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Among the things they left behind are beautiful ruins, a gorgeously woven basket and a nearly impossible to get to granary on a cliff. David Roberts is a well-known mountaineer who made the first ascents of some of Alaska’s most challenging peaks. For his new book, The Lost World Of The Old Ones: Discoveries in The Ancient Southwest, he set off with a backpack to explore some of the remotest corners of the American Southwest. Rappelling down cliffs to reach ancient granaries, or stumbling across artifacts that have not been touched for 1,000 years, he follows the trail of long...

...Metropolitan Hilarion: That is why the consolidated action of the whole civilized world is so important today. S. Stepashin: Yes, you met with the Pope of Rome, and our Society’s leader made an official visit to Rome. The Pope supported us both officially and publicly. It is also a good precedent. Metropolitan Hilarion: The stand taken by the Holy See on such international problems as Ukraine and the Middle East is very close to ours. And here we have no differences in essence. We are well aware that if the whole world now fails to unite against this new terrible...

Former LSU offensive lineman La'el Collins paused to keep control of his emotions at a news conference to announce his signing with the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent. Dallas owner and general manager Jerry Jones had an even harder time holding back tears while sitting next to a projected first-round pick who didn't get selected because his name surfaced in the investigation of the shooting death of a pregnant woman he knew in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

When an event occurs that disrupts everyday life and your trusty smart phone becomes a brick, don’t be left deaf, dumb and speechless. If you don’t think the cell phone networks are fragile then you need to think again. We have become so dependent on communication that without it, most level-headed people would lose their minds. As commo people, we need to think of ways to keep our team on the up and up. Not all of us are radio nerds so we also have to think of the “other guys”.REQUIREMENTS: You need short-range communications (around town/neighborhood) FRS is...

Although some states have moved to stop the abominable practice of civil asset forfeiture (bravo to New Mexico), the vicious monster is still alive, still seizing money and property from innocent people, still making them battle through the legal system if they want it back. Here’s a case that ought to send shivers up your spine if you run a business that deals in a lot of cash. Lyndon McLellan owns a gas station and convenience store in the little town of Fairmont, North Carolina. Last spring, IRS agents came to his store and informed him that they had just...

FORT HUACHUCA — Following the story of Gideon in the Bible, Chaplain (Col.) Gregory Edison called on soldiers and civilians attending Thursday’s annual prayer breakfast on Fort Huachuca to be “ready and resilient” as the Army re-energizes after more than a decade of war. Stating that conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have put a tremendous strain on the nation’s military force, Edison pointed to five dimensions of strength — emotional, family, physical, spiritual and social. “All these attributes that we talk about are right here in the sacred Scriptures,” Edison said

Climate change is a hoax developed as part of a secret plot by the United Nations to undermine democracies and takeover the world, a top adviser to Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, has warned. Maurice Newman, the chief business adviser to the prime minister, said the science showing links between human activity and the warming climate was wrong but was being used as a “hook” by the UN to expand its global control. “This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the UN,” he wrote in The Australian. “It is opposed...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the still-hazy circumstances surrounding the shooting of a black homeowner by a white sheriff's deputy, and planned to meet with community leaders Friday to discuss what happened. Two Charleston County Sheriff's deputies encountered the homeowner at the rear of his mobile home in Hollywood, South Carolina, on Thursday as they were responding to a 911 call about a home invasion, Charleston County Sheriff's Maj. Eric Watson said. The man was either leaving or standing at the back door of the house and was armed. One of the two deputies shot him after he...

Dictionary.com has added “microaggression” and “gender-fluid,” among other words, to its new list of definitions this year. In an official post on Dictionary.com’s blog from Wednesday, the site explains, “In our latest update to the dictionary, we added more than a thousand new and modified definitions including gaming words like esports, permadeath and completionist, terms to prepare you for the 2016 elections like slacktivism, and gender-related terms agender, bigender, and gender-fluid.” What are the definitions of these words? Dictionary.com lays them all out: “Microaggression: a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that...

Talk about white privilege. A Colorado barbecue joint will offer Caucasian customers a 10% discount next month – just for their skin color. The Hispanic owner of Rubbin’ Buttz in Milliken wants his white customers to know that they, too, are appreciated, KUSA-TV reported. We have a whole month for Black History Month," Edgar Antillon told the station. "We have a whole month for Hispanic Heritage Month, so we thought the least we could do was offer one day to appreciate white Americans."

