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Alvarado police officer shot while responding to suspicious person call near Prairieland Detention Facility The shooting of a Texas police officer near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility and the firing of shots at federal officers over the weekend was a "planned ambush" on the building, resulting in 11 people being charged, authorities said Monday. An Alvarado, Texas, police officer was shot Friday night near the Prairieland Detention Facility, authorities said. "This was an egregious attack on federal and local law enforcement officers and it is part of an increasing trend of violence against them," said Nancy...

The appropriate word here would probably be "busted." "My Prius went wild!" guy Jim Sikes apparently didn't realize his car carried the equivalent of an airliner's Black Box. Ah, well.  Live and learn, Jim.  In the Big House.

Whoever said that war is hell uttered an understatement more profound than even the classic British penchant for understatement. War is more than hell. It is a calamity of such magnitude, such horror that even the fallen angels of Satan himself must recoil in horror and unbelief. Man, the supreme being, created in the image of God, alone has the ability to inflict such horror on himself... A long time ago a young, scared lt. jg. chased a boy around a hooch. The boy was wounded, unarmed, scared out of his wits and trying to run away. The lt. shot...

Last week the President reached through a group of hostile Chile security thugs and rescued his top Secret Service agent, preventing what could have been a blood bath. Today's lead story deals with another group of men that President Bush should reach through and rescue from a hostile, corrupt, anti-US, group of thug reporters.UNTOLD STORIES Special report for Christian News in Maine by Danny Calhoun We are either at war or we are not. It would appear that our own Defense Department has given in to Political Correctness once again. Again we have become so caught up in how our...