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'A REAL-LIFE Eleanor Rigby about to be buried in a council grave with no family to mourn her has been revealed as a Secret Army heroine from World War II who survived torture by the Gestapo. Reclusive Eileen Nearne, 89, died alone from a heart attack in her seaside flat where her body is thought to have remained undiscovered for some time. She left no known relatives and the local council has had to arrange her funeral because she had no next of kin. But officials who searched her home in Torquay, Devon, were stunned to discover her remarkable past...

Washington - When Brian Nelson, a nationally renowned expert on Venezuela, traveled to the South American country on a Fulbright scholarship in 2002, he arrived believing that controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was just misunderstood. "I was very pro-Chavez — I was opposed to the war in Iraq, kind of opposed to what we were doing in Afghanistan — and here was a guy who was saying what I thought," Nelson said in a Journal interview. "I went to Venezuela thinking, 'This is probably a good guy'. I found out pretty quickly that he isn't." Nelson, who teaches at the...

During 2009, violent crime declined for the third year in a row, with an estimated 5.3 percent drop from 2008 figures. Property crime continued to fall as well—for a seventh straight year—with an estimated decrease of 4.6 percent. That’s according to our just-released report, Crime in the United States, 2009. These latest statistics come 80 years to the month after we took over the responsibility of compiling and publishing the nation’s crime data from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The categories back in 1930 were almost identical to what we have today—murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny-theft, burglary,...

They are messengers from God, heavenly beings without material bodies, spiritual envoys carrying out God's will. They are angels. And according to Lorna Byrne, everyone has one -- a guardian angel who’s always with you and will never leave you. She says they are “the gatekeepers of your soul.” She knows this, she says, because all her life she's been surrounded by them and has talked to them. Her book, Angels in My Hair, recounts her lifelong experiences with angels directing her and teaching her. Byrne's story begins with the telling of her toddler years, when the angels told her...

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;And patience, experience; and experience, hope:And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.(Romans 5:1-5) True Christians rejoice, and they have good reason to do so. The Holy God has taken the initiative to...

The old joke about Cary is that it's an acronym for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. But the migration from the Northeast has hardly been contained to Cary. All across North Carolina, the state has seen explosive growth, especially in the metropolitan, resort and military areas. The demographic changes are having an important impact on Tar Heel politics, making the state less conservative - no matter what happens this fall, according to a new study. According to a study by two political science professors, that migration is an important reason why North Carolina voted for Barack Obama for president in...

On September 12, 2010 in Washington, D.C., FreedomWorks sponsored its second annual 9/12 rally, based on the theme of “Remember in November.” Among the speakers were FreedomWorks’ Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe (go here for Reason.tv’s interview with them about their best-selling Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto); former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (go here for an interview about his Our America initiative); “Tito the Builder,” a Colombian immigrant and contractor who is an outspoken defender of free enterprise; Deneen Borelli of Project 21 and Tom Borelli of the Free Enterprise Project; and new media impresario Andrew Breitbart...

A short time ago I wrote about the concerns with the casing hanger in the Deepwater Horizon well, and the risk that it might lift and allow whatever fluid is in the annulus between the production casing and the well lining to be released. In his remarks on Friday Admiral Allen discussed that situation. At some point there has to be a seal on the top of the well to prevent fluid escaping from the annulus. The solution that he, the science team, and BP have reached is that the casing hanger will be locked into place, so that it...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- Less than two months before the midterm elections, President Barack Obama is imploring voters to support his party's economic policies, even though he acknowledged that those policies haven't brought about a recovery fast enough for many Americans. "We stopped the bleeding, stabilized the economy, but the fact of the matter is the pace of improvement has not been where it needs to be,"

Note to reporters:  Liberal Mike Castle has been making numerous statements to the press in recent days that have attempted to malign the tea party supporters from across the nation (including in Delaware) who have been donating to Conservative Republican Christine O'Donnell's campaign.Here are Mr. Castle's comments from The Hill newspaper Monday, September 13th report:Earlier Sunday, Castle aimed his fire at The Tea Party Express, bemoaning the out of state influence on the primary. "This is the first election I can remember in Delaware where a campaign is being funded almost entirely by out of state interests," said Castle. Yet...

NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie is not a great fan of organized worship but believes an Islamic center and mosque should be permitted two blocks from ground zero. Rushdie's satirical novel led in the 1980s to worldwide riots by Muslims and calls for his death.

