(PROGRESSIVE.ORG) — What a weird Tuesday it was, with Rick Santorum winning three contests on the same day that California’s Prop 8 was overturned. Santorum’s politics are yesterday. Gay marriage is today and tomorrow. But don’t tell the Republicans that.

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(WORLDVIEW WEEKEND) — What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently? That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don’t really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy government agency that sets our interest rates [...]

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WASHINGTON – Surging GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., spoke to an enthusiastic audience in a packed-to-overflowing auditorium at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, promising he will continue to openly state his conservative principles while running for president. “As conservatives we lost heart when we listened to those voices who say we must compromise [...]

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(ABC NEWS) — With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage, at 12:15 p.m. ET, President Obama will announce an attempt to accommodate these religious groups. The move, based on state models, will almost certainly not satisfy bishops and [...]

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WND’s own Aaron Klein asked listeners that pressing question this week, as Mitt Romney inches closer to winning the Republican nomination. Klein talked to Dr. Robert Millet, professor at Brigham Young University and a member of the LDS church. Millet expressed his hope that American citizens would judge candidates on their platform and not their religious [...]

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Chuck, I’ve heard that chocolate can ignite the passions of love. True? Are there other foods that do the same? – Larry W., Honolulu There’s no better time than around Valentine’s Day to encourage right eating to enhance loving moods. In last week’s article I discussed the correlations among the brain, body and bedroom. So discussing [...]

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(LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL) — The LAPD is fighting crime from a high-tech war room that gives it eyes all over the city. The surveillance hub is now a model for police forces around the world and KCAL9 got an exclusive tour inside from Chief Charlie Beck. “We are targets on our own soil,” says Beck. “We have to [...]

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By Jack Minor A new report has validated concerns expressed by the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation over investigations into Planned Parenthood, the U.S. abortion industry’s biggest player. And there also has been suggested a reason why Planned Parenthood stomped so hard and so fast on the foundation and its relatively minor grants when [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Informed sources say that Iraqi [...]

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President Obama cannot effectively handle the growing crisis in Syria because of his unwillingness to address Iran’s central role, charged former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton in an interview today with talk-radio host Michael Savage. Bolton told Savage that the administration’s Syria policy fell apart last weekend when Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-backed Security Council resolution [...]

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Former Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry called for his party to run against Obama this year by adopting the theme “to take this nation back.” The Texas governor, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, urged a return to core conservative principles of limited government as defined in the Constitution. He said 2012 presents [...]

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By Anita Crane Two prominent international Catholic organizations are filing lawsuits against the Obama administration for its mandate requiring them to pay for abortion-inducing drugs because that requirement violates the groups’ religious beliefs. The Eternal Word Television Network, EWTN, is based in Irondale, Ala., and announced it filed a lawsuit today in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, [...]

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Texas pastors who listened to GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Rick Santorum talk about the life and liberty goals of his campaign before ending the meeting gathered around him, placed their hands on his shoulders and prayed for God’s direction in his work. “We thank you for the grace and goodness that motivates Rick Santorum to run [...]

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By William J. Federer “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” was the campaign slogan of our ninth president, William Henry Harrison, hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe where the confederation of Chief Tecumseh was disrupted in 1811. Harrison was the first president to die in office, serving the shortest term of only 30 days, yet he had a greater [...]

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By Roger Fredinburg Stopping Barack Obama and his sleazy un-American agenda is as simple as “Just say No” I support Joseph Farah’s “No More Red Ink” campaign currently under way at WND.com. In Congress, John Boehner and crew have the ultimate power – the purse strings. If the EPA is out of control, (and it is) they should refuse [...]

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A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for president of the United States. Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado happened. Rick Santorum beat him in all three states on the same day – and beat him by huge margins in two of those states, as well [...]

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Editor’s note: This is another in a series of “WND/WENZEL POLLS” conducted exclusively for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. Two out of three voters across the political spectrum say they are more likely to support a presidential or congressional candidate who promises to freeze the debt limit and stop [...]

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Something is seriously wrong at Fox Sports, an affliction of political correctness that apparently affects the entire Fox Network. In response to overtures by gun companies to sponsor TV coverage of Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, events, Fox Sports has declared, “Absolutely no firearms, ammo, hunting or knife companies will be permitted as sponsors in any [...]

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Ring. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Q: Why does a man twist his wedding ring on his finger? A: He’s trying to [...]

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Hate crimes! Hate crimes! The homosexual radicals are trying to push an illegal agenda through hate crimes, not understanding that all crime is motivated by hate. What is this really about? And who’s doing the hating? Obama appointed Chai Feldblum, an open lesbian who was nominated to serve as commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [...]

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The Egyptian Justice Ministry, under the authority of the military council, has detained and indicted 19 American democracy activists. To listen to the malfunctioning media stateside, however, the Egyptians are being petty, picking a fight with their American benefactors for “operating in Egypt without a license.” Or, if you want “expert” opinion, courtesy of Politico.com, [...]

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I love protests and have taken part in many of them. My first was picketing in front of Safeway in San Francisco, urging shoppers to support California farm workers and boycott grapes. But there are real protests and there are phony protests. And one of the phoniest we’ve ever seen is today’s protest by Catholic bishops [...]

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As God’s instrument, Moses parted the Red Sea. Well, it appears President Obama has a different idea. With a wave of his hand, he’s going to reunite our bitterly divided political waters on the hottest of hot-button issues. Don’t get me wrong; Obama’s conscious effort to divide Americans on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and [...]

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… it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the [...]

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Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged. In a January visit to the Vatican, American bishops were warned by Benedict XVI that “radical secularism” posed “grave threats” to their Catholic faith. Your religious freedom is being circumscribed, said the pope. The U.S. [...]

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Here’s another reason the U.S. must get out of the United Nations: In case you didn’t notice, the U.N. leadership is once again floating the idea of a global tax. It’s all with good intentions, of course. The U.N. wants to ensure “universal access to basic social protection and social services.” As Milos Koterec, president of the [...]

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One thing I’ve learned while researching my new, nearly finished book is that both history and news, history’s so-called rough draft, are not written by the “victors” as much as they are censored, twisted and reconfigured by what I can best describe as “the mob.” I’m not referring to the Mafia. What I’m talking about is [...]

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I pray to God that more and more people will have the intestinal fortitude to do what Mr. Farah is doing and tell Mr. Obama that in no way will they support the killing of the most innocent among us, the murder of precious little ones through abortion when Obama and his Marxist cronies try [...]

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If this is the case (“20% of Republicans leaning to Obama!”), why in hell am I beating my head against the wall? Someone close to me once said, “We have a two-party system, the evil party and the stupid party, and we’re the stupid party.” That about says it all! Stella

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On the one hand, bravo to the Virginia House of Delegates for passing the so-called “Tim Tebow law” that would give homeschooled students access to public-school athletic programs. State Rep. Rob Bell deserves a lot of credit for the concept. However … Bell tripped on his bootlaces by including a section that would enable local school [...]

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WND is the the only website that gives the most accurate view of what’s going on. Rather than try and entertain, as most media giants do, WND informs on the most relevant and important issues of our day! Real journalism – can you spell it, Mr. and Mrs John Q. American? Why were we given a [...]

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County. In passing the 37-page [...]

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(VOA NEWS) — In recent months, Israeli leaders have stepped up their rhetoric about Iran’s nuclear capabilities and increasingly are warning that Israel might attack Iranian nuclear installations to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. Lately they are warning that such an attack could come this year. This is sparking widespread debate in Israel, [...]

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(POLITICO) — MCKINNEY, Texas — After breaking out this week as a surprise conservative standard-bearer in a trio of Republican primaries, Rick Santorum returned Wednesday to the role that helped him build a national reputation in the first place: uncompromising Christian conservative champion. Rather than following up his Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado wins with a trip [...]

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Kodak is exiting the digital camera business and it will instead license its brand name to other camera manufacturers, the company announced Thursday. Kodak will “phase out its dedicated capture devices business” — which includes digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames — in the first half of 2012. The [...]

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton discusses three critical hot spots in the Middle East. Bolton tells WND the Obama administration spent all of its efforts on Syria trying to get sanctions approved at the U.N. and now it doesn’t really have a strategy moving forward. “I think they’re scrambling now. I think the [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — Young beauty Kylie Bisutti is leaving Victoria’s Secret at just 21 because modeling lingerie does not conform with her Christian beliefs. Bisutti won Victoria’s Secret Model Search in 2009 when she was 19, beating out 10,000 other hopefuls. “Victoria’s Secret was my absolutely biggest goal in life, and it was all I ever wanted career-wise,” [...]

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(EDMONTON.CTV.CA) — WASHINGTON — Trust your doctor? A U.S. survey finds that some doctors aren’t always completely honest with their patients. More than half admitted describing someone’s prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy. Nearly 20 per cent said they hadn’t fully disclosed a medical mistake for fear of being sued. And one in [...]

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(MEDICALXPRESS) — Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective in the Feb. 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. In July of 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released “Cephalosporin Susceptibility Among Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates [...]

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(MARKETWATCH) — Practical Homeschooling magazine is entering its 20th year of publication. To celebrate, they are giving away 20,000 copies of their magazine this year. “With public schools on the decline and fewer families able to afford private-school tuition, it’s no surprise that homeschooling is on the rise,” said Practical Homeschooling publisher Mary Pride. “So we’re [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — Children and parents started coming forward to report possible abuse by a Brooklyn teacher’s aide Wednesday as FBI agents scoured the school where he’s suspected of filming kiddie porn. Investigators walked through Public School 243 with stills from the disturbing videos, trying to pinpoint where Taleek Brooks, 40, might have filmed himself allegedly abusing [...]

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And now there remain faith, hope and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Corinthians 13:13

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(TRUTHDIG) — Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos now that voting has the same significance for us as it had for those Iraqis who got conned into thinking they were participating in some grand democratic experiment. Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are [...]

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With President Obama in office, Israel can no longer count on America’s unqualified support, charged former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington today. “In this hour of need, America must stand with Israel,” she said. “But somehow the president of the United States thinks [...]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Lorax, perhaps the most famous anti-industrial crusader from children’s literature, is getting support from companies that are willing to go green. With a host of commercial tie-ins — albeit for eco-friendly products — Universal Pictures will begin promoting “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” this month. The animated movie, set for release March [...]

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President Obama is dividing Americans through the tactics of the 1960s radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, charged Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a speech at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. “You all know the liberal strategy,” McConnell said. “Pick a target, freeze it, isolate it and defeat it.” The senator summarized the Obama administration’s [...]

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(FIRSTCOASTNEWS) — ORANGE PARK, Fla. — At the Orange Park party store it was caught on camera. “There she goes. One more time. She loads a little bit more, turns her back to the door and loads a little bit more and she’s on her way home,” said Dana Zaifert. Zaifert was pointing to a shoplifter stuffing [...]

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Supporters of a war memorial cross deemed unconstitutional last year by a federal court plan to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, amid a growing fight nationwide over the use of religious symbols to honor fallen troops. A nonprofit legal firm, Liberty Institute in Washington, planned to file its petition Thursday to [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — A father shot dead a young couple after allegedly becoming upset that they deleted his daughter on Facebook. Marvin Potter, 60, has been charged with the first degree murders of Billy Payne Jr, 36, and his 23-year-old girlfriend Billie Jean Hayworth, police said today. His friend Jamie Curd, 38, has also been charged in connection [...]

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(Washington Times) — Fast running out of money, solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC last summer sold off nearly $60 million worth of inventory for less than $20 million in cash to a newly formed corporate entity closely tied to the company’s biggest investors, records show. Backed by $535 million in federal loan guarantees but burning through the [...]

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(Washington Times) — The Pentagon is retaining its longtime ban on women serving in infantry, armor and special operations ground combat units, but will open up 14,000 new support positions at the battalion level, closer to the front lines. Congress ordered the review two years ago, prompting a debate inside the Joint Chiefs of Staff on [...]

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(NEWSWITHVIEWS) — Writing for WorldNetDaily, Bob Unruh reports a refreshing story of how individual sovereign states are beginning to push back against federal overreach. Unruh writes, “State and local officials in surging numbers are telling Washington they simply won’t cooperate with any plans to detain Americans the federal government may choose to describe as [...]

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While Republican presidential candidates were bruising each other on the campaign trail, rising GOP star Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida took aim at the current occupant of the White House to help kick off the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in the nation’s capital. “Obama might be a great father, but he is a terrible president,” [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new contestant in the who-can-top-this outrageous new fast food item: the bacon milkshake from Jack in the Box. The bacon shake is made with no actual bacon, just real vanilla ice cream, bacon-flavored syrup, whipped topping and a maraschino cherry, according to the website. We were [...]

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(AP) — Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed. The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, saying it was a violation of the civil rights [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Greece’s political leaders have agreed with foreign creditors on steep austerity cuts, officials in Athens said Thursday, hours after a dangerous deadlock stalled talks on a new rescue package designed to stave off a chaotic default. A senior official in Prime Minister Lucas Papademos’ office said an announcement would be issued shortly. Local media reported [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The Supreme Court has nine justices, but if the constitutional fight over same-sex marriage reaches them this year, the decision will probably come down to just one: a California Republican and Reagan-era conservative who has nonetheless written the court’s two leading gay rights opinions. JusticeAnthony M. Kennedy, 75, often holds the court’s [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Federal and state officials on Thursday announced a landmark $26-billion agreement with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers to settle investigations involving foreclosure abuses and try to stabilize the housing market. The deal would give $17 billion in relief to current homeowners, mostly by reducing the amount of principal they owe on [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned. The first 10 states to receive the waivers are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, [...]

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(CNN) — Although the U.S. focus remains on exerting diplomatic and economic pressure on Syria, the Pentagon and the U.S. Central Command have begun a preliminary internal review of U.S. military capabilities, CNN has learned. The options are being prepared in the event President Barack Obama were to call for them. Two senior administration officials who [...]

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itt Romney and Foster Friess, a wealthy donor to conservative causes, were walking out of an event together a few months ago when Mr. Friess broke the news: After backing Mr. Romney for president four years ago, he was getting behind Rick Santorum this time around. “He couldn’t quite figure out why Rick was even bothering [...]

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A 16-year-old has been charged with slashing the throat of a woman who police said read Bible verses to him as he held a knife to her throat last week in Shelby. The 32-year-old woman underwent surgery and was expected to recover.

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A Newark thief was killed early Saturday after he got into a scuffle with a former high school wrestler while trying to rob the man, according to reports. Cops say Gian Davis, 30, approached two local college kids at around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday and asked them for change, NBC New York reported.

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MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. – A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said Wednesday.

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The shark from “Jaws” was not this big – not even close. Fishermen in Pakistan reeled in a massive 40-foot whale shark Tuesday and sold it for a tidy $18,750, The Express Tribune newspaper reports. The largest confirmed whale shark on record was 41 feet long, according to ABCNews.com.

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Folks who want to know more about the Bible and improve their English can do both through a unique study that uses sentence diagramming to unlock biblical understanding. A retired English teacher, Shirley Forsen of Raymore developed Diagramming the Scripture because she believes the art of sentence diagramming is dying. “It’s needed, basic and foundational … [...]

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Religious-right leaders are slamming a green evangelical group for casting support for Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut power plant mercury emissions as a “pro-life” position. In a lengthy statement, religious leaders including Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, officials with Focus on the Family and other groups that [...]

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Russian scientists are reporting success in their quest to drill into Lake Vostok, a huge body of liquid water buried under the Antarctic ice. It is the first time such a breakthrough has been made into one of the more than 300 sub-glacial lakes known to exist on the White Continent. Researchers believe Vostok can give them [...]

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Following her departure from the Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity in the wake of the massive attacks waged on it by Planned Parenthood following news that it would cut its funding, Karen Handel slammed the abortion business. As LifeNews reported Tuesday, Handel, a top Komen official who was said to be instrumental in putting [...]

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Kickstarter, a website that helps entrepreneurs raise funds, is helping an ambitious Irish woman to bring the historic Irish liquor poitín (pronounced puh-cheen) to the United States. It’s her dream to have 1661 Poitín as a regular liquor found in US bars. The liquor, made with malted barley grain or potatoes, is very potent. It was [...]

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Like the biblical good Samaritan, Brian Burns of Pinole stopped to help an injured traveler. He nearly paid for it with his life. More than five years later, the financial and physical toll that ensued from a horrific freeway accident threatens to cost the former water district plumber his home.

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Is this Iceland’s legendary river worm? The footage was taken by a local resident and caused a stir when it appeared on the national broadcaster’s webpage. The river worm is the most famous monster in Icelandic folklore, first mentioned in 1345. But skeptics argue that the video shows an ordinary fishing net moving in the [...]

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The Obama administration’s appointment of a public advocate for immigrant concerns about law enforcement policies makes a “mockery of the laws of the United States,” the National Border Patrol Council said Wednesday. “The Obama administration took its next step toward amnesty for illegal aliens by naming an advocate for illegal aliens and those concerned about immigration [...]

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Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann’s upcoming talk at the university has been the target of a coal and gas interest group that would like the university to “disinvite” him. On Facebook and a website, Common Sense Movement and the Secure Energy for America Political Action Committee urge supporters to send letters to local newspapers criticizing [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new contestant in the who-can-top-this outrageous new fast food item: the bacon milkshake from Jack in the Box.

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The Riverside County district attorney’s office will file animal cruelty charges against a Menifee man accused of beating a 9-year-old Chihuahua to death with a golf club, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday. Larry Edward Jaurequi, 58, was arrested Jan. 26 after neighbors allegedly saw him walk up to the dog, which had wandered into [...]

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Alaskans can add one more woe to the problems that come with a long, cold winter full of heavy snow: weary moose. It’s actually gone beyond weary, wildlife advocates say, because moose are starving, perishing on railroad tracks and slamming through automobile windshields along highways where they go to escape the deep snow.

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Alaska’s moon rocks disappeared on Sept. 6, 1973. A fire set by an arsonist had torn through the state transportation museum in Anchorage, where the four rocks had been on display. The fragments, each smaller than a pea, were among 48 pounds of lunar material retrieved four years earlier by astronauts aboard Apollo 11. President Nixon gave [...]

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Student loan debt is pushing an increasing number of young people and their parents toward bankruptcy, according to a survey released Tuesday. More than four-fifths of bankruptcy attorneys say they’ve seen a notable jump in the number of potential clients with student loan debt, with nearly half the lawyers reporting a significant increase in such cases, [...]

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As Gustavo Vargas drove off from a Harvey strip club after a night of drinking, he kept taunting his three buddies by screaming “You guys ready to die, you guys ready to die?” His friends thought he was just “fooling around” but grew worried as Vargas kept yelling and “driving crazy” down the highway. Eduardo Rodriguez, [...]

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Will A be the new AA+? Perhaps, if the S&P follows through with its latest threat. Bloomberg reports that, “the U.S., lacking a plan to contain $1 trillion deficits, faces the prospect of another rating cut in six to 24 months depending on the outcome of November elections, according to John Chambers of Standard & [...]

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In a vineyard in Moravia, the Arctic chill striking Europe has some people jumping with joy. Winemakers in southeast Czech Republic, waiting for a dip in temperatures during an unusually warm winter, finally got the deep chill they needed to harvest grapes for the most prestigious part of their business – ice wine.

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You thought you found your one true love online, but now you’ve been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven’t helped. Your friends are tired of your whining. Forget a pampering makeover to help heal your broken heart this Valentine’s Day. Go for [...]

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A 6-year-old Texas boy is recovering after being attacked by a mountain lion while walking with his family at Big Bend National Park. Rivers Hobbs was attacked late Sunday by the animal as his family returned to their room from the park’s main lodge, MyFoxAustin.com reports. “It sneaked up on me,” Hobbs told the station.

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The procedure was carried out in Southampton, Hants, as part of a government initiative to drive down teenage pregnancies. As many as nine secondary schools in the city are thought to have been involved. But it has caused a backlash from parents who weren’t aware that their daughters had been fitted with the 4cm device, which sits [...]

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A Virginia lawmaker is calling on the Air Force to reverse a decision to remove a Latin reference to “God” from a logo after an atheist group complained. Rep. Randy Forbes, (R-VA), said the Air Force removed the logo several weeks ago from the Rapid Capabilities Office. The patch included a line written in Latin that [...]

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A federal judge in Michigan has decided to allow a claim of civil-rights violations against the city of Dearborn, brought by four Christians who were arrested at the city’s Arab Fest, to move forward. It was just days ago when WND reported that a Detroit judge had awarded some $100,000 in attorney’s fees in another case [...]

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The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank’s annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies [...]

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As Rick Santorum counted up his victories Tuesday night, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney signaled the campaign would take a tougher approach toward his resurgent rival and portray him as a Washington insider.

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A second man alleged to have made illegal threats against “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone has agreed to plead guilty, according to a defense lawyer. Jesse Morton, also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, was detained in Morocco last May in connection with alleged threats posted on the Revolution Muslim website after “South Park” [...]

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After an extended period of silence, CNN has suspended political contributor Roland Martin for his controversial tweets that were interpreted as homophobic by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and others.

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A veteran Denver morning news anchor got more bite than she bargained for in her coverage of an uplifting story of a dog rescued from a frozen reservoir after the dog bit her on the lip, live on air. Kyle Dyer, anchor for the morning and noon broadcasts of Denver’s NBC affiliate, 9NEWS, was interviewing the [...]

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The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops – comprising the 65 Orthodox Christian bishops of the United States, Canada, and Mexico – has thrown its weight behind the opposition to the Obama administration’s mandate that all insurance carriers provide sterilization and contraception free of charge, including FDA-approved contraceptives that induce abortions.

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An expert says the orca that was rescued by a diver yesterday off the Coromandel did not struggle because she knew she was being helped. Rhys Cochrane filmed the stricken whale whose tail was caught up in crayfish pot line. The orca is female and is estimated to be between six and eight years old.

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A judge in New Jersey has decided to put a church congregation back in its building as the arguments move forward over exactly who controls the facility members built and paid for in years gone by. The ruling comes from Judge Philip S. Carchman of the Superior Court of New Jersey, appellate division, who issued a [...]

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GLENDALE, AZ – A pregnant 17-year-old Glendale girl says she grabbed a gun and opened fire on a man breaking in to her house. Laycee Lowe pulled the trigger through the doggy door hoping it would scare off the man.

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Turkey will continue to uphold [...]

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On learning that Susan G. Komen for the Cure was about to defund Planned Parenthood, both traditional media outlets and leftist media sites exploded with indignant rage. Hysterical bloggers on left-wing websites declared that Komen had joined the GOP “War on Women,” and claimed thousands of women would be harmed or even left to die [...]

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Predicted by those who have adopted Al Gore’s theories about global warming are parched crop fields, wars over remaining traces of water, hurricanes, drought, floods, heat waves, cold waves, desertification, volcano eruptions, food shortages and smog. His “Inconvenient Truth” movie released in 2006 casts as inevitable such disasters should people around the globe not choose to [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I’m about to engage in an act of civil disobedience. With the announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services that it will require all employers to provide health insurance to their employees that includes coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, I am prepared to stand up and say without equivocation [...]

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By Tom Snyder, Ph.D. I’ve only been a conservative for half my life, but even I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears when, all of a sudden, Ann Coulter, that paragon of paleo-conservatism, wrote an article titled, “3 Cheers for Romneycare.” Have I entered some parallel universe? I asked myself. Has General Zod of Krypton spirited me [...]

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By John Griffing When Republicans and Democrats unite to prop up a corrupt regime like the Obama administration, it is relevant to ask what purpose, what shared goal unites them. Furthermore, when two such diametrically opposed camps repeatedly, and with almost pathological zeal, advance causes that damage their own political standing and even jeopardize their possibility [...]

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“Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your Cabinet?” A woman attending the last Republican debate in Florida asked this of the four Republican rivals. Oh, for crying out loud! Ethnic-based Cabinet appointees? Do we still need to go out and “seek” people of a certain color or religion to show “fairness [...]

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There is little question that our world today is adrift in a sea of propaganda. Some of it comes from government, but a good deal of it comes from partisans of all stripes. And sometimes they bear the stamp of legitimacy. In theory, a market economy should take care of this problem: News outlets that contort [...]

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In September of 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama did an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. While it was a risk, inasmuch as Obama does not speak as well extemporaneously as with a teleprompter, it was a strategically sound move. The Fox audience might have been more hostile than most, but they didn’t have instant feedback, [...]

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You walk into a large hall after paying a nominal admission fee. Every flat surface is covered with rifles, shotguns, handguns and knives. There are booths selling militaria. There are Russian bayonets from the Cold War. There are Japanese swords. There are Nazi emblems. There are German steel-pot helmets. There is a booth bearing an [...]

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If Newt’s wives, Herman’s women and Mitt’s W-2s are subject to media scrutiny, Barry’s books should be subject as well. Happily, Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson thinks so too. This past Sunday Carlson and his crew showed up in Chicago for a little intel gathering around the dinner table of terrorists-turned-socialites Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Carlson [...]

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When a longtime reader sends me a well-meaning but anti-liberty email, it makes me question my own writing skills because his words make it clear that he doesn’t really understand what I’m saying. Such was the case with an email I recently received from a long-time reader that read, in part: I read today your editorial about [...]

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Newt Gingrich has billed himself as the more “consistent conservative” in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. According to Gingrich, he engineered the 1995 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, balanced the budget and reformed welfare. If that is the case, why wouldn’t all conservatives want this man in the White House? [...]

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When we were colonists and fought a war against the king and Parliament so that we could secede from the British Empire and be independent of it, we also fought for the value of personal freedom. That is the idea that in matters of personal choice, the government should play no role. The king only [...]

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Since Obama didn’t show for the hearing in Georgia ["Judge says Obama can be on Georgia ballot"], shouldn’t he have been held in contempt of court like any U.S. citizen would have been? Was he not held in contempt because he has diplomatic immunity as a foreigner? It appears the judge in this case was [...]

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One of you geniuses at WND should see if Judge Michael Malihi filed his oath of office within the requirements of the statutes of the State of Georgia. If he filed incorrectly, too early, too late, had his oath administered by someone who failed to file his or her oath of office within the requirements, or [...]

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I certainly believe there are some very questionable things going on in the GOP, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a conspiracy to get Mitt Romney elected. I do believe that the party is now controlled by a bunch of egghead elitist progressives (nice name for socialists). Considering the fact that these [...]

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The news media is rife with reports accusing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces of killing at least 67 civilians in the rebel stronghold of Homs. The reports are the latest claims charging Assad’s soldiers and militiamen engaged in wholesale atrocities against unarmed civilians. The vast majority of reports rely on claims by local, unnamed activists. Many English-language news [...]

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Supporters of a bill dubbed the “Tim Tebow law” have reason to celebrate in Virginia, as H.B. 947 – which would give homeschool students access to public school athletic activities – passed today 59-39 in the Virginia House of Delegates. The bill sponsored by Virginia Delegate Rob Bell is based on a similar law in Florida [...]

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Editor’s note: This is another in a series of “WND/WENZEL POLLS” conducted exclusively for WND by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies. WASHINGTON – For critics of Barack Obama, 2012 has been portrayed as a do-or-die year for the country – an election that will determine whether America stays on the road [...]

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Having given up on pillorying Mitt Romney for plundering his way to vast wealth – because, unfortunately, it isn’t true – the NFM (Non-Fox Media) seem to have settled on denouncing him as a rich jerk. Liberals are disgusted by people who made their own money, as Romney did at Bain Capital. But they admire ill-gotten [...]

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me Philippians 4:13

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Rick Santorum swept all three contests on Tuesday, winning as expected in Missouri and Minnesota and stunning Mitt Romney in Colorado. Many conservatives believe the results altered the state of the GOP race in major ways, but Human Events Political Editor John Gizzi says Mitt Romney is still the man to beat. “There’s some latent doubtfulness [...]

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(POLITICO) — The Obama administration shows a remarkable disdain for the Constitution. From the unconstitutional individual mandate to unconstitutional political appointments, no clause seems sacred to President Barack Obama. Sadly, that now includes even the freedom of religion — the first right enshrined in the Bill of Rights. We now know the finer details of the [...]

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Not hard to do. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: My ex-boyfriend and I had a very amicable break-up. I know this because [...]

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Right-leaning radio host Mark Levin launched a scathing attack on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today, labeling the former Massachusetts governor “sleazy” and “poisonous.” On his Facebook page today, Levin tells Romney, “Conservatives have had enough of your sleazy campaign tactics.” Levin pointed to a CNN report, which noted that in the wake of Rick Santorum’s three-state [...]

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(POLITICO) — Rush Limbaugh mocked the Republican establishment on his radio show Wednesday for being “shocked” by Rick Santorum’s three-state win, saying, “I can’t believe how insulated they are.” “They’re literally shocked. The Republican establishment had no idea this was percolating out there. I can’t believe how insulated they are,” Limbaugh said. “To look at the [...]

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CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – South Carolina’s attorney general sued President Barack Obama’s administration on Tuesday over the federal government’s rejection of the state’s new voter identification law, arguing it would not disenfranchise any potential voters. The Obama administration in December blocked South Carolina’s law, signed by Republican Governor Nikki Haley in May, because of concerns [...]

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney flipped in 2005 to take a stance similar to the Obama administration on hospital mandates for the morning-after pill for rape victims, according to news reports from seven years ago. According to a Boston Globe article dated Dec. 9, 2005, Romney reversed course on the state’s emergency-contraception law, saying all hospitals [...]

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(GUARDIAN) — Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today’s progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence and self-doubt, they will not shout stop. Doing [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — President Obama has moved ahead of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Virginia for the first time in Quinnipiac University’s polling, according to a survey released Wednesday. Mr. Obama leads Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, 47 percent to 43 percent in the latest Quinnipiac poll of the crucial swing state. The same [...]

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(ASSOCIATED PRESS) WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House is trying Wednesday to give President Barack Obama the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that has been sought by both Republican and Democratic presidents. The legislation, expected to pass, allows the president to pick out specific items in spending bills for elimination. Currently, the president [...]

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES0 — Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace. The FAA Reauthorization Act, which [...]

