Another day, another giant Buddha destroyed. Yup. It’s that bunch of cheerful Saudi funded Iconoclasts, better known as the Taliban, trying to purify the region of pagan idols. Luckily there was little or no damage to these archeological treasures. These treasures were made 2200 years ago during the spread of Buddhism in the area. Later [...]

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There has been increased interest in the case of Son Jon Nam, an ex North Korean Army officer who was converted to Christianity in China and returned to his country as an evangelist, only to be arrested and convicted of “spying“. But his case has more than human interests from a civil rights angle. Newsweek [...]

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  The respected former federal reserve chairman and Goldwater conservative lambasted both republicans and George W. Bush in his new memoir. The man most credit for helping to maintain the prosperity of the U.S economy through ups and downs by application of responsible fiscal discipline expressed his opinion on the financial stewardship of both the republican congress and the President.  While the neoconservatives will doubtless pause from swilling the kool [...]

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Junkyard Prophet have released a new album, The Price. This double CD includes 14 songs,with 6 bonus tracks on disc 2. The bonus CD includes a short message presented by drummer -Bradlee Dean-on some of our societies most pressing issues including freedom of speech and abortion. Their lyrical approach is forthright, with strong criticism of [...]

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It is Monday and a new week for the soaps. Here is what happened today. Days of Our Lives Shawn talks to Lexie about his jealousy over Phillip with Belle. At the pub Belle and Phillip talk and he claims they almost kissed but Belle denies it. He wants to know how much does she [...]

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This week’s Rasmussen Reports Democratic primary poll update tells much the same story as many of the others have for the past few months. Sen. Hillary Clinton is continuing to maintain a stranglehold on the position of favorite for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

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This is a very disturbing and uncomfortable subject matter, but I think it’s a story that needs to be told. Cults are certainly nothing new in American culture. Almost everyone is familiar with Jim Jones and his “People’s Temple” that ended in mass suicide. Most have heard of the crazy “Heaven’s Gate” cult that committed [...]

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According to the web site, The Boston Comedy Festival started in 2000 “as a way to showcase New England stand-up comedy talent to bigger audiences and the entertainment industry.” Now that the festival is in its eighth year, Koch Records is releasing a 2-disc album that includes over two hours of stand-up from the top 16 finalists [...]

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This week’s Rasmussen Reports Republican primary poll update finds the momentum continuing to grow for Fred Thompson. Thompson reached the highest number for any Republican candidate since June last week, and he now leads Rudy Giuliani 28%-19%.

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. — The second round of Indo-Pak Joint Anti-Terrorism Mechanism (ATM) will be held on October 22, an External Affairs Ministry statement said. Meetings [...]

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They say that sex sells and certainly in our ever-increasingly relative and libertarian society, it would appear that this has been more than good a marketing tactic graduating to the level of everyday behavior. There has been a concerted effort to sexualize society since the 60’s if not even before that for a myriad of [...]

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With tattoos becoming more and more common in today’s society, tattoo removals are also becoming prevalent. In a 2004 survey, 24 percent of a group of 18 to 50 year olds have admitted to getting a tattoo while 17 percent of them have thought about getting it removed. A laser treatment is the most common procedure [...]

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For Lunch today, Iowa democrats serve up fried steak a la Tom Harkin, McCain gets pressed for a little straight talk, Giuliani tries to blend in (again) on race day, and we ponder the claims of Hillary’s healthcare critics. Watch now!

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Last Thursday, September 13, in Nashville, Stanton Jones (Provost, Wheaton College) and Mark Yarhouse (Professor of Psychology, Regent University) presented the results of a study of religiously mediated change of sexual orientation. To a packed house, the researchers outlined the methods of sampling, the measures used and the results. Following the presentation, Intervarsity Press hosted a brief press conference. [...]

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In the 21st century, popping a DVD into the DVD player and walking through the steps of a game on a television while simultaneously running a simple board game with classic pieces seems like the ideal way to go. Kids get the excitement of video and 3-D animation, while also getting the more traditional roll-the-die [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog To quote Up Pompeii, “A library book on bomb-making, sir? You’ll find it under Religion”. The politically correct morons in the UK just can’t do enough to show the world that they couldn’t think their way out of a paper burka. It seem UK libraries are infested – and that’s [...]

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Are antiwar, Hollywood leftists congenitally incapable of patriotism for their own country? Hey, far be it from me to make any unfair, sweeping generalizations, but take as just one example well-known director Brian De Palma. He has recently made a movie about American soldiers and the war in Iraq that has reportedly stunned viewers at [...]

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There seems to be only one thing that German television viewers like watching better then shows about people who fail here and go off somewhere else in the world to start a new life. It is to see these very same people fail there, too. Shows about what I call auswandering