Archive for January 8th, 2009

by Wendy Langer My father's disloyalty undermined my relationship with God. My father had been gone for months. Across oceans, I imagined him walking beaches in leather strap sandals, sipping black coffee in a glass, thinking of us when he passed a payphone. He was far away from everything that tied him down: my...
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Egypt is demanding Iran bring to justice the authors of an advertisement calling on Iranians to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The advertisement was published by the Iranian Fars News agency on Sunday by a student group. The announcement was in Persian and offered a reward of $1 million to whoever would carry out...
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A rally held here on Tuesday in solidarity with the Gaza Strip drew about 150 protesters. Similar demonstrations in other parts of the West Bank over the past 11 days have also attracted small numbers of Palestinians. As the demonstrators in this city's central Manara Square chanted slogans condemning Israel as a "Nazi state"...
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UPDATE: Here is the amazing video of the strikes today on the Hamas strongholds in urban Gaza areas, via the IDF YouTube Channel.It is unclear if these strikes were at the UN School:And, here is the IDF spokeman describing the airstrike at the UN School today:Obviously, that is a much different story than the...
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Nowhere on earth do terrorists get so much help from the Free World   By NATAN SHARANSKYIsrael's assault on Hamas is just the latest in a long chain of military clashes, the scripts of which are always the same. On one side, there is the Israeli army. Technologically and militarily superior, its soldiers are motivated...
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Israel's founders had high hopes that the Jewish state, isolated in a sea of Arab hostility, could align itself informally with Iran and Turkey - Muslim countries which had their own differences with the Arabs. Sure enough, for years Israel obtained much of its oil from the shah, and our unofficial embassy in Teheran...
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Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, told business leaders assembled by the Wall Street Journal in November that the economic crisis facing the country is "an opportunity to do things you could not do before." That has to be one of the most chilling statements I have ever heard uttered by...
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Chad Groening A conservative military watchdog is very concerned about a recent survey of military personnel that indicates a significant number of service members might leave the all-volunteer force if the ban on open homosexuals in the military is lifted.The annual survey was conducted by the Military Times, which once again asked active duty...
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74 percent increase in number of families teaching own childrenBy Chelsea SchillingA homeschooling movement is sweeping the nation – with 1.5 million children now learning at home, an increase of 75 percent since 1999. The Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics reported homeschooling has risen by 36 percent in just the last...
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WASHINGTON – More than 200,000 people have signed a petition urging authorities to investigate Barack Obama's eligibility to be president prior to his inauguration, and the list is growing hourly. WND's electronic petition calls on all controlling legal authorities to take seriously the matter of where and when and to whom Obama was born...
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