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(POLITICO) — House Republicans plan to include in their insider-trading legislation a so-called Pelosi provision to strengthen rules that govern lawmakers’ participation in initial public offerings. The plan will be part of a package of amendments to the STOCK Act expected to be released Tuesday evening. The Senate passed its own version of the ethics lesislation [...]

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(POLITICO) — For gay rights advocates celebrating Tuesday’s same-sex marriage ruling, it’s not all good news. By overturning California’s Proposition 8 but stopping short of declaring a federal constitutional right for gays to marry, the Ninth Circuit dashed hopes it would spur a major national debate on the issue and nudge President Barack Obama into an [...]

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You never know who you may meet mucking around a remote Canadian village. Take Combermere, Ontario, where mega-talented Christian artist Michael O’Brien pours forth enough work to stagger ten ordinary souls. Not content with merely producing best-selling novels, O’Brien writes apologetics and essays, paints prolifically and illustrates books for other authors. On his days off he [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Alejandrina Cabrera, a candidate with limited English skills, will not be on the upcoming City Council ballot in San Luis, Ariz., the state’s Supreme Court decided Tuesday. Cabrera, who was born in Yuma, Ariz., but raised in Mexico, had spent 10 years working as a political activist in San Luis, an agricultural [...]

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(THE HILL) — Secret Service agents stopped a man who attempted to “glitter bomb” Mitt Romney after his speech Wednesday night. As Romney, who lost primary contests in Missouri and Minnesota, was shaking hands with supporters, a man approached and tried to throw glitter on him. Romney’s protective detail pulled the candidate back and escorted the [...]

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(FOXBUSINESS) — WND Editor Joseph Farah explains how he’s trying to pressure Republicans to hold to their promises on raising the debt ceiling in the coming political battle of 2012.

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I used to think I was a lobbyist. I registered as a lobbyist. I identified myself as a lobbyist. I pled guilty to crimes relating to my lobbying activities. I went to prison as a lobbyist. And I have been speaking out against the system I played so well … as a former lobbyist. But, [...]

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses on a razor-thin margin but has been in the also-ran category since. Until tonight, when he won the Missouri caucuses and was leading in both Minnesota and Colorado. According to Digital Journal results, with two-thirds of the vote counted in Missouri, he had 55 percent of the [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Recent Iranian naval activity has [...]

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As the 2012 political year unfolds, Americans are looking for ways to express themselves. Only the WND Superstore brings you unique, original, removable, transferable, permanent bumper stickers that last for years! Pithy, powerful and patriotic, they can reach a lot of people. Campaign managers will tell you that one bumper sticker on your vehicle is worth about $400 [...]

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An administrative law judge in Georgia who held hearings on citizens’ complaints that Barack Obama isn’t eligible to be president and so shouldn’t be on the 2012 presidential ballot in the state failed to follow U.S. Supreme Court precedent, according to one of the attorneys representing clients bringing the complaints. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp [...]

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WASHINGTON – WND’s international scoop Sunday on a new threat by Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel was read by millions around the world over the last three days. Some of them, however, didn’t read it in WND – and that has Editor Joseph Farah bugged. Yesterday, he confronted London Daily Mail [...]

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Amid a three-pronged attack on the U.S. Constitution, talk-radio host Michael Savage reminded his listeners that America’s Founding Fathers built into the nation’s founding document checks and balances that anticipated the rise of a dictator who would try to seize power. Barack Obama is the type of “petty dictator” the Founders envisioned, Savage told his national [...]

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State and local officials in surging numbers are telling Washington they simply won’t cooperate with any plans to detain Americans the federal government may choose to describe as “belligerents.” The issue centers on provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, signed by President Obama, for the indefinite and rights-free detention of those Washington cites [...]

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A patriotic organization is launching a billboard campaign intended to undermine the efforts to advertise and promote Shariah, the Islamic law that calls for beheadings, executions and amputations, across America. The group, Stop Islamization of Nations, is buying ad space for a billboard calling on people to learn the dark side of Shariah law. The effort’s [...]

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JERUSALEM – As Islamic groups gain power throughout the Middle East, Christians here fear for their safety and are concerned about their role with regard to the future of the volatile region. “I fear for the Christians of the Middle East because it’s a bad situation for them,” Lebanese parliamentarian Samy Gemayel told WND. Gemayel, a senior [...]

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By Fritz Wenzel WASHINGTON – When it comes to the personal appeal of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, there are few new faces on the national political scene with better skills. A Hispanic with a quick wit and a faster smile, he is a happy warrior who refuses to accept the liberal premise that government [...]

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By Clare M. Lopez After forcing the FBI and CIA to purge their counterterrorism training programs of all references to “Islam” in “Islamic terrorism,” the Muslim Brotherhood in America has turned its sights on the New York Police Department (NYPD). Writers from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law have posted [...]

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Does anybody really want to stop the killing now? You can. If you think you are ending abortion by attending conventions, symposiums and protests, this column is NOT for you. If you think 1,200,000 U.S. abortions each year is sufficient progress in 39 years, then go back to doing whatever it is you do. One thing [...]

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In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn’t think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive. Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of individual freedom. Only then did [...]

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Let’s think about the kind of mess that we’re in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 percent. Social Security expenditures are more than $700 billion a year. According to the 2009 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports, by 2030, 49 percent of [...]

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When people voice their disgust with the legal system, it’s not merely because of such obvious miscarriages of justice as O.J. Simpson and Casey Anthony being found not guilty by a jury of their (really stupid) peers or the nuisance lawsuits filed against doctors, forcing them to insist on unnecessary tests and procedures simply to [...]

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Last Thursday, Fox News Detroit aired a revealing segment on my AFDI/SIOA Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on honor killing and Islamic law, which will be held on April 29 in Dearborn, Mich. The segment was originally supposed to air last Sunday, the day that the multiple first-degree murder verdict came down in the Shafia [...]

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Ahh, the wide world of diplomatic nuance! During the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Prince Metternich’s aide told him the Russian ambassador had died during the night. After a few thoughtful moments, Metternich said, “I wonder what he meant by that?” From Metternich, now, to Leon Panetta! Panetta told David Ignatius of the Washington Post that he [...]

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Celebrations resounded far too prematurely on Jan. 23, when a unanimous Supreme Court appeared to be returning our personal privacy in United States v. Jones. The court ruled that it is unconstitutional for authorities to secretly place a Global Positioning System (GPS) device on a person’s physical property (in this case, the defendant’s Jeep) to [...]

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Maybe you saw me lay out the new, updated, expanded “No More Red Ink” campaign on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Fox Business Channel show Monday. It’s pretty exciting stuff. It’s what keeps me optimistic about taking our country back – despite the sad state of affairs in our presidential campaign for 2012. I invite you to hear more [...]

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Dear Mr. Farah, I agree with you on the natural born citizen issue. However, I would like to suggest a simpler, easier to understand and test for whether or not any individual is a natural born citizen. All anyone needs to know about whether or not a person is an NBC is the answer to this question: [...]

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Dear Mr Farah, As you might have guessed, for reasons that completely elude me you have indeed struck a sore point at Commentary magazine. I admire you greatly, so there is a certain pleasure in finding myself in the same boat with you … reflected glory and all that sort of thing. For myself, I was a [...]

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While Americans are busy trying to find out what to cut back on because of ever-increasing prices, Big Brother government is equally busy finding ways to decrease our freedoms. Now the feds want to severely limit our access to various nutritional supplements. Americans use various supplements in large numbers every day. If people didn’t think [...]

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Thanks, Joseph, for continuing to stand strong for LIBERTY and JUSTICE in America. I was shocked recently to hear radio talker Neal Boortz “dis” you for your view on the “natural born” topic. Your position seems very “black and white” to me and should be for anyone who insists on supporting the U.S. Constitution, not just [...]

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“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.” John 10:11

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Stirs things up. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doc., everytime I drink coffee, [...]

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(REUTERS) — U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law enforcement and corporate sources said. But U.S. investigators have found little to substantiate allegations of phone hacking inside the [...]

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(PROSPECT.ORG) — For most people, the “birther” conspiracy—centered on the belief that Barack Obama wasn’t a natural-born American citizen—ended when the president released his long-form birth certificate to the public last April. Birther claims were always bogus, but the release of the birth certificate was supposed to nail the coffin shut. For a while, it [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — When Dawn and John MacGlashan had their baby twins in 2009 they were devastated to learn that while their daughter Molly was perfectly healthy, her sister Lilly had a devastating cancer. The toddler has since spent her short existence fighting for the chance of a normal life and at one point was given just [...]

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(REUTERS) — Tightening international sanctions against Iran look set to shrink its economy, push up inflation and further erode its currency, but they may fail to deliver a knock-out blow that forces Tehran to compromise on its nuclear ambitions. Few areas of Iran’s economy now remain untouched by the sanctions. Because of payments difficulties, Iranian ships [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A two-year-old boy with “three parents” – his lesbian mother, her partner and a gay father – is at the centre of an Appeal Court test case on the status of “alternative” families. The mother says she made a pact with the father during a restaurant meeting before the boy was conceived that she [...]

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(REUTERS) — Despite his strong showing in early state contests in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney’s support nationwide has dipped slightly during the past month, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. Romney was backed by 29 percent of Republican voters in the telephone poll conducted February 2-6, down from [...]

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(USA TODAY) — New polls show Rick Santorum poised for a “big day” in today’s GOP presidential contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Bragging rights are the only thing at stake in the three states, which won’t award delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa until district and state conventions or caucuses later this year. The [...]

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(MIAMI HERALD) — A Blanche Ely High School teacher once in hot water over “holy water” now finds herself facing disciplinary action again after a Haitian-American student complained that she called him “little chocolate boy.” Reading teacher Leslie Rainer, 46, could be suspended over the complaint filed with the school district in January. In it, a [...]

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Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) is denouncing the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular for imposing new regulations that have already forced six coal-fired power plants to announce plans to shut down. “That’s hard-working people who are going to be on the unemployment line and this is just ridiculous.” Johnson explains the different regulations that [...]

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(LATIMES) — The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation, but for one rocket engineer the tragedy became a personal burden and created a lifelong quest to challenge the bureaucratic ethics that had caused the tragedy. Roger Boisjoly was an engineer at solid rocket booster manufacturer Morton Thiokol [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — A British tourist is missing after falling more than 100ft overboard from the world’s biggest cruise ship off the coast of Mexico. The Mexican navy and coastguard are still searching for the unnamed man, who is aged 30, but there is little hope he will be found alive. He was among more than 4,500 passengers [...]

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A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a lower court ruling on Tuesday in striking down a voter-approved definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The 2-1 decision states that the referendum known as Proposition 8 violates the 14th Amendment on equal protection. [...]

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(PUNDITPRESS) — Some developing news in the case of Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, who is a fugitive on drug and fraud charges. In 2009 it was discovered that he was involved in a plot to assassinate a rival and bribe Mexican officials. This has gone public, as has his $200,000 in fundraising done for Barack Obama. Obama [...]

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In the second part of our conversation with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), we discuss the legislative wish list DeMint would pursue if Republicans do well enough in November. “We must pass a constitutional amendment that requires us to balance our budget every year … if we don’t do that we’re going to bankrupt the country, regardless [...]

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(LOCAL10) — Sunday was not a good day for Tom Brady. His team, the New England Patriots, once again failed to beat Eli Manning and the New York Giants during a Super Bowl matchup in front of the largest television audience in history. So it came as no surprise to see Brady sitting on the field, [...]

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By Jack Minor The Kansas State board of Healing Arts apparently is saying political perspectives are more important than medical knowledge for its doctors. That’s the result of the board’s decision this week to reject a request from Dr. Terrence Lakin for a license to practice medicine in the state. The decision came because of his perspective that [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — RICHMOND — The Virginia Senate on Monday voted to repeal the state’s nearly 20-year-old law limiting handgun purchases to one per month, delivering a long-sought victory to advocates of gun rights and the Second Amendment. The legislation, signed by Gov. L. Douglas Wilder in 1993, was intended to curb illegal gun trafficking from [...]

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(MONEYLAND.TIME) — Smiling seniors playing golf or mah-jongg under a bright warm sun served as Americans’ dominant image of retirement 30 years ago. More recently, the vision has been of smiling retirees greeting customers in front of a Walmart. The Sun City idyll self-destructed years ago, done in by our surprising longevity and a flawed pension [...]

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(KXTV-TV) DAVIS, CA – It started as an idea for a Davis family of six, that quickly developed a life of its own. The Dunnings took a vow to stop spending money, not a single dime, for the month of February. Mom Shelley Dunning decided to go all the way with the experiment, So on Jan. 31, [...]

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(ABCLOCAL.GO) — An Indiana elections official said Monday that GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum still lacks the signatures needed to make it onto the state’s May primary ballot. Santorum has questioned Marion County’s decision to throw out 49 signatures. But Cindy Mowery, Republican member of Marion County Board of Voter Registration, said the signatures are still [...]

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(ABC NEWS) CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Employing some of his most conservative rhetoric to date, Mitt Romney referred to morning after pills as “abortive pills” during a speech at a rally in Colorado where he told the crowd about the importance of electing a president who will protect the “right to worship God.” “I’m just distressed as [...]

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(TDN) — Looking to climb back into statewide offices they haven’t controlled for nearly two decades, Oregon Republicans are opening their primary election for statewide offices to voters unaffiliated with any political party. The Republican Central Committee approved the change in a vote on Sunday, and state election officials say they’re working out a plan to [...]

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(ABC NEWS) — The beleaguered Los Angeles elementary school that had two teachers arrested for child sex abuse in the past week was closed today as authorities moved to replace the entire teaching and support staff. The entire 128-person staff at Miramonte Elementary school would be temporarily transferred out of the school for the remainder of [...]

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(NEWS) — HEY kids, here’s something original – a Christopher Walken impersonation! The man who demanded more cowbell on Saturday Night Live certainly had his wish granted – he’s now officially the most mimicked man in the history of life*. But the difference between Chris Ferretti and your everyday, walkabout, Walken mirror is that C-Fez makes sweet, [...]

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(REUTERS) — China’s annual economic growth could be cut nearly in half this year if Europe’s debt crisis tips the world economy into a recession, putting pressure on Beijing to unveil “significant” fiscal stimulus, the International Monetary Fund said. The Fund outlined its central scenario for China’s 2012 growth outlook in its global outlook in January, [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Katy Perry dedicated a song to Tim Tebow during a pre-game Super Bowl performance. The Firework singer’s Christian pastor parents, Mary and Keith Hudson, are rumoured to be eager to set her up with the Denver Broncos player following her split from husband Russell Brand in December.

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(DAILYMAIL) — Just two glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day can treble the risk of mouth cancer, ministers warn. They say that drinking slightly more than the recommended safe alcohol limits can massively raise the likelihood of many life-threatening illnesses. In stark TV adverts to be aired this week, the Government will [...]

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(CBSNEWS) — The entire faculty at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates, the Los Angeles school superintendent told parents Monday. Superintendent John Deasy told parents and media on Monday night that the Miramonte Elementary School staffers are being replaced because a [...]

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(USA TODAY) — University of Wisconsin police have opened an investigation into new allegations against a former athletic official accused of trying to fondle a male student at a pre-Rose Bowl party. Chancellor David Ward issued a statement Monday saying campus police have been investigating the new claims involving former associate athletic director John Chadima since [...]

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(BUZZFEED) — It’s pretty crazy to see how graphic design shifts ever so slightly throughout the years. From typography to the actual iconic images on our favorite cereals, there seems to be a pattern in advertising where they get bigger and bolder over time. All I know is cereal mascots will forever be engrained in my sugary [...]

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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — Students at a Pennsylvania university can obtain the “morning-after” pill from an unusual source — a vending machine at the campus health center. The vending machine at Shippensburg University’s Etter Health Center provides the Plan B emergency contraceptive along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests. Vice President for Student Affairs Roger Serr says the [...]

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LONDON (AP) — He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions — Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And it made him a star, mobbed by fans on both sides [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — The federal government ran a deficit for the 40th straight month in January, according to the latest estimate from Congress’ scorekeeper, continuing a record streak that dates back to the end of the George W. Bush administration and covers every month President Obama has been in office. The Congressional Budget Office said the [...]

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(SPECTATOR.ORG) — There is no conservative writer that I admire more than Ann Coulter. She’s smart as hell and, more importantly, she is courageous. She has always been willing to write what other conservatives believe but don’t have the guts to say in print. She has never played it safe and has certainly never adjusted [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A new craze for photographing pet cats with a slice of bread on their heads has become a hit on the Internet. These are some of the bizarre photos uploaded to a Facebook group called: “Putting bread on your cat, so that people think you have a walking sandwich.”

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(ASSOCIATED PRESS) LONDON — Florence Green, the world’s last known veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said Tuesday. Briar House Care Home in King’s Lynn, England, said Green died Saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday. Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on Feb. 19, [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — The Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization dedicated since 1982 to fighting, and one day curing, breast cancer, decided to extricate itself from the culture wars by discontinuing grants to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions. The grants Komen had been making amounted to $650,000 last year, funding some 19 [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Last month turned out to be the most expensive January ever at U.S. gasoline pumps, boosted by growing economic strength. January is typically a month of falling gasoline prices because fuel demand falters in the slower travel weeks that follow the year-end holidays. Not so this year. In January, retail gasoline prices averaged $3.37 [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — A high-ranking official in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity quit Tuesday, offering a defiant letter of resignation detailing the organization’s decision about whether it should continue funding breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the [...]

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Proposition 8, through which voters in California defined marriage in their state constitution as being between one man and one woman, is unconstitutional. The decision affirmed the decision at the district court level made by Judge Vaughn Walker, a homosexual who was in a position to [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) –Clint Eastwood defended his now-controversial Chrysler ad that aired during the Super bowl, in which he implored the nation to overcome its differences and work together to revive the economy, denying any ties to President Obama and saying that the spot was intended to be apolitical. Eastwood on Monday evening gave a statement [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The Obama campaign is returning more than $200,000 in campaign donations from relatives of a fugitive and casino baron believed to be tied to political corruption in Mexico. The decision to return the money came after the contributions were flagged by The New York Times. The newspaper reported late Monday that the [...]

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(DAILY CALLER) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive [...]

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In the years after World War I, as hollow-eyed Germans pushed carts of paper money over cobble-stone streets in the hopes of finding a stale loaf of bread at the market, one man emerged who promised to make it all better. Adolf Hitler, to that point a faceless nobody with no distinction whatsoever, rose to unparalleled [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Pope Benedict unwittingly performed an exorcism of two men possessed by the Devil in the very heart of the Vatican, according to the Catholic Church’s best-known exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth. In a new book, Father Amorth, the exorcist for the diocese of Rome, gives a bizarre account of how he and two assistants brought [...]

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(NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL) — Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions, to pay for birth control. As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential elections. Catholic leaders are furious and determined to harness the [...]

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It’s the year’s biggest event for conservatives – and the biggest names on the right are gathering in force to boot President Obama from office. An all-star lineup of pundits and politicians – including Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Paul Ryan and WND Editor Joseph Farah – will speak [...]

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It may be the biggest Christian video hit in years – certainly the biggest of 2012. It’s called “Courageous” – and the title tells the story. As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes and their partners willingly stand up to the worst the world can offer, yet at the end of the day, they face a [...]

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In this podcast, Jerry Robinson on “Follow the Money Weekly” explains how to make it work, whether interest rates are up for down. He reviews the Federal Reserve and its recent decision to keep interest rates near zero, and discusses how he is navigating this low interest rate environment with precious metals, dividend paying stocks and [...]

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Sometimes as much hype is created over the advertisements during the Super Bowl as the game itself, and this year it was Ferris Bueller and Honda, Audi and its vampires, Coke, Pepsi, Clint Eastwood and Chrysler, Donald Trump and Century 21, Skechers, Best Buy and impeachment. Impeachment? Well, the idea of throwing Barack Obama out of office [...]

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney at today’s daily news briefing declined to allow a question about issues that could play a role, even if subconsciously, in the 2012 election – that of being black and Mormon. Carney allowed only 20 of the 65 reporters at the daily news briefing to ask any questions, with most [...]

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Michael Savage is a big fan of Eastwood, but when the legendary actor appeared in a Super Bowl ad that held up the government’s bailout of Chrysler as a pillar on which to build the country’s economic recovery, the talk-radio host called a foul. Eastwood’s much-discussed commercial, “It’s Halftime in America,” strikes a somber tone, noting [...]

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In New York City, powerful players in both politics and media are working to ban churches from using public school facilities for their weekend worship and are planning to enforce a Feb. 12 “eviction” notice for dozens of congregations. “Our view is that public school buildings, which are funded by taxpayers’ dollars, should not be used [...]

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By Jack Minor A long-fought battle at Hastings College in California ended up with the Supreme Court allowing enforcement of a requirement that campus organizations let all comers be members – and even run for office – no matter what they believe. The case was brought by a Christian organization whose members protested that it could allow [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – There are increasing indications that [...]

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WASHINGTON – Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, will unveil his plan to freeze borrowing in Washington in 2013 as a first step toward returning the nation to constitutionally limited government and sane economic policies – no matter who is elected president in November. The “No More Red Ink” campaign entails heavy grass-roots lobbying [...]

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The author of a new book that shows how America is buying into Adolf Hitler’s belief system regarding those who are “not human,” says the black community is much too smart to be hoodwinked by a campaign promoted by atheists during February’s Black History Month. “Atheistic evolution isn’t an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the [...]

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Following a Georgia judge’s ruling that Barack Obama is eligible to be on the state’s 2012 Democratic Party presidential ballot, the front lines in the continuing eligibility battle are being fought in Arizona. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND today his office has scheduled a news conference in Phoenix for March 1 to release findings [...]

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By Steve Baldwin In March of 2011, former Rep. John Leboutiller predicted in a News Max article that, “the tea party will select the 2012 GOP nominee.” At the time, it was a safe prediction given the strength of the tea-party movement in the 2010 elections and the influence it was expected to have on the GOP [...]

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By Brian Russell Did you hear the president say last week that Christians should support his plan to raise taxes on high-earning Americans because it’s the Christian thing to do? He quoted the New Testament, saying, “To whom much is given, much shall be required.” Now, I’m a shrink and a lawyer, not a theologian, but [...]

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Dear Dave, I’ve got auto insurance, but can you tell me what other kinds of insurance are good to have? Chris Dear Chris, The purpose of insurance is to transfer risk that you can’t afford to take. Most people can’t afford to have a heart attack and triple bypass surgery. Having to pay for something like that completely out [...]

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The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 2 on a straight party-line vote. That proves again that the feminists control the Democratic Party, and it’s also a refreshing indication that Republicans are no longer intimidated by feminist demands. VAWA was originally passed by Congress in 1994, [...]

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Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: “We don’t believe they’ve actually made the decision to go ahead with a nuclear weapon.” Before the hearing, as James Fallows of The Atlantic reports, Clapper released his “Worldwide Threat Assessment.” It [...]

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In 1942 a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers, on behalf of the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile, mortally wounded SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, who died of his wounds on June 4. Heydrich chaired the January 1942 Wannsee conference, which laid out plans for the “final solution to the Jewish question.” While Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the [...]

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Was the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem more than a place of worship? Was it, in addition, a roadmap to future events – a kind of prophetic landmark whose significance is only now revealed through the development of satellite imagery? That is the contention of an explosive new book, “Temple at the Center of Time: Newton’s Bible [...]

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If you’re a black who believes that Republicans are equivalent to the antichrist, that the tea party is the equivalent of the Klu Klux Klan and that American has done nothing but enslave and abuse blacks … if you are a black or white liberal who believes that the ills of blacks are the result [...]

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I used to think of Commentary magazine as a thoughtful, sober, intellectually honest journal – one that might even challenge conventional wisdom from time to time. Not so with regard to the question of what it means to be a constitutionally eligible presidential or vice-presidential candidate. Should you suggest the definition of “citizen” is any different [...]

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President Obama told NBC’s Matt Lauer in an interview Sunday, “I deserve a second term.” Well, let’s see. He had the courage to tell the Supreme Court off for daring to defy him in its campaign-finance law ruling. And he did it during his State of the Union speech, when they weren’t in a position to [...]

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Gov. Mitt Romney’s statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP’s nominee for president – with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen – have been [...]

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“We don’t need permission from the feds to exercise our rights!” That’s the message the Tenth Amendment Center and The Foundation for a Free Society will be bringing to the year’s biggest event for conservatives with the premiere of the explosive documentary film, “Nullification: The Rightful Remedy.” The film will premiere Feb. 9 at 5:30 p.m. at [...]

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(WASHINGTON POST) — Amy and Mark Denicore are headed to a full-blown trial to defend themselves against charges that they violated Virginia law by making their kids late to elementary school too often. The Loudoun County couple was arraigned Monday morning in juvenile and domestic relations court. Judge Pamela L. Brooks set a trial date of [...]

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments should be grounds for impeachment, or whatever action can be taken to remove her from the Supreme Court ["Supreme Court justice: U.S. Constitution inferior"]. She was never capable or experienced enough for the position in the first place. Of course, she would be roundly applauded for her comments by the Obama [...]

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This is a very disturbing topic ["Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel"]. Iran is calling Israel the aggressors? Please! Just the fact that this ayatollah considers it the duty of all Muslims to band together and destroy a whole nation of innocent men, women and children more than makes Iran and the rest of the [...]

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Mr. Farah, I have been a big fan of WND for a few years now, but lately I am getting tired of being abused for my faith. I am new to the gospel of our savior Jesus Christ, but before I became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I investigated [...]

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(COMMONDREAMS.ORG) — And now, a word about a good American being demonized, despite being long dead. Saul Alinsky is not around to defend himself, but that hasn’t kept Newt Gingrich from using his name to whip up the froth and frenzy of his followers, whose ignorance of the man is no deterrence to their [...]

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Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. Ephesians 6:8

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Got up and went. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: The Dead Horse Theory of Government The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, [...]

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is author of the new book “Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse.” “I think most of your listeners already know that we’re in a deep hole as a country and now is the time to turn it around. “We’re not looking at five or ten years out before a major meltdown.” In [...]

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(STUFF) — The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth, an official said, as dolls based on Bart, Homer and the rest of the American cartoon family joined the shapely Barbie among Western toys targeted by a new crackdown in Tehran. “The Simpsons dolls are merchandise from an animated series, of which some episodes are [...]

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You’ve heard all the Chuck Norris jokes. But this is no joke. Where does the martial arts and action-film icon write? Anywhere he wants. But he writes twice a week at WND. That’s a fact. He not only writes a weekly commentary on politics and current events that is watched by all the Big Media because he breaks news [...]

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WINONA, Minn. (WCCO) — A 9-year-old boy was suspended last week after he mimicked Michael Jackson’s crotch grab during a rendition of “Billie Jean” at school. Lenny Boberg was performing at a St. Stanislaus lip-sync fundraiser on Thursday and imitated the dancer’s signature move several times. The principal, Pat Bowlin, then approached Boberg and his mother after [...]

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(INSIDETV.EW) — The Parents Television Council is tackling Sunday’s Super Bowl controversy. British singer M.I.A. flipped off viewers during Madonna’s halftime show, a gesture that instantly drew comparisons to Janet Jackson’s live “wardrobe malfunction” in 2004. The PTC says the NFL promised the organization a clean show despite casting performers with provocative reputations. “NBC fumbled and the [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Calling the jury verdict, “a travesty,” Indiana’s former top elections official vows to appeal the decision that found him guilty of multiple counts of voter fraud, which has resulted in his temporary removal from office. Republican Secretary of State Charlie White was charged with illegally registering to vote at his ex-wife’s house and [...]

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(NYPOST) — INDIANAPOLIS — Gisele Bundchen ripped into the Patriots receivers for the failed plays she believes cost her quarterback husband Tom Brady a fourth Super Bowl ring. The Brazilian supermodel was caught on camera lambasting No. 12′s teammates after Sunday’s game in Indianapolis as she angrily defended taunts against her husband by Giants fans. Fans can [...]

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(MSNBC.MSN) — SAN FRANCISCO — VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — The deadly cold snap that has gripped Europe for more than a week wrought more havoc across the continent on Sunday, straining emergency services, grounding flights and pushing the death toll past 300. Small fishing boats covered with snow The homeless population has borne the brunt of the suffering, with dozens of people freezing to [...]

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(AMERICANPROPHET.ORG) — This may be the most difficult time the nation has ever been through as we approach this critical election year. It is hard to say too much about Mitt Romney when it is well known that regardless of what he is, or is not, he is not Barack Obama. That alone counts for [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Inseparable Lionel and Ellen Buxton are still as happy as the day they met – almost 82 years ago. The loved-up pair are one of the country’s oldest married couples having tied the knot in 1936, and 75 years later are still going strong. They have clocked up almost 200 years between them, 162 of [...]

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(STANDARD.NET) — As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues his drive to win his party’s nomination, Mormons worry they could face a barrage of negative scrutiny, much like that which engulfed President Barack Obama’s former church on Chicago’s South Side four years ago. And there is disagreement among Mormons on how aggressively the faithful, of The [...]

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(REALCLEARPOLITICS) — RON PAUL: “There’s been a big change in this country, because there’s a different understanding now. There’s a lot more people talking about free-market economics rather than Keynesian welfare-ism and interventionism. So there’s a large segment. Intellectually, that is the case. “But among the young people, there is a revolution, an intellectual revolution going [...]

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(ROSEVILLEPT) — Even two years later, Brad DeHaven has to turn away when he plays videos of his son shaking and writhing in pain as he experiences withdrawals from Oxycontin. Tears still well up in the eyes of the Granite Bay father as he speaks to students about the prescription drug addiction that overtook his son’s [...]

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(CBSNEWS) — (CBS) The HPV vaccine should be given to all males between the ages of 11 and 21, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said in its 2012 recommendations, that the human papillomavirus vaccine should be “routine” for all boys aged 11 to 12 years old [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — THE BROOKLYN teacher who was fired after calling her students the “devils spawn” on Facebook said she was eager to return to class — but the city could still stop her. “I always did my job and I was good at it,” fifth-grade teacher Christine Rubino said Sunday. “I’m sorry if I offended anyone. [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — After years of celebrating boutique meats such as Berkshire pork and heritage turkey, chefs have fallen hard for another protein. Goat has been embraced everywhere from sustainability-focused restaurants like Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and Blue Hill in New York to “Top Chef” winner Stephanie Izard’s Chicago spot Girl and the Goat. The meat [...]