Click link to see video. Transcript in part: "It's Sunday morning. Many are in church praying but the President? More like praying he breaks 90 (golf swing). Since his inauguration nearly 10 years ago President Obama has attended church about half a dozen times...He's the first president in more than 20 years to belong to a church, but it wasn't always that way. For 20 years he sat in a Chicago church listening to his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and though he denies listening to Wright make remarks like this... "When Wright became a political liability during his campaign,...

The nation’s largest teachers’ union—the National Education Association—has gone on record with reservations about the Obama Administration’s education reforms. “After a protracted and contentious debate, NEA delegates narrowly passed a ‘no confidence’ vote on the Department of Education’s Race to the Top (RTT) grant competition guidelines, and on the use of competitive grants in the upcoming Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization,” The Education Reporter reports. “The measure was a symbolic swing at the Obama administration’s policies, but stopped short of naming or criticizing President Obama, whom the union spent tens of millions of dollars to elect.” “Union leaders...

Heading into the final weeks of the congressional election season, 62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 19% disagree, with 19% more not sure. This level of skepticism is shared by a majority of just about every partisan and demographic group, including 53% of Democrats whose party currently controls both houses of Congress. The only exception is the nation's Political Class. Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters in the political Mainstream say if something is not going well, Congress...

Barack Obama is to go ahead with plans to sell Saudi Arabia advanced aircraft and other weapons worth up to $60bn (£39bn), the biggest arms deal in US history, in a strategy of shoring up Gulf Arab allies to face any military threat from Iran. According to the Wall Street Journal, the administration is also in talks with the Saudis about possible naval and missile-defence upgrades that could be worth tens of billions of dollars more over five to 10 years. Plans to go ahead with the package, which has been under secret negotiation since 2007, have been known for...

Term-limited New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at work expanding his national profile, delivering a string of high-profile candidate endorsements around the country and using his outsized megaphone to become a spokesman for swaths of disgruntled elites who were once part of President Barack Obama’s base. What he wants isn’t entirely clear. The mayor, armed with a $15 billion fortune, publicly denies in the most emphatic terms—death, incapacitation—any interest in cutting short his third term to run for higher office. But his schedule and growing portfolio suggests he's looking for a national voice or something more, one that echoes...

We here at the Tea Party Express are pulling out all the stops to help ensure a great victory for constitutional conservative Christine O'Donnell in Tuesday's critical GOP Senate primary. We launched a "Phone From Home" program that allows supporters like you from around the nation to do your part to volunteer and help this campaign for free.  And we urgently need more people to join this program and make calls from home for Christine O'Donnell to Delaware Republicans both today (Monday) and tomorrow (Tuesday). It's simple for you to participate in. Just send an email to: phonefromhome@teapartyexpress.orgWe'll send you a short...

Biotech wizards have engineered electronic skin that can sense touch, in a major step towards next-generation robotics and prosthetic limbs. The lab-tested material responds to almost the same pressures as human skin and with the same speed, they reported in the British journal Nature Materials. Important hurdles remain but the exploit is an advance towards replacing today's clumsy robots and artificial arms with smarter, touch-sensitive upgrades, they believe. "Humans generally know how to hold a fragile egg without breaking it," said Ali Javey, an associate professor of computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, who led one of...

The MSM in this country continues to prove everyday that their liberal bias is strong. This time it's The New York Times which has an article up with the headline: A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to LobbyistsThe article suggests that Boehner has a disturbing level of ties to “lobbyist friends.” Mr. Boehner’s ties seem especially deep But hey....did you know? Nancy Pelosi has raised almost twice as much money from lobbyists this election as Boehner has?At least 18 House Democrats have raised more lobbyist cash this election than Boehner has.Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid have pocketed more lobbyist cash in...

This is the statement made by the Department of Justice following a grand jury investigation into charges of misconduct against federal judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr.: In 2007, after an FBI and federal grand jury investigation, the Justice Department alleged "pervasive misconduct" by Porteous and mentioned evidence "that Judge Porteous may have violated federal and state criminal laws, controlling canons of judicial conduct, [and] rules of professional responsibility, and conducted himself in a manner antithetical to the constitutional standard of good behavior required of all federal judges." The complaint said the department had opted not to seek criminal charges for...