Archive for July, 2008

Paterson: State Deficit Up $1.4B Over Last 90 Days

Governor Says Damage On Wall Street 'Infecting' State
NEW YORK (CBS) ― New York Governor David Paterson says the New York state budget deficit has gone up $1.4 billion in the last 90 days. The governor delivered the troubling economic news during a live broadcast message shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday.
"Our state now faces increasingly harsh...
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Visas for Evangelicals in Israel

MICHAEL DECKER - Guest Legal Commentator
Firstly, it is important to note that for many years the Ministry of Interior failed to publish its regulations and guidelines. We can assume, therefore, that the Ministry of Interior for a long time did not operate according to any guidelines when relating to various issues, which may...
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Livni: I have all the qualifications needed to be prime minister

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asserted Tuesday that she would beat Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the upcoming Kadima primary should he decide to run. In an interview with Army Radio, Livni said, "If the prime minister decides to run in the Kadima primary, which doesn't seem reasonable to me, I will...
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Cash-strapped Palestinian government seeks World Bank's help

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad short on funds, unable to pay public workers; appeals to World Bank for emergency funds
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has appealed to the World Bank to help him secure emergency financing to bridge a shortfall in donor funds and pay public workers, Palestinian and European sources said...
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Father of North American Community concedes dream 'is dead'

Says critics have blocked alignment of U.S., Mexico and Canada
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community. "The new president will probably discard the SPP," Pastor...
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Iran lethal without nukes

It has been nearly 30 years since Iran fell into the hands of the satanic radical mullahs hell-bent on bringing America to its knees – the position one assumes in the Islamic Republic just before one is executed.
Thirty years – and America still doesn't have a clue as to what it is dealing...
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Obama on the Constitution

According to his acolytes, Barack Obama is a constitutional law scholar.
He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 10 years. He often references this credential in touting his own knowledge and understanding of the Constitution.
But what does he really know about the U.S. Constitution?
How does he actually...
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What's the greatest sin?

In God's economy, it would appear to be putting other gods before Him. That, after all, is what the first of the Ten Commandments would suggest.
In a television interview with Mike Wallace 51 years ago, Planned Parenthood saint Margaret Sanger expressed, not surprisingly, some different ideas.
While telling Wallace she wasn't certain she...
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Iranian president: 'Big powers' going down

George Jahn
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president on Tuesday blamed the U.S. and other "big powers" for global ills such as nuclear proliferation and AIDS, and accused them of exploiting the U.N. for their own gain and the developing world's loss.
But, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, time was on the poor countries' side.
"The big powers are...
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Is Rick Warren ignoring sin in search for 'peace'?

Jim Brown
Christian broadcaster and author Tom McMahon says evangelical pastor Rick Warren's belief that the church must take the lead in solving the world's problems of poverty, disease, and war cannot be reconciled with the scriptures.
Pastor Warren will be hosting an interfaith meeting next month with 30 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders "to discuss cooperation for...
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