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(GUARDIAN) — In a few weeks, a group of British researchers will enter the labyrinthine store of London’s Natural History Museum and remove several dark-coloured pieces of primate skull and jawbone from a small metal cabinet. After a brief inspection, the team will wrap the items in protective foam and transport them to a number of [...]

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(GUARDIAN) — The Church of England is failing gay Christian couples and must rethink the traditional, biblical portrayal of homosexuality as “idolatrous, promiscuous and exploitative”, according to one bishop. In remarks that reveal deep divisions in the church hierarchy, the Right Rev Nicholas Holtam said there were gay couples who were living faithfully and lovingly for [...]

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(REUTERS) — Maybe Tim Tebow should consider a different line of work if this Denver Broncos quarterback thing doesn’t work out, one where he’d get to live in the White House. Asked which NFL playoff quarterback they would choose for president of the United States in the coming election, more than one in four voters go [...]

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(SACBEE) — Sacramento doesn’t have many role models to follow as it tries to auction off its parking garages and meters to help finance a new sports arena. Just two major U.S. cities – Chicago and Indianapolis – have completed such privatization deals. And the biggest one, in Chicago in 2008, was a public relations nightmare. Chicagoans [...]

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(CAMPAIGNSTOPS.BLOGS.NYTIMES) — Does the national debt – which has now reached a cumulative total of $15.4 trillion — pose a serious threat to the financial viability of the United States? This is not only a debate between the left and the right; it is also a debate that pits the two wings of the Democratic party [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — What began as a murmur last year about a possible ban on thousands of dietary supplements in the U.S. has reached cacophonous levels over the last few months, as the Food and Drug Administration indicated its intent to regulate “new dietary ingredients” in current and future products. What does this mean? And, more [...]

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Google major sponsor of CPAC? The left-leaning, White House shoulder-rubbing Google will be quite visible at a leading conservative event this month. What’s up with that? Google will be a major sponsor of this year’s Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in Washington, D.C., this week. Conservative blogger Sean Hackbarth observed, “This is Google’s most aggressive attempt [...]

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(NYPOST) — She always called him “Mr. President” — not Jack. He refused to kiss her on the lips when they made love. But Mimi Alford, a White House intern from New Jersey, was smitten nonetheless. She was in the midst of an 18-month affair with the most powerful man in the world, sharing not only [...]

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It is said, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The saying is put to the test in “Chronicle,” where three teenage boys are touched by an alien entity, giving them ever-growing telekinetic power – the ability to move anything using only their minds. The boys start small, building Lego towers without touching them. But in time, they move on [...]

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(AP) — For all the pomp and excess of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show, it is likely to be a single extended middle finger by guest singer M.I.A. that is most remembered. The gesture, accompanied by a barely disguised expletive, came during a performance of Madonna’s new single, “Give Me All Your Luvin.’” At the end [...]

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(NBCSPORTS.MSNBC) — INDIANAPOLIS – Eli Manning and the Giants one-upped Tom Brady and the Patriots again, coming back with a last-minute touchdown to beat New England 21-17 Sunday night for New York’s fourth Super Bowl title. It was a rematch of the 2008 NFL championship, when Manning led New York past New England to ruin the [...]

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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ … – Ephesians 1:3

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(CITY JOURNAL) By Steven Malanga Squelching rumors this past fall of a presidential run, New Jersey governor Chris Christie observed that he had lots more to do to fix a “broken” state. He wasn’t kidding: though already the nation’s most heavily taxed state, New Jersey can balance its budget only by ignoring billions of dollars in employee [...]

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It is estimated by Pew Research that roughly 25 percent of Republicans are poor. Their annual income is in the $30,000 range. They support their party but want them to do more for the poor in America. The question is: What makes them support a political organization that does not do enough to help them? They would [...]

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Re: “Judge says Obama can be on Georgia ballot“: As I suppose you are, I am sick to death at the lack of intestinal fortitude of Judge Malihi. What threat could have been so powerful that the judge just folded with no explanation given? The greatest fear I’ve ever known for this country: Another Obama term – sans [...]

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By Jack Minor A leader in the pro-life community says he doubts former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s pro-life credentials, because the candidate for the GOP nomination for president never has stopped flip-flopping on the issue. While campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney said he would “preserve and protect” a woman’s right to choose. He later said his views [...]

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NEW YORK – A former employee of one of the world’s largest international banks who has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of evidence alleges the Internet giant PayPal and American Express are implicated in an international money-laundering scheme involving hundreds of billions of dollars. The whistleblower, John Cruz, was a relationship manager in the [...]

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President Obama is “running up the white flag” of surrender to the Taliban by ending combat missions in Afghanistan in 2013, contends former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Bolton also says he’s concerned Obama’s re-election will “gravely impair” what he described as an already “seriously weakened” U.S. national security. Bolton was speaking in an interview on “Aaron Klein [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and senior managing director of the Financial Services Group at Gilford Securities. The real unemployment rate for January 2012 is closer to 22.5 percent, not the 8.3 percent reported [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – The Russian military is looking [...]

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One hundred forty-four weeks. Some 1,010 days. That’s how long it’s been since the United States Congress actually passed a budget. While many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, planning very carefully a family strategy on how much to spend and on what, the elected leaders of the country have gotten by on omnibus spending bills in lieu of [...]

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Because WorldNetDaily has changed its name to WND, there’s big savings in store on all the classic and collectible WorldNetDaily logo apparel – and all the rest of the clothing merchandise in the WND Superstore – for a limited time. You’ll find items here available nowhere else – true WND creations – including: WorldNetDaily.com T-shirts that will [...]

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Want to watch Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots online? You can, as NBC Sports is providing live streaming of the big game. Click here to watch all the action.

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It’s no secret that Joseph Farah, once a popular guest on television news shows, was virtually blacklisted after challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility. Networks and programs that once extended invitations to me stopped cold shortly after Obama was sworn into office. If you want to fully understand the issue of constitutional eligibility, get Jerome Corsi’s best-selling “Where’s the [...]

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As winter reaches an icy hand across the whole of Europe and the Egyptian elections show the media-spun hopes of the erstwhile “Arab Spring” to be as immaterial as they were imaginative, the world democratic revolutionists, who are more accurately described as Neo-Trotskyites than neoconservatives, are at it again. One gets the distinct impression that they [...]

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By Joe Miller In March 2011, former Rep. John Leboutiller predicted in a NewsMax article that, “the tea party will select the 2012 GOP nominee.” At the time, it was a safe prediction, given the strength of the tea-party movement in the 2010 election and the influence it was expected to have on the GOP presidential primaries [...]

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Editor’s note: Michael Ackley’s columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which. My hometown! Occupy Oakland protesters struck a blow for freedom last week by vandalizing City Hall. Particularly compelling was their assault on children’s decadent artwork [...]

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Gingrich? Romney? Santorum? Paul? Obama? It seems like every time you hit a news outlet anymore, you hear comments, pro and con, about the GOP candidates, while Obama and the Democrats are preparing for whoever the challenger may be. More and more, a particular date is beginning to dominate the political landscape. Nov. 7, 2012, will [...]

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Let me level with you at the outset. I don’t agree with any of the arguments about health insurance covering birth control for woman. I’ve always believed that the decision to practice birth control is a choice of the individual and that the cost of that choice should be paid by the individual, not by insurance [...]

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Enjoying the Super Bowl in California is something of a guilty pleasure. All that raw testosterone, all that physical competition, all that awful capitalist advertising. In a state that banned dodge ball as a threat to self-esteem, the Super Bowl is, like, so yesterday. But the new California is so tomorrow. California is where Obama’s second [...]

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As a six-time undefeated middleweight world karate champion, I have a pretty good idea what makes a warrior. And there’s presently one particular presidential candidate in the political ring who wears those gloves better than the others. Even when he’s knocked down, he has astounding agility and rebound. It’s one thing to enter a ring with [...]

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(NFL) — Accustomed to being questioned by the media? Check. Knows how to handle himself in front of a crowd? Check. Unlock HQ Video HQ video delivered by Akamai Has the ability to galvanize (and divide) the American people? Check. Is on the front lines of one of the country’s hot-button political issues? Check. Yup, Tim Tebow definitely could have [...]

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At a time when more and more Americans seem to have forgotten the core principles that make their nation work, along comes Judge Andrew Napolitano with a terrific new book that answers all the big questions – and TODAY ONLY, readers can get their hardcover copy of Napolitano’s “It Is Dangerous to Be Right When [...]

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Does the math. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Accountant: Between the money you’ve put away and Social Security projections, you’re looking [...]

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(AMERICAN SPECTATOR) By Geoffrey Norman The earth has become small, and on it hops the Last Man, who makes everything small. His species is ineradicable as the flea; the Last Man lives longest. – Nietzsche So it seems it will be Mitt. And good thing he won’t be offering his main rival the second spot on the ticket. “Mitt [...]

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(ON THE COMMONS) By David Morris Is the Super Bowl a socialist enterprise? Yes the language is provocative but not, I believe, inappropriate. After all Indiana, the site of the next Super Bowl, is currently governed by those who insist government should play a minimal role and the word they, and their Republican counterparts around the country [...]

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By Reza Khalili The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people. The doctrine includes wiping out Israeli assets and Jewish people worldwide. Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — Barack Obama’s old Chrysler Sedan, which he leased for a few years before he ran for president, has now landed on the auction block. But apparently no one is interested in buying it – at least not for one million dollars

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(DETROIT FREE PRESS) — The toe and heel of the boot are scuffed and a bit dusty. The sole has a few holes, and a small sock is tucked inside. It now belongs to University of Michigan professor Jason De Leon. The boot was one of the first items he plucked out of the Sonora Desert [...]

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — Ignoring a stern U.S. threat, Egypt on Sunday referred 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, to trial before a criminal court for allegedly using illegal foreign funds to foment unrest. The decision marked a sharp escalation of the dispute between Cairo and Washington over Egypt’s crackdown on U.S.-funded groups promoting democracy and human rights. [...]

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Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN) —The truck-stop hooker is no Julia Roberts, the trucker in the cab with her no Richard Gere, and this truck stop off the highway could not be any farther from Beverly Hills, the staging ground for “Pretty Woman.” The woman sports baggy shorts, a white T-shirt and frizzy hair. Her fat middle-aged [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — A beer called Top Totty has been banned from the Strangers’ Bar in the House of Commons because its pump plate, featuring a half-naked woman, offended female MPs. Shadow equalities minister Kate Green was left ”disturbed” after seeing the 4 percent ale’s advertising in the popular parliamentary watering hole and demanded bar staff remove [...]

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(OHGIZMO) — Remember how in the movie The Matrix, humans were used as energy sources by the machines? I personally thought the idea was inefficient; why not make batteries or something? But still, it appears that we are now the machines and have been able to rig a poor cockroach up with electrodes and squeeze out some [...]

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(NEWS) — International astronomers say they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life. The team analysed data from the European Southern Observatory about a star about 22 light-years from Earth known as GJ 667C, which is known as an M-class dwarf star and puts [...]

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(NEWS.com.au) — A Sydney man who tried to extort money from friends by anonymously threatening to inject their children with the AIDS virus will spend at least two-and-a-half years in jail. Cris Anonuevo, a 43-year-old father-of-two from Quakers Hill, in Sydney’s west, pleaded guilty to 20 offences relating to anonymous letters sent to 14 families threatening [...]

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(STARNEWSONLINE) — “Swamp Loggers” won’t return to Discovery Channel for a fourth season. Cast members heard the news Tuesday night and posted it to the show’s Facebook page, which prompted comments from hundreds of disappointed fans. Bobby Goodson, owner of Goodson’s All Terrain Logging, the business on which the show is based, said Wednesday he was surprised [...]

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(VANCOUVER SUN) — LOS ANGELES — One Million Moms — a project of the American Family Association — is very angry at JC Penney. No, not because it sells sweater vests (heck, Rick Santorum is a fan of those), but because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman. And DeGeneres is — cue [...]

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(TCPALM) — If you’re grabbing lunch around St. Lucie or Martin County the next couple of months, don’t be surprised to see a bespectacled congressman with a flat-top haircut pull up in his Hummer and sit at the table next to you. Fresh off announcing he’ll run for a proposed St. Lucie-Martin-Palm Beach County seat, U.S. [...]

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(THE SPECTRUM) — A personal fitness trainer convicted of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy she worked with during 2008 and 2009 was sentenced to a minimum of one and maximum of 15 years in prison Tuesday during a hearing in 5th District Court. Suni Faith Andersen, 36, of St. George pleaded guilty in November to two [...]

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(CBC.CA) — Resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine and dark chocolate, may work differently in the body than first thought, a new study suggests. “Resveratrol has potential as a therapy for diverse diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and heart disease,” said lead study author Dr. Jay Chung, chief of the National Heart, [...]

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(HEALTHLAND.TIME) — There’s been a lot of excitement over a paper that suggests a surprising way Alzheimer’s may progress in the brain. Based on work on a unique mouse model, researchers suggest that at least one of the abnormalities that drives the disease may spread from nerve cell to nerve cell like a virus. That’s a [...]

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(MYFOXTWINCITIES) — NEW ULM, Minn. – A few weeks ago, rape tag was a game no school official or parent in New Ulm, Minn. had ever heard of. After some swift action, it’s game they don’t expect to see elementary school students playing again. Last month, a parent alerted Washington Elementary principal Bill Sprung to the [...]

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(USNEWS.MSNBC.MSN) — Adam Bevelacqua graduated from Brooklyn Law School last year with $100,000 in debt but high hopes for his future. He passed the bar on his first try in New York and had internships to highlight on his resume. And, according to his research, the school’s job placement rate for new graduates was between 90 [...]

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(Winston-Salem Journal) — Prayer is coming back to meetings of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, although there will be no mention of Jesus. At the same time, the American Civil Liberties Union is trying to stop prayers before sessions of the North Carolina General Assembly that are “explicitly sectarian and favor only one religion, Christianity,” [...]

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(BAPTISTSTANDARD) — Western Christians often think in terms of West-to-East movement when missionaries go to other countries. But more and more frequently, evangelicals arrive from the East to evangelize the West. According to Dale Irvin of New York Theological Seminary and Scott Temple of the Assemblies of God, evangelicals make up the majority of those missionaries, [...]

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WASHINGTON – He would be 101 years old tomorrow – if only he were still with us. He may be gone, but he’s hardly forgotten. In fact, you will hear his name mentioned frequently in the Republican presidential debates. There’s one thing all the candidates agree on – they all want to portray themselves as Ronald Reagan. Did [...]

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Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, capping a pivotal week that saw him regain his front-runner status on the strength of a hard-fought win in Florida. The Associated Press called the race for Mr. Romney. Second place remained too close to call, with Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul in contention.

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I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Psalm 121:1-3

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Resemblance. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Two daughers were discussing the attributes they inherited from their father. The older one: I hate [...]

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The politicians who quoted Isaiah 9:10 after the 9/11 terror attacks probably meant it as encouragement. But the new book “The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America’s Future” explains that the verse actually is a statement of defiance to God — a nation essentially thumbing its nose at the Almighty. And people are [...]

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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says he’s “disappointed” that though he was very willing to engage in a nationally televised debate on global warming, the man who challenged him to the debate has now backed out. Late last year, political activist and former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader challenged Inhofe, the ranking Republican of the Senate [...]

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Worried about America’s daughters learning to glorify feminist, communist and lesbian role models in the popular Girl Scouts organization? Take heart: There’s a wholesome alternative that embraces the values you hold dear, while offering all the traditional scouting adventures you loved as a child. Campfire stories, square knots and merit badges have been a part of [...]

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BOSTON – Saudi Arabian authorities are adding sexual assault to their routine for processing prisoners when they are Christian women, according to a new report that is imploring the international community to pressure the restrictive Islamic nation on basic human rights. International Christian Concern’s Jonathan Racho says the 35 women prisoners were arrested for meeting for [...]

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Attorneys representing Arizona parents who “voluntarily” allowed their home to be searched by authorities after social workers used an anonymous tip to threaten to handcuff them and seize their five children, and then summoned deputies to do that, have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the controversy. The Home School Legal Defense Association has [...]

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By Michael Volpe If Democrats have their way, California will join a growing number of states and municipalities who are curbing their cooperation with the Secure Communities program under the nation’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The new legislation to be offered this spring by Democratic State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will follow in the footsteps of Cook County [...]

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For 18 years, the Rev. William Rowe has done a little improvising while celebrating Mass on Sunday mornings at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mount Carmel, Ill. Now those deviations have led to his resignation in an incident that may be tied to global changes to the Catholic liturgy. Last Sunday, instead of saying “Lord our God [...]

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A deal was struck on Wednesday to save what could prove to be one of the richest treasure wrecks of all time. Four years ago, in the depths of the English Channel, explorers found the remains of a legendary British warship that sank in 1744 and lost more than 1,000 men. But intruders disturbed the site, [...]

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The “supergiant amphipod”, which resembles a monster prawn, measures 10 times the normal size of related species. It was found during an expedition to the Kermadec Trench north of New Zealand by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and Wellington’s NIWA marine research institute. Amphipods are normally around an inch long.

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Good news: A team of scientists has discovered that we can predict super volcano eruptions “decades in advance.” Bad news: Another team of scientists has discovered that a volcano in Death Valley, California, “may explode at any time.” The volcano is the Ubehebe, a large volcanic crater to the north of Death Valley. The team, led [...]

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Minnesota’s state health department has this week begun to destroy blood samples that are routinely collected to diagnose serious inherited and congenital diseases in newborn babies. It was compelled to do so by a state Supreme Court decision that such samples cannot not be stored or used for anything except diagnosis without the informed consent [...]

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There are 3,500 women in Iran officially registered as training to become ninjas, according to state-run Press TV. The network produced an exceptionally campy video report on the new trend — yes, that’s Michael Bay-style choral music you hear over the slow-motion action scenes — and some experts dispute whether ninjutsu is even a real [...]

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BEIJING – There may be as many as 16 million women on the Chinese mainland who are married to homosexual men, a leading expert has estimated. Professor Zhang Bei-chuan at Qingdao University, an authority on AIDS and HIV, says that due to traditional family values in China, about 90 percent of homosexual men get married because [...]

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In the future, a swarm of flying robots may do the work now done by human search teams. A robotics research team at the University of Pennsylvania has designed a system to coordinate a number of small quadcopters, a step toward coordinating multiple robots for tasks such as surveillance or searching areas after a disaster.

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Tunisia said it no longer recognized the regime of President Bashar Assad and had decided to expel the Syrian ambassador from Tunis, a presidential spokesman said Saturday. The spokesman said the decision came after a “bloody massacre” that began Friday in the central Syrian province of Homs, which killed 260 according to opposition activists.

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The beeping of the mobile phone awoke Prof. Hod Lipson in the middle of the night. “We found the equation!” his research student, Michael Schmidt, announced. The equation Schmidt was referring to has been known to every physicist since the 19th century. It describes the Law of Conservation of Energy – not exactly an earthshaking [...]

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MOSCOW — Anti-government protesters managed to gather a third huge crowd in the center of Moscow on Saturday, undeterred by arctic, bitter cold or by the near certainty that Vladimir V. Putin will win a six-year presidential term next month. This time, Russian authorities were prepared, organizing a simultaneous, and also huge, rally in defense of [...]

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A 10-year-old Missouri girl may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule after a brief introduction on molecular formation by her middle school science teacher. Clara Lazen of Kansas City was piecing together over-sized atoms from an educational model in her Border Star Montessori School classroom when she composed something her teacher had [...]

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When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — “a sea of pink” traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so moved she sat in her car and wept. This week, after watching The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity announce plans to cut [...]

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Sales of game foods such as venison, pheasant and partridge have soared with supermarkets, televisions chefs and top Scottish restaurants placing them at the top of their menus. Marks & Spencer said its venison sales for the game season – which started on “the Glorious 12th” last August and ends this week – were up 340 [...]

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Google started off the new year by announcing that they will be changing their privacy policies so that they can create more detailed profiles of their users. Starting March 1st, 2012, Google will combine information from user’s Gmail, Google Search history, YouTube, and other services. Prior to this change, Google profiled their users, but restricted [...]

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NEW YORK — Outside the United Nations headquarters, hundreds of people were shouting and waving banners Tuesday that read “China and Russia – No Veto.” These people wanted support from the Security Council of the U.N. to oust the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad. Inside the U.N., another group of civil society leaders demanded a basic [...]

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Preliminary results of an entrance poll shows Nevadans participating in today’s caucuses were focused on the economy and which candidate could best defeat Obama. The deeply conservative electorate included the largest share of tea party backers and the highest number of Mormons of any state to cast ballots thus far in the nomination contest.

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WASHINGTON — On a trip to Ireland in 1998, Speaker Newt Gingrich researched his Irish roots, discussed the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland and entertained speculation about his presidential ambitions. He even donned work gloves and blue jeans to help build a home in Belfast for a good-will project. Two of the sponsors for part [...]

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Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his lawyer, Jay Julien, said. [...]

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JERUSALEM – According to a senior Egyptian security official speaking to WND, Iran offered China a deal to purchase oil at a cheaper price in exchange for vetoing a U.N. resolution today that called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign. Assad’s regime has been facing a violent insurgency. The Syrian president’s security forces were accused [...]

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The majority of the Republican candidates are focused on the Nevada Republican caucuses Saturday, but Texas congressman Ron Paul’s campaign is also looking for a win in the Maine Republican caucuses. The Maine Republican caucuses start Saturday February 4th, and last until February 11th. It is one of the only states where voting will occur over [...]

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Las Vegas — Today’s Republican caucuses in Nevada differ from primary elections by requiring voters to devote a block of time to make their preferences known in a process that takes more time than just filling out a ballot. There are also some unusual rules set this year by the GOP officials in the state, including:

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HENDERSON, Nev. — Just before Mitt Romney took the stage in a shopping center parking lot here Friday evening amid palm trees and grocery carts, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt rallied the crowd. Describing how Romney turned around the scandal scarred 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Leavitt urged voters to support him in Saturday’s [...]

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Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney reached for his second straight victory Saturday in quiet Nevada caucuses, a contest that Newt Gingrich and the rest of his rivals conceded in advance. Unlike contentious earlier events from Iowa to Florida, this one featured little television advertising, no debates and a small investment of time by Romney, Gingrich, [...]

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North Korea may have conducted two covert nuclear weapons tests in 2010, according to a fresh analysis of radioisotope data. The claim has drawn skepticism from some nuclear-weapons experts. But if confirmed, the analysis would double the number of tests the country is known to have conducted and suggest that North Korea is trying to develop [...]

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Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan, current and former US officials told The Associated Press. The letter purportedly from Omar was unsigned. It was passed through a Taliban intermediary in July and was intended for the White House.

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As the rampant speculations that Israel will soon launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities continue, a report on NBC on Friday revealed what such an attack may look like. The report, the main points of which were presented by Israel’s Channel 10 News, is based on conversations the American network held with current and [...]

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Yesterday, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged to support any group that confronts the “cancer” Israel, in an address broadcast on state TV. “From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help,” he said. “We have no fear expressing this.” [...]

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Iran has begun mass production of an anti-ship cruise missile, state television’s website said on Saturday. The Zafar missile, as it is dubbed in the report, “is a short-range, anti-ship cruise missile capable of destroying small- and medium-sized targets with high precision.”

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But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Psalm 59:16

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(NEW YORK) – The civil war in Syria has highlighted serious pitfalls for the Obama administration, especially at the United Nations in New York. In a rare Saturday meeting, the Obama White House received a double blow as both Moscow and Peking vetoed a U.S., U.K. and French resolution aimed at pressuring Syrian President Bashar al-Assasd [...]

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In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday. The assault in Homs, which has been one of the main flashpoints of opposition during the uprising, comes as the UN Security [...]

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Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. “We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … on both our guarded sites and [...]

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The U.S. and Israel are publicly disagreeing over timing for a potential attack on Iran’s disputed nuclear facilities, as that nation’s leader said it won’t back down. The U.S. and Israel have a “significant analytic difference” over estimates of how close Iran is to shielding its nuclear program from attack, Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast [...]

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He won’t be in this Sunday’s Super Bowl and his Denver Broncos are already 50-to-1 longshots for next year’s National Football League title, but if Tim Tebow swapped the pigskin for politics, he just might be a shoo-in for the White House. Asked which NFL playoff quarterback they would choose for president of the United States [...]

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Republican front-runner Mitt Romney surged on Friday toward an apparent easy win in Nevada, with a new poll showing him beating rival Newt Gingrich by a 2-to-1 margin on the eve of the state’s presidential nominating contest. Romney is seeking his second consecutive victory on Saturday in the state-by-state Republican race after seizing momentum earlier in [...]

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In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of depression. He is surrounded by 43 presidents. In the forefront, purposefully ignoring the depressed man is President Obama, whose right foot is stepping on the Constitution. James Madison is next to Obama, pleading with him to stop. This [...]

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Every year, voting members of the National Rifle Association (those with 5 or more years of consecutive membership and those with Life or higher-level memberships) are asked to participate in the governance of their organization by voting for a third of their 76-member board of directors. And each year, due to a long and tumultuous [...]

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WASHINGTON – Joseph Farah, WND’s founder, will appear as a guest on “Freedom Watch” with Judge Andrew Napolitano Monday evening on the Fox Business Channel to talk about his plan to stop another debt limit increase later this year. Farah has re-launched his “No More Red Ink” campaign aimed at freezing borrowing in Washington by [...]

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WND senior writer Jerome Corsi will be a guest on the nationally syndicated radio show Monday night to discuss his reporting of an alleged massive money-laundering scheme by global banking giant HSBC. Corsi will join the show in the first hour. “Coast to Coast” airs from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. Eastern Time. As WND reported, [...]

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(WFTV-TV, ORLANDO) — A special needs teacher in Osceola County could be fired for allegedly using hot sauce to discipline her students. Lillian Gomez is currently suspended from her job at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimmee. She’s accused of pouring the hot sauce on crayons to stop autistic children from putting them in their mouths.

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(MIAMI HERALD) — Sen. Gary Siplin believes this is the year for school prayer. Sure, Florida lawmakers have pitched the idea time and time again. But Siplin, a Democrat from Orlando, says his bill has momen- tum. His proof? On Wednesday, the bill became among the first of the year to win approval from the Senate. It [...]

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A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals responded to an appeal of a challenge to Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president with one word: “Denied.” That was the word from the court in a request for a rehearing, or a rehearing of the full court, in a case brought by a member [...]

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(THE LOCAL, SWEDEN) — Move over Bugs – a Swedish bunny is rapidly becoming the most popular rabbit in the world! Champis the rabbit, owned by the Vigren family in northern Sweden, has attracted over 600,000 viewers in the week since the clip was posted, and even the owners themselves have been left scratching their heads [...]

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(AJC) — A Georgia farmer is recovering after being attacked by a 900-pound rabid cow. Raymond Parks tells WXIA-TV that the cow head-butted him and broke some of his ribs. Parks says he was thrown into a barbed-wire fence during the attack, which he feared he would not survive. Parks says he went for his shotgun, and [...]

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(ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION) — A ceremony held Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in which Bishop Eddie Long was wrapped in a sacred Torah scroll and carried upon a throne, has the Internet abuzz and Jewish religious leaders offended and questioning its appropriateness. “He’s a king. God has blessed him,” said Rabbi Ralph Messer before covering [...]

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(ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION) — On the day Nicholas Jackson II started freshman orientation at Norcross High School last August, Jason Dozier was released from Telfair State Prison. The paths of the two individuals crossed Thursday night in the home of Jackson’s family, authorities said. When it was over, the teen lay fatally wounded by a gunshot.

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(BALTIMORE SUN) — State police have begun talking like real people. Troopers were ordered this week to dispense with speaking in code. Gone is the familiar 10-4 and the unfamiliar (to civilians, anyway) 10-46. Instead, when speaking over the police radio, the trooper is to just say, “disabled vehicle.”

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(BALTIMORE SUN) — What’s that saying about leading a horse to water? The latest effort to teach Maryland-bred whooping crane chicks to migrate to Florida for the winter has been called off because the endangered birds will no longer follow the ultralight aircraft leading them. Operation Migration, the nonprofit group that’s been guiding captive-bred young cranes [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — A controversial photograph that has been circulating on the Web in recent weeks is challenging such pre-Internet truisms as “seeing is believing” or “sharing is everything.” About six months ago, @madlamin tweeted a picture with a message in French encouraging users to spread it around the world in 48 hours. The photograph [...]

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Earlier this week, House Republicans and 72 House Democrats voted to freeze pay for federal employees through 2013. The freeze applies to every government employee except for military personnel. Rep. Bob Turner (R-N.Y.) tells us why continuing the freeze was such a high priority for Republicans and how government employees compare to their private sector counterparts [...]

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Three states have passed tougher immigration enforcement laws since their leaders believe the federal government can’t or won’t fulfill its responsibilities to provide national security. However, the Justice Department mounted legal challenges to those states by insisting border security is Uncle Sam’s job. Now Tennessee Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) is offering legislation to block funding for any [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — In the calculus of cross-border human smuggling, Maria Lopez-Diaz allegedly concluded that black instead of brown equals green. The 60-year-old Compton woman, prosecutors say, tried to cash in on racial profiling by operating a human smuggling ring that hired mostly African American drivers who didn’t speak a word of Spanish to ferry [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — Gay marriage measures are moving forward in Washington, New Jersey and Maryland, but neither activists for or against same-sex unions are considering those outcomes to be done deals. And even as they brace themselves for ongoing fights in those states, supporters and opponents are preparing for other battles across the country. The [...]

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(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) — I’m a football fan, but haven’t watched a Super Bowl in five years. Oh sure, the TV will be on at 3:23 p.m. Sunday. But while normal people are actually watching the Giants and Patriots, I’ll be stuck in an endless commercial break, hitting the DVR rewind button in an attempt to [...]

