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The Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Lutherans, Pentecostals, Mormons and a few other faiths have three things in common – they believe in Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God and that He died and was resurrected for our sins. So what's the problem? The political pundits continue to try and make Mitt Romney's religious beliefs a big issue as he runs for the Republican presidential nomination. Different denominations of Christianity are just that – different denominations – which means different worship practices of the same fundamental Christian beliefs. Some people have commented that they cannot support Mitt Romney...

An interesting thing happened this weekend. After 5 days of blaming President Bush for Hurricane Katrina, the mainstream media found it increasingly difficult to continue their negativity and finger pointing. There was actually good news! And the mainstream media didn’t know how to deal with it. They were still trying though. We were treated to a CNN news “babe” leading us through the nearly empty New Orleans convention center, always a snide comment at the ready. When she arrived at the line of National Guard troops who had been working night and day to evacuate the victims from the civic...

U.S. Reuters employees in byline strike By David B. Wilkerson, MarketWatch Last Update: 3:18 PM ET March 21, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - U.S.-based journalists at Reuters Group PLC are staging their second byline strike in the last three months to protest the offshoring of jobs to India, demands for economic concessions and hefty raises for several top Reuters executives in 2004. More than 350 Reuters America journalists will withhold bylines and credits from their work through Thursday evening, and have pledged to do no more than exactly what is required to accomplish their jobs, the Newspaper Guild of New...