Archive for July, 2008

MIAMI -- Miami-Dade police officials plan to include in their 2009 handbook a note about how to respond to calls about ritual animal sacrifices.
The decision comes a year after Coral Gables officers raided a home where practitioners of Santeria were slaughtering goats, chickens and pigeons. Several worshippers were held at gunpoint and detained for hours.
The entry will...
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  San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group
July 29: AutoZone manager Daniel Sanchez cleans up after an earthquake knocked products off shelves in Diamond Bar, Calif.
 LOS ANGELES —  Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the "Big One" that scientists have long feared. Still, it rattled nerves, causing people to vow...
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 One of the truly amazing and simultaneously terrifying sites is to see an aerial view of Elkhorn Scarp, a visual scar on the landscape of central California that shows the San Andreas Fault's mark on the land. And according to newly discovered “mud pots”, the San Andreas fault may be longer than previously thought.
A mudpot is simply...
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by David Gutierrez
(NaturalNews) The major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they have not bothered to try and keep meat from the offspring of clones out of the U.S. food supply, in spite of a request by the FDA several years ago.
"This is a fairy tale that this technology is...
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Judge says principal embarked on what can only be characterized as witch hunt
Court Orders that Pro-Homosexual Proselytism by Students be Permitted in Schools
By John Jalsevac
July 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A judge in Holmes County, Florida, has ruled that the school board cannot forbid students from "wearing or displaying t-shirts, armbands, stickers, or buttons containing messages and...
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Bill pushes mental screening, dangerous antidepressant drugs
By Chelsea Schilling
Pregnant and new mothers may be required to submit to government screening and treatment for depression if Democrats in Congress have their way.
The Melanie Blocker Stokes Mother's Act, or S. 1375, is named after a pharmaceutical sales manager who killed herself by jumping out of a window...
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By Avi Issacharoff 
A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates. Read more »

By Jonathan Tobin
Latest push for pressure to sustain futile peace process has little to do with reality
In the wake of Barack Obama's trip to Israel, Republicans and Democrats wasted no time tilting over the meaning of every word uttered by the man whom Democrats will nominate for president this year....
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Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – After a series of meetings with top US officials in Washington, Defense Minister Ehud Barak appeared optimistic as to the improvement of Israel's anti-missile defense systems.
After some lobbying on Barak's part, the American officials pledged Israel would be connected to the global US system, capable of detecting an...
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THE JERUSALEM POST
The Knesset passed the first reading of a bill Tuesday night which would pardon those against whom criminal cases have been opened for anti-disengagement activity.
Prior to the vote, a fierce war of words broke out between MK Zehava Gal-On (Meretz) and right-wing MKs, after the Meretz MK said...
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