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(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) — Arnold Schwarzenegger’s dream of visiting the Taj Mahal has been dashed. The former California governor traveled to the Indian city of Agra on Friday, the one day each week the monument is closed to tourists because of Muslim prayers at a nearby mosque.

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(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) — A veteran East Bay protester was convicted Thursday of trespassing in a cedar tree in People’s Park in Berkeley. Matthew “Midnight Matt” Dodt, 55, of Oakland said he didn’t recognize UC Berkeley’s claim that it owns the space when he began living on platforms in the tree in November 2010.

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(HOUSTON CHRONICLE) — Disgraced pop legend Gary Glitter won’t be profiting from the Super Bowl this weekend after football bosses banned his song from the sporting event. The controversial glam rock star usually gains royalties from the big match as his 1972 hit song “Rock and Roll Part II” is traditionally played during the game, while [...]

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(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) — A 72-year-old man in Nepal claims to be the world’s shortest man, and he may prove to be the shortest adult human in Guinness World Records’ history. Chandra Bahadur Dangi says he is 1 foot, 10 inches tall, which would make him 1.6 inches shorter than the current official record holder, [...]

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(PALM BEACH POST) — The explosive pileup on fog- and smoke-shrouded I-75 near Gainesville early Sunday left 15-year-old Lidiane Carmo of Brazil an orphan. Her parents, Jose and Adriana, and her sister Leticia, 17, were all killed in the crush of numerous cars and tractor-trailers. Lidiane suffered broken bones and internal injuries and underwent surgery but [...]

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(SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL) — Truck batteries are a hot item in Oakland Park, Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, Lauderdale Lakes and Pompano Beach. In January, 51 truck batteries were stolen in Oakland Park alone, said the Broward Sheriff’s Office. “Never in 30 years have I seen batteries [stolen] before,” BSO Sgt. Rick LaCerra said.

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By Marylou Barry I have this horrible dark suspicion that I cannot shake. As a pessimist by birth and having learned not to trust human beings very much by experience – especially politicians – I am afraid that whoever wins the Republican presidential nomination is planning to pick Marco Rubio as his running mate. Personally I have [...]

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By Andrew Longman Mitt Romney doesn’t describe himself as a draft dodger. He does his best to portray an “apple pie and the flag” image of Americana. He likes to be known as Mr. Toughguy and a strong-military Republican. And so it may come as a bit of a shock to the average [...]

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I came across an interesting little book entitled “Excuses and Lies.” According to this book, here are some of the most frequently told lies. “I’ll be ready in a minute.” The book does not specify whether men or women tell this lie more often, but I will take a wild guess and say that women do. “I [...]

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(REUTERS) — A Maine seafarer said he found the wreck of a World War II merchant ship off the Massachusetts coast, sunk while ferrying a load of the precious metal platinum valued today at nearly $3 billion, an unprecedented find that left some doubting the cargo. Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research in Gorham, Maine, said [...]

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For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. ~ Justice Wm. J. Brennan (1906-97) It is impossible to fight against a revolution that wars against, [...]

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(MOTLEY FOOL) — American workers are far, far more productive than their Chinese counterparts. Seem like an overly bold statement to make? Consider a recent study published by the Boston Consulting Group entitled Made in America, Again. The study makes just that assertion. And what happens when you combine lower productivity with the rising wages that [...]

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Editor’s note: Listen to this column online. California Rep. Wally Herger offered an article on Agenda 21 that, unfortunately, reflects a lack of knowledge about Agenda 21 shared by far too many elected officials. In the first instance, he said that Agenda 21 is a document developed at a U.N. Conference in 1993. Wrong! Agenda 21 was developed [...]

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It was the tweet heard round the world. A young British couple on their way to America to sightsee tweeted to some friends that they were going to “destroy” America. Destroy in current British slang means party. And for that unpardonable breech of etiquette, the couple was arrested, jailed, deported and banned from visiting our diverse [...]

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(REUTERS) — Gold rose on Thursday for a third consecutive day on a larger-than-expected fall in new U.S. claims for unemployment benefits, but analysts said bullion could pull back due to an upcoming U.S. jobs report. Bullion hit a two-month high, reversing initial losses after encouraging jobless claims data pointed to a recovery jobs market, ahead [...]

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The more I think about it the more angry I become. Under the “regimes” of President George W. Bush and now President Barack Hussein Obama, the nation has continued to sacrifice the lives of brave military men and women and their families in irrational and stupid politically motivated wars and retreats. Nearly 5,000 dead, tens [...]

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(REUTERS) — Commercial airlines often complain about government rules and at times seek to change them, but Spirit Airlines has created turbulence in Washington in response to a new mandate by naming a $2 fare hike after the U.S. Department of Transportation. The low-fare carrier, which has tangled with regulators in the past, struck at the [...]

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When I was first elected to Congress in 1998, one of the first calls I got was from Speaker Gingrich. The call began pleasantly enough, but it did not end that way. Speaker Gingrich asked me if he could count on my vote to re-elect him speaker. I told him no, he could not. He [...]

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(CNS NEWS) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy, and Catholic institutions to provide, health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that [...]

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(TRUTH DIG) — I wish Mitt Romney’s cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it’s much worse than that. The Republican front-runner seems dangerously clueless about the nation he seeks to lead. When I first heard the now-famous quote—“I’m not concerned about the very poor”—I thought it [...]

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(LIFENEWS) — Following a new statement Komen for the Cure released making many observers believe the breast cancer charity reversed position on whether it would fund grants to Planned Parenthood, one Komen board member says it hasn’t caved. Komen board member John Raffaelli talked with the Washington Post after the statement was released and said the [...]

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(CNS NEWS) — The Iranian-supported Shi’ite terrorist group Hezbollah has spread its influence all the way to the U.S. border with Mexico, a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Iran’s influence in the Western Hemisphere heard on Thursday. Michael Braun, a former chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Hezbollah had developed relationships with [...]

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(NATIONALREVIEW) — Forget the fratricidal warfare between two establishment soldiers so harmonious on substance that their contest, inevitably, has descended into a poisonous, personal food-fight. The problem is not the GOP infighting. The problem is the GOP. Republicans are simply not interested in limiting government or addressing our death spiral of spending. My weekend column [...]

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So, the article “Wycliffe defends changing titles for God” is your balance piece? While it did contain a couple of balancing elements, the article still emphasized the opposite view, slanting it to project that the writer and WND don’t buy Wycliffe’s feeble attempts to defend themselves, and should not be give the benefit of the [...]

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(McALLEN MONITOR, TEXAS) — A shootout between rival members of two organized crime groups and the Mexican military ended at the banks of the Rio Grande, where at least one man was possibly killed on the U.S. side.

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On the Iran threat – we should go over there and carpet-bomb the little midget. I’m sorry, I don’t give a hoot about the people. WE AMERICANS are more important. These guys are extremists. They have to be dealt with. Barry Soetoro Hussein is a clown and will never do anything about it. He would [...]

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Joseph, Excellent decision regarding “The Daily Show.” The show is not worthy of your time. As you know, all of these shows are setups that are pre-arranged, scripted and carefully carved interview clips supporting ruthless attacks intended to make any opposition to the left wing appear to be ridiculous nonsense. Jon Stewart has access to all of [...]

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I cannot believe this stupid, foolish, ignorant crap the courts are talking about as to allowing the president of the United States’ name to be put on certain state ballots. Every American should be offended. If this is a Republican political ploy to try to defeat the president in the upcoming election, they need their [...]

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Pat Buchanan, as usual, is a moral, deep thinker, and he is correct about foreign policy and his understanding of Ron Paul. Unfortunately most Americans lack the logic, the morality and the roots in the truths of history to see the need to follow these wise men’s prescriptions. This is largely a spiritual issue of [...]

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(EXAMINER) — On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure which would make three DUI convictions an aggravated felony, and a deportable offense. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced the legislative action as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 (S. 1925).

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Did anyone happen to watch Sen. Lindsey Graham on Gretta last Wednesday night, Feb 1? If all the people that are going to vote in the next election had watched her interview, they would only vote for Newt. Graham admitted he and the rest of Congress were too hard on Newt, and since he, Graham, had [...]

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(KCTV-TV, TOPEKA) — A Kansas board that denied a licensed doctor of osteopathic medicine a license was primarily concerned about the man’s political views. The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts is a 15-member panel appointed by the governor and decides the fate of doctors in Kansas. Terrence Lee Lakin rose to the ranks of lieutenant colonel [...]

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(HAARETZ) — The month of January saw the highest number of rainy days in one month on record in Israel, according figures from the Israel Meteorological Service. Rain fell on 29 out of 31 days in January, defined by the Meteorological Service as registering at least 0.1 millimeters of rainfall.

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An administrative law judge in Georgia today ruled that Barack Obama’s name can be on the state’s 2012 presidential election ballot because he was born in Hawaii, is “native born,” and thus also is “natural born” as required by the Constitution. He cited a little-known determination by an Indiana judge. “The Indiana court determined that a person [...]

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(THE HILL) — Saying the economy is “growing stronger,” President Obama issued a strong warning to Congress on Friday: “Do not slow down the recovery … don’t muck it up!” Speaking at a fire house in Arlington, Va. — hours after a jobs report showed the unemployment rate dropped from 8.5 to 8.3 percent — a [...]

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(THE HILL) — Republican Rep. Phil Gingrey (Ga.) walked out of President Obama’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, his spokeswoman confirmed to The Hill. Jen Talaber said the five-term lawmaker “left quietly” in the middle of the president’s remarks. “He was disturbed and offended by the president’s use of prayer and reflection time for [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded and released online by the hackers in Anonymous, the group claimed Friday. The group released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group and [...]

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His flock. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: There was a man driving down the road behind an 18 wheeler, at every [...]

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(MSNBC) — In what appears to be a reversal of Susan G. Komen For the Cure’s funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, the founder and CEO of the nation’s largest breast-cancer adovcacy agency said Friday that the group would amend the criteria that sparked a firestorm. “We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned [...]

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(REAL CLEAR POLITICS) — “People like Mr. [Allen] West, and Governor Brewer and so on, particularly Mr. West, is not only not representative of the African-American community or of the Republican Party, let alone of the American public. So what he says really is of little or no consequence, but it’s unfortunate,” Rep. Jim Moran [...]

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The mother of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry had harsh words for Attorney General Eric Holder after Thursday’s House oversight committee hearing on Operation Fast and Furious. “THIS IS FOR YOU SON,” Mrs. Terry posted on Facebook at about 3:30 p.m. “Mr. Holder. How come you can never say my sons name. You never have. [...]

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As reported exclusively by WND’s Aaron Klein, friends of the Obama administration are trying to sneak the now-defunct “Fairness Doctrine” back into law, disguised as – of all things – an action project on “climate change.” In a recent report called “Building the Obama Administration’s Climate Legacy,” the Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, recommends reinstating [...]

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LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Rick Santorum’s campaign slogan could very well be one word: doomsday. To hear him tell it, the United States will collapse under the weight of its health care system and basic freedoms will be history. Iran will annihilate Israel and then South Carolina if Iran isn’t blocked from building a nuclear weapon. [...]

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(MSNBC) — The number of methamphetamine “super labs” seized by Mexican authorities has rocketed in the last five years but shipments of the drug across the border have also continued to grow, according to government statistics. The increase highlights how Mexico’s cartels have diversified beyond their traditional focus of exporting cocaine, heroin and marijuana by transforming [...]

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(ASSOCIATED PRESS) –  The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month after a surge of January hiring, a promising shift in the nation’s outlook for job growth. The Labor Department says employers added 243,000 jobs in January, the most in nine months. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent from 8.5 percent in December. That’s the [...]

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Chuck, my parents tell me that love and health are related, because I’m not feeling so well in either regard. So what’s love got to do with it? – Sally W., Seneca Falls, N.Y. I’m no Dr. Ruth, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that there are definite correlations among the brain, [...]

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EL CERCADO, Mexico — John Casias found his calling when he joined a Texas church group that came to preach the Gospel in the little Mexican town of El Cercado in the early 1980s. He later wrote that he saved nine souls, but worried how the villagers would grow without a teacher. By the time he [...]

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Attorney General Eric Holder faced a gauntlet of tough questions from Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the ongoing probe into the Fast and Furious operation that allowed guns to walk into the hands of Mexican drug cartels and resulted in hundreds of murders in Mexico plus the killing [...]

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A newspaper report in Egypt, which is falling more and more under the influence of radical elements of the Muslim Brotherhood since the downfall of West-friendly President Hosni Mubarak, has blasted the United States for having a medical research facility in Cairo, calling it “The Pentagon’s Unit for Killing Egyptians in Al-’Abbassia.” The article, in the [...]

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(LIFE NEWS) — During a conference call with reporters this afternoon, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure CEO Nancy Brinker and President Elizabeth Thompson revealed the main reason why the Planned Parenthood abortion business lost its funding. It doesn’t do mammograms. “It was nothing they were doing wrong,” Brinker explained. “We have decided not to [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — The idea that slight shifts in Earth’s axis might have been enough to trigger the ice ages is a century old. But a Harvard earth sciences Professor Peter Huybers has finally proved it, using computer models to test competing ideas – and finding that earth’s tilting axis is the only one that works. The [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — A quick test that tells if your loved one is at risk of Alzheimer’s disease has been devised by doctors. The 21-question test distinguishes between normal absent-mindedness and the more sinister memory lapses that may signal the early stages of dementia. The questions are designed to be answered by a spouse or close friend.

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By Reza Kahlili Amid crippling sanctions over its nuclear weapons program, Iran is continuing to prepare itself for war against the West, and now is warning of a coming great event. “In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God, the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated,” Ayatollah Khamenei, the [...]

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(JERUSALEM POST) — The IDF has significantly increased the number of overseas covert operations it has conducted over the past year, an indication of the growing threats Israel faces in the region, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Most of the details about the operations are classified, including the exact number, but according to foreign reports, the [...]

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By Anita Crane WASHINGTON – More than 500 people leaped from their chairs to give Sen. Marco Rubio a standing ovation at the 2012 Susan B. Anthony List Campaign for Life Gala on Wednesday. The freshman Republican senator from Florida was keynote speaker at the SBA List’s 20th anniversary dinner, where Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and [...]

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(INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY) Rarely has a company been such a threat to, or held so much promise for, so many other companies than Facebook. With a service that connects nearly half of the 2 billion Internet users on the planet, Facebook could compete aggressively in dozens of markets, and might well choose to do so, analysts [...]

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With the simple stroke of a pen, Barack Obama tossed the First Amendment protection of religious freedom out the window, say many American Catholic and Protestant church leaders, and they are urging all Americans to join the fight to take the freedom back. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a longtime abortion promoter, announced that [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — A graffiti artist who painted the walls of Facebook’s first headquarters seven years ago is set for a bumper payday of $200million after he agreed to take Facebook stock instead of cash for his work. David Choe, 35, was asked to paint the offices in Palo Alto, California, in 2005, and was offered [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — Cash-strapped British people will breathe a sigh of relief when they see these impressive treasure troves. Despite the financial crisis, it seems the country still has some money left in the Bank of England’s vault beneath London. In fact, there are stacks of gold bars worth a whopping £156billion stored in an old canteen [...]

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South-east Asia’s most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants were killed today in a U.S.-backed air strike in the Philippines, military chiefs said. Malaysian Zulkifi bin Hir, known as Marwan, a top leader of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network was apparently killed in a dawn strike on a militant stronghold on a southern island. The [...]

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He doesn’t have an agent, or a contract or a TV show. But Ray William Johnson has become one of the highest earners on YouTube after coining in a reported $1million a year for his own series. Mr Johnson has had more than 1.5 billion total views – five million every week – for his personal brand [...]

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Wycliffe Bible Translators is firing back at an allegation that it is softening the language of the Bible it prepares for Muslim countries in order not to offend the Muslim majorities there. WND reported earlier on the developing controversy that involves Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Frontiers, all of which were reported [...]

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NEW YORK – Among the 1,000 pages of HSBC internal records that a former employee provided WND were customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through which the global banking giant apparently was laundering money each month. “I found many accounts through which hundreds of thousands of dollars were being flowed as a conduit on a [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — Supporters of the President Barack Obama’s controversial decision to require religious employers cover contraception in health plans aren’t ceding the election-year issue to its opponents. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund launched a TV ad Wednesday in eight swing states, urging women to “thank President Obama” for ensuring their access to birth control [...]

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(REUTERS) — Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged on Thursday to give $250,000 of his own money to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America after breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure withdrew funding for the group.

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(CNS NEWS) —House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Planned Parenthood’s relationship with the Girl Scouts of America is “very valuable,” Wednesday, at a congressional reception to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the organization for young girls. Rep. Pelosi was featured at the reception with a group of female government leaders to promote the Girl [...]

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(KTVB-TV, BOISE) — For decades The Girl Scouts of America has been dedicated to helping young girls learn life skills. But now the organization is having to defending itself against a rumor that they say is disrupting sales of their biggest fund raiser – cookies. The rumor started two years ago and connects the Girl Scouts [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The Moonlite Bunny Ranch is providing a hotbed of support for Ron Paul in the Nevada caucuses, thus proving there’s a thin line between libertarian and libertine. The working girls at the notorious brothel near Carson City are, in their words, “pimpin’ for Paul.” One of the women, 25-year-old Cami Parker, told [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) — A Philadelphia man who avoided a conviction in city courts despite 44 arrests for armed robbery and other crimes will now serve at least 32 years in federal prison. John Gassew, 25, was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of robbery and two counts of possessing a firearm while committing a crime. The [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS) — Three juveniles who allegedly assaulted a cab driver and his passenger in Center City Saturday night while shouting racial slurs will not be charged with a hate crime, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. The teens, who are black, were not charged with hate crimes because there was no evidence that [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS) — Four years ago, City Council passed a law requiring gun owners whose firearms were lost or stolen to report the missing weapons to police within 24 hours or face fines of up to $2,000 and 90 days in jail. The idea was to thwart “straw purchasers,” people who buy guns legally and [...]

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(COURTHOUSE NEWS) — A website that paired prospective roommates based on personal details like gender, sexual orientation and religion did not violate federal housing law, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. The San Francisco-based federal appeals panel found that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) does not apply to roommates, to whom we give “full access to the [...]

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(LONDON MIRROR) — Afghanistan is bracing itself for a return of the Taliban, a leaked secret US report claimed yesterday. Fanatics working for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency are helping to target occupying troops, it states. And they will help restore the Taliban when Nato pulls out of the country, according to the secret dossier, entitled State [...]

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(INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY) — The outlook for Social Security’s trust fund has deteriorated to an astonishing degree over the past year, new Congressional Budget Office projections show. The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper released the estimates Tuesday as part of broader economic and budget forecasts. CBO expects the trust fund to peak in 2018 and decline to $2.7 [...]

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(IRISH TIMES) — THE HEAD of the Israeli army’s military intelligence branch, Maj Gen Aviv Kochavi, says Iran already has enough enriched uranium to make four atom bombs. In a rare public appearance, he told the annual Herzliya security conference Israel has conclusive evidence that Teheran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. “Iran is vigorously pursuing military [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) — Insurance commissioners in California, New York and Washington State will require that companies disclose how they intend to respond to the risks their businesses and customers face from increasingly severe storms and wildfires, rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change, California’s commissioner said Wednesday. Up until this point, those states [...]

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(USA TODAY) — President Obama says he’s not picking sides in the Super Bowl, but owners of the New England Patriots and New York Giants have already voted with their pocketbooks for him. Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of the Patriots, has donated $5,000 to Obama, according to a review of campaign finance reports by USA [...]

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(JERUSALEM POST) — On the southeastern side of the Jezreel Valley, Mount Gilboa stretches like a fence that once marked the northernmost boundary of the tribe of Manasseh. Because the valley hosted the most important crossroads in Israel, the mountain range offered a strategic high ground for the nation’s defense. From above, the Jezreel Valley has [...]

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(WBNS-TV, COLUMBUS) — Upper Arlington Police said Thursday that someone has been targeting automatic flushers in bathrooms of local restaurants. Handyman John Hahn said that the flushers contain a metal called red brass, 10TV’s Justin Moss reported. Hahn said that red brass can get a good price at scrap yards at $2.50 a pound.

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(GREELEY GAZETTE) — A leader in the evangelical community has called for Christians to boycott Starbucks, saying the company’s support for the radical homosexual agenda makes it an enemy of God. Pastor Steven Andrew, president of USA Christian Ministries asks the question, “What would happen if Starbucks were to lose 80% of their customers”? Andrew says [...]

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(LONDON DAILY MIRROR) — A film banned in the UK for more than 20 years for showing Jesus being seduced on the cross has finally been given a certificate. Short film Visions of Ecstasy is the only film ever to be banned in Britain on the grounds of blasphemy. The film, which depicts St Teresa of Avila [...]

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(GLENS FALLS POST-STAR, N.Y.) — A study released Tuesday showed conservative and liberal Christians think if Jesus preached today, Christ’s views on issues like abortion and immigration would be more extreme than their own stances.

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(AP) — New York City police say an entire building was being used exclusively to growing, drying and packaging more 1,500 pounds of marijuana.

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By William J. Murray The Florida GOP primary was an embarrassment to me as an evangelical Christian. The election results were an embarrassment because they exposed the core of what motivates evangelicals – the bandwagon. Apparently, the louder and brighter the bandwagon is the more likely evangelicals will jump on board as it goes through town. Even [...]

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(NEW ZEALAND HERALD) — When Megan Exelby had her second child, she wanted to make her afterbirth into pills. But, with a new baby to care for, the idea ended up in the too-hard basket – so she ate the raw placenta instead. Her partner thought it repulsive, but he chopped the organ into small pieces and [...]

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(OTAGO DAILY TIMES) — It is a credit card debt that will not vanish, and the Wizard wants answers. The Wizard of New Zealand, aka Ian Brackenbury Channell, was contacted by a debt collection agency last week after someone had used his name illegally. “The name on all my documents is the Wizard, and it was that [...]

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(SF GATE) — Even in a region famous for cranking out business marvels, Facebook is something to behold. Almost eight years to the day after it was created in a Harvard dorm room, the Menlo Park social-networking giant on Wednesday took the wraps off a financial rocket that reached all but the loftiest of expectations [...]

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(IN THESE TIMES) — The woman on the platform seems happy. She’s an ordinary woman, well-dressed but not ostentatiously so, pretty but not playing it up, heading gracefully into late middle age. Her voice is low and calm; her tone is gracious. She smiles frequently as she speaks, compliments the reporters surrounding her and [...]

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Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5

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The economy. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents [...]

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On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the CLASS program. It’s a long-term care provision within the Obama health plan that the administration shelved last year for being financially unsustainable. Yet Obama and most Democrats still oppose its repeal. “This is a fatally flawed program,” said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) who sponsored the repeal [...]

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(ARIZONA REPUBLIC) — The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry filed a $25 million wrongful death claim Wednesday against the federal government, saying he was killed because U.S. investigators allowed murder weapons into the hands of criminals. Terry died Dec. 14, 2010, when his special-operations unit got into a shootout with border bandits in [...]

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A ruling today from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means that the video recordings of the Perry v. Brown Proposition 8 trial, where a homosexual judge decided to grant “marriage” rights to homosexuals in California, will remain under seal. The appellate court said the trial judge, Vaughn Walker, who later retired and began using [...]

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Attorney General Eric Holder testified today before a contentious House hearing in which Republican members accused him of engaging in a continuing cover-up of Department of Justice activity in the gun-tracing operation known as Fast and Furious. Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pointed out [...]

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Speaking at the traditionally nonpartisan National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama on Thursday cited his Christian faith in offering a vigorous defense of his political agenda of tax increases for the wealthy, universal health care and greater regulation of Wall Street. “We can’t leave our values at the door,” Mr. Obama said. “This is especially important right [...]

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Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously denied a “cover-up” by the Justice Department over “Operation Fast and Furious,” telling a House panel investigating the botched gunrunning program that he has nothing to hide and suggesting the probe is a “political” effort to embarrass the administration. “There’s no attempt at any kind of cover-up,” Holder told lawmakers well [...]

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We reported, along with the New York Times and the Associated Press among others, last night that Donald Trump is expected to endorse Newt Gingrich, according to sources around his campaign. The Times went first with the news in terms of national outlets. What a difference 12 hours makes – Trump’s endorsement is not likely to [...]

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It’s getting to be crunch time for the investigation by Congress into the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal that erupted in Barack Obama’s Justice Department, with the scheduled testimony tomorrow before Congress of Attorney General Eric Holder amid suggestions he should be held in contempt. The testimony will be before the House Committee on Oversight and [...]

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(REUTERS) — Millionaires would pay a minimum 30 percent effective tax rate under a law introduced on Wednesday in the Senate with the backing of President Barack Obama and named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Nicknamed the “Buffett Rule,” the tax bill reflects Democrat Obama’s bid ahead of November elections to highlight the sort of unfairness [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. A proxy war between Sunni and Shia [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — There is no such thing as a good divorce when children are involved, a study has concluded. The analysis of almost 1,000 families found that children suffer when their parents’ marriage ends – no matter how amicable the split. The researchers said their finding contradicts the widely-held belief that it is possible to have [...]

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A direct challenge has been renewed to members of the U.S. Supreme Court to see that Elena Kagan does not participate in the arguments over Obamacare, since she was working in the White House when the plan by Barack Obama was being developed. When Kagan’s participation initially was raised by attorney Larry Klayman, the justices said [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — Did the Earth move for you last night? If so, it may be down to the solar system’s second largest asteroid hurtling rather close to Earth. Asteroid ’433 Eros’, which is 400 times the City of London, came within 16.6million miles of our planet yesterday evening.

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(AP) — This was supposed to be the Nevada GOP’s year of redemption, a chance for Republicans to have a prominent role in picking a challenger for President Barack Obama four years after bungling its first attempt to turn the state into a major player in presidential politics. But 2012 has not gone as planned. It’s [...]

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(JERUSALEM POST) — Veteran stand-up comedian Jackie Mason is to retire from performing live, bringing the curtain down on his 47-year career. The controversial funnyman, 75, has been entertaining audiences since he quit as an ordained rabbi and launched a comedy career at the age of 28.

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(JERUSALEM POST) — It is possible to prevent 60 percent of cancer deaths by lifestyle changes, early diagnoses and proven medical interventions, according to the Israel Cancer Association. The ICA is marking International Cancer Day on February 4. Every year, 12.7 million people around the globe are diagnosed with cancer, and 600,000 die in an average month, [...]

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(REUTERS) — Iran’s defense spending would more than double under plans set out by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday, but critics said his overall draft budget took too little account of economic pressures posed by mounting international sanctions. Ahmadinejad presented to parliament a budget based on a 20 per cent rise in tax revenues, but some [...]

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(ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) — Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, painted a worrying picture of the military threat to Israel in a speech at the annual Herzliya Conference on Wednesday. “The threats against Israel have not disappeared,” he said. “What was relevant in the past remains relevant. Eight Syrian military divisions are stationed between [...]

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(LOS ANGELES TIMES) — The sale of the bankrupt Crystal Cathedral to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange has been delayed, in part because of a purported 99-year lease brought to the court’s attention days before the sale was to be finalized. On Jan. 25, lawyers in the case received a letter detailing an agreement that [...]

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A Georgia resident contending Barack Obama is ineligible for the state’s 2012 presidential election ballot is asking that a court cite him with contempt. In a motion filed in the case pending before Georgia Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi, attorney Van Irion, representing David P. Weldon, urged the court not to overlook the fact that Obama [...]

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An organization that helped craft President Obama’s environmental policies has recommended the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, purportedly as a method of silencing critics of the theory of global warming. The Presidential Climate Action Project, or PCAP, last year released an extensive list of recommendations for the White House in a 75-page paper titled “Building the [...]

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This is the second of a two-part series of articles arguing that the Department of Justice corruption and illegality at the heart of Fast and Furious trace back to Eric Holder’s office and the Arizona branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Department of Justice gun-tracing operation known as “Fast and Furious” originated in the [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense is [...]

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By Dave Tombers The council for Baltimore County, Md., is working on a plan that would prevent “discrimination” cases that primarily involve men who dress as women and portray themselves as being female. The idea gained notoriety as the “coed shower” plan when it was adopted several years ago in Montgomery County, Md., because of provisions that [...]

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A former employee of HSBC in New York has 1,000 pages of customer account records he claims are evidence of an international money-laundering scheme involving hundreds of billions of dollars by the global banking giant, which reportedly is under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee. John Cruz has delivered to WND customer account records he says [...]

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(FOX NEWS RADIO) — A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters disrupted a Right to Life rally and threw condoms on Catholic school girls inside the Rhode Island state capitol building. Barth Bracy, executive director of Rhode Island Right to Life, said their rally had to be cut short after the Occupiers began screaming and refused [...]

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(YAHOO!SPORTS) — A massive pitch invasion in Port Said, Egypt, following a match between defending champions Al Ahly and fourth-place Al Masry has, according to state television, led to at least 74 deaths and more than 1,000 injured in one of the most horrific and large-scale instances of football stadium violence in recent memory. The [...]

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(AP) — Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year. The behavior of the small group of Mashco-Piro Indians has puzzled scientists, who say it may be related to the [...]

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Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe vowed in an interview with The Daily Caller on Tuesday to continue making sting videos to expose waste and fraud in government despite criticism from liberals who have attacked him over the tactics he uses. O’Keefe and his group Project Veritas most recently made news in January by producing a video during [...]

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(THE BLAZE) — What you’re about to hear is stunning. Get ready. Here’s how MRC explains the exchange between a Memphis radio host, Thaddeus Matthews, and a GOP candidate for Congress, Charlotte Bergmann: This shocking video (uploaded to YouTube by someone not friendly to the Tea Party) shows Memphis talk radio host Thaddeus Matthews insulting and humiliating [...]

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(AP) — A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun’s influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported Tuesday. One oddity is the amount of oxygen. There are more oxygen atoms floating freely in the solar system than in the immediate interstellar space, or the vast region between stars.

