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SOUTH BEND — If you ever wondered how much difference just one letter can make when it comes to a message, ask the thousands of people who drove by a digital billboard near the intersection of Ironwood and State Road 23 between Thursday and Monday morning. The ad urged people to go to the "southbendon.com" website for a look at the "15 best things about our pubic schools." That's right, the billboard said "pubic" instead of "public" schools. The letter "L" had been left out of the word public. Lee MacMillan of South Bend said his wife spotted the error...

VP Biden's bullish remarks--that $862B stimulus created or saved some 3.6M jobs--are part of a WH push to convince deeply skeptical voters that the economy is on a comeback.......Repubs question the validity of the numbers.

I usually zap links to Drudge on his front page....but when I do, I get a "500-Internal Server Error". Anyone know why? I've been getting this message for a few days. Thanks!

This is one of those rare moments when the conventional wis dom in Washington is right. The Democrats are poised to have a bad year; the only argument is over how bad it will be. And that question rests on whether or not the Republican Party crafts an agenda voters will support. So far the GOP has shrewdly been the "party of no." Since I disagree with so much of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda, I happen to think that "no" is the correct position on the merits. But that's not the point. Saying "no" has worked because that's what most Americans...

Barbara Ann Radnofsky,Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state. The amendment declares that "marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman." But the troublemaking phrase, as Radnofsky sees it, is Subsection B: "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage." Architects of the amendment included the clause to ban same-sex civil unions and domestic...

No link yet. Was just on Fox News. Eric Holder, in testimony before Congress, said (to paraphrase)....'We mourn the tragic deaths of our brave men and women at Ft. Hood, including Major Hasan'... UNBELIEVABLE!! We need to get that tape ASAP! STUNNING!!

NASA’s recent rocket launch into the south pole of the moon was to see if water was underneath the moon's surface. This little fact finding mission has cost the American tax payers roughly 79 million dollars. A 79 million dollar search for the answers that Almighty God’s Word states for absolutely free. One of the key reasons for this extravaganza was for the search of water for supporting a colony on the moon. NASA and its followers believe if water can be found on the moon or on any planet, that they can prove that “life” can existed in other...

Today our nation and the world in which we live in are looking more and more for a “savior-messiah” to deliver us from the many crises that engulf our present world. When the masses are fearful and uncertain, that is when they are the most open to deception and most susceptible to relinquishing their personal freedoms to anyone who promises deliverance from their dire situations. History has testified to this countless times. The Lord Jesus Christ knew this and gave countless warnings to his own and to the world. Be not deceived! (Matt 24:4; Luke 21:8; Mark 13:5-6; 2 Thess....

May 21, 2009, 0:00 a.m. Is America Premodern or Postmodern?A highly complex society, staffed by the inept, can be terrifying. By Victor Davis Hanson During the last 20 years, science and a growing economy gave Americans the most sophisticated and leisured lifestyle in history. We inexpensively call or e-mail anywhere in the world. With online shopping and banking, Americans acquire and spend electronically — without seeing those with whom we do business. Taxes are filed over the Internet, and stocks are bought and sold daily online. But with such ease and reliance on computers comes ever-increasing vulnerability. Brilliant engineers...

There are endless ideologies - political and religious - that have developed and have dominated the human race since the Babel dispersion 4,200 years ago (Genesis 10, 11:1-9). These ideologies are all rooted in the fallen humanity (i.e., inherent depravity) of man, and are ruled by his sensual nature (i.e., the five senses that govern fallen man in this physical world).

Instead of the usual 427 "site is down, retry" error, I'm getting a google "Oops, this link appears broken" error. I have NEVER received this before. Google is not my homepage or anything significant on my computer. Before you "put on your tinfoil hat"'s people start.....DON'T. This is the 1st time I have seen this kind of error.

