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Blogger Vanishing American continues what is gradually becoming one of the most important discussions of our age: What role does, or should, Christianity play in Western civilization? Is it the bedrock of our culture, as Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch thinks, and is our decline associated with abandoning it? Or is Christianity, as John Derbyshire puts it, a religion for once and future slaves, an ideology that is now fueling globalist ideals and undermining our borders through mass immigration? The Christian-non-Christian divide is perhaps the most difficult divide to overcome within the West today. I’m struggling with this myself. Some...

First she is going to keep them.The Clinton campaign said today that it saw no reason to return donations from two major campaign contributors whose donations, according to the Wall Street Journal, closely track one another. That was on Ausust 28. Now she will give them away. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California had a warrant for his arrest stemming from a 1991 fraud case. That is...

Richard A. Jewell (December 17, 1962–August 29, 2007) Matt Drudge describes Richard Jewell as the man the media murdered. The hyperbolic headline overstates what happened; Jewell actually died of severe diabetes. But Drudge could fairly report that Jewell got victimized by malicious, condescending hatred on the part of a patronizing, elitist media. Jewell became a part of the nation’s conscience during the tragedy-marred 1996 Summer Olympics. He worked the event as a security guard and was on duty at Centennial Olympic Park at 1:21 A.M. on 27 July 1996. Jewell had just done everything in his power to prevent the...

For months, Fred Thompson has been a political tease -- not quite a candidate for the White House, but playing the part as well as he did the gruff district attorney on "Law & Order." Now, the sand in the hourglass finally appears to be running out. With the "unofficial" Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign just days away, Thompson's quips about "testing the waters" are wearing thin, even for Jay Leno, who joked that "it's not wrinkles on his face anymore. He's starting to prune up from being under water so much." With summer all but gone, the...

The economy grew at its strongest pace in more than a year during the spring as solid improvements in international trade and business investment helped offset weakness in housing. The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, expanded at an annual rate of 4 percent in the April-June quarter, significantly higher than the 3.4 percent rate the government had initially estimated a month ago, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. But the growth spurt could be short-lived. There are concerns that the recent turmoil in financial markets, a result of a spreading credit crisis, could seriously dampen economic activity...

Errors in CNN's "G-d's Jewish Warriors" Noted by Hillel Fendel http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123512 (IsraelNN.com) http://CAMERA.org - the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America - has published a detailed, scathing attack on the two-hour television program "God's Jewish Warriors." CNN's Christiane Amanpour is the creator of a three-part CNN television series entitled "G-d's Warriors." The segment on Jews is the "most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory," writes CAMERA's Executive Director Andrea Levin - and supports her claim with examples and refutations. Levin begins by attacking the basic premise of the...

A daily round-up of Fred news. Finally, Ready for His Close-Up? For months, Fred Thompson has been a political tease -- not quite a candidate for the White House, but playing the part as well as he did the gruff district attorney on "Law & Order." Now, the sand in the hourglass finally appears to be running out. With the "unofficial" Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign just days away, Thompson's quips about "testing the waters" are wearing thin, even for Jay Leno, who joked that "it's not wrinkles on his face anymore. He's starting to prune up from...

DURHAM, N.C. — Disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal contempt charges stemming from his failure to turn over complete DNA testing results during the discredited Duke lacrosse rape case. Defense attorneys for the three falsely accused players had asked a judge to punish Nifong for initially telling the court he turned over all testing results when he knew, and failed to disclose, that genetic material from multiple males was found on and about the accusing woman - but none of the DNA matched any lacrosse player.

WASHINGTON - The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors have determined. The Associated Press has learned the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline. That's when Bush is to give a detailed accounting of the situation eight months after he announced the policy, according to three officials familiar with the matter. The officials, who...