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(ABC NEWS) — Rick Santorum on Wednesday turned his sights westward, picking up the endorsement of a former Colorado congressman and pledging to remain in the race after his distant third-place showing in Florida. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo endorsed Santorum here calling him “a non-composite” candidate who stands by his convictions rather than changing policy to [...]

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(LIFENEWS) — In addition to stopping funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business, Komen for the Cure has also quietly stopped funding embryonic stem cell research centers, another concern for pro-life advocates. As LifeNews reported last July, Karen Malec of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer spent time examining Komen’s 990 Forms for the IRS for 2010 [...]

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Most men speak of their mothers as angels, and in that regard I guess I’m not unique. Some would probably argue that my mother was not unique either, that she was merely one of millions of moms from the greatest generation. Modern-day feminists would have been horrified by Mom’s lifestyle. Her day-to-day world [...]

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When President Obama announced last April that he was sending the United States military to bomb Libya, he not only violated the United States Constitution, which he has taken an oath to uphold, but he also violated the moral principles of the just war. The Constitution permits only Congress to declare war and the president [...]

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“Should you feel guilty for buying your iPhone?” That was the question asked by CNN’s Steve Kovach. Kovach, as so many industry pundits have done, was reacting to the New York Times‘ recent exposé on working conditions at Foxconn, the company at the heart of China’s monstrous manufacturing center of Shenzhen. The article recounts harrowing tales [...]

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Catholics have just learned a hard lesson: The end does not justify the means. Unfortunately, the Catholic hierarchy isn’t quite there yet. They’re still processing the perils of making a deal with the devil. The first peril is that the deal you made survives only so long as it benefits the devil. Once Obamacare had [...]

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If you listen to the Muslim Brotherhood-front group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations, you would think so-called “hate crimes” against followers of Islam are at epidemic proportions. And you can’t help but listen to CAIR if you watch cable television news or read reports in the mainstream media. CAIR officials are their darling [...]

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Two extraordinary letters sent within two days of each other this past week tell the world just about all they need to know about the contemporary Democratic Party. (Rightly or wrongly, the party uses the modifier “Democratic,” not “Democrat.”) The first letter was sent Jan. 25 by President Obama’s attorney Michael Jablonski to Brian Kemp, [...]

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By the end of this past weekend, it had become apparent to astute voyagers in cyberspace that references to Obama mentor Saul Alinsky were being scrubbed from the Web. At the same time, it was reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had floated the air biscuit vis-à-vis her resignation as secretary of state, supposedly [...]

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Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid “only” 14 percent of his income in taxes. The honest answer – “Well, because my accountants couldn’t figure out how to get them any lower” – does not work in this or very many other election years. Romney seemed flat-footed [...]

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The “P-factor” is a force that cannot be ignored by the pilot of an airplane. Depending on the directional rotation of the propeller, it causes the airplane to yaw to the left or right during take off. The Republican party has a “P-factor” of its own that cannot be ignored. Say what you will about Ron [...]

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(THE LOCAL, SWITZERLAND) — Swiss archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a female singer dating back almost 3,000 years in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said on Sunday. The rare find was made accidentally by a team from Switzerland’s Basel University headed by Elena Pauline-Grothe and Susanne Bickel in Karnak, near Luxor [...]

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(ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES) — “American’s Beloved Gospel Singer” and Montreat resident George Beverly Shea celebrated his 103rd birthday on February 1, and released a new CD, an ultimate collection of his favorite hymns on January 24. The Montreat resident added a second Grammy Award to his long list of musical accomplishments in 2011. Last year he received [...]

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(THE LOCAL, SWITZERLAND) — Swiss Christians have taken issue with a new campaign by supermarket giant Migros that encourages children to awaken strange powers by collecting 48 different magical stones. While the slogan, “Discover your inner animal”, is considered particularly contentious by Christian critics, the front cover of Migros’ customer magazine, which depicts a child’s face [...]

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Germany’s plan to put a million electric cars on the road by 2020 is unlikely to do much for the environment without a dramatic increase in renewable energy, the daily Tageszeitung reported on Monday. Citing an Environment Ministry survey, the paper said the drive towards e-mobility will actually worsen climate change at first by expending vast amounts [...]

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(NEW YORK TIMES) — The Federal Trade Commission signaled on Monday that it would continue to crack down on debt collectors who harass consumers for money they may not even be legally obligated to pay. In the second-largest penalty ever levied on a debt collector, the F.T.C. said that Asset Acceptance, one of the nation’s largest [...]

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(YAHOO! FINANCE) — We’ve all been there. As we head to the register to buy a new laptop or cell phone, we face the aggressive sales pitch to buy an extended warranty. And many of us do spring for this additional service contract. In 2010, we bought 250 million extended warranties, according to the Service [...]

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(ABC NEWS) — Women taking two types of birth control pills made by the drug manufacturer Pfizer may be at risk for unintended pregnancies because of a packaging screwup. The pharmaceutical manufacturer recalled nearly 1 million birth control pills after realizing that some of the placebo pills were placed within the daily active pill cycle.

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(MOBILE PRESS-REGISTER) — Few Alabamians suffer from the hemophilia, but treating the blood-clotting disease costs taxpayers millions of dollars a year, an Alabama Medicaid official testified today. Kelli Littlejohn, the director of pharmacy for the Alabama Medicaid Agency, told jurors at a federal health care fraud trial that it is not uncommon to see a claim [...]

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(USA TODAY) — If private health insurers can add a surcharge for smokers, why not Medicaid? That’s the argument behind a bill Utah Republican Rep. Paul Ray has proposed that could become a first-in-the-nation state law imposing a higher co-payment for tobacco-using residents enrolled in Medicaid. Although Medicaid recipients in Utah do not pay premiums, some are [...]

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(CBS NEWS) — What’s the latest recreational drug to make its way to the medical field? Ketamine, also known as “Special K.” The club drug, typically used by veterinarians as a cat tranquilizer, is said to provide patients an “instant” relief from depression, according to a new study. Doctors at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston [...]

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(SCIENCENOW) — If you’re paying premium prices for pesticide- and antibiotic-free meat, you might expect that it’s also free of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Not so, according to a new study. The prevalence of one of the world’s most dangerous drug-resistant microbe strains is similar in retail pork products labeled “raised without antibiotics” and in meat from [...]

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(WIRED) — Just last week, military brass vowed that the force of the future would be “smaller and leaner.” Apparently, the Army’s taking that pretty damn literally. They want smaller, leaner soldiers. Their best idea to do it? Give GIs transplants of extra fat cells. Seriously. In the Army’s latest round of small-business research awards, they’ve [...]

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(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) — A Montara man walking two lapdogs off leash was hit with an electric-shock gun by a National Park Service ranger after allegedly giving a false name and trying to walk away, authorities said Monday. The park ranger encountered Gary Hesterberg with his two small dogs Sunday afternoon at Rancho Corral de Tierra, [...]

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(FOX NEWS RADIO) — The U.S. Forest Service has reversed its decision to remove a World War Two memorial from Montana’s Big Mountain because it included a statue of Jesus. The Forest Service said it will re-authorize a permit for the 57-year-old statue after facing a firestorm of outrage from religious groups and local residents. The [...]

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(THE LOCAL, NORWAY) — An Oslo court on Monday sentenced two men to prison for planning to bomb the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, in Norway’s first ever guilty verdict for “plotting to commit a terrorist act.” Norwegian national Mikael Davud, a member of China’s Uighur minority considered the mastermind behind [...]

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(THE LOCAL, FRANCE) — Presidential candidate François Hollande is reportedly getting advice from some of the experts who helped Barack Obama win the US presidency in 2008. A report in Le Parisien newspaper said that Hollande wants to replicate the successful online campaign that helped Obama take the White House.

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That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him … Ephesians 1:17

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(WIRED) — Google has quietly announced changes to its Blogger free-blogging platform that will enable the blocking of content only in countries where censorship is required. Twitter announced technology last week addressing the same topic. It said it had acquired the ability to censor tweets in the countries only where it was ordered removed, instead of [...]

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(WIRED) — Seismologists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the International Seismological Center, and NASA have come to a consensus about last year’s cascading tragedies in Japan that left at least 16,000 dead and half a million homeless. A massive, 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit just off the country’s coast on Friday, March 11, the scientists say. [...]

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Bad news. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Two kids were deciding what game to play. One said, “Let’s play doctor.” “Good idea,” said [...]

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If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles – as it was at the time. It’s not as if we had a beautifully functioning free market in health care until Gov. Mitt Romney came along and wrecked [...]

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The Alzheimer’s Association is leading a campaign to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s disease by the year 2025. The effort is centered around expanded research and naturally relies upon the government to fund a sizable portion of that research. Harry Johns is president of the Alzheimer’s Association. He explains what progress is being made right now [...]

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Last year, Maryland was expected to be the latest state to legalize “gay” marriage. But the heavily Democratic legislature got a big surprise as thousands of people of all races and backgrounds rose up to demand the effort be stopped.  Their effort was successful but now the battle lines are being drawn a second time [...]

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PALM BEACH, Fla. – When it comes to media attacks on the eventual Republican presidential nominee, radio giant Rush Limbaugh thinks it doesn’t matter who the GOP standard-bearer will be, because the onslaught will be tremendous. “Anybody who thinks that we can nominate somebody who is not going to be the focus of a media-destruction campaign [...]

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(AMERICAN THINKER) — Where was the public outcry for justice when Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry bled to death at the hands of a drug cartel in cahoots with the U.S. government? It happened in the Peck Canyon corridor northwest of Nogales, Arizona — nowhere. The general public didn’t hear about it. It’s [...]

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(SLATE) — At the end of 2011, the remarkable innovator Donald Berwick was forced to resign as the recess-appointed head of Medicare and Medicaid, a casualty of Republican-led opposition to his confirmation. An outspoken fan of the United Kingdom’s single-payer system, Berwick was portrayed by critics as a socialist who once commented that “excellent [...]

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Conservative Joseph Farah on Tuesday evening predicted that “10 percent of the Republican vote” would fail to get behind Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as the hypothetical vice presidential nominee because they will believe the circumstances of his birth make him ineligible. Farah has been one of the most prominent and persistent voices of the so-called “birther” [...]

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(PALMBEACHPOST) — Authorities are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a McDonald’s on Saturday while wearing a President Barack Obama mask. Riviera Beach Police say that the man who held employees of the McDonald’s at 3551 Broadway at gunpoint with a silver, semi-automatic handgun, was wearing a mask “resembling a likeness” to [...]

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Authorities are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who robbed a McDonald’s on Saturday while wearing a President Barack Obama mask. Riviera Beach Police say that the man who held employees of the McDonald’s at 3551 Broadway at gunpoint with a silver, semi-automatic handgun, was wearing a mask “resembling a likeness” to Obama. He [...]

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Urban gardening has become a trend in New York City, but police sniffing around a five-story building in the Bronx found an urban garden of a different type: an indoor jungle of marijuana plants growing on every floor, some far taller than the cops who raided the unusual jungle. On Tuesday evening, police carted 593 towering [...]

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An effort to get more states to require convicted drunk drivers to test their breath for alcohol before they can start their cars is gaining support in Congress. A House transportation bill unveiled Tuesday would offer additional highway funds to states that require ignition interlock devices for DUI offenders. A similar measure is expected to come [...]

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A family member of  Don Cornelius arrived at his Mulholland Drive home in Encino on Wednesday morning and found the “Soul Train” creator with a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said. He was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to law enforcement sources. His death is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police [...]

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Five more alleged victims have contacted sheriff’s investigators since they announced the arrest of a longtime Miramonte Elementary School teacher accused of abusing children in his classroom, authorities said. The children’s allegations must all be verified to determine whether any additional charges can be filed against Mark Berndt, 61, who is expected in court Wednesday for [...]

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Egyptian artists ignited the Cairo uprising last year, and they’ve kept the coals turned up under the current military regime. Far from drifting into the shadows and returning to their former occupations as graphic artists or portrait painters, many are feeling the burden and responsibility to follow through to the end. But do their pictures [...]

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(AZCENTRAL) — A portion of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was evacuated Monday morning when a letter was opened in the office that contained an unknown white, powdery substance. The substance was not toxic, according to the Sheriff’s Office, and employees returned to work within hours. A note with the letter indicated the powder was anthrax [...]

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Official Washington is in high dudgeon. Once in a while, one of the pawns in our national game of chess decides to cross the line and does something a bit too egregious even for the grandees of our nation’s capital. This week’s offender is former congressman from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, William [...]

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Moments after Mitt Romney’s landslide victory in the Florida Republican Primary, WND Editor Joseph Farah declared on national television that Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio would not be a good selection for vice president because he’s not a natural-born citizen of the U.S., and therefore is not legally qualified to hold the office. “Rubio’s not eligible [...]

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(LIFENEWS) — The Planned Parenthood abortion business is not happy about the headline-making news that the Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity will stop donations to it until a Congressional investigation is resolved. As LifeNews reported, Komen says it is halting all grants because of public pressure from pro-life groups and due to the impending [...]

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A random, lockdown search of student’s backpacks and other possessions, organized by a Missouri high school and the local sheriffs’ department, did not violate any constitutional protections, according to a judge’s ruling in the controversial case. “Plaintiffs have not produced any admissible evidence to support a claim that any of the individual defendants committed any such [...]

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By Jack Minor Even as Democrats across the nation unleash their sarcasm against anyone who  challenges Barack Obama’s eligibility to be in the 2012 presidential race, they themselves are asserting another candidate should be disqualified. Although it’s been ignored by mainstream media, a precedent-setting case has been developing in Georgia where state residents under an election law [...]

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An attorney who presented evidence to a Georgia judge last week on Barack Obama’s eligibility for the state’s 2012 presidential ballot believes she now has a right to demand to see his original Hawaii documents. Obama last April released what he said was a copy of his original Hawaii birth documentation, but a number of imaging, [...]

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BOSTON – Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has frequently brought up President Obama’s fondness for the politics and methods of activist Saul Alinsky. However, there is evidence presumptive Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney may have been influenced by the late 20th century, Chicago-based radical. Political commentator Dan Riehl wrote on BigGovernment.com that the “toxic-to-conservatives” Alinsky effect has its roots [...]

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By Dave Tombers The gloves have come off, and pundits have been blasting Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas for his decision not to appear at a photo opportunity with Barack Obama at the White House to honor the team’s Stanley Cup championship. The Bruins, minus Thomas, were greeted at the White House Jan. 23, while Thomas told [...]

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The controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations – an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror-funding scheme – is boasting of preventing an outspoken retired general from speaking at an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Retired Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, a strong critic of CAIR, has recommended a WND Books bestseller, [...]

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One of the most significant measures of a president’s success is the number of “firsts.” Some are worthy of praise. Ronald Reagan, for example, was the first president to directly challenge the Soviet Union and attempt to collapse its empire rather than try to co-exist through a policy of “mutually assured destruction.” Others firsts, however, are [...]

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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9

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Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Matthew 6:27

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With double-digit leads in statewide polls, Mitt Romney earned a game-changing victory in the Florida primary, making him the first GOP candidate to win more than one of the state-by-state nomination contests. With 72 percent of precincts reporting, exit polls showed Romney at 47 percent, Newt Gingrich at 32 percent, Rick Santorum at 13 percent and [...]

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At the doctor’s office. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: Whenever my aunt went to the doctor, she would complain to me [...]

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One of the provisions of the president’s health care plan that helped to make the package fiscally palatable was the CLASS Act. It’s a program originally designed to allow people to pay a small amount monthly for a few years and then receive about $18,000 per year if they require long-term care in a nursing [...]

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After watching more than a week of ad blitzes, debates and character attacks, Florida Republicans will decide the winner of today’s primary and the recipient of its 50 delegates to the GOP convention later this year. Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) tells us why the economy will undoubtedly be the top issue for Floridians this year and [...]

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On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office projected a deficit of $1.1 trillion in 2012, jobless rates to stay well above 8.0 percent and economic growth to stay around two percent. Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) says these numbers prove that the Obama agenda is not working and is actually making things much worse. “Everything he is doing [...]

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By Marylou Barry Personhood USA and the Liberty Council presented their joint Florida Awake! Presidential Forum from Winter Park, Fla., on Saturday, but only one presidential candidate was in attendance. Newt Gingrich fielded questions from participants, then briefly addressed the audience. The event was streamed live over the Internet, and the video should be up soon on [...]

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I believe you can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. This is especially true of politicians. Whom they solicit and receive support from really tell the story of who they are in most cases. With that theory in mind, let’s look at who is supporting the two leading candidates for the Republican presidential [...]

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I hate to break the news to the presumptive “masters of the universe” generally hived in Washington, D.C. The Leviathan warfare police state you and your antecedents illicitly crafted by hook or by crook, especially after World War II, is going the way of the dinosaur. You misjudged how strongly rooted in the American DNA [...]

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Floridians have voted in the Republican presidential primary. Click here to see the latest results as they come in.

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Regarding David Limbaugh’s excellent column on voting one’s conscience: Immediately when the presidential race began, main media outlets began claiming Romney will definitely win. After hearing others say that Ron Paul isn’t electable or can’t win, it was timely for a piece like Limbaugh’s on conscience and the fluidity of the present race. And I [...]

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Your article on removing God as “Father” and Jesus as the “Son of God” was very one-sided and slanderous of Wycliffe Bible translators. At the very least you could have investigated and found out why such a respectable conservative evangelical organization has been doing this. Even if you disagree in the end, you are painting them [...]

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Dear Joseph, Like so many others, I, too, am grateful for the work that you and your staff are doing for America. I think that we all agree that both major political parties are steering the nation toward socialism – the only difference is how fast each wants to go! The need for a real alternative is [...]

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Why are notable conservative people endorsing Newt Gingrich when he is a member of the CFR? Don’t they know that if he becomes the GOP nominee and elected that nothing will change the goal of “The Establishment” to push the “New World Order” and accomplish it? Must our nation inevitably become part of it? Michael Stebbins

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(FOXNEWS) — The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if he fails to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents. Holder has until Feb. 9 to comply. In a four-page letter to Holder, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., claims the Department of Justice [...]

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(CONTENT.USATODAY) — Despite the bailout money still owned taxpayers, President Barack Obama is going to try to ride his rescue of General Motors and Chrysler to a reelection victory. Proof? Look no further than his surprise visit to the Washington Auto Show today where he took a close look at some of Detroit’s new models. The Associated [...]

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(PROSPECT.ORG) — Mitt Romney can be funny. Seriously. That’s how I saw it when he confronted a protester during the South Carolina primaries. The young man asked how the former Massachusetts governor, as a member of the 1 percent, planned to support the 99 percent. Romney gave an answer that he’d been polishing for a [...]

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(DAILYCALLER) — A robocall has been circulating throughout Florida charging former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with forcing Holocaust survivors in a nursing home to eat non-kosher meals. (Transcript as follows): As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes — Holocaust survivors, who for the first [...]

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(SACBEE) — California will run out of cash by early March if the state does not take swift action to find $3.3 billion through payment delays and borrowing, according to a letter state Controller John Chiang sent to state lawmakers today. The announcement is surprising since lawmakers previously believed the state had enough cash to last [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers for 12 hours after landing in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting. The [...]

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Salt is bad. Sugar is bad. Carbs are bad. Cholesterol is bad. Calories are bad. Fat is bad. Bad also are the whole, natural foods that sustained our ancestors during an era relatively free of the modern plagues of cancer and heart disease – foods like eggs, raw milk, butter, cheese and red meat. So what’s “good” [...]

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — Donald Trump Will Endorse ‘In a Very Short Period of Time’ That’s what the real estate mogul and reality TV star told me this morning on “GMA.” He wouldn’t indicate which of the remaining four Republican candidates would get his support, but he did single out Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. “I’m friendly with both. [...]

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Many publishing moons ago, when I was a snot-nosed acquisitions editor, I was thumbing through a trade journal and saw the first ads for Tyndale’s soon-to-be-blockbuster series, “Left Behind.” Having seen a fair number of “end times novels,” I actually laughed. I took counsel with myself and decided the book would be a huge failure, both [...]

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(PJMEDIA) — Almost everything you read about the “increasing tension” between Iran and the United States revolves around the rhetorical question, “will there be a war?” Whether it’s our own pundits or the Europeans who watch us, “war” seems closer every day. Look at the Guardian’s Simon Tisdall, for example: [...]

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A major newspaper in Barack Obama’s adopted hometown isn’t going to be endorsing him this year. And the White House isn’t allowing questions about it. The situation developed today at the daily White House news briefing held by press secretary Jay Carney. He declined to allow Les Kinsolving, WND’s correspondent at the White House and the second most-senior [...]

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(NYDAILYNEWS) — A Brooklyn mom’s Facebook page was updated with a photograph of someone hoisting a bottle of champagne – hours after her toddlers were dumped on a streetcorner. Cops were still canvassing Canarsie looking for the mom about 6:15 p.m. on Sunday when the photo of the pink bubbly popped up. It was an odd [...]

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(WATTSUPWITHTHAT) — Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a [...]

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(FORBES) — This month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms. Beijing does not release gold trade figures, so for this and other reasons the Hong Kong numbers are considered the best indication of China’s gold [...]

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BRUSSELS (AP) – Investors participating in a deal to slash Greece’s massive debt would face an overall loss on their bond holdings of more than 70 percent, a person involved in with the negotiations said early Tuesday. European leaders at a summit in Brussels said a final debt deal could be signed off in the coming [...]

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Cottleville, Missouri (CNN) – Rick Santorum attracted a full auditorium of more than 300 people at St. Charles Community College here this afternoon, with an overflow crowd of more than 100 more waiting to meet the former senator in a field outside the building. On a tele-town hall Sunday night, Santorum billed the event as an [...]

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(HERALDNEWS.SUNTIMES) — All of 10 seconds in length, it was the perfect teaser. Seemingly in character as Ferris Bueller, the now middle-aged Matthew Broderick is wearing a robe as he shuffles through what appears to be his living room, parts the curtains and says, “How can I handle work on a day like today?” Wow. Twenty-six years [...]

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(LATIMES) — The student’s admissions essay for Boston University’s MBA program was about persevering in the business world. “I have worked for organizations in which the culture has been open and nurturing, and for others that have been elitist. In the latter case, arrogance becomes pervasive, straining external partnerships.” Another applicant’s essay for UCLA’s Anderson School [...]

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(CBSNEWS) — During church services on Sunday, Catholics around the country were read a blistering letter assailing the Obama administration for an “assault on religious liberty” in the form of a coming requirement that most church-linked organizations – among them hospitals, schools and universities – offer birth control coverage as part of their health care [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Leading church figures including the former Archbishop of Canterbury have sparked controversy by championing a psychotherapist who believes gay men can be ‘cured’ of their homosexuality. Lesley Pilkington was effectively barred from her professional register after attempting to convert a homosexual man in a therapy session at her home. Her patient turned out to be [...]

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(ABCNEWS.GO) — Ketamine, a prescription drug that has been used as an anesthetic for decades and gained popularity on the street as “Special K,” is being tested in Houston as a quick fix to severe depression. Researchers at the Neuro Psychiatric Center next to Ben Taub General Hospital are testing one infusion of ketamine for its [...]

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(BOSTON HERALD) — Former U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s home in Hyannis Port has been given to the institute in his name, the organization announced today, fulfilling wishes outlined in the Massachusetts senator’s will when he died in 2009. Kennedy had promised his mother to preserve the home for charity, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute said [...]

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(THEDAILYBEAST) — In the beginning, your kids need you—a lot. They’re attached to your hip, all the time. It might be a month. It might be five years. Then suddenly you are expected to send them off to school for seven hours a day, where they’ll have to cope with life in ways they never [...]

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(LATIMES) — For 50 years, the Rolling Stones have offended the sensibilities of squeamish types around the world. Next stop on the culture-clash tour: the small northern German town of Luechow. The city’s new Rolling Stones Fan Museum hasn’t even opened, but it’s already attracted controversy because of fixtures in its men’s room — specifically, mouth-shaped [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Choosing such a short dress to wear on stage was always a risk. And veteran balladeer Celine Dion obviously didn’t think twice about the eye level of the audience. The Canadian singer gave the front row a lot more than advertised when she performed at the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Trelawny, Jamaica [...]

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MIAMI (AP) — Cheered by new polls, Mitt Romney is all but predicting victory in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary. Newt Gingrich is looking past Florida to regroup, vowing he won’t stay buried long. “With a turnout like this, I’m beginning to feel we might win tomorrow,” an upbeat Romney told a crowd of several hundred at [...]

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By Michael Volpe Family members of legendary civil-rights leader Robert Hicks say they won’t be intimidated by a fire at the home of the recently deceased civil-rights icon. The blaze happened recently, and fire investigators told the family they believe it was set. Hicks died in 2010, but his family continues to carry out his civil-rights work. “I refuse [...]

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In this podcast, Jerry Robinson on “Follow the Money Weekly” talks about that coming retirement and what preparations are needed. He’s joined by his wife, Jennifer Robinson, who is the national director for the Christian Financial Advisor Network and vice president of Robinson Media Group. She also holds a master’s degree in finance. They discuss the impending [...]

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An administrative law judge in Georgia could decide as early as this week whether voters in the state convinced him Barack Obama’s name should be removed from the 2012 presidential ballot because he is not qualified to hold the office. But win, lose or draw, the fight isn’t going to be over, as other cases are [...]

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The decision from a federal judge who suggested $153 million of U.S. taxpayer money spent supporting Islamic Shariah really isn’t anything really worth mentioning has been appealed to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and oral arguments have been scheduled April 20 in Cincinnati. The case was filed against Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and others [...]

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By Jack Minor The Council on American-Islamic Relations is defending four Michigan high-school football players who ignored a referee and allegedly assaulted the opposing team’s quarterback, saying the resulting charges against the four are based solely on their race. It was during an Oct. 21 football game between Star Academy and Westland Lutheran High School in Dearborn [...]

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If you are on Gmail or YouTube, you probably saw Google’s announcement of its new privacy settings. The company collects and compiles data about you based on your activity on its search page, Gmail, YouTube and phones running its Android operating system. Soon it will be selling that information to advertisers targeting you specifically based [...]

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Kathleen Willey, the woman who courageously testified about being assaulted by President Clinton, is scheduled to lose her home in just three days in a bank auction – but, in a last-minute plea on behalf of millions of homeowners just like her, she has written to billionaire George Soros for help. Willey’s original home loan was [...]

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By Joel Richardson In the world of questionable and sometimes downright silly Bible translations, one would think that it couldn’t get any worse. After all, we’ve seen the “In da beginnin’ Big Daddy created da heaven an’ da earth” Ebonics Bible, as well as the “Apostle’s Log” Star Trek English paraphrase Bible. In a more serious effort, [...]

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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other – for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for secular fanatics, it means Christianity and virtually any public invoking [...]

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Dear Mr. George Soros, My mortgage company used to be IndyMac Bank, which was seized by the government in 2008 because of ongoing financial problems. Then you, John Paulson and Michael Dell bought it from the FDIC in a sweetheart of a deal. The name became OneWest Bank, and it remains the financial institution that owns [...]

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Dear Dave, In your plan, you talk about Baby Step 3 as saving enough to have three to six months of expenses in your emergency fund. My husband and I were wondering how you can determine whether you need to be on the low end or high end of that range? Amanda Dear Amanda, Lots of times in a [...]

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By Monte Kuligowski Those who get their news from the establishment media may not know that Barack Obama stands in jeopardy of being denied placement on Georgia’s ballot for the 2012 presidential race. The mere thought of such a thing is preposterous to the elitist press and is certainly not worthy of ink or camera – unless [...]

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At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes. Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor proceeded to read a letter. In the letter, the Church denounced the Obama administration for ordering all Catholic [...]

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If you’re like me and love tuna, perhaps you’ve felt a little constrained in enjoying it as often as you like for a couple of reasons. First, the tuna seen in stores always seems to be caught off the coast of Thailand or some other distant country. And second, there’s that popular story about tuna containing [...]

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By Kirk Elliott, Ph.D. Editor’s note: The live webinar begins Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 12:00 p.m. ET in the live blog box .Click here to launch the webinar.   Interest rates in the United States are at the lowest points in history. This is fantastic for people who are borrowing or trying to borrow, but horrible for people [...]

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California has a huge state debt, and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Gov. Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system. Most of us might be a little skittish about spending money if we were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. [...]

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(NPR) — In France, an elderly man is fighting to make a formal break with the Catholic Church. He’s taken the church to court over its refusal to let him nullify his baptism, in a case that could have far-reaching effects. Seventy-one-year-old Rene LeBouvier’s parents and his brother are buried in a churchyard in the tiny [...]

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The now-famous picture of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer shaking her finger at President Barack Obama is both appropriate and deserved. In America, we don’t have rulers entitled to the deference and obsequiousness other countries show to their kings; our elected officials are ordinary citizens whom we are free to criticize. Obama apparently took offense at the [...]

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Let me be as forthright as possible in my rejection of Obama’s screed. The United States is not in debt, nor are we, as such, in need of more money, because people aren’t paying their fair share. It’s because Obama and Congress have refused to cut spending. And gutting the military as [...]

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One of our nation’s very best historians and syndicated newspaper columnists is Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. So it is with no little trepidation that I feel obligated to take issue with his Jan. 26 National Review column headlined: “Fidelity and the Presidency: History shows that adultery isn’t necessarily an indicator of governing [...]

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In the intense heat of the present, it is easy to forget even the relatively recent past, but it seems to me that this GOP primary season is more acrimonious than the past few, probably because the stakes are so high. When I’ve noted that this is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes, a [...]

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What do you suppose would happen if a dynamic, young, self-styled “new journalist” employing creative ambush video techniques a la “60 Minutes” and operating on a shoestring budget exposed the fact that it is easy to commit voter fraud by using the names of deceased people like Democrats did in Cook County, Ill., way back [...]

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(CONTENT.USATODAY) — Sometimes, we just like to point things out. Like this Facebook post by the rapper and actor Snoop Dogg featuring a photo of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul with the words “Smoke Weed Everyday.” “Because I said so,” wrote Snoop Dogg on Facebook. More than 20,000 people have said they “like” the photo.

