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LEE'S SUMMIT, MO. -- Two teenagers have been arrested in the stabbing death of a 43-year-old Missouri woman, reports CBS affiliate KCTV. The body of Tanya L. Chamberlain was discovered after police tried to stop the driver of a vehicle around 1:15 a.m. Sunday for suspicion of driving while intoxicated, according to the station. The car was pulled into a nearby parking lot and two suspects allegedly fled, apparently leaving the body behind. After a short foot pursuit, an officer discovered the victim in the passenger seat and investigators determined that Chamberlain had been murdered. Officers would later conduct a...

This week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda's #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. "The report has not been confirmed by the State Department," they all said, but they reported it anyway. Last week, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told viewers that three "anonymous" insiders of Sen. McCain's campaign said that Sarah Palin was, in essence, a diva and a dunce. He - and dozens of others who picked up the story on other channels - never identified, or even verified, the sources of the quotes, but they reported them anyway. Contrast...

There are certain moments when some popular idea or movement so thoroughly discredits itself that, though it continues to lumber along like a decapitated giant, it’s only a matter of time before it crashes to the ground, never to rise again.One such moment occurred during the recent fracas over the Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam. Christians, of course, have long been used to the fact that their most sacred beliefs are treated to casual contempt in the mainstream media.Any morning for the past 20 years, a Christian could expect to turn on the tube or...