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THERE'S GOOD NEWS in the latest Ports-to-Plains progress report for Lubbock and West Texas residents who recognize the evolving trade route's potential economic benefit to our area. Extending from the most active U.S.-Mexico border port, Laredo, through Lubbock and West Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado, the Ports-to-Plains Corridor links the nation's plains states to the border centers of commerce. The Texas Department of Transportation is analyzing funding alternatives including opportunities for private investment and partnerships to pay for moving freight and utilities along the trade route. Using Ports-to-Plains as a case study, TxDOT will research the best potential applications...

ROMA, January 5, 2006 – A book published recently in the United States lifts the veil on a crucial aspect of Islam, one which too many understand poorly and know too little about: jihad, the holy war. It is an aspect that meets with widespread silence, as if it were a taboo. Even among Christians, there are wide gaps on this topic in the general awareness of Church history. An example? Many recall what happened in Rome, at St. Peter’s Basilica, the night of Christmas Day of the year 800. After the Mass, pope Leo III solemnly placed upon the...

This Decade Gavin Chung In this decade will come the ‘greatest financial collapse’ in history, the ‘greatest war’ and the ‘greatest move of God.’ However, this will not be the time of the Mark Of The Beast, nor Armageddon, nor the great end times harvest, for we are only at the beginning of the end and not at the end. It will be the ‘best of times and the worst of times’, for it will be the season of the double blessing, yet their will also be great judgement, apocalypse, catastrophe and sorrow. Judgment will come like the destruction of...