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This should be shouted across the fruited plain: Allen West tells liberal leaders to ‘Get the hell out of the USA’”! “Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, [...]

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Dear Joseph: I very much appreciate all the work you are doing to preserve the Constitution and freedom in America. I am hoping and praying that the current administration will soon be replaced by the upcoming election process. I am concerned that Congress approved north of another trillion for Obama to work his so called magic to [...]

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Here in Wisconsin we have an effort to recall Gov. Walker because he wanted to reform schools. So now we have in Antigo, Wis., teachers an the principal dealing pot. Then they get suspended with pay. Now this is the magic of government, isn’t it? Arnold Gudgeon

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I want to thank Chuck Norris for taking a stand on his core convictions. I also believe that Newt is the best person to represent American freedom and prosperity. I’m really turned off by Romney’s constant negative attacks on Newt. This is why Romney’s likability factor is much lower than anyone else, including Newt. Thank you, [...]

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(APNEWS.MYWAY) — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Looking for a convincing win, a confident Mitt Romney said Monday the Florida primary is breaking his way and urged voters to send Newt Gingrich “to the moon.” Gingrich claimed he’s gaining ground and will stay in the race until summer. “You can sense that it’s coming our way,” Romney told [...]

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(MOTHER JONES) — A ghost from Newt Gingrich’s past paid him a visit in South Carolina, and it wasn’t the one you’re thinking of. In late January, as reporters buzzed over the ABC News interview with the candidate’s second ex-wife, Gingrich was finishing up a town hall at a dove-hunting ranch in the low-country [...]

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(REUTERS) — Is it too late for another Republican to jump into the 2012 U.S. presidential race? Mitt Romney is riding high in Florida and threatening to take charge of the Republican nomination with a win in Tuesday’s primary there. But even as some party conservatives appear to be coming around to supporting him, many are concerned [...]

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(TMZ) — Newt Gingrich is being sued by the company which owns the rights to the 1982 song, “Eye of the Tiger” — claiming Newt had no right to use it as part of his campaign. Rude Music Inc. — owned by a member of the band Survivor — filed the suit today in federal court [...]

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(NJ) — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie this morning attempted to clarify statements he made about same sex marriage and civil rights, but in the process called an openly gay assemblyman who was among the governor’s detractors “numbnuts.” In calling for a voter referendum on gay marriage last week, the Republican governor said: “The fact of [...]

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(SUN-SENTINEL) — LAKE WORTH, Fla. — The city’s push to encourage recycling and reduce the volume of waste trucked to the county landfill goes high-tech this week. The refuse division is beginning a one-year pilot test of a computerized monitoring system that tells managers when residents recycle – and when they don’t. Bar codes linked to addresses [...]

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(GAINESVILLE) — The mother of the girl who was beaten by schoolmates during a Jan. 6 bus ride says the criminal charges against the seven accused attackers are not strong enough. The five girls accused of being involved in the beating were each charged by the State Attorney’s Office with one count of battery and disorderly [...]

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For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Romans 11:36

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Confesses. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A man with a huge grin approaches a priest. “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,” [...]

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JERUSALEM – The Muslim Brotherhood last week held a secret meeting in Egypt to coordinate the Islamic group’s rise to power in countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa, WND has learned. Egyptian security officials told WND the meeting included Brotherhood members from Gaza, Syria, Jordan, Sudan and Egypt. The group discussed methods of gaining [...]

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An Afghan father, his wife and their son have been jailed for life after a jury found them guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as a ‘despicable’ and ‘heinous’ crime. The jury had taken 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their [...]

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(LATIMES) — Alejandrina Cabrera, a city council candidate in Arizona, is appealing a lower-court decision that barred her from seeking office because a judge determined that her English was too poor, one of her lawyers said Saturday. Cabrera’s lawyers filed a notice to appeal late Friday, and will likely file an appellate brief Monday, Ryan Hengl, [...]

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(WASHINGTON POST) — President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But each of his first three years in office has marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans deeply disapproving. For 2011, Obama’s third year in office, an average of 80 [...]

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(BOSTONGLOBE) — ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that African nations should stop treating gays as “second-class citizens or even criminals.’’ Ban told African leaders who gathered in Ethiopia’s capital for an African Union summit that discrimination based on sexual orientation “had been ignored or even sanctioned by many states for [...]

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Chuck Norris isn’t “missing in action” in Florida, one day out from the state’s pivotal GOP presidential primary. The tough-guy Hollywood  star — perhaps best known for his role in “Delta Force” and TV series “Walker, Texas Ranger” — endorsed Newt Gingrich more than a week ago and on Monday the former House speaker’s campaign pointed [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — Minnesota’s Democrats would love to knock her off, but Rep. Michele Bachmann looks likely to win a fourth term in her redrawn district. But her failed presidential bid may have clouded the tea party favorite’s hopes of moving up to higher office in the future. After her presidential run briefly soared and then [...]

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(POLITICO) — As the slugfest between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney gets nastier, Republicans in Congress find themselves at a significant disadvantage as they watch most Democrats fall in lockstep behind President Barack Obama’s election-year agenda. GOP lawmakers can’t wait for the bitter presidential primary to end, fearing the prolonged affair will not only doom their [...]

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(FARMANDDAIRY) — WASHINGTON — The Annual Energy Outlook 2012 released Jan. 23 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration presents updated projections for U.S. energy markets through 2035. The projections show natural gas and renewables gaining an increasing share of U.S. electric power generation, domestic crude oil and natural gas production growing, reliance on imported oil decreasing, [...]

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(LATIMES) — DAVOS, Switzerland — Europe’s crippling debt crisis dominated the world’s foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet’s haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to the Arab Spring uprisings, the Occupy movement and other protests around the globe. The mood at the [...]

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(FLATHEADBEACON) — Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg announced on Jan. 27 that his legislation to protect the Jesus statue at Whitefish Mountain Resort will be given a legislative hearing in the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest and Public Lands. The hearing is scheduled for 7 a.m. Mountain Standard Time on Feb. 3. Rehberg, according to a [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — If giving birth to a 13 pound baby isn’t enough to earn a title of Wonder Woman after labor, how about doing it au naturale? An Iowa woman delivered her second son to weigh over 11 pounds Thursday after opting to forgo a cesarean section as well as pain killers. At precisely 13 pounds and [...]

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(BBC) — A dose of ultrasound to the testicles can stop the production of sperm, according to researchers investigating a new form of contraception. A study on rats published in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology showed that sound waves could be used to reduce sperm counts to levels that would cause infertility in humans. Researchers described ultrasound as [...]

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(ST AUGUSTINE) — At the end, winning word was ‘precipice’ It took 25 rounds, two hours and the spelling of “precipice” before Grace Remmer was declared winner of the 2012 St. Johns County Spelling Bee on Wednesday. The word “scampi” took out her last opponent, Alex Luckau of Landrum Middle School, during the bee held in the [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Pottstown Middle School, a school in Pennsylvania, is banning the wearing of fuzzy open-top boots, including Uggs, because students have been stashing mobile phones in the footwear. Starting today, the Philadelphia suburban district is implementing the ban to the middle-school classes, according to district director of community relations John Armato. “Cell phones are a problem [...]

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(IO9) — George Washington may have been America’s first president, but was he nearly America’s first zombie-in-chief? If William Thornton, physician and designer of the US Capitol, had had his way, Washington’s body would have been subjected a scientific experiment designed to bring the deceased former president back to life. In December 1799, 67-year-old George Washington took [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — A woman has told how she was saved by certain death by her breast implants. The 41-year-old woman, fro Florida, was stabbed repeatedly in the chest by a jealous love rival – but instead of going into her heart the knife pierced her newly enlarged breast. Doctors told the woman the saline inside the [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — Facebook Inc. could file papers for its initial public offering as early as this coming week, people familiar with the matter said, as anticipation mounts for what is likely to be one of the biggest debuts for a U.S. company. The deal, seen as defining moment for the latest Web investing boom, could raise [...]

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  It’s everyone’s nightmare. An armed gunman intrudes in what had seemed a safe environment and suddenly you’re in a battle zone. Even churches have been attacked by criminals and terrorists in recent years. One person who has not only experienced such a scenario firsthand, but who shot back against terrorists and defended friends and family in [...]

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The time has come for the international community to stop “playing games” and get tough with Iran, declared a Knesset member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party. Warning that “all options are on the table,” Likud Knesset Member Danny Danon urged the West to “stop playing games with Iran and to show them some [...]

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In a sea of negativity and distractions in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, I decided to throw my support behind former Speaker Newt Gingrich because I can now see much clearer distinctions between President Obama and Newt than I do between Gov. Mitt Romney and the president. These distinctions are between Obama’s hodgepodge of [...]

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(LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL) — The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown L.A. Many questioned what was going on Wednesday night as a Black Hawk helicopter and four OH-6 choppers – or “Little Birds” – flew over the city, at one point hovering [...]

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I cannot understand how some creepy judge, after four years, decides the president of United States is not qualified to be the president. I just wonder if the color of the president is playing a part. How is Gov. Mitt Romney, whose father is not a born American and his mother is not an “American,” qualified [...]

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When was the last time an ayatollah, imam or mullah was a suicide bomber? Never? Wouldn’t you think Muslims would be bright enough to smell a rat in this arrangement? Francis Baker

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Re: “Newt hints at Rubio for VP“: Rubio is enthusiastic and is the rage of the “pandering to Latinos” lapdog GOPers. Why not? He has great hair and smiles real pretty-like. But he is not a natural-born citizen. So, if he were to become VP, he is next in line for the presidency. What would they do [...]

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We have been fighting Obama’s failure to meet constitutional requirements for president because Obama is not a “natural born citizen.” His father was a citizen of Kenya. Marco Rubio is an excellent servant, but he also is not a “natural-born citizen.” Marco was born a “citizen” in Florida in 1971 while his parents were citizens of [...]

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Of the three branches of our government, Obama may very well illegally be one, but he has disrespected the judicial branch by contempt of court, and he has disrespected the legislative branch by ignoring the authority of Congress and declaring war. If the judicial and legislative branches are to remain intact, they must act quickly to [...]

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(PHILLY) — The 3-year-old daughter of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was admitted to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Saturday and the candidate canceled his Sunday-morning campaign events to be at her side. Santorum campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said Saturday night the former Pennsylvania senator and his wife, Karen, were with Bella at the hospital. Gidley said [...]

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And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7

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(WASHINGTON POST) By Christina Hoff Sommers Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Her books include “Who Stole Feminism?” and “The War Against Boys.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. [...]

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A judge in Detroit has ruled that the decision by police in neighboring Dearborn to arrest a Christian pastor who wanted to hand out Christian tracts at the city’s Arab fest in 2009 will cost the city some $100,000. That’s the decision following a request from the pastor’s attorneys that the losing side in the First [...]

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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a trial at the district level for a graduate level counseling student who was dismissed from her program for asking that a client with “gay” issues be referred to another counselor because as a Christian she could not affirm that lifestyle choice. Officials at Eastern Michigan University [...]

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(WESTERN JOURNALISM) By Van Irion Fellow Constitutionalists, One of my earliest childhood memories is of my parents talking about Nixon and the Watergate scandal. I remember the newspaper headline: “Nixon Resigns!” President Nixon’s fight against court subpoenas made international news. Yesterday President Obama completely ignored a court subpoena, and the world shrugged. Obama’s behavior yesterday is even more disturbing [...]

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BOSTON – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has announced that he will appoint conservative judges to the federal bench if he wins the White House. In a forum hosted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Romney said he likes “strict constructionists” on the federal bench. “I’d like people who recognize that their job is to protect the [...]

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(AMERICAN THINKER) By Cindy Simpson and Alan P. Halbert Two AT writers attended yesterday’s hearing in Georgia over President Obama’s eligibility for the presidential ballot. Cindy Simpson writes: President Obama has a habit of turning his back and walking away from those with whom he disagrees, as recently discovered by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Professor John Lott, in [...]

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WASHINGTON – The GOP’s most important celebrity endorser has followed up his official support for Newt Gingrich with more in his column in WND today. Chuck Norris, who issued his official endorsement of Newt Gingrich just before his big South Carolina victory, comes back today slamming ABC News for airing an interview with his ex-wife, chiding [...]

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(THE STREET) — What do Jack Abramoff, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela and Aung-San-Suu-Kyi have in common? To start, they are all ex-con celebrities who have written books with a political freedom theme. For all of them, prison followed their perspectives on political freedoms. Only Jack Abramoff was jailed for abusing these freedoms, for example by [...]

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By Jack Minor DENVER – A federal judge in Denver has slapped down 10 motions made by federal prosecutors against a peaceful abortion protester in a case that observers say has far-reaching ramifications for those engaging in demonstrations of just about any type. The Obama administration had assigned five federal prosecutors to go after Ken Scott, a [...]

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The 2012 March for Life in Washington was just days ago and tens of thousands gathered in Washington to renew pledges to overturn the 1973 Roe V. Wade Supreme Court opinion that legalized abortion across the land. Barack Obama, meanwhile, celebrated the anniversary of the controversial decision that experts estimate has resulted in the deaths of [...]

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Of confusion. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a [...]

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Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. – Mark 13:31

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Last week, Germany launched its most aggressive attack on another country since Operation Barbarossa in 1941. Der Spiegel led with a headline titled “Griechenland soll Kontrolle über Haushalt abgeben,” which has been misleadingly translated into English as “Germany proposes Greece relinquish some fiscal powers.” A more accurate translation would be: “Greece shall give up control [...]

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(APNEWS.MYWAY) — WASHINGTON (AP) – Fuzzy math, Illinois State University’s president called it. “Political theater of the worst sort,” said the University of Washington’s head. President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government [...]

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Whew! It’s the first time I’ve heard such powerful words from a man of the cloth. I love it! It’s about time! The man is Bishop David A. Zubik, writing in the Pittsburgh Catholic on Friday. “Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary) and through her, the Obama administration, have said ‘To Hell with You’ to the Catholic faithful of [...]

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“A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.” – Ecclesiastes 10:2 I hate to be a party pooper. On the eve of the Florida primary, America is getting election crazy. These are desperate times, with Barack Obama destroying the country, so it’s understandable. Believe me, no one wants to see him [...]

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The head of Iran’s state oil company said Sunday that the price of crude will reach $120 to $150 per barrel, as officials in Tehran prepare to discuss a ban on crude sales to European Union countries in retaliation for an EU embargo. Head of the National Iranian Oil Company Ahmad Qalehbani [...]

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Faster than the 2010 election could stop. Faster than the new Congress could act. Faster than the Supreme Court can reign in. Faster than Barney Frank can make an honest man of Jim Ready. While “We the People” falter, distracted by endless crises and frustrated by endless hard times, that’s how fast Barack Obama has assembled a payback presidency, [...]

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I heard the State of the Union message, and a friend and I discussed it. Yes, we agreed, we do have some serious problems in America today. So, who’s to blame? President Barack Obama alternates between blaming President Bush and the Republicans in Congress (never mind that the Democrats had the majority in both houses until [...]

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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested not just a trip to the moon but a real base on the moon this week. “Crazy” is how most of the media labeled it. The Speaker said his critics do not understand science or technology or entrepreneurship. He has pointed out that when the transcontinental railroad was planned, we did [...]

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I was born to a Jewish mother and father. My mother’s maiden name was Goldberg, and her parents, my grandparents, Yetta and Louis, emigrated to the United States from Poland and Lithuania. The grandparents on my father’s side, Freda and Isadore Klayman, hail from the Ukraine. All of my grandparents fled their native countries to [...]

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Editor’s note: Michael Ackley’s columns may include satire and parody based on current events, and thus mix fact with fiction. He assumes informed readers will be able to tell which is which. Bulletin! Bulletin! Bulletin! Venerable Washington, D.C., columnist Howard Bashford was granted a no-holds-barred, one-on-one interview last week with President Barack Obama. Below is an abridged transcript [...]

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By Mark Steyn (NATIONAL REVIEW) — Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not have delayed your dinner plans: “The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You’ve been a terrific crowd!”

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By Doug Harvey (COMMON DREAMS) — I once asked a Native American if he thought whether North America was in any way in a post-colonial period. His response was, “Have they left yet?” Of the New World republics that came about as a result of colonization, the United States is going to have the hardest time [...]

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I think the mainstream media, or MSM, and Washington elite think the majority of voters just fell off the turnip truck. But the South Carolina primary election and other current voting trends show otherwise. The MSM are working double time to get us to forget about the unprecedented results of the South Carolina primary election, but [...]

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is urging Floridians to vote for Newt Gingrich in this Tuesday’s Republican primary in the Sunshine State. “And I say, you know, you’ve got to rage against the machine at this point in order to defend our republic and save what is good and secure and prosperous about our nation,” Palin [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs [...]

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(SUN-SENTINEL) — FORT LAUDERDALE — Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her. She’s not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that’s been parked in front of her eight-room Parisian Motel for several days. “Warning: You are under video surveillance,” reads the bold [...]

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(SMH) — Scientists in the United States have reported a further step towards a celebrated ”invisibility cloak” by masking a large, free-standing object in three dimensions. The lab work is the latest advance in a scientific frontier that uses novel materials to manipulate light, a trick that is of huge interest to the military in particular. Reporting [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — For all Angela Merkel’s tough talk, she will eventually be forced to accept the inevitable on the euro crisis. One of Davos’s more amusing characteristics is that it can be used as a quite reliable contrary indicator. I’ve been coming to this annual gathering of the world elite of finance, business and public policy for [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — Spain’s unemployment rate has jumped to nearly 24 percent in the fourth quarter, Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro said on Thursday, confirming that the country is still in the throes of a long and painful economic crisis. Mr. Montoro told a parliamentary commission on Thursday that official figures due out Friday will show 5.4 million [...]

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(CHRON) — AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is history, but the tally for the security detail that accompanied him continues to mount. From September through part of November alone, travel expenditures for the security detail surrounding Perry and his wife, Anita, were $798,031.42. Nearly all of that was for out-of-state trips, bringing his security tab [...]

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(MIAMI HERALD) — NBC doesn’t like the fact that Mitt Romney’s campaign is using some of its footage in the latest Newt Gingrich-basher. Will Romney pull it? From NBC: “The NBC Legal Department has written a letter to the campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads. Similar requests have [...]

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(FOXNEWS) — Criminal investigators looking into the suspicious circumstances behind a now-withdrawn claim for a $14.3 million Iowa Lottery jackpot will have numerous layers of complexity to unravel, stretching from a wealthy New York suburb to Central America, observers said Friday. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said it was examining whether a crime was committed [...]

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(METROWEST DAILY NEWS) — MetroWest residents might soon think twice about taking a Friday night trip to Fenway Park on the commuter rail, or even about accepting a job in Boston. That’s because as part of its plan to get out of the red, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said it will likely raise commuter [...]

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(BLOOMBERG) — More than 70 percent of investors say an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would create only a short-term disruption in oil markets, according to a quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll. About a third of the 1,209 global investors, traders and analysts surveyed Jan. 23-24 said an attack may trigger an oil shock leading to a [...]

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(CSMONITOR) — On Wednesday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said his company expected the number of Netflix DVD subscribers to “decline steadily for every quarter, forever,” as more users turn to streaming video. Hastings, who was speaking to reporters during a conference call, hastened to add that Netflix would keep the DVD portion of its business “stable,” [...]

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(SACBEE) — Mitt Romney’s tax returns reveal that the Republican presidential candidate does something fewer Americans do these days: He tithes. Romney’s 2009 and 2010 tax returns, released Tuesday, show that he and his wife, Ann, gave 10 percent of their income, about $4.1 million, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The couple [...]

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(CNN) — Here’s a serious question about levity: The Bible clearly paints a picture of Jesus of Nazareth as a clever guy, but he never seems to laugh, much less crack a smile. Did Jesus really have no sense of humor; didn’t he ever laugh? Well, one difficulty with finding humor in the New Testament is [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — In the sixth to 12th week of pregnancy, a fetus’s bones, brain and central nervous system are forming. Buds blossom into arms and legs, and internal organs start to function. A face with eyelids, lips and other features appears. Melinda Beck on Lunch Break looks at the latest in warnings for pregnant women on [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — LOS ANGELES—What does every aspiring dragon mother want? A dragon baby. Monday begins the year of the dragon, considered the luckiest of the Chinese lunar years. Some Chinese and Chinese-Americans are so committed to welcoming a child this year that they are getting fertility treatments to boost their chances. Evie Jeang, a 34-year-old Los Angeles [...]

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(PHYSORG) — First-year college students’ political and social views shifted in a more liberal direction in 2011, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA’s annual survey of the nation’s entering students at four-year colleges and universities. Notable changes were seen in student views on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and access to higher education for undocumented [...]

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(DAILY MAIL) — Ever since she was a toddler, Stacey Irvine has eaten little else but chicken nuggets and the occasional portion of chips. Now, at the age of 17, she has been warned by doctors to change her appalling diet or die. The factory worker – who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables [...]

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Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A Harvard professor received a grant to study the state of Christianity in America. Beginning [...]

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BURTON, Mich. — A Flint-area teenager and leukemia survivor has been suspended from school for growing out his hair to donate to cancer patients. Officials at Madison Academy, a charter school in Burton, say J.T. Gaskins’ reason for growing out his hair is admirable. But his hair is in direct conflict with school policy that requires it [...]

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“Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get [...]

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A Muslim airline pilot who claims his religion cost him his job has told an employment tribunal that his bosses feared he might copy the September 11 attacks. The Heathrow-based pilot, who cannot be named for legal reasons, worked for a well-known British carrier but was judged a security risk after he was arrested over an [...]

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The growing power of a rebel army has seen control of the Syrian capital of Damascus split between rival gunmen fighting for or against President Bashar Assad. Two days of bloody carnage in which at least 74 people have died has come as the rebel force – the Syrian Free Army – steps up its mission [...]

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Alexander Graham Bell experimented with wireless phones as early as 1880, but the idea was largely  forgotten – and was not to become widespread until the second half of the twentieth century. By 1920, at least one intrepid inventor American was trialing a car-phone – the ancestor of the car phones that appeared in the Seventies, [...]

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Medical regulators are drawing up new advice for more than 30,000 Britons who have received “metal-on-metal” devices because of fears that they are even more dangerous than previously thought, a Sunday Telegraph investigation has found. Problems occur with such devices when friction between the metal ball and cup causes minuscule metal filings to break off, which [...]

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Teenagers as young as 13 are being offered a smartphone app that allows them to track down free condoms. The iPhone app – which has cost the taxpayer thousands of pounds – works using satellite positioning to plot a user’s location on a map. It then provides directions to the nearest health clinic, pharmacy or youth club [...]

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The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on [...]

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In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the former head of the army, General Sir Michael Jackson, says defense cuts have made it “impossible” to win the islands back after a successful invasion, in the way the British task force did in 1982. “What if an Argentinian force was able to secure the Mount Pleasant airfield? [...]

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Reviving Western concerns that his government is still contemplating unilateral military action against Iran, Ehud Barak gave one of the clearest signs yet that Israel’s support for new US and EU sanctions remains strictly limited. “We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear,” he told the World Economic Forum in Davos. “And even the American [...]

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One-time Newt Gingrich rival Herman Cain officially endorsed Gingrich Saturday night at the Lincoln Day Dinner at the Kravis Center, calling Gingrich a patriot and saying he’s not afraid of bold ideas. “I know that Speaker Gingrich is a patriot, Speaker Gingrich is not afraid of bold ideas,” Cain said. “I also know Speaker Gingrich is [...]

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Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11

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When President Obama denied a permit for the $7 billion Keystone pipeline project stretching from Canada to Texas, many feared the project was dead – but a Republican lawmaker is preparing to bypass the president altogether and get the pipeline back on track. H.R. 3548, submitted by Lee Terry, R-Neb., would take the decision out of [...]

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At one time in the U.S., even ardent left-leaners like Jesse Jackson and the Black Panthers warned America about it. But as the years went by and money exchanged hands, the issue was quietly forgotten. Now viral filmmaker Molotov Mitchell is tearing the lid off what he calls “one of the most scandalous cover-ups in U.S. history,” [...]

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Valentine’s Day is coming, and the traditional gift options – flowers, greeting cards and teeth-rotting candy – are somewhat limited. That is, unless you go to the WND Superstore’s brand-new Valentine’s Day section. There you’ll find a wonderful array of books and videos dedicated to making marriages and relationships stronger, more enduring, and – as one [...]

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Accusing the U.S. Census Bureau of “stalking” and “harassment” against dozens of Americans, officials with the Rutherford Institute have asked the federal agency to explain how its “American Community Survey” questions related to information the government is authorized to request. Or perhaps it should just stop sending out the forms with dozens of questions that demand [...]

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WASHINGTON – WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah will be a guest on “Hannity” on Fox News Channel Monday night at 9 p.m. Farah is currently leading the “No More Red Ink” campaign that is raising public awareness about the skyrocketing national debt, signing up candidates for president and Congress for a “No-More-Borrowing Pledge,” [...]

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Archived video of the Obama eligibility hearing, Thursday 1-26-12, in Atlanta,Georgia. The audio is sometimes hard to hear, but has been enhanced from original. This video was entirely funded and produced by Article Two Super Pac. They have graciously allowed us to post this video here to get the message out to as many people as possible.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Several Taliban negotiators have begun meeting with American officials in Qatar, where they are discussing preliminary trust-building measures, including a possible prisoner exchange, several former Taliban officials said Saturday. The former officials said that four to eight Taliban representatives had traveled to Qatar from Pakistan to set up a political office for the [...]

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When a manager at a Clearwater storage business told a family they were going to have to auction off the contents of a rented unit for back rent, the family said there would be just one problem: a relative’s body was in storage there. The woman’s body had been stored there since 1995, the family said.

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Bolstered by positive poll numbers, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday sought to vanquish rival Newt Gingrich in Florida with a biting new ad about ethics charges and a mocking tone about his debate complaints. Just three days ahead of a pivotal primary race that could determine who has the momentum to win the Republican [...]

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On the weekend before the pivotal Florida primary, Newt Gingrich vowed today to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination until the national convention this summer even if he loses Tuesday’s vote. Front-runner Mitt Romney poured on the criticism of his rival in television ads airing across the state. Gingrich’s pledge, in a race [...]

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The GOP establishment are “cannibals” using “tactics of the left” to take down Newt Gingrich, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged Friday. The former House Speaker has come under fire from many prominent conservatives in recent weeks, including some questioning his credentials as a true Ronald Reagan conservative.

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A bill being drafted by a state legislator would limit local law enforcement from holding arrestees on behalf of immigration authorities seeking to deport them. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) said he is finalizing amendments to a bill that would be the first statewide measure to counter the Secure Communities enforcement program, which requires law enforcement [...]

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A government-run Saudi Arabian newspaper reports that for the first time in the conservative Muslim country, women will be allowed to attend soccer matches in one of the country’s stadiums. Al-Sharq newspaper on Saturday quoted unnamed officials as saying that women will be able to watch the matches in a new facility that will be completed [...]

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Europe is getting tougher on government debt. After more than two years struggling to rescue financially shaky governments, leaders of the 17 countries that use the euro are ready to agree on a treaty that will force member countries to put deficit limits into their national laws. At first glance, it seems logical – after all, [...]

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California, long a national leader in cutting auto pollution, pushed the envelope further Friday as state regulators approved rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and put significantly more pollution-free vehicles on the road in coming years. The package of Air Resources Board regulations would require auto manufacturers to offer more zero- or very low-emission [...]

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Convicted killer Joran van der Sloot’s health has deteriorated since he was moved to a high security prison in Peru, RadarOnline.com reported. The Dutchman, who was jailed for 28 years for the 2010 murder of Peruvian woman Stephany Flores, was transferred to maximum security prison Piedras Gordas, in the north of capital Lima, following criticism that [...]

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to develop an application that can track the public’s postings to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, in order to aid how it predicts and reacts to criminal behavior, including public disorder and terrorism. An FBI request for information document has been published, asking potential contractors to [...]

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Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. It was a stunning role reversal for a youthful company that prides itself in promoting unfettered expression, 140 characters at a time.

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Google’s privacy policy changes have caught the attention of an independent watchdog of the federal cloud that is worried about security risks for government workers. Image courtesy of GoogleSafeGov disputes the Internet search leader’s claims that the changes won’t affect government workers using Google apps

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Used with permission from Charisma magazine, January 2012. Copyright Charisma Media, USA. Jonathan Cahn As he looked across the waters of the Hudson River from the Statue of Liberty, the twin towers of the World Trade center spiking the New York City skyline, Jonathan Cahn had a deep sense of foreboding. The Messianic rabbi had joined with other prayer and [...]

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I’ve been a big fan of actor Ed Harris since I first saw him in “The Abyss” in 1989, an affection cemented when he appeared in 2001′s “A Beautiful Mind” – so when the trailers came out for “Man on a Ledge,” promising high tension, suspense, intrigue and Ed Harris as the bad guy, I [...]

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WASHINGTON – Missouri Rep. Todd Akin says people in his state are fully fed up with Washington, and he’s getting a lot of positive responses to an anti-Washington campaign on which he’s embarked. The interview: He’s seeking the Republican nomination to challenge longtime Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill later this year. “One of the things we’re hearing consistently is [...]

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WASHINGTON – A congressman who is on the House Armed Services Committee says the fire that the U.S. military is taking right now is alarming. But it’s “friendly fire,” that is, budget cuts made by Washington. The interview: “The volume of the cuts is incredible,” he told Greg Corombos of Radio America in an interview for WND. “We [...]

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The senior editor for Americans for Limited Government says Barack Obama is comparing apples to oranges when he talks about the number of jobs being created and the status of the economy. The interview: In an interview with Greg Corombos of Radio America for WND, Senior Editor Robert Romano says he’s concluded that not only is Obama’s [...]

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BOSTON – A pro-family activist says that while Mitt Romney was the Massachusetts governor, from 2004 through 2006 the contender for the GOP presidential nomination handed out more than 500 one-day certificates for individuals to perform homosexual marriage ceremonies. Author and analyst Steve Baldwin says that the numbers are real, even though the records are scarce. “He [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – Mexican president Felipe Calderon has [...]