<p>Obama, all his advisers, and the fawning MSM are clueless.</p> <p>As mistakes go, I would say this is the ultimate. A prepared speech (not an off-the-teleprompter gaffe), announced days in advance to the world. How is a mistake this huge possible? There is no chance he misread (misspoke), otherwise, there would be no mention of Belfast in that portion of the speech.</p>

District of Columbia v. Heller was historic, the first Supreme Court decision to clearly hold that the Second Amendment right to arms was an individual one not linked to militia service. But it was historic for another reason: the sheer number of mistakes made in the dissenters' opinions. Given that all four dissenters co-signed the Stevens and Breyer dissenting opinions, this means that the mistakes must have escaped, not only four members of the highest court in the land, but their sixteen research clerks! Case in point: Justice Stevens' dissent claims that he holds true to the Court's earlier, 1939,...

Mars Hill Pastor Mark Driscoll preached on the still popular and still controversial topic of emerging churches in his latest sermon. But it’s an issue he normally wouldn’t teach to his mainly twenty-something church crowd in Seattle. That’s because Mars Hill attendants don’t use the language “emerging church” as many Christian leaders label them. The issue of the emerging church, however, was raised when thousands of people, who regularly tune into Mars Hill sermons every week through the Internet, voted to make it the No. 2 most popular topic they wanted Driscoll to address in a sermon series titled “Religion...

In reading an article and listening to the embedded video found here: http://www.apprising.org/archives/2008/02/roman_catholic.html I was led to the Vatican web site to verify some of the statements made on the video. The fellow on the video is not a charismatic speaker, but his material is most interesting - and his passion for TRUTH reaches a wonderful crescendo at 54 minutes into the video. The following extract from Vatican II shows that the RCC considers Hinduism, Buddhism, & Islam as valid religions through which one can find peace with God. Of course, there are some Truths tossed in to disarm the...

Warnings of False Teaching Nov 13, 2004 Stuart L. Brogden 1. Matthew 7:15 – 20: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore...

Seminole County officials scrambled to fix a typo on a roadway after a motorist informed them the word school was misspelled. The error was reported along state Road 426 at Reed Road in Oviedo. School was misspelled as "scohol" and painted on the road to warn motorists they are entering a school zone. Seminole County traffic engineers said the typo was to be repaired on Friday morning. Workers removed the error and placed a new warning with school spelled correctly.

Why I Am Not A Mormon  An Outline by Shane RosenthalShane Rosenthal, M.A., Historical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary in CA, is a freelance audio/video editor and producer. He is currently one of the creative producers for the national radio program The White Horse Inn, and webmaster for Reformation Ink. Shane, along with his wife and three children reside in southern California. This paper contains three sections outlining my objections to Mormonism: 1. Theological Objections2. Historical Objections3. Epistemological Objections   1. Theological Objections to Mormonism A. The following quotes are from Brigham Young: "There is not a man or woman...

<p>The angry, anonymous e-mail was typical of a dozen other phone calls and e-mails I received last week. "Why in the article today about the indictment of (U.S. Rep.) William Jefferson was there NO mention that he is a Democrat? "In no other Associated Press article about the matter anywhere does it fail to mention this. There is zero disconnect from The Blade's committed left editorial page and its committed left news page." The answer is that while The Blade makes every effort to keep the news columns free from any bias, this time, our newspaper simply screwed up and made an unfortunate and embarrassing error. Ron Royhab, The Blade's vice president-executive editor, agrees. "This should not have happened. Any time a politician is in the spotlight, for good or ill, their political party is a relevant and necessary part of the story." Unfortunately, by the time the mistake was brought to his attention, it was too late to tell from the computer system which editors had handled that particular story, but I can assure you that he intends to let editors in charge of that department know how he feels about that. There is a separation between news and opinion. And while The Blade's editorial page has been harshly critical of the Bush Administration, I would not describe it as a "committed left" page, but an independent one.</p>

A judicial discipline council has voted overwhelmingly to impose sanctions on a veteran Los Angeles federal judge who improperly seized control of a bankruptcy case to protect a probationer he was supervising. --snip-- On Nov. 16, the council ordered that U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real, 82, be publicly reprimanded for his intervention in the bankruptcy almost seven years ago, permitting Deborah M. Canter to live rent-free for three years in a Hancock Park house, costing her creditors $35,000 in rent and thousands more in legal costs, according to court documents. Real's misconduct "warrants the corrective action of 'censuring or...