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Legislative leaders in the California Legislature have agreed to modify Bill SB 1146, which has been called the most oppressive LGBT anti-religious bill in the country. The move was praised by leaders of major Christian colleges in California, who say they will now support it. But state pro-family activists warn that the compromise still keeps in some terrible parts of it. They are perplexed that church leaders would agree to it. They vow to keep fighting to kill the bill completely. The re-draft was announced yesterday in a Los Angeles Times article yesterday by the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Ricardo Lara,...

Venezuelan politician German Mavare, leader of the opposition UNT party, died Friday after being shot in the head, an assassination that occurred in the western state of Lara, his organization said. latino.foxnews.com

Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by al Qaeda against a barely protected American outpost. Lara Logan reports.

Okay, I'd like to know where all of the feminists are? Shouldn't they be standing up and demanding answers regarding the suspicious death of Ashley Turton and the gang rape of Lara Logan? If Bush had been in office, both of these stories would be all over the MSM - and the feminists would be screaming their heads off! For the record, I feel terrible for happened to both of these women. If you are going to post a comment on here that "It's Lara's fault for being in Egypt", then just get lost.

Standing in front of a wall-to-wall mural featuring a who's who of revolutionaries, including Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and boldly displaying the motto Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!!! (Fatherland or Death, We Shall Overcome!!!), a group of teachers, students, parents and community activists in the Los Angeles Unified School District gathered last month for an unusual field trip — to Arizona, to protest that state's controversial immigration law.

Our view: Hispanic Institute's boycott of CNN over Lou Dobbs puts networks on notice public won't tolerate hateful lies Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.08.2008 advertisementThe Hispanic Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group, last week launched a national boycott of CNN, the cable news channel, to highlight unrelenting and erroneous attacks against Latino immigrants by talk-show host Lou Dobbs.

Euro (Silican/Belgian with Canadian citizenship) songbird Lara Fabian wrote "Les Homericains" to protest American foreign policy in her recent CD. Below are the original lyrics in French:============= Des hommes, Quand ils dansent comme personne, Quand ils chantent que ça sonne, D’Astaire à Morrisson, Des ricains, Quand ils jettent du bon vin, On leur foutrait des pains, Là c’est plus nos copains, Tout comme nous, Ils font le mal, Tout comme nous, Ils font le bien, Comme on peut être animal, On peut aussi être humain, Etre homéricains, Des hommes, Quand Michael Moore cogne, Sur un système “qui Bush” on, De...

Lara Flyn Boyle Accused Of Stripping Naked On Flight To London January 31, 2005, 6:45:30 Lara Flynn Boyle FLYNN BOYLE'S 'SCANDALOUS NUDE FLIGHT' Movie beauty LARA FLYNN BOYLE has been accused of stripping nude and trying to seduce a fellow passenger during a recent first-class flight to London. Passengers claim the MEN IN BLACK 2 star started behaving strangely halfway through the ten-hour British Airways journey from Los Angeles to the capital's Heathrow Airport. But they were stunned when she stripped off her clothes and tried to climb into the bed of a sleeping stranger, reports British newspaper THE MAIL...

The local news this week was not very pleasant. Barely one hour of San Felipe, in the cool mountains that serve of backdrop to Barquisimeto, we had a peasant massacre. I learned of that because one of my colleagues lives there and the worker at one of her neighbors was one of the victims.

Are you honked off at the article by so-called "reporter" Lara Jakes Jordan of the Associated Press? Well, here's how you can voice your opinion. LJordan@ap.org You can also send a message to her boss. NPrott@AP.org (I'm pretty sure about the spelling, but not 100% - it's hard to tell when you're calling from Qatar...) Or you can call or write to the DC bureau where Mrs. Jordan works. Washington 2021 K Street NW, 6th Floor Washington DC 20006-1082 (202) 776-9400