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A coalition of U.S. radical groups, including the Occupy Movement, are preparing protests to target the Democratic National Convention in September in Charlotte, N.C. The Occupy movement is likely to escalate months before the Sept. 3-6 event. A slew of extremist organizations, some tied to President Obama, are preparing protests to coincide with major NATO and [...]

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Attorneys who argued in a Georgia court this week that Barack Obama isn’t eligible to be president say Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi considered granting a default judgment before they even argued the case. That presumably could have recommended that Obama failed to prove his eligibility and therefore should not be on the 2012 ballot, since [...]

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By Jack Minor The mainstream media appears to have been put under a “cone of silence” about the first court proceeding to enter into the record evidence that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president based on the Constitution’s requirement that that office be occupied only by a “natural-born citizen.” Georgia administrative law judge Michael Malihi on [...]

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It’s a question that’s gone coast to coast and now has landed near the intersection of Antioch and Harding in Nashville: the “Where’s the REAL Birth Certificate?” billboard campaign. The effort to raise the public’s awareness of the controversy over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president was launched only a few months after he took office, [...]

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(FOX NEWS) — Atheists are using a music video that celebrates the burning of churches and synagogues to promote an upcoming atheist-themed festival at Fort Bragg. “Rock Beyond Belief” is scheduled to be held on the parade field at Fort Bragg in March. The event was created in part as a response to a Billy Graham [...]

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(SUNSHINE STATE NEWS) — With the Presidential Preference Primary looming on Tuesday, Mitt Romney holds a solid lead over the Republican presidential pack in Florida, according to a Sunshine State News Poll of likely primary voters. Romney tops the poll, which was conducted by Harrisburg, Pa.-based Voter Survey Service (VSS), with 40 percent. When he ran [...]

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A syllogism: A. Mitt Romney has stated his chief political mentor was his father, George Romney. B. George Romney, a steadfast progressive, credited Saul Alinsky, met with him, and recommended his work. A+B = Mitt Romney’s chief political mentor was a steadfast progressive who credited Saul Alinsky, met with him and recommended his work.

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(ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) — Senior Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday that Iran is already a nuclear state and that Americans have not realized that. “The United States says it will not allow Iran to be nuclear, but it is so blind that it hasn’t noticed that Iran has already become a nuclear [...]

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(WASHINGTON POST) MIAMI — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that the reason he seemed less combative during Thursday’s televised debate was that he was shocked by what he described as rival Mitt Romney’s “totally dishonest” replies to several questions. In a telephone interview, Gingrich cited Romney’s remarks on immigration, his vote for Democrat Paul [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — While Rick Santorum is in Florida seeking to revive his presidential campaign, a man in Wyoming might hold the key to extending his candidacy, and the entire fight for the Republican nomination. Foster Friess is the largest financial backer of the political entity running an independent campaign to boost Mr. Santorum in [...]

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Denied. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: The IRS sent my tax forms back! Again! I guess it was because of my response [...]

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(NEWARK STAR LEDGER) — Quite aside from the hypocrisy of turning up at an environmental event in a motorcade of 22 carbon-belching cars, there’s the question of the imperial presidency. When I was in England writing about the royal wedding, I noted that Prince Charles travels around London in a motorcade that was no motorcade at [...]

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President Obama delivered his State of the Union message on Tuesday. While Obama tried to paint a positive picture on the economy, it was clear he felt much more comfortable discussing the one undeniable achievement of the past year – killing Osama bin Laden. The president mentioned it twice in his speech and even used the [...]

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(WALL STREET JOURNAL) — A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about “global warming.” Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing [...]

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(CNN) — President Barack Obama hit back Friday at a charge lobbed at him from Republican presidential candidates, saying the suggestion he’s inciting class warfare was flat wrong. Speaking to Democratic lawmakers at a retreat on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Obama said he would actively rebut that charge in the coming election year.

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How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Psalm 84:1-2

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By Joel Richardson Throughout the Christian church, an idea that has gained much traction in recent years holds that the next major Middle Eastern war is described in Psalm 83. According to this view, a contingent of Arab nations that immediately surround Israel will soon make an attempt to invade her, only to be utterly defeated [...]

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By Humberto Fontova Last week the regime co-founded by Che Guevara (worldwide icon of youthful rebellion) murdered a young defenseless political prisoner named Wilman Villar for the crime of “disrespect to authorities.” So, 53 years into Cuban Stalinism we’re at about 100,000 Cuban deaths at the hands of the regime, and counting. (All of this 90 miles [...]

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In Hawaii they have a phrase they use for looking at someone with a harsh expression. They call it “stink eye.” And I think sometimes we may feel that God is collectively giving stink eye to all of us. But that is not true at all. God sees us for what we can become. Jesus gave [...]

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We were invited to dinner this week with a family who lives nearby. John and Mary are a bit younger than my husband and I, and their five children range from 12 to 2 years old. They are a devoutly religious family, and their children are homeschooled. The kids are happy, well-behaved, rambunctious, polite [...]

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Editor’s note: Listen to this column online. Many people are convinced that this president has done more to destroy the United States in three years than all the other presidents combined. The only hope of preventing another four years of even more drastic destructive policies is the election of one of the four remaining Republican candidates. [...]

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Over the past week we have again seen a flurry of Republican kingmakers and pundits offering advice on how Republicans can “woo the Latino vote.” Such commentaries seem to appear on a regular cycle every three or four months. What we seldom see is Democrats worrying about the Latino vote. But they should. What [...]

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The theme President Obama gave to his State of the Union address was “An America Built to Last.” But his vision would be better described as “An America Built to Be Last.” As the president asked us to be patient and keep drinking the same Kool-Aid he’s been serving up for three years, the New York Times [...]

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For four long years, compelling evidence has been available that challenges the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to occupy the White House. In fact, I would say the evidence that he does not meet the simple requirements of the law is overwhelming. But it was not until Thursday that the evidence – any of it – [...]

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I follow this Obama eligibility issue very closely and am still waiting for someone to start the articles of impeachment on this phony Chicago hood! The mere fact is this guy should not be residing in “our” White House, period, nor should he get a paycheck from the American people for the rest of his life, [...]

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If the judge rules for the plaintiffs in a default judgement (“Obama accused of disrespecting court, state, Americans”), then everyone should call his/her representative and senators and tell them what the ruling is and that it is time to vet this man FOR REAL at the federal level, because Sen. McCain had to go through [...]

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A very brief observation, and perhaps obvious. Obama’s refusal to honor the Georgia court by refusing to appear makes him an “OUTLAW” as defined by Merriam-Webster: – “1. A person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law.” By refusing to appear, he surrendered his rights to the protection of the law. This is what the [...]

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Marco Rubio cannot stand in the line of succession for POTUS because he, too, is not a natural-born citizen. If he were to serve as vice president and something came about where the president could not perform his duties, the speaker of the House would have to bypass Rubio and step up as POTUS. The [...]

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This country is in desperate need of an intelligent and reasonably charismatic man or woman, preferably Republican, to stand up and run for president. Where is he or she? Surely there must be someone available. Can’t WND turn one up and then back him/her to the hilt? The country is truly in a bad and [...]

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When Pelosi commented that Newt wouldn’t be elected president, maybe, just maybe, Pelosi knows that there won’t be any more elections. After all, Obama and his cronies have just about every thing in place that will allow him to declare martial law and shut down all opposition to his agenda. Obama had to know that refusing [...]

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Once Washington’s most notorious lobbyist, Jack Abramoff is now a repentant campaigner for cleaning up corruption in Washington, and he gives some of the credit for his turnaround to talk radio host Michael Savage. In an interview on “The Savage Nation” last night, Savage noted that Abramoff wrote in his book “Capitol Punishment” of having a [...]

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(ALTERNET.ORG) — Americans are still struggling to come to terms with the loss they felt as the wackier GOP candidates fell by the wayside. For pure entertainment value, the mendacity they offered on the campaign trail couldn’t be beat. Who can forget Herman Cain worrying about how China, a member of the club for almost [...]

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On last night’s episode of “Jeopardy!,” none of the contestants could name MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, despite being shown a photograph of her. Watch the clip from the Jan. 26, 2012, game show:

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(FOX NEWS) — America is in shambles from sea to shining sea. Unemployment is nearly at Great Depression levels. The real estate is still week and near collapse. And, of course, our U.S. Triple A credit rating is gone for the first time in history. But this is National School Choice Week and all of [...]

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We are all susceptible to the occasional knee-jerk reaction. We hear something and immediately jump to a position of opposition or support with little or no evidence to support the position. Sometimes such gut responses are correct and are subsequently validated by additional information, but often they are completely off base. As a Second Amendment advocate, [...]

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Mr. Norris, the Super Bowl is near, and so are parties with fatty junk food. Any super “bowl” tips to keep my hand from continually reaching into the bowl of M&M’s? – Sean D., Plymouth, Mass. Let me offer you my twofold party strategy. First, in response to a host’s initial offer or invitation for a drink, [...]

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A study found that in polygamous cultures, levels of rape, kidnap, murder and robbery increase as the dissatisfied men left on the shelf go on the rampage. Researchers from the University of British Columbia say that monogamous marriage has replaced polygamy because it has lower levels of inherent social problems.

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Robert Hegyes, the Jersey-born actor who played Jewish Puerto Rican wheeler-dealer Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein on the 1970s classic “Welcome Back Kotter,” died from an apparent heart attack after suffering chest pains at his Metuchen home this morning. He was 60. Hegyes, who also co-starred on “Cagney and Lacey” and taught occasional master [...]

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Weekly church attendance among adults in the United States is 43.1%, according to Gallup. If extrapolated to include children, the number of Americans attending regular church services weekly could be as high as 134.86 million people out of the 312.9 million people in America.

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Discussions of lunar colonies and grandmas were among the must-see moments at the Republican debate in Florida on Thursday night.

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By Reza Kahlili Iran is taking several steps to help Syria’s beleaguered President Bashar Assad, assassinate opposition figures and attack Israeli and American interests worldwide, sources have confirmed. After the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered retaliation. He instructed [...]

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The man of the night at the Jan. 26 University of North Florida Republican debate wasn’t Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or Ron Paul – in fact, he wasn’t even on stage. Some might say it was Sen. Marco Rubio. Rubio was favored by three of the four candidates as a Hispanic pick for their administrations [...]

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Given the testimony from today’s court case in Georgia, Obama has a lot of explaining to do. His attorney, Jablonski, was a NO SHOW as of course, was Obama. The following is a nutshell account of the proceedings.

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For decades, they lived side by side, devoted to each other. So for friends of Presley and Ethel Bradshaw, it came was no surprise that the elderly couple died just as they had lived: together. Presley died in his Louisville, Kentucky nursing home on Monday – just four hours before his wife of 73 years passed away [...]

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina man sentenced to prison recently as part of a homegrown terrorist ring has been accused in a federal court document of plotting to kill witnesses who testified against him at trial. An affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday accuses Hysen Sherifi of plotting against the witnesses from his jail cell. [...]

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Mitt Romney’s campaign is attacking Newt Gingrich as an “influence peddler.” But it turns out that some of Romney’s closest advisers (or the firms they lobbied for) were paid hundreds of thousands — maybe millions — of dollars on behalf of failed mortgage giant Freddie Mac. The Romney campaign did not respond to requests for comment.

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John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, was born in 1790. He grew up on a Virginia plantation, became a lawyer, and went on to the White House after the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison in 1841. In the years leading up to his presidency, horse-drawn carriages were the mode du jour, [...]

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A major exhibition devoted to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca aims to lift the veil on a ritual that has remained a mystery to many in the non-Muslim world. ‘Hajj: journey at the heart of Islam’ has arrived at the British Museum and curators hope an insight into the historical and spiritual journey will draw in [...]

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A hospital is treating dementia patients by setting up rooms in a 1950s style in a bid to comfort them from confusion and memory loss. The golden oldie-style rooms feature wallpaper, a radio, furniture and even newspapers from days gone by because often patients’ memories from decades back can be more vivid. With songs from the time [...]

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By Dave Tombers One of the attorneys who fought a court case over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court says he fears that even if the U.S. Supreme Court declared Obama unqualified, he’d simply ignore the ruling and continue issuing orders. But those who observed a court hearing today [...]

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WASHINGTON – Today is Holocaust Memorial Day in Germany. But the problem is few know it – and even more don’t remember what it’s all about. One in five young Germans has no idea that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp, a poll released this week showed. Although 90 percent of those asked did know it was a [...]

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By Michael Carl For 25 years, math teacher Bradley Johnson at Poway High School near San Diego took advantage of a 30-year school policy and hung patriotic posters with sayings such as “God bless America” in his classroom. But then school officials ordered Johnson to take down the banners, even though other teachers were allowed to keep [...]

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Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of “idiocy and ignorance” the world has ever seen in a column published Wednesday, and also took shots at the news media and foreign governments for seizing on the death of a Cuban prisoner to demand greater respect for human rights.

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JERUSALEM – To pressure the U.S., Syrian President Bashar Assad has reopened his country’s borders with Iraq, allowing more jihadists to get into and out of Iraq, according to informed Egyptian security officials. The security officials said the move already has produced an increase in violence in Iraq at the hands of jihadists who transit through [...]

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Tonight’s GOP debate in Jacksonville is No. 19 in the series of Republican faceoffs and the last before the critical Florida primary next Tuesday …

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Regarding the column, “The pagans’ 10 Commandments” by Johanna Hecker: Ms. Hecker seems to think that a display of the Ten Commandments on public property is not only relevant, but constitutionally sound. Commandments I-IV – blatantly unconstitutional and an endorsement of one religion over others; V – unrealistic … suppose your father was Osama bin Laden? VI-IX – already [...]

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Dear Mr. Farah, From your column “The Republican debt follies”: “Would you like to cut at least $1 trillion from Washington spending? Would you like to balance the budget in one year? Would you like to cut out the waste and pork and unconstitutional departments and agencies in the capital? This is the way – maybe the only way.” The answer [...]

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[To Joseph Farah:] Nobody cares what Ann Coulter thinks anymore. She’s no longer a conservative. What a turncoat. For the good of WND, stop giving this crazy woman a voice. I predict that her next book will be a flop. The tea party can’t stand her. She’s past her sell-by date. Time to move on, Joseph. Mark Gillar

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As much as I like Ann Coulter, she is wrong as hell about Newt and the “old guard” Republicans. We Americans have one chance to get this right, and electing Romney isn’t the way to do it. He can’t do what Newt can; he isn’t the debater Newt is; and no one cares what Newt [...]

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In Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, the president kept referring to “shared responsibility.” OK, America, which are you going to choose in this year’s presidential election – shared responsibility or self responsibility? R. Kiefer

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As a Canadian who tries to keep on top of what is going on in the U.S. (thanks mostly to WND), I didn’t think I could stomach watching all of Obama’s speech this week. I was right. He wasn’t speaking to the nation; he was looking in a mirror and saying “What a good boy [...]

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By Joe Miller As most of you know, I am no fan of Mitt Romney. The only constant in Mitt’s history seems to be moving his political career forward. So, I haven’t exactly been disappointed in the recent disruption of Mitt’s coronation plans. Moreover, I’ve got to admit that I’ve enjoyed watching the Establishment’s hyperventilation over [...]

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No doubt Deborah Scroggins believes she just published a dual biography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Dutch parliamentarian, and Aafia Siddiqui, jailed al-Qaida terrorist, and so she did. What may surprise the biographer, however, is that she also provided a third study: post-9/11 moral equivalence. This begins with Scroggins’ outre decision to pair a peaceable writer [...]

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Only a president long shielded from criticism and accountability could make the kind of State of the Union speech President Obama did Tuesday night. It’s hard to know where to begin, given his repetition of tired ideas from his previous SOTUs, his taking credit for successful policies he resisted and omitting failed ones he promoted, [...]

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Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution requires that the president “shall from time to time give to Congress information of the state of Union.” Like everything in the Constitution, a modest thing has morphed into a monstrosity. A “Stalinesque extravaganza” that ought to offend “anyone of a republican (small ‘r’) sensibility” is how National Review’s [...]

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It’s absolutely ridiculous that I would even have to take the time to expose the theory/religion of evolution (and theory it is), but when it affects the outcome of future generations, it must take precedence. Take a look with me at the absurdities of people who blindly follow its teaching. It has been said, “The philosophy [...]

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Political junkies like me have never seen anything like it: Running 20 points behind, just a week before the South Carolina primary, Newt Gingrich catapulted to the top of the pile and ended up defeating Mitt Romney by 12 points. It’s almost enough to make a believer out of you. Indeed, his 32-point tour-de-force in just [...]

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It has been more than 1,000 days, the equivalent in time of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s entire presidency, since the federal government had a budget. Most Americans don’t realize Barack Obama has operated through his entire first term without any spending plan whatsoever. Why? Because Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress for the first two years of [...]

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U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so. In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is to promote democracy abroad. The NDI has been tied to color-coded or orange revolutions [...]

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“Despite so many deceitful efforts to distract from the real issue involved, it remains quite simple – is the Constitution of the United States the Supreme Law of the Land, or not? Can it be amended, in violation of its terms, by a simple majority vote or by the dereliction of public officials? Do its [...]

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(INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY) — How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their “fair share” of taxes. Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet’s secretary [...]

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(BUSINESS INSIDER) — Andrew Restuccia of The Hill is reporting that Ener1, a battery company that President Obama referenced in his State of The Union Speech on Tuesday as an example of successful energy investments, has just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. That’s just two days after the speech. “In three years, our partnership with the private [...]

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Newt Gingrich lashed out at Mitt Romney Thursday, accusing his Republican presidential opponent of engaging in sleazy negative politics and being part of a fragile establishment desperate to stop the former House speaker from winning the GOP nomination. Gingrich’s attack came hours before the final Florida GOP primary debate, to be held at the University of [...]

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(CHICAGO TRIBUNE) — Reporting from Jacksonville, Fla.— It’s debate night in Florida — No. 19 for those keeping score — and the two-hour session is promising to be one of the most consequential yet. That’s more than the usual hype attending what has become must-watch TV for Republican primary voters this election session. The face-to-face sessions seem [...]

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(THE HILL) — Mitt Romney on Thursday encouraged supporters to “storm” this evening’s GOP debate in Florida, asking them to be in the audience and make some noise. “We are getting ready for another debate tonight,” Romney said at a campaign stop in Florida. “I can’t wait.” He said the debate would be “fun.”

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(THE HILL) — Retiring congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready. Frank and Ready plan to wed in Massachusetts. Frank’s home state is one of six states, in addition to the District of Columbia, that permits gay marriage.

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(CNN) — Bob Dole, a Mitt Romney supporter and former Republican presidential nominee, issued a scathing statement Thursday blasting Newt Gingrich for being a “one-man-band who rarely took advice.” In an open letter to conservatives distributed by Romney’s campaign, Dole said he personally took steps to assist the former House speaker pay off a penalty levied [...]

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(THE NEW AMERICAN) — As environmental groups hail President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, billionaire and prominent Democratic donor Warren Buffett (left) is set to reap a handsome reward from the decision. Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is a notable beneficiary — among other U.S. and Canadian railroads — of the move, [...]

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(ABC NEWS) — Pat Sajak hasn’t always been the sober host seen nightly on “Wheel of Fortune.” Sajak, who has been hosting the game show since 1981, recently revealed that in the show’s early days he was sometimes drunk on camera, after tossing back a few margaritas with sidekick Vanna White. “When I first started and was [...]

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(BREITBART.TV) — Billionaire George Soros took time from his busy schedule at the World Economic Forum in Davos to give his unique insights on the American political scene as well as his position on taxation policy.

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(NBC 10 PHILADELPHIA) — Graceann Rumer just started driving two weeks ago. She used the few driving skills she had to save a school bus full of students by grabbing the steering wheel as the driver collapsed from a heart attack Tuesday afternoon. The bus driver died soon after. “I just realized that there’s no one driving [...]

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The eligibility hearing in Georgia today before an administrative law judge for state residents who contend Barack Obama isn’t constitutionally qualified to run for president set a precedent for allowing evidence on the issue to be introduced, but for those on the left side of the political dial, it was the target for jokes. “Someone physically [...]

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(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) — Last night, author Maurice Sendak appeared on “The Colbert Report.” The interview was like fiery balm for everyone tired of politicians and their talking points.2787_7526141.JPG Maybe it’s because Sendak is a cantankerous old mensch much as yours truly hopes to be one day who needs neither money nor attention, but [...]

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now says his government is willing to discuss his nation’s nuclear program with the West. Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney says this is just a “stalling tactic.” He explains what Iran is trying to avoid most. “This is all Kabuki … he has no intent on negotiating with us.” At the same [...]

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Newt Gingrich won a convincing victory in South Carolina and the Florida polls are fluctuating prior to that state’s primary next week. Political Editor John Gizzi of Human Events tells WND we shouldn’t assume Gingrich has the momentum for long and why it’s equally hard to say Romney will soon be back on top. “Mitt does not [...]

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One of the attorneys who argued before a Georgia judge today that Barack Obama is ineligible to have his name on the state’s 2012 presidential ballot says the president’s decision to snub the court system and ignore the hearing is a dangerous precedent that threatens the foundation of the United States. “We have a president who [...]

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As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10

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Barack Obama has announced through his attorney that he will boycott the administrative hearings scheduled tomorrow in Georgia to review evidence of whether he legitimately is a candidate for the United States, prompting an attorney for one set of the plaintiffs to describe the nation’s commander-in-chief as acting like a “5-year-old brat.” A letter apparently from [...]

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(VISIONANDVALUES.ORG) — When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective tax rate of “only” 15 percent is, a priori, a scandal of the [...]

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It should be clear by now that the elites in the Republican Party will do and say anything to destroy Newt Gingrich or anyone else who challenges the Romney machine. Drudge, Coulter, Britt Hume, the folks at National Review, Jen Rubin etc. are just a few of the prominent conservatives trying to not only persuade [...]

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(READER SUPPORTED NEWS) — Rand Paul isn’t a Libertarian, he just plays one on TV. The spat Kentucky’s junior US Senator had with the TSA this week ignited a flurry of news coverage on his supposed refusal of a full pat-down and subsequent confrontation with law enforcement. Paul’s spokesperson said he was “detained.” The TSA said [...]

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran is ready to revive talks with the world powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday, as toughening sanctions aim at forcing Tehran to sharply scale back its nuclear program. Even so, he insisted that the pressures will not force Iran to give up its demands, including to continue enriching uranium, that led [...]

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Georgia residents today delivered sworn testimony to a court that Barack Obama is slam-dunk disqualified from having his name on the 2012 presidential ballot in the state because his father never was a U.S. citizen, so he forever is prevented from qualifying as a “natural born citizen” as the U.S. Constitution demands for a president. The [...]

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The Manhattan district attorney is investigating an allegation that New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s son Greg Kelly, a Fox TV personality, raped a woman last year, multiple sources close to the investigation told ABC and the lawyer for Kelly confirmed. “Mr. Kelly is aware that the New York county district attorney’s office is conducting [...]

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MIAMI — Fighting to curry favor with Florida’s large pool of Hispanic voters, Newt Gingrichon Wednesday called for a guest-worker program for most illegal immigrants, but his campaign could not say whether those people would be on a path to citizenship — the key question in the immigration debate. Under close questioning by Univision’s political host, [...]

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The state of Georgia is warning Barack Obama of the “peril” of simply ignoring today’s hearing on his eligibility to be on the 2012 presidential election ballot in the state The hearing before an administration law judge is being streamed live, but Obama’s attorney, Michael Jablonski, yesterday told the state he and his client would not [...]

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Mitt Romney allowed Wednesday that he wouldn’t mind if voters regarded him as the Mexican American candidate in the 2012 presidential election. The Republican made the tongue-in-cheek remark during an exchange with a TV interviewer for Univision, a network aimed at Spanish speakers, who raised the question because of the Mexican heritage of Romney’s father. George Romney [...]

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MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that government officials must crack down on migrant workers who break the nation’s laws by failing to register or get work permits, and on companies that profit by hiring them. Putin, who is campaigning for Russia’s March presidential election, was addressing an issue that angers many Russians because Moscow [...]

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CHANDLER, Ariz. — President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer had what was described as an intense encounter on the tarmac after the president arrived in the Grand Canyon state on Wednesday. Brewer greeted the president as he arrived off Air Force One, as governors often do when the president visits a state, and handed him [...]

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In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. “I worked with President Reagan to change things in Washington,” “we helped defeat the Soviet empire,” and “I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress” are typical claims by the [...]

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Islamic activists have launched a campaign blasting a documentary that was narrated by a dedicated Muslim to alert the freedom-loving people of the world that there are a few bad apples among Allah’s ranks. The stunning development arose this week when the New York Times published several reports on city officials and their participation in “The [...]

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(TELEGRAPH) — It is a “myth” that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks, researchers have found, as long as you use olive oil or sunflower oil. They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters. The latest study, published [...]

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(KRMG) — A ninth grader at the Mustang Mid-High School is in trouble after taking a cell phone picture of a substitute teacher who appeared to be sleeping. The teenager took the picture last week in class. The photo shows the teacher leaning back in the chair with eyes closed.

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(CNN/MONEY) NEW YORK — Starbucks has come out in support of a bill that would make Washington the seventh state to legalize gay marriage. The company joins fellow Pacific Northwest-based firms including Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) and Nike (NKE, Fortune 500) in backing the bill, which also has support from Gov. Christine Gregoire and is close [...]

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(CNN/MONEY) — When Wegmans Food Markets has to eliminate a position, they make sure they find the displaced employee another job that they will be passionate about within the company. When their Britton Rd. store in Rochester, N.Y. closed last summer, they offered all of the store’s employees a job at another location in the [...]

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ATLANTA (AP) — Imagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20 calls a day from people saying they had such [...]

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Indiana’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives cleared the way Wednesday to become the first right-to-work state in a traditionally union-heavy Rust Belt increasingly targeted by non-union foes. The House voted 54-44 to make Indiana the nation’s 23rd right-to-work state after Democrats ended a periodic boycott which had stalled the measure for weeks. The measure is expected to [...]

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(POLITICO) — The following is a White House pool report filed shortly after President Barack Obama’s arrival in Chandler, Arizona: “President Obama arrived in Phoenix at 3:15 pm local time, finding the chilly weather of Iowa giving way to sunny skies and temperatures in the high 60s. He stepped off Air Force One at 3:28 pm and [...]

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After more than 30 years of handing prayer cards to customers aboard its planes, Alaska Airlines has decided the practice is outdated and will stop doing it on Feb. 1. The cards have gone only to first-class passengers during the past six years. “This difficult decision was not made lightly,” Alaska Air Group CEO Bill Ayer and [...]

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(NPR) — The man who made “danger, Will Robinson!” a phrase that some of us will never forget has died. Dick Tufeld, the voice of the robot in the classic ’60s TV show Lost in Space, passed away Sunday in Los Angeles, The Associated Press reports. He was 85. The Los Angeles Times says Tufeld “had heart [...]

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(THE LOCAL, SWEDEN) — A farm owner in northern Sweden has been reported to police after a horse was found to have overgrown hooves measuring an “unprecedented” 50 centimeters in length. “It’s absolutely terrible. Just awful. The inspector who made the discovery was left in a state of shock,” Helena Ahlqvist, head veterinarian in Västernorrland County, [...]

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(THE LOCAL, NORWAY) — Oslo University Hospital has received a reprimand from Norway’s anti-discrimination watchdog after it turned down a job applicant who said he didn’t believe in the theory of evolution. The job seeker, a psychiatrist, reported the hospital to the anti-discrimination ombudsman after he received a rejection letter that seemed to cite his religious [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. Sources are reporting that Americans should expect [...]

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Last week marked the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that permitted abortions. Prior to that case, abortion was regulated by each state, and most of them prohibited it unless two physicians could certify that the baby growing in the mother’s womb would likely result in the death of the [...]

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(SIOUX FALLS ARGUS-LEADER) — At a small angled table near the wall in his Sioux Falls apartment, Brian Narcomey carefully sketches a horse. It’s part of a commissioned piece called “Apocalyptic,” based on the Bible’s Book of Revelation and the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It’s a scene that’s been depicted, in various mediums, in art [...]

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(SIOUX FALLS ARGUS-LEADER) — Ethanol giant Poet has scuttled plans for a $4 billion pipeline that would have carried Midwestern ethanol to the East Coast, citing lack of government support. The Sioux Falls-based company announced in 2009 that it was working with Magellan Midstream Partners to explore building an 1,800-mile pipeline from Davison County to Linden, [...]

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(MITCHELL DAILY REPUBLIC, SOUTH DAKOTA) — A South Dakota native is taking a shot at the movie industry, bringing the biblical character of David and his band of warriors to the big screen in what he calls “the largest and most ambitious Bible series ever attempted.” Cliff Graham, of Utah and formerly of Rapid City and [...]

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(LIVESCIENCE) — A recently discovered mysterious “winged” structure in England, which in the Roman period may have been used as a temple, presents a puzzle for archaeologists, who say the building has no known parallels. Built around 1,800 years ago, the structure was discovered in Norfolk, in eastern England, just to the south of the ancient [...]

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(DISCOVERY NEWS) — Pseudoscience dies hard. A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. But there are strings attached.

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No reason to give up your sense of style just because you’re dead …

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(JERUSALEM POST) — Question: What major site in Jerusalem can a visitor see without wasting daylight but that still requires men to wear a hat? (Okay, so you could wear a yarmulke instead of a hat. And really, most men remove the hat after ten minutes anyway.) Answer: The Western Wall Tunnels. When you say the words [...]

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(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) — European leaders unveiled a tiny fold-up car that’s poised to revolutionize urban driving throughout the continent beginning in 2013. The “Hiriko”, the Basque word for “urban”, is an electric two-seater with no doors whose motor is located in the wheels and which folds up like a child’s collapsible buggy, or stroller, [...]

