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Addressing the World Council of Churches, the Russian Orthodox Church’s leading ecumenical official questioned the effectiveness of the ecumenical body and warned that Christians must face the challenges of secularism and radical Islam. “The World Council of Churches today remains a unique instrument of inter-Christian cooperation that has no analogy in the world,” said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. “However, the question arises as to how effective this instrument is … While we continue to discuss our differences in the comfortable atmosphere of conferences and theological dialogues, the question resounds ever more resolutely: will Christian civilization survive at all?” The “two...

As Chris Christie prepared for almost certain victory for a second term as New Jersey governor, he was sounding like his thoughts are already on the 2016 Republican presidential primaries in an interview Tuesday with CNN's Jake Tapper. Asked whether he considers himself a member of the tea party element of the Republican Party, Christie sounded conciliatory, telling Tapper, "There are elements of the tea party that are Republicans at their best." Tea partiers, he noted, favor limited government and individual liberty and freedom. They are tough on government spending and question the need for raising taxes. "The core of...

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If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan. You can keep your doctor. There are no death panels. You’ll save $2,500 a year in health care premiums under Obamacare. The costs of health care will go down. The Obamacare website is working. When ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the liberal Democrat from liberal California, famously said Congress would have to pass Obamacare so that people could see what’s in it, who knew that the more people find out, the more misrepresentations, misstatements and misleading information they would find? The New York Post’s Kyle Smith defined the problem...

I can't quite believe that I've just sat through ten minutes of BBC television in which British journalists Owen Jones and Zoe Williams have defended Karl Marx as the prophet of the End of Capitalism. Unbelievable because I had thought Marxism was over with the fall of the Berlin Wall – when we discovered that socialism was one part bloodshed, one part farce. But unbelievable also because you'd have to be a pretty lacking in moral sensitivity to defend a thinker whose work sent millions of people to an early grave. I don't want to have to rehearse the numbers...

A Pennsylvania father objected when his daughter’s middle-school history teacher assigned a project about a New York Times article blaming Republicans for the government shutdown. His complaint apparently made him the target of an orchestrated response by faculty at Camp Hill Middle School, and an English teacher named Cydnee Cohen left a voicemail message for one of the parent’s Facebook friends: “We’re having some problems with a parent in our school district and on his page you are one of his friends…but I would like to know, some of it seems like he is a neo-nazi…call me…” Bonus absurdity: The...

The Chicago-Green Bay rivalry intensified for one couple after a south suburban Bears fan won a bet with his Packers fan wife at a bar in Wisconsin, police said. John M. Grant, 42, of Tinley Park and his wife watched the Bears beat the Packers Monday night at Sidelines Tap in Mayville, Wis., according to police. Grant told police he and his wife made a bet that he could use a Taser on her if the Bears won. The two were in the alley smoking a cigarette at one point when Grant used the Taser “two times on her buttocks,”...

Republican Ken Cuccinelli's unexpectedly strong showing in the Virginia governor's race will make it more difficult for moderate members of the GOP to pull the party toward the center, says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Polls had shown Cuccinelli down by 7 points to Democrat Terry McAuliffe, but Cuccinelli, a tea party favorite, led vote counts most of the night, with Clinton administration insider McAuliffe pulling out a late victory as bigger cities were counted. "Whether it's one vote or a million, you're governor for four years," Sabato said. Still, he said, "The conservative...

"We knew that that was not possible," Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) said of President Obama's health care promise. "The federal government can't tell an insurance company to sell a certain policy or not. So we knew that there would be instances in which people would not keep the coverage that they had." (WHAS-TV, Louisville)

By Roger Thompson, MA, FRSA In 1959, The U.S. Navy commissioned its final diesel-electric submarine combatant, the USS Blueback, which served until 1990. She was the last of her kind in the American Navy because of its insistence, or some would say, dogma, that all combatant submarines must be nuclear powered. After all, diesel-electric submarines are merely surface ships that can submerge only for short periods of time. They are too slow as well, and for these reasons primarily, they are thought to be inferior to nuclear submarines. At least that's the way the U.S. Navy thinks, but I would...

