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Sarah Palin not anti-choice enough? A far right group claims the former Alaska governor's rhetoric on abortion sounds too "liberal" and "pro-choice" BY KATE HARDING In Salon today, Max Blumenthal writes of Sarah Palin, "her career has become a vehicle through which the right-wing evangelical movement feels it can express its deepest identity in opposition both to secular society and to its representatives in the Obama White House. Palin is perceived by its leaders -- and followers -- not as another cynical politician or even as a self-promoting celebrity, but as a kind of magical helper, the God-fearing glamour girl...

A 10th person in Maryland has died of swine flu, state health officials said Tuesday. The person, an adult from Western Maryland, had underlying health problems. As with other deaths related to the H1N1 virus, officials would not release further details.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Emma Faust Tillman, who was born to former slaves and lived to see 21 American presidencies, died at a nursing home just four days after becoming the world's oldest-known living person. She was 114. Tillman, who lived independently until she was 110, died Sunday night in the company of several family members, said Karen Chadderton, administrator of Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center in East Hartford. "She went peacefully," Chadderton said Monday. "She was a wonderful woman." Tillman she assumed the title as world's oldest person on Wednesday with the death of 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro of...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The world's oldest person has died. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was 116 when her time came today in a Memphis, Tennessee, nursing home. She'd lived there several years, but relatives say she spoke very little after a stroke two years ago.

That was Governor Schwarzenegger's response today to questions about why no one knew he was going to a White House event this week until the very last moment-- and why the trip again raises questions about the lack of information that's made public on the governor's whereabouts when he leaves the borders of California. More on the second issue tomorrow morning on The California Report. But the most recent trip, where the governor left the state on Sunday afternoon and returned home Monday night, was unique in that he was not simply on a vacation with his family. This trip...

Target any white person: the chilling guidelines for Bali suicide bombers By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 04/07/2006) Any white person is a target. Avoid hotels because they are too well protected. Carry the bombs in small knapsacks to avoid suspicion. And don't worry about your escape route because you will become a "martyr". These guidelines for suicide bombers were found on a computer captured by Indonesian police during a raid in November, and are believed to have been written by the British-educated bomb-maker Azahari Husin, who died during the attack. Azahari, in his mid-40s when he died, studied...

LAURA W. MACKENZIE 5’4", Blue Eyes, Brown Hair. A senior at Goffstown Area High School, NH. She drives a 1995 black, 4-door Volkswagen Golf. NH License Plate Number: 211 0126. If you have any information, please call the Goffstown, NH Police Dept. 603-497-4858 or email enidmack@yahoo.com Last seen March 8, 2006

TIME MAGAZINE MAN OF THE YEAR GEORGE W. BUSH NEW YORK - After winning re-election and "reshaping the rules of politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style," President George Bush (news - web sites) for the second time was chosen as Time magazine's Person of the Year. The magazine's editors tapped Bush "for sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes — and ours — on his faith in the power of leadership." Time's 2004 Person of the Year package, on newsstands Monday, includes an Oval Office interview with...

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When is it “OK” for an innocent bystander to be brutalized at the whim of a common thug? Amid the collection of worldviews we endeavor to rationalize in our pluralistic cultural, brutalizing ones neighbor and stranger alike is still repugnant to most. Who among us, whether atheist, Christian, or secular humanist will praise and commend the actions of a judge who in the name of love and understanding does not penalize the lawbreaking thief, rapist, and murderer. Why is it so difficult for the average person to apply this simple example of reality to God? If the Creator God...

Many people falsely state that Jesus never taught about the sacredness of Life in the womb. These need to reread and pray over the first chapter of Luke. Not only did Jesus teach that life in the womb is sacred, HE TAUGHT THIS TRUTH FROM THE WOMB! There are many places in Scripture that teach about the sacredness of life within the womb, but none more beautifully than St. Luke's account of the Visitation. Scholars believe Jesus was perhaps a couple of weeks along from conception and John the Baptist about Six months from conception at the Visitation. Tertullian who...

Tribute to President Bush What our dear President Bush was up to at Christmas that the media chose not to tell you. Pass it on to your friends who see no media bias! Tribute to President Bush BreakPoint cultural commentary with Prison Fellowship's Chuck Colson January 6, 2004 At the Foot of the Cross - A Story You Haven't Heard Angel Tree, our Prison Fellowship program for prisoners' children, is one of the great unheralded volunteer outreaches in America. Over the Christmas holidays these past few weeks, approximately 100,000 volunteers delivered Angel Tree gifts to more than 525,000 children of...

H. K. Edgerton of Asheville speaks at Sons of Confederate Veterans rally at Person County Courthouse Friday. (Ken Martin / C-T) As they paraded down Main Street, the E. Fletcher Satterfield Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans and their supporters sang Dixie and waved what they call a symbol of Southern heritage and history, not of racism or division.In the front line of the peaceful demonstration marched H. K. Edgerton, an African American man who says he is proud of the Confederate battle flag because it is a symbol of all that is Southern, and of the many men, both...

ROXBORO -- Under a warm October sun Friday, a black man carried the Confederate battle flag and led 20 white men up the middle of Main Street to the front lawn of the Person County Courthouse, singing "Glory, glory hallelujah. The South will rise again."The old song competed with the squelch and squawk of police radios. Outnumbering the marchers, police officers, sheriff's deputies and state troopers looked on from the corner sidewalks of the courthouse.As the short, gray-bearded man who led the march stepped up to a monument honoring Person County's fallen Civil War soldiers, he was met with cheers...

A few years ago, Congress passed a bill requiring them to obey all laws, rules and regulations, just like normal citizens. Therefore, we offer a few selected excerpts from Title 48, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 51 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Revised as of October 1, 1996, for your reading enjoyment. This is good stuff, folks. Because, if Congress (and the administration) is legally bound to obey each and every one of their petty little laws, rules and regulations, our question is this: Where do we go to file charges? Everyone in Congress is in violation of these...

I Believe in the Holy Spirit The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who know as much about the Holy Spirit as those at Ephesus who were asked by Paul, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" and replied, "No, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit" (Acts 19:2). This may be an exaggeration on their part. What they may have meant is that they did not realize that the promised Spirit was available for them; that he could make a difference to their lives. Many people today of...

Who do you think was the most influential person of 2002? Barry Bonds Britney Spears Colin Powell Eminem George W. Bush Howard Stern J.K. Rowling Kofi Annan The Osbourne Family Serena Williams Only one vote allowed for each Yahoo! user ID.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, called a ``person of interest'' in the anthrax attacks, demanded Thursday that Attorney General John Ashcroft find the fired researcher a new job. Attorney Victor Glasberg wrote in the letter that Hatfill was fired from his job as a researcher and probably won't be able find employment because of the Justice Department's ``inappropriate actions'' in naming him a person of interest. ``With all due respect, it is proper for you to take the lead in setting this right immediately,'' Glasberg wrote. Glasberg added that Hatfill is entitled to an apology....

The self-confessed pipe bomber is cheerful, even in the face of a life sentence. His tormented parents are not quite so carefree  DEBRA REID/APHelder escorted to court in Reno, Nev. Name: Lucas HelderAge: 21Job: Erstwhile college studentWhy we chose him: For making us all worry about the "normal" kids in our lives, Lucas Helder is our Person of the Week Thursday, May. 09, 2002 Alleged pipe bomber Lucas Helder currently being held without bail in Iowa, is described by friends, classmates, family — even the police — as a well-behaved, polite, serious and totally unremarkable college student. "When I talked...