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(SALT LAKE TRIBUNE) — Mark DeMoss has a message for his fellow evangelicals: You can’t attack and demean Mormons or President Barack Obama and still consider yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. It is impossible to abide by Paul’s admonition to regard others as more important than yourself, DeMoss said Tuesday during a Brigham Young University [...]

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Barack Obama has announced through his attorney he will boycott the administrative hearings scheduled tomorrow in Georgia to review evidence of whether he legitimately is a candidate for the United States, prompting an attorney for one set of the plaintiffs to describe the nation’s commander-in-chief as acting like a “5-year-old brat.” A letter apparently from his [...]

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(AP) NEW YORK — Apple briefly surpassed Exxon as the most valuable U.S. company after an excellent quarter, though the oil company has regained the lead at the market’s close. Apple’s stock rose as much as 8 percent, while Exxon’s fell as much as 2 percent during trading Wednesday.

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At what point in our recent past do you think that the freedoms and liberties guaranteed to Americans by the U.S. Constitution stopped mattering to those Americans?

Was it when our series of undeclared wars began, just after World War II? It’s hard to imagine a more grave national action than war; which is why the [...]

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(SEATTLE TIMES) — In October 2003, a King County jury had to decide if repeat rapist Curtis Thompson should be freed from prison or committed to a sex-predator lockup on McNeil Island. Persuaded by the words of forensic psychologist Theodore Donaldson, the jurors set Thompson free. But 10 months later, he attacked four more women, [...]

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In light of another sibilant, covetous and self-serving State of the Union Address from Glorious Leader Obama, it is worth considering the most significant scandal of the Obama administration. This is inarguably the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms’ “Fast and Furious” program, in which Obama’s corrupt federal government ran illegal guns to Mexico in [...]

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(AP) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A former dentist has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud for using sections of paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals in an effort to save money. Michael Clair, who had a practice in Fall River, is scheduled to be sentenced next week. He pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding Medicaid [...]

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In his disingenuous State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama called for “a return to the American values of fair play and shared responsibility,” a theme he repeated throughout the speech. “We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get [...]

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(BLOOMBERG) — Google Inc’s plan to make privacy policies “simpler” unleashed a fresh wave of criticism from regulators and consumer advocates that the company isn’t doing enough to protect information it compiles about users. The company said in a blog post yesterday that it will create a uniform set of privacy guidelines for more than 60 [...]

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The Republican candidates’ circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns. Whoever the eventual “last man standing” turns out to be, he may not be standing very tall or very steadily on his feet – and he may be a pushover for Barack Obama in the general election, thanks to fellow Republicans. Whether you [...]

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The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent – and it isn’t just President Barack Obama. It’s the media. If not for major media’s embrace, Obama would still be sitting in the Senate, perhaps mulling another run for the presidency. A UCLA economist-political scientist recently tried [...]

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I read with interest your comments on Chuck Norris’ endorsement of Newt Gingrich. I agree with Norris – there are somethings better left unsaid about someone’s personal life, because there are two sides to every story, and who’s to said which one is correct? As Jesus said, “Let he who is among us without sin, cast [...]

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[To Pamela Geller:] I just wanted to compliment you on your recent column about Newt. I wasn’t particularly a fan either, but I did as you did – researched and listened – and I am convinced he is the only person that fits the position in this critical time. The others are too weak and [...]

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President Obama is more an American than any of the rest of you. Those of you that keep bringing up the eligibility issue are making yourselves look guiltier and more guiltier by the minute. You must have many hidden skeletons in your closet and are trying to make it right by picking on something that [...]

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Rush Limbaugh is a disgusting draft dodger, a drug and food addict, and has had FOUR wives who couldn’t stomach him and eventually divorced the slob. I resent his being presented as a conservative icon! Stanley Axelrod

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(NY DAILY NEWS) — Where is the Democratic Gingrich? I do not mean that Newt Gingrich — the one who is a virtual Michelin Man of grandiosity, pneumatically overstuffed with self-references and appeals to the political gutter. I do not mean the man whose public life has been as chaotic as his private one (and [...]

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In his State of the Union message, President Obama described the U.S. economy as on the rebound. He also tried to convince skeptics that he was being aggressive on developing domestic energy, rolling back burdensome regulations and working to reduce our national debt. But Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tells WND the facts are far different from [...]

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Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) says President Obama’s rosy view of America’s economy is simply not based in reality. Lungren responds to Obama’s call for lawmakers to extend the payroll tax rates without any more political drama. “It was much of the same that we’ve had before.” Lungren also vigorously disagrees with the president’s contention that the only way [...]

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Contemporary churches that constantly take the pulse of the times can’t be accused of missing many trends. One of these is the current near-hysteria over the environment and the attendant politicizing and pontificating frenzy it feeds. Lectures and art shows featuring environmental concerns are showing up in many churches, notably one of our most prestigious, [...]

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Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Matthew 5:12

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Knows best. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: My mother once gave me two sweaters for my birthday. The next time we [...]

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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Radio giant Rush Limbaugh wasted no time today attacking President Obama’s State of the Union address, calling it a fantasyland packed with untruth. “It was chock-full of lies. It was fantasyland. No, it didn’t soar. It was boring,” Limbaugh said. “There was nothing to set it apart, nothing about it that’s going to [...]

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(BOSTON.CBSLOCAL) — DORCHESTER – Someone smashed the head off of a statue of Jesus in Dorchester. The Rev. Jack Ahern of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Church said he found the statue’s head lying on the ground in pieces last weekend. “Sunday morning, about three o’clock, someone saw someone smashing the head of Christ, completely decapitating Christ [...]

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In his third State of the Union address, last night, President Obama channeled the mantra of U.S. progressive groups by repeatedly calling for so-called “economic fairness” in America. Some progressives point to revolutionary socialist Karl Marx as the modern originator of the idea of “economic fairness.” Also, late Harvard professor John Rawls, one of the most important [...]

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(AMERICAN THINKER) — Sparked by the nation’s so-called war on terrorism, the government has been charging full-throttle into another war — a war on liberty. Drawing on its almost limitless technological arsenal, the government surreptitiously tracks and spies on our every movement, places under surveillance our internet and cell phone communications, and screens [...]

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(ORLANDO SENTINEL) — Priti Mahalanobis, a college-educated mother of two who ran a business, was having a rough time. Her father’s company was in trouble. Her brother’s marriage was failing. She wasn’t feeling well. Distraught, she went to the Meditation and Healing Center in Windermere after receiving a coupon book in the mail that included an ad [...]

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(CHICAGO TRIBUNE) — NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state authorities denied parole on Tuesday to the man convicted of the crime that generated one of the most famous headlines in U.S. journalism: the New York Post’s “Headless body in topless bar.” The parole board denied early release for Charles Dingle, 53, convicted of the 1983 [...]

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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday she will seek a fourth term in the U.S. House following her failed presidential bid. Bachmann declared her plans in an interview with The Associated Press. The Republican congresswoman had been mum on her plans since folding her presidential campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses earlier this [...]

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The House on Tuesday approved a measure that seeks to permit religious symbols on federal war memorials, a response to a court ruling that declared a cross atop a San Diego memorial violated the Constitution. The War Memorial Protection Act passed on a voice vote in the Republican-controlled House but faces uncertainty in the Senate. The measure, [...]

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(THE HILL) — Mitt Romney adviser Norm Coleman, a former senator from Minnesota, predicted the GOP won’t repeal the Democrats’ healthcare reform law even if a Republican candidate defeats President Obama this November. “You will not repeal the act in its entirety, but you will see major changes, particularly if there is a Republican president,” Coleman [...]

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A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the Navy SEAL team that rescued the American and Danish hostages in Somalia was the same one that killed Osama bin Laden. Published at 1:15 a.m. ET: WASHINGTON — In a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held [...]

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich responded to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, who said on Wednesday night on CNN’s John King that Mr. Gingrich would never become President of the United States. “There is something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that’s their prerogative,” said Congresswoman Pelosi. “I [...]

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One of the remaining Republican presidential candidates co-sponsored the Fairness Doctrine, the bane of conservative talk radio. This same candidate voted to create a National Police Corps. He voted to send $1.6 billion in foreign aid to Russia. He supported the GATT treaty surrendering American sovereignty to the United Nations. In [...]

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In his third State of the Union address, President Obama delivered a speech Tuesday night introducing a number of new initiatives, declaring “America is back!” and arguing that the world is experiencing a rebirth of U.S. leadership. Obama began by noting that the last of U.S. combat troops have now returned from Iraq and the nation [...]

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(TAMPA BAY TIMES) — Newt Gingrich’s decision today to bash Mitt Romney for hiring former Charlie Crist loyalists and employees doesn’t seem to be sitting well with Sen. Marco Rubio, who drove Crist out of the Republican Party before beating him at the polls in 2010. Said Rubio: “Mitt Romney is no Charlie Crist. Romney is [...]

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By Reza Kahlili Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has held several secret meetings with his economic and military advisers in recent days to prepare for the possibility of war with the United States. Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime. Khamenei has been heard to say that the [...]

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Barack Obam Here is a compilation of the statements, questions, and videos of the many high-profile personalities and leaders who have raised questions about Barack Obama’s eligibility to occupy the Oval Office. WND has reported on multiple legal challenges to Obama over his status as a “natural born citizen.” The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No [...]

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An influential Minuteman PAC is weighing in on the argument over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, with a call for concerned citizens across the country to flood their state secretaries of state offices with requests that Obama be removed from the 2012 ballot. There have been dozens of leaders, politicians and personalities who have expressed [...]

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Kent Hovind After five years in a federal penitentiary, the mission of the popular Florida-based creation-science lecturer and theme-park creator known as Dr. Dino remains the same: Win people to faith in Jesus Christ and get out of prison. In an email from a minimum security satellite of the Supermax prison in Florence, Colo., Kent Hovind told [...]

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One of the nation’s premiere civil-liberties legal teams says it’s the school that’s being the bully and officials there should apologize for deliberately censoring the viewpoint of one student and humiliating him in public. That’s from officials with Liberty Council, a non-profit litigation, education and policy organization specializing in free speech rights of students on public [...]

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TEL AVIV – Iran has been working around the leadership of Hamas to form independent Hamas militias capable of carrying out coordinated attacks against Israel, according to sources in Hamas. Israeli security officials confirmed that information, saying Iranian Revolutionary Guard members inside Gaza have been assembling a team of Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen working outside [...]

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By Michael Thompson WASHINGTON – At the annual March for Life rally here this week, among the more than 90,000 pro-life advocates enduring steady downpours and icy temperatures to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, was a man trying to keep a promise made decades ago to a high [...]

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(REAL CLEAR POLITICS) — John King, CNN: “You make your case there passionately for President Obama. But also understand that this is a tough reelection climate for any president, Democrat or Republican in this economy. Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through your mind when you think of the possibility, which is [...]

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A survivor of Robert Mugabe’s relentlessly brutal dictatorship in Zimbabwe, Patience Mhlanga would like you to know what it was like to grow up in grinding fear there. She escaped, but her story tells what so many others are still undergoing in that hellhole the rest of the world allows to continue: “Growing up in [...]

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President Obama delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night. And while the speech is usually a laundry list of policy items, most expect it to sound a lot like a campaign speech. Obama is likely to make another push for “shared sacrifice” and for everyone to pay their “fair share” by calling for [...]

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On Monday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) took part in the annual March for Life in Washington. One of the strongest pro-life voices in Washington, Smith tells what message he shared with his fellow demonstrators. “This president wants to tell everyone that they cannot resist complicity in abortion … you and I will have to become part [...]

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(THEIRD.ORG) — Recently, General Secretary for the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) Setri Nyomi told students at Princeton Theological Seminary that Protestant reformer John Calvin would have supported the Occupy movement. Although he tried to uphold the unique calling of Christ’s church, he nevertheless fell into narrow leftist platitudes of feminism, open borders, socialism, [...]

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(THEIRD.ORG) — A teacher for the Religious Left “Alternative Seminary” in Philadelphia surmised in a Christmas teaching video that the Virgin Mary’s Magnificat made “proclamations by Marx look like something from Ronald Reagan.” The Alternative Seminary is an “informal, grassroots, non-institutional program” started in 1993 by Christians involved in “social justice and urban ministry.” Popular Evangelical Left [...]

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At the age of 10 I saw American’s greatest magician, Blackstone, make an elephant disappear from the stage of the National Theater in Greensboro, N.C. Last week we all saw another magician, Newt Gingrich, make something much larger than an elephant disappear: namely, an ABC interview with his second wife, Marianne. We were [...]

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Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? Last night, during his State of the Union address, he promised “a blueprint for an economy.” But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances. It can’t [...]

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During the House recess over the holidays, Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) was part of a congressional delegation that visited military leaders and troops in Afghanistan. “I wanted to make sure they know they’re not forgotten … also, wanting to get a sense of what the progress is in Afghanistan.” Huizenga tells WND what he observed in the [...]

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All in all, 2011 provided us with some pretty good news. For one thing, our military took care of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki; God got rid of Kim Jong-il; and, for good measure, Barney Frank finally got around to announcing his retirement. It was to be expected that Jimmy Carter, who insisted on [...]

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By Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif. Long ago, Jefferson warned, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” The exceptions to that rule have been few and far between recently, and ought to be celebrated when they occur. One did this past week with the announcement that supporters of the so-called [...]

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Larry Sand’s article “No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can’t Read” – written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. – blames schools of education for the decline in America’s education. Education professors drum into students that they should not “drill and kill” or be the “sage on the stage” [...]

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Newt Gingrich’s victory in Saturday’s South Carolina primary means that we are still alive. Gingrich really won the primary in the first five minutes of Friday night’s debate, when he challenged John King of CNN. King opened the debate trying to press forward the media’s campaign of destruction of Gingrich, using the 13-year-old slings and arrows [...]

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(NATIONAL JOURNAL) — Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., said on Monday he is boycotting President Obama’s State of the Union address. In a tersely worded statement released by his office, Lamborn said he decided instead “to pass” on attending the speech on Tuesday night, though he will watch it on television and participate in a live chat [...]

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This is probably a very politically incorrect column. But who cares? When I see the so-called “occupy” crowd around Washington, one old-fashioned, seldom-heard word comes to mind – “moochers.” It’s a good word, and I don’t know why it has gone out of fashion. The dictionary definitions of the verb “mooch” are: to borrow (a small item or [...]

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(SUN-SENTINEL) — They’re already allowed to carry guns in the cockpit, but many pilots say that’s not enough to keep aviation as safe as it should be. They want police-like authority to holster a weapon all day long, whether they’re at the controls, riding in back of a plane or eating lunch in a terminal. “That would [...]

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(LATIMESBLOGS.LATIMES) — First, they could grow a mustache, just like Walt Disney. Now, they can grow a little more facial hair but not quite enough to be like one of the Seven Dwarfs. Disneyland announced that it’s loosened up its dress code — known as the “Disney Look” — to now allow employees to grow more [...]

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(LATIMES) — Lego toys have always seemed pleasantly gender-neutral. Perhaps that’s why the new Lego Friends line for girls has triggered a fair bit of protest from some health and equal-rights organizations. The new line, whose characters sport slim figures and stylish clothes, will contribute to gender stereotyping that promotes body dissatisfaction in girls, said Carolyn [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s Inc. has sued Martha StewartLiving Omnimedia Inc. in a bid to block a licensing deal between the housewares company and J.C. Penney Co. The lawsuit was filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court. Macy’s claims that Martha StewartLiving’s deal with J.C. Penney violates the terms of an [...]

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(ONLINE.WSJ) — Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm—which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies—asked applicants to send links representing their “Web presence,” such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog. Applicants also had to submit short videos [...]

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Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11

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(MILITARY TIMES) — Just over a year since Congress passed DADT repeal legislation, the OutServe chapter Bagram, Afghanistan has posted its “It Gets Better” video. OutServe is an organization that serves LGBT military personnel and the video is part of a campaign to combat suicide among LGBT teens who are being bullied about their sexuality.

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His future. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: A lonely frog telephoned the psychic hotline and asked what his future holds. His personal [...]

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(GODFATHER POLITICS) — On a Sunday morning appearance on “Fox & Friends,” conservative columnist Ann Coulter tried unsuccessfully to explain why Romney got beaten by Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary. Here’s what she said: “Apparently, South Carolinians would rather have the emotional satisfaction of a snotty remark toward the president than [...]

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(USATODAY) — Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in central Oregon this summer to demonstrate technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise. They hope the water comes back to the [...]

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(DAILYMAIL) — Tim Rice has mounted a scathing attack on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s plans to find a new lead for their musical Jesus Christ Superstar through a TV talent show. The lyricist branded the idea ‘tasteless’ and ‘tacky’, and complained his former writing partner isn’t taking his concerns seriously. Lord Lloyd-Webber has announced plans to take the [...]

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Cynthia Nixon stands by her statement that she is gay by choice, despite the backlash she’s received from members of the gay community. The “Sex and the City” star recently clarified remarks she made during a speech to a gay audience in which she declared, “I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.” The [...]

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(KANSAS CITY) — Q.DEAR BILLY GRAHAM: Do you think Jesus will come again this year? I’ve heard people say that the world is going to come to an end in 2012, and I’ve wondered if maybe they have some inside knowledge about Jesus’ return. — E.H. A. DEAR E.H.: The Bible doesn’t tell us exactly when [...]

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President Obama has spent the past three months railing against a “do-nothing Congress,” and tonight he has the opportunity to deliver his message face to face. Obama will use his third State of the Union Address to promote what aides describe as a populist economic agenda he’s already spent weeks pitching directly to voters, insisting the [...]

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(MNN) — If you walk away from holiday dinners fuming that conservative Uncle Morton just can’t see your point of view, or that liberal Aunt Betty just doesn’t get it, a new finding may make it easier to cool your jets. According to the study, conservatives and liberals pay attention to their environments differently, meaning the [...]

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(PALM BEACH POST) — ST. LOUIS — A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it’s contributing to the closure [...]

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(NYTIMES) — In many communities throughout the United States, people are commemorating the Lunar, or Chinese, New Year on Monday. In San Francisco, public students have the day off. So do public school students in Tenafly, N.J. Yes, Tenafly, which has a sizable Korean population. In New York, State Senator Daniel L. Squadron and Assemblywoman Grace [...]

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(HAMPTONROADS) — All Will Brockman wants is to play soccer for a few more years. “I don’t have a David Beckham or a Tim Tebow on my hands, but he’s not bad,” Sharon Brockman boasts of the 13-year-old son she homeschools in Montgomery County near Christiansburg. Will plays on a private club team now, but that will [...]

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(LA TIMES) — When the film “Citizen Kane” came out in 1941, William Randolph Hearst gave it an unequivocal two thumbs down. The press lord kept ads for the film out of his many newspapers. Just before its release, one of his allies in Hollywood tried to buy the footage in order to burn it. Another [...]

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(OCALA.com) — A foot-long alligator that looked “beat up” and “dehydrated” on the side of the road landed in a man’s bathtub to be nursed back to health. But the efforts of good Samaritan Alexander Springer landed him in jail and charged with a second-degree misdemeanor. Deputy Jorge Velez with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office went [...]

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(SUN-SENTINEL) — A mere 20 people have the vast, undeveloped western two-thirds of Broward County all to themselves. The 1.8 million people packed into urbanized Broward may not realize it, but Weston isn’t really the farthest-west address that Broward Countians call home. Just west of U.S. 27 is the tiny, makeshift city of Everglades Holiday Park — [...]

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WASHINGTON – GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid a 14 percent effective income tax rate in 2010 after making $3 million in tax-deductible charitable donations and drawing most of his income from investments, according to a summary of Romney’s 2010 tax form provided by his campaign. Romney reported $21.7 million in income. He paid $3 [...]

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There was a time that we had at least the appearance of leadership in Congress. Today’s candidates for office, and the congressional field itself, leaves a bit to be desired, as America’s first foreign president rides roughshod over our liberties. From time to time, I lament this or that politician leaving office, because they seem, well, [...]

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Fidel Castro in hell, Americans on Mars, “self-deportation” of illegal aliens and an unwarranted U.S. attacks on Iran? Those are just a few of the various topics discussed at the first of two Republican debates in Florida before the state’s Jan. 31 primary. The NBC News debate, moderated by NBC’s Brian Williams, had been hyped as [...]

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Steve Vaus Barack Obama’s 2012 “State of the Union” address is on tap tomorrow night, and it’s likely Americans will hear about economic improvement, staying the course and possibly about the “extremism” of the tea party’s constitution agenda, but a songwriter whose works include a stunning challenge under that same title says he wonders about the [...]

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(BLOOMBERG) — Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit. With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone [...]

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(VATICAN INSIDER) — According to reports, a Kuwaiti royal prince has become a follower of Jesus Christ. In an audio file posted with his name, he affirms that if he is killed because of a recording he made where he talks about his conversion, he firmly believes that he will meet Jesus Christ face-to-face. The news comes [...]

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By Anita Crane WASHINGTON – Despite sleet and bitter cold, many pro-life Americans in Washington for the March for Life, well as people from other countries, stopped to watch the video “Created Equal” as it played on a jumbo screen near Constitution Avenue and Fourth Street NW. One of the attractions was the imagery of Martin [...]

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The media was full of the celebration just recently about the survival of a tiny baby born prematurely in Los Angeles – at a weight of only 9½ ounces – less than most cans of soda. And the case of Melinda Star Guido is ironic, according to Ray Comfort, maker of “180: The Movie,” which has [...]

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There’s a subpoena from a Georgia administrative court with Barack Obama’s name on it for him to be in Atlanta on Thursday, along with the documentation about his birth, to answer to challenges from residents of the state objecting to the presence of his name on the 2012 ballot. They believe he’s simply not eligible under [...]

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How would it be if the next few hundred billion dollars or so in U.S. bills could be paid off in cash? No borrowing. No additional debt. Just as Barack Obama is planning to borrow another pile of currency, probably from China, to pay for his programs and promotions, calls are starting to develop for the [...]

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The Republican candidates running for president are now debating at the University of South Florida. Click here to watch a live feed of the action.

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This is the first of a two-part series of articles on accusations that the corruption at the heart of Fast and Furious traces back to Eric Holder’s office and the Arizona branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. Evidence is mounting that responsibility for the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal traces back to corruption in the [...]

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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. WASHINGTON – High-ranking Iranian military officials are [...]

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In this podcast, Jerry Robinson on “Follow the Money Weekly” talks about the new book, “When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival” with author Matthew Stein. What’s the best way to protect yourself and your family when society breaks? This explains disaster survival skills and insights into why emergency planning [...]

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Republican internecine squabbles this primary season seem to turn on the vying candidates’ respective electability against incumbent Barack Obama. But if even uber-liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has finally awakened to President Obama’s arrogance, what does it say about his electability? It’s understandable that a lib would take so long to turn on the [...]

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Barack Obama’s latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was not in recess. He appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board, plus Richard Cordray to head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even though the Senate [...]

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The 2010 Census showed enough population growth in Utah to create a new Congressional district in the state. Among the candidates in the Republican-leaning district is Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love. “I looked at the direction this country is going in … I decided if there was something I could do that was positive I would have [...]

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We have all been humiliated at the hands of the Transportation Security Administration, but this time the TSA may have to pay a price for stepping over the line. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is the latest victim. According to AP: “He was stopped briefly by security at the Nashville airport when a scanner found an [...]

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Obama made an appearance at Disney World the other day, a fitting place for him and the fantasy world he lives in. I don’t have a problem with fantasy – I enjoyed the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but the world of fantasy Obama dreams of is a [...]

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There’s an old saying that today’s Christians need to hear: “Don’t be so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good.” This is what comes to mind when I consider so many American Christians who are waiting exclusively on a rapture to save them from what the Bible clearly warns of bad times ahead. With all [...]

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As an American, a Republican, and a fiscal and social conservative – and though I have endorsed no Republican candidate – there is one thing that would disturb me greatly if Mitt Romney were not the Republican nominee: if Romney’s Mormon faith were a factor in his defeat. Many evangelical leaders have said that if Romney [...]

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Newt Gingrich’s surge to success in South Carolina has surely brought joy to the Obama White House. For his 12-point victory ensures the fight for the GOP nomination will not end soon and will get nastier. Indeed, it already has. Whether Newt or Mitt Romney emerges victorious, the candidate who comes out of the Republican convention [...]

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“As you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News and another interview with the Washington Post, and this story has now gone viral on the Internet,” said CNN moderator John King to presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. And King went on, at the South Carolina GOP presidential debate, to note: “She says that you came to [...]

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Just days before the South Carolina primary, polls showed Mitt Romney leading Newt Gingrich. Then came the debates and the question about Gingrich’s private life, which brought a devastating response from the former speaker of the House – and a standing ovation from the audience. Apparently the television audience felt the same way, judging by the [...]

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(LATIMESBLOGS.LATIMES) — What does the word “cougar” mean to you? To some people, it means “a large, tawny cat, Felis concolor, of North and South America.” To others, apparently including a Utah school board, it means “an older woman who seeks sexual relationships with younger men.” Both definitions (the above wording is from dictionary.com) are in [...]

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(PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie moved to diversify the state’s all-white Supreme Court on Monday by proposing two firsts: the nominations of an openly gay black man and a Korean-born law enforcer to fill two vacancies. Christie announced the nominations at a Statehouse news conference attended by both nominees and their families. If confirmed, [...]

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(THE NATION) — On Friday night the Santorum campaign sent out a press release boasting that "OVER 30 NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE LEADERS ENDORSE SANTORUM." Just who were these leaders? Some were utterly obscure figures who do not actually qualify as national conservative leaders. (For example, "Ken Campbell, California Conservative Leader” does not appear anywhere on [...]

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(POLITICO) — There was a notable absence during a White House reception this afternoon for the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins: star goalie Tim Thomas. Thomas refused the invite for “political reasons,” Sports Illustrated reports.

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Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Matthew 6:27

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A hundred bucks. Editor’s note:Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: I was at the drugstore and noticed a young male cashier staring at [...]

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Hot Internet site: Intrade Intrade, one of the Internet’s hottest sites during this political season, is akin to the New York Stock Exchange in that it gives a fairly accurate representation of where America is putting their money. Right now, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s “stock” has dropped from a high of near 98 now down to [...]

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A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles past Earth on Tuesday, as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught an extreme ultraviolet flash from a huge eruption on the sun overnight (10:59 p.m. ET Sunday, or 0359 GMT Monday), according to SpaceWeather.com.

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(BOSTON) — TAMPA, Fla.—Mitt Romney launched a multipronged attack Monday on rival Newt Gingrich, including a scathing TV ad and personally accusing the former House speaker of engaging in “potentially wrongful activity” in his consulting work over the past decade. Romney called on Gingrich to release his client list for that period. He offered no proof [...]

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The controversy over the Transportation Security Administration’s invasive scanned images or hands-on pat-downs of travelers was reignited today when screeners in Tennessee detained Sen. Rand Paul while he was en route to Washington. Local television stations reported that Nashville International Airport authorities detained the U.S. senator when he refused to have a pat-down. He told the News [...]

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Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk underwent successful surgery on Monday after having suffered a stroke on Saturday night, his office announced Monday. Kirk underwent surgery to remove a 4 inch by 8 inch piece of his skull to relieve swelling in the brain, Dr. John Kessler of Northwestern Memorial Hospital told reporters late Monday morning in Chicago. The [...]

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CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s an election year, but don’t look for the Chicago Sun-Times to tell you which candidates it favors. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, for the first time in its 71-year history, the Sun-Times says it will not make endorsements in the upcoming elections. The paper says its editorial board will provide readers with [...]

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Billionaire George Soros predicted protests by the Occupy Wall Street will turn violent, while warning the U.S. financial system may collapse. In an interview with Newsweek writer John Arlidge, Soros reportedly said riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. “‘Yes, yes, yes,’ he says, almost gleefully,” when asked about the prospect of Occupy turning violent, [...]

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(DAILY CAMERA) — As many on the East Coast fret over organic milk shortages and notice bare patches in their dairy aisles, retailers in Boulder vary in their levels of concern. “Right now, we have an adequate supply,” said Kelli McGannon, director of public affairs for King Soopers. “We are not anticipating a shortage at this [...]

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(LATIMES) — Without a single liquor store, and legally smoke-free for nearly three decades, the tiny hillside town of Loma Linda brims with pride about its devotion to health and spiritual well-being. So news that the first McDonald’s was coming to town, with its special-sauce-slathered Big Macs and 500-calorie sheaves of large fries, has triggered enough [...]

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(NEWS.YAHOO) — Wherever there’s a case in the U.S. involving atheist activism, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is bound to get involved. While it was the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that defended teen atheist Jessica Ahlquist in her successful quest to have a prayer mural removed from her Rhode Island public high school, the [...]

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(CHICAGO SUN TIMES) — Buying a package of allergy medicine at the corner drugstore will put you in a state police database under a new Illinois law aimed at identifying people who make methamphetamine. Gov. Pat Quinn signed the measure into law Friday, saying a pilot project in southern Illinois has helped police tracking sales of [...]

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Chuck Norris has picked Newt Gingrich as his favorite candidate for president, and so have Republicans in South Carolina. Now once-frontrunner Mitt Romney is hoping that he can reverse his decline with help from voters in Florida in a little over a week. In advance of that, he’ll be getting on stage tonight again with Gingrich, [...]

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(WASHINGTON TIMES) — There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit. This guy is [...]

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WASHINGTON – In its first ever review of GPS tracking, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that police need a warrant before attaching a GPS device to a person’s car. The opinion was unanimous, although the justices split in their views of how the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to such high-tech tracking. The [...]

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Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.” “We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the future, we have undermined social coherence, and [...]

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The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request for debate over whether Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from the health care reform case due to be argued in March. Freedom Watch, a group led by Larry Klayman, asked the court for permission to file a brief on Kagan’s participation in the case. The court on [...]

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When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti. That never happened. Instead, when Dufrene’s state prison term was up, Miami immigration authorities in October 2010 released him from custody. Two [...]

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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s press secretary Moira Bagley tweeted on Monday that Transportation Security Administration officials were detaining her boss in Nashville, Tenn. “Just got a call from @senrandpaul,” Bagley tweeted at