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Fareed Zakaria, the CNN host and Newsweek columnist, has returned a prestigious prize to the Anti-Defamation League, another rebuke for the esteemed civil rights group's opposition to an Islamic center near ground zero. Zakaria, who received the ADL's Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize five years ago, gave back the honor to ADL for publicly siding "with those urging the relocation" of the center, which would be located near the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks. "I cannot in good conscience hold onto the award or the honorarium that came with it and am returning both," he said. It...

Leave it to a liberal to put into words what makes Palin so special and why so many of us Christian women love her and fiercely pray for her. There are several threads up already linking to the article, but here are some of the best excerpts: When asked why she loves Sarah Palin, a conservative Christian woman will point you to Proverbs 31. There, you'll find a wife and mother who adores her husband, works the fields, rises before dawn, "makes her arms strong," feeds the poor, helps the needy, has a head for business, and wears beautiful clothes....