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Latayne Colvett Scott wrote about her experiences in being "proxy baptized" on behalf of the dead when she was a Mormon teen. And even though the process is quite mechanical, activity at Mormon temples can range greatly from the mechanical to the mystical, where, Scott wrote: "This sort of mechanical processing of proxies goes on daily in the...temples around the world. Literally millions of dead persons have had proxy baptisms done for them in this assembly-line fashion...the righteous dead can intermingle with and teach those who have not received the Gospel in mortal life." (Latayne Colvett Scott, The Mormon Mirage:...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide may be showing the first signs of a "permanent slowdown" in the rate of increase. According to a new report, emissions in 2012 increased at less than half the average over the past decade. Key factors included the shift to shale gas for energy in the US while China increased its use of hydropower by 23%. However the use of cheap coal continues to be an issue, with UK consumption up by almost a quarter. The report on trends in global emissions has been produced annually by the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency and the European...

A perennial and personal favorite...At this point the mask could be any of O's predecessors, even Jimmy Carter.

Nearly 2000 years ago, The Kama Sutra was written by an unusually flexible Hindu named Vatsyayana. Little could this great man have known that his detailed descriptions of lovemaking would not only become the world's best-known sex manual, but eventually give birth to the chiropractic industry. Today, Vatsyayana's work is being carried on by Barack Obama, who made history not for being the first Black President (an honor enjoyed by Bill Clinton), but for being the first President elected solely on the basis of sexual magnetism. Young, liberal, and open-minded voters didn't need a wink or a nudge to understand...

The agency responsible for implementing ObamaCare erroneously paid out millions of dollars on behalf of dead people in 2011, according to a report released Thursday by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $23 million to providers, suppliers, Medicare Advantage organizations and prescription drug plan sponsors on behalf of beneficiaries who died between 2009 and 2011, the OIG found. That’s less than one-tenth of one-percent of total Medicare expenditures, and the report says CMS “has safeguards to prevent and recover” those payments. The OIG offered a handful of recommendations, such as...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A judge Thursday denied the City of Irwindale’s request to force a local food company to halt production of a popular chili sauce after citizens complained of strong odors. The complaint filed against Huy Fong Foods Inc, sought temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctions “enjoining all operations on … the subject property until (Huy) abates the public nuisance herein by preventing and causing the emanation of the strong, offensive chili odor.” According to the complaint, residents began complaining last month to the city about the chili smell from the 600,000-square-foot facility. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert...

Will those of us who see no difference between the failed Green Energy Socialist ideological experiment of the Solyndra Bankruptcy, and the failed Socialized Medical Insurance Tax Socialist ideological experiment of the Obamacare Bankruptcy vote in large enough numbers in the 2014 National Congressional Election to REPEAL and ABOLISH Obamacare, Boehnercare or another Federal "replacement" to Universal Socialized Medical Insurance?

Michigan, much like the nation as a whole, is suffering the consequences of a higher education bubble. Like other bubbles, prices (tuition fees) have reached sky-high levels leading “investors” (students) to question whether the investment is worthwhile. As is true nationally, enrollments are starting to fall at some of the public four-year institutions. Total student loan debt recently topped $1 trillion and has been increasing faster than the rate of health care costs. Many students are failing to graduate. Looking at five metro Detroit area public institutions — University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan University, University of...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A German monk named Martin Luther looms as one of the most pivotal personalities in the history of Christianity, and he'll be remembered by Protestants in observances of Reformation Week. On Oct. 31, 1517, Luther posted his 95 theses for church reform, starting the Reformation. That began Protestantism and became the spark for most of the modern Christian denominations that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. Samford University's Beeson Divinity School will celebrate the Reformation this week with a series of lectures by a scholar from Fuller Theological Seminary. Historical theology Professor John L. Thompson will...

A man named James Kirk will be the captain of the $4bn USS Zumwalt, the first of America's new stealth destroyers. No, I am not making this up.