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (Revelation 12:1)The visions of Prophets recorded in the Bible are God-given revelations, that we might see spiritual realities otherwise hidden. Often these apocalypses,(“unveilings) use symbolism and metaphor to reveal abstract truths to God’s people. In apocalyptic imagery, a woman is often a symbol for a spiritual body. Thus faithful Israel is often referred to as “the daughter...

I am going to pray for Miley Cyrus's salvation every day, until she comes to know Jesus as Lord and Savior of her life. As a Christian, I am grieved in my heart and compelled to pray and intercede for Miley Cyrus. She is lost--ever sliding deeper into a flaming pit of mental illness, demonic activity and depravity. We all know by news reports what Miley is saying and doing, which leads many to hate and wish for her destruction. Some even laugh at her unbelievable, filthy expliots. But I know the Lord Jesus is saying, "Pray for her; intercede...

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a likely 2016 presidential candidate and the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses, wants to separate himself from the rest of the Republican field. So he’s explaining a specific plan to reduce immigration levels to the United States in order to protect American workers from foreign labor. Santorum also praised Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, another likely 2016 presidential candidate and the current frontrunner according to most polls, for standing with him to protect American workers against a foreign labor increase. “I think it’s important if you’re going to talk about an issue—if you look at...

Mayor Bill de Blasio, you have a life-and-death problem. “This guy de Blasio is a disaster,’’ Thomas Von Essen, the former New York City fire commissioner, told me. Von Essen presided over New York’s Bravest on Sept. 11, 2001 — the day terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 innocents, including 343 valiant souls under his command. “I already gave this city my husband. I’m not going to give it my son,’’ a woman who lost her firefighter husband on 9/11, and whose son followed in his dad’s footsteps by joining the Fire Department, told me. She asked to remain anonymous so as...

KEENE, New Hampshire – At a country club here in the southern part of this crucial, early voting state, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie broke from some of his potential 2016 Republican presidential rivals, saying he believes in climate change and that humans have something to do with it. “I think global warming is real. I don’t think that’s deniable. And I do think human activity contributes to it,” said Christie. He added, however, that there needs to be more discussion about the degree to which humans play a role.

I have often read keyboard racists claim that black men cannot use firearms for self defense, that the courts will always find against them, no matter what.  This is a pernicious lie that is destructive to the rule of law in the United States.     In this story from Florida, a black man defends himself from what appears to be a version of the "knockout game".    He is hit in the face, draws his firearm, then shoots another attacker who is charging at him.  The video does not show him doing anything to provoke the attack.   His attackers appear to...

Utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer has often come under fire for his views on infanticide from pro-life groups. But after a recent radio interview, he was sternly rebuked by a US government agency, the National Council on Disability.Professor Singer was promoting his book, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, a show broadcast in New York and Philadelphia.Klein elicited from Singer the claim that government-funded health care should include rationing and that we should acknowledge the necessity of “intentionally ending the lives of severely disabled infants.”This, says the...

A military helicopter carrying foreign diplomats crashed in northern Pakistan Friday, killing at least seven people, including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, and injuring several others. The Pakistani Mi-17 chopper was flying to the mountainous northern region of Gilgit to check on development projects when it crashed into a school and caught fire with 17 people aboard, Reuters reported the Pakistan Foreign Office said. Local media said there were 11 foreigners and six Pakistanis on the downed helicopter. Norwegian Ambassador Leif Larsen, Philippine Ambassador Domingo Lucenario, the wives of the ambassadors of Malaysia, Habibah Mahmud, and Indonesia, Hery...

<p>More Americans renounced their US citizenship in the first quarter of 2015 than any previous quarter in history, according to the IRS.</p> <p>A record 1,335 Americans living overseas renounced their citizenship in the first three months of 2015, according to the Internal Revenue Service.</p>

David Cameron today vowed to make Great Britain 'greater still' as he set out how he will use his shock outright Tory majority to ensure the 'good life is in reach for everyone who's willing to work and do the right thing'. The Prime Minister used a statement outside Number 10 to pay tribute to both Labour's Ed Miliband and his former Lib Dem deputy Nick Clegg who have both resigned after suffering heavy losses in one of the most unpredictable election results for a generation. Mr Cameron returned to Number 10 with his wife Samantha after making the short...