A one car accident on Old Rockmart Road has sent one Floyd County woman to Floyd Medical Center. According to witnesses, the unidentified woman was traveling down Ridgeview Drive when she slid through the stop sign and crashed nose first into a 12 foot gully. It took Fire fighters about 15 minutes to secure the vehicle with ropes before they could extract the woman because it was not stable. The woman was taken to Floyd Medical Center where her condition is not known.

Official calls ethnic Albanian neighboring states occupiers Wednesday, August 29, 2007 SERBIANNA An influential ethnic Albanian Secretary from the Organization of the Veterans of the Army for the Liberation of Kosovo, Faton Klinaku, has accused Balkan states - Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece - of being occupying nations and has threatened war on them to take away their land in case Kosovo is separated. "The Macedonians, Montenegrins and the Serbs from Eastern Kosovo [Southern Serbia] are occupiers and the Albanian people live in the conditions of a classic occupation in their lands. This is also valid for the Albanians in...

A 24-year-old Pennsylvania man was charged with drugging and repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl after using his MySpace account to lure her to a local K-Mart, MyFoxPhilly reported Wednesday. According to the report, prosecutors said Christopher Leasher of Bucks County used the name "chicksdigskinny" to send the victim messages asking for sex, took the girl to Philadelphia to buy cocaine, and gave her so much cocaine her life was at risk.

A few years back, the big acronym was "DINK," for "double income, no kids." In New Orleans, it's “YURP, “ for "Young Urban Recovery Professionals." It's a small but growing trend in the population here in New Orleans — young professionals who have moved to the city after Katrina to help it rebuild and grow. It didn't start as any kind of organized movement, but a group called "NOLA YURP" estimates there are at least 5,000 of these young people in the city. They range in age from 21 to 35 years old and come from all walks of life...

If the U.S. decides to pull out of Iraq, its military forces won't exit immediately—they can't. Moving 160,000 troops and tons of equipment is a logistics process that, even if done right, will take two years.

The AFL-CIO and ACLU yesterday sued to stop the Homeland Security Department from cracking down on illegal-alien workers, asking a federal judge to halt new checks on employees' Social Security numbers because they could violate workers' rights and lead companies to preemptively fire American workers. The labor union federation and the civil liberties group are the latest critics to attack the new rules, arguing that because of errors in the Social Security database, U.S. citizens and legal immigrants will get caught up in the process, and businesses will use it as an excuse to go after legal workers. "This rule...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) , the nation's second-largest buyer and guarantor of home mortgages, said Thursday its second-quarter profit fell 45 percent as it had to record larger provisions on its books for bad loans. The government-sponsored company, which is returning to normalcy after an accounting scandal four years ago, said it earned $764 million, or $1.02 per share for the three months ended June 30. That contrasted with profit of $1.4 billion, or $1.93 a share, a year ago. Revenue rose 4.8 percent to $2.26 billion from $2.15 billion in the quarter a year ago. Freddie Mac...

Bloggers battered by viral storm Google's Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6970368.stm The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC. Infected computers are being hijacked by the gang behind the attacks and either mined for saleable data or used for other attacks. The Blogger attack is the latest in a series by a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of PCs.

FREEPORT, Texas - When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore, captain Ed Keisel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could. ADVERTISEMENT He successfully delivered Cindy Preisel's baby boy, even though the baby's feet emerged first. "I'm no doctor, but even I knew that's not supposed to happen," Keisel said. "I reached with my fingers... as gently as I could and popped out his left shoulder and then his right," he said. "But then the little guy was stuck by his head, being strangled....

Matthew 20:22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

New York - Millions of homeowners around the nation are now getting the news in the mail: The interest rate on their home loans is going up, possibly to double-digit levels. The hardest hit are expected to be people who have less-than-stellar credit and cannot afford to make the new payments. An increase of several hundred dollars a month will force them either to get relief or to default. The prospect of significant and growing losses has already rocked Wall Street and shaken up the broader mortgage markets. And, concerned about the human suffering, policymakers are already searching for ways...