Extending an olive branch to GOP senators, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is privately making it clear he won’t engage in the Senate Conservatives Fund’s hardball tactics to defeat his colleagues in their primary races. At a closed-door lunch meeting of Senate Republicans Wednesday, the freshman conservative told his colleagues that he would not intervene in their 2014 primary fights or fundraise for the controversial outside group. Cruz added that the SCF’s decision to try to defeat sitting GOP senators in their primaries was its alone, according to several people familiar with the session. According to one source familiar with the...

And the first month of our final FReepathon for the year is nearly over. We should be breaking through the half-way point soon, then we'll be on the homestretch. Please keep those donations coming in folks, we're going to need FR now more than ever!! We're going to be in for the fight of our lives against the entrenched ruling class who are dead set on running our lives through their socialist/statist policies!! No thanks!! All God's children just want to be free!! Hallelujah!! FR is funded solely by the donations made by the people who love and use it....

A billion dollars might not seem like a lot of money, but it’s a lot more when you consider how little it’s accomplished...

Every so often the Left gets a rude reminder that America is where freedom lives and not the “oppressive” gulag they believe it to be. The Left, both here and abroad, is finally beginning to feel what it is like to be abandoned by their powerful friends. They are feeling the sting of reality. The “safety net” supplied by their powerful friends, which once extended around the world, is tearing apart especially in Russia their old capital where Vladimir Putin has shown he doesn’t care about political correctness or a critical media. A group of self-styled Greenpeace warriors determined “to...

The Governor pulls no punches in her latest piece: President Obama flew in to Boston today to deliver another “ShamWow”-style infomercial for Obamacare, and it went about as well as his entourage’s snarled traffic debacle in Beantown. As millions of Americans are being kicked off their desired insurance plans and seeing their premiums skyrocket, the President had a lot of ‘splaining to do today. For starters we anticipated a Presidential apology for lying to Americans repeatedly when he promised things like, “If you like your current health care plan, you can keep it.” Make no mistake, he knew he was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks after President Barack Obama saw his Democratic Party put up an unyielding front against Republicans, his coalition is showing signs of stress. From health care to spying to pending budget deals, many congressional Democrats are challenging the administration and pushing for measures that the White House has not embraced. Some Democrats are seeking to extend the enrollment period for new health care exchanges. Others want to place restraints on National Security Administration surveillance capabilities. Still others are standing tough against any budget deal that uses long-term reductions in major benefit programs to offset immediate...

November 1, 2013 Solemnity of All Saints   Reading 1 Rv 7:2-4, 9-14 I, John, saw another angel come up from the East,holding the seal of the living God.He cried out in a loud voice to the four angelswho were given power to damage the land and the sea,“Do not damage the land or the sea or the treesuntil we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal,one hundred and forty-four thousand markedfrom every tribe of the children of Israel. After this I had...

Reports: Syrian air base destroyed in missile attack from sea By YASSER OKBI LAST UPDATED: 10/31/2013 12:59 Unclear who is behind the attack on base located in stronghold of Assad's Alawites, but Syrian, Lebanese media accuse Israel; Channel 2 reports attack's target were S-125 surface-to-air missiles. A Syrian air defense base near the port city of Latakia was completely destroyed on Thursday morning in a missile attack from the sea, Arab media reported. According to reports emanating from the rebels seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, a large explosion occurred near the army base in Latakia on Wednesday night....

Moscow, October 31, Interfax - Russia should choose aspects consistent with its traditions when borrowing world experiences, Russian Presidential Administration head Sergey Ivanov said. "Russia cannot and will not copy alien models blindly and thoughtlessly. We do not accept the absurd degree of Western-type political correctness and multiculturalism or the narrowly liberal market devoid of special mutual commitments," Ivanov said at the opening ceremony of the 17th meeting of the World Russian People's Council. "When borrowing international economic and political experiences, we should choose [the aspects] which do not disagree with but develop our traditions and national identity," the chief...

psy·cho·sis noun, plural psy·cho·ses Psychiatry. 1. a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality. These two people displayed a severely impaired contact with reality today. Patient Sibelius:Classic case of psychosis. Patient presents with loss of contact with reality, punctuated with outbursts of patently false statements. Sibelius said: 'No one indicated it could possibly go this wrong' Ah but they did. Washington (CNN) – The Obama administration was given stark warnings just one month before that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go live, according to a confidential report obtained...