The Department of Financial Services is concerned that certain small employer groups may have elected to renew health insurance coverage in 2013 that would otherwise not renew until 2014 in order to avoid the requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that take effect on January 1, 2014. Health insurance producers are hereby reminded that in accordance with the New York State Insurance Law insurers and insurance producers are not permitted to renew a small group policy which provides hospital, surgical or medical expense coverage that renews on or after January 1, 2014, but before July 1, 2014, prior to...

Long, brutal radio interview between Slaten/Ziegler. Calls out the fools that believe the narrative. The evidence IS overwhelming. And it's on real Penn Stater's and Joe's side. Hate on haters. You believe, and support media lies.

November 5, 2013 (Romereports.com) At the request of Pope Francis, the Vatican is getting ready for an extraordinary synod of bishops, where the challenges faced by the family will be discussed.      ARCH. LORENZO BALDISSERI General Secretary of the Synod  “The last document we cited on the family is the 'Familiaris Consortio' from 1981 so it's something from 32 years ago.”  The purpose is to evaluate the pastoral approach of the Church on topics like sexuality, marriage and the family. To prepare for this meeting, the Vatican released a preparatory document for the Synod of Bishops. It includes a questionnaire with...

NBC News projects Democratic businessman Terry McAuliffe will defeat Republican Ken Cuccinelli to become Virginia’s next governor after a contentious race that appeared closer than many political watchers anticipated with votes still to be counted. Exit polls showed McAuliffe’s support among women and in the Democrat-leaning northern part of the state was enough to top the state’s attorney general in a race that had Cuccinelli fighting back against a litany of ads painting him as “too extreme” for the state’s moderate voters. However, voters cited the economy and health care as the issues most important to them, and Cuccinelli beat...

Republican Ken Cuccinelli II, VirginiaÂ’s attorney general, was pilloried in a Democratic campaign commercial for a remark he made criticizing a D.C. law on pest control, which he claimed prevented the killing of rats. On the last full day of campaigning before voters decide Virginia's next governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe got help from Vice President Joe Biden, while Republican Ken Cuccinelli stumped alongside Sen. Marco Rubio. The Post's Gabe Silverman and Whitney Leaming saw what the candidates and voters had to say. On the last full day of campaigning before voters decide Virginia's next governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe got help...

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is projected to win the Virginia gubernatorial race, defeating Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli in a surprisingly close victory. Fox News projected McAuliffe as the winner Tuesday night. The closely watched raced pitted a Tea Party-backed Republican and an establishment Democrat locked in an expensive, ideological battle whose outcome is expected to set a course for the 2014 and 2016 elections -- in large part forcing the GOP to consider whether a strong conservative candidate is the party’s best pick to win a national election. Cuccinelli, trailing late by single digits, tried unsuccessfully to use voter dissatisfaction with...

Colorado election results. Amendment 66 is trying to change taxation laws in CO, a lot of out of state money poured into the campaign for raising taxes (Bloomberg, Gates). 2 of 64 counties reporting Ballot Question Vote Choice Percent Votes Amendment 66 (Raise Taxes in CO, changing State Constitution) Yes/For 34.76% 185,787 No/Against 65.24% 348,716 Proposition AA (Tax Marijuana at 15% excise and 10% retail) Yes/For 65.18% 345,008 No/Against 34.82% 184,295

If you haven’t paid enough attention, you would likely assume that there are only two elections in the entire country. The first, involving that often seen rhinoceros species Governor Chris Christie – who has been in bed with more Democrats than Ted Kennedy, and the second, involving the gubernatorial race pitting Ken Cuccinelli – a real conservative and Terry McAuliffe – an old Clinton retread whom Rush Limbaugh lovingly refers to as “the punk.” Many conservatives are holding their breath – rightfully so in Virginia – and hoping for a victory for Cuccinelli. I couldn’t agree more. He has solid...

"Solo Mas Fina"

Evidently, the competition for the top spot of Most Bungled ObamaCare Rollout among the program’s avid admirers is actually pretty stiff. I’d say that the federal government’s marketplace takes the title, seeing as how the website’s prohibitive glitches mean that the residents of 34 states are now left hanging, but even ObamaCare enthusiasts on a smaller bureaucratic scale just can’t seem to get it together. As I mentioned last night, relatively tiny and wildly progressive Vermont has had such a hard time with enrollment that their governor has decided to allow people to extend their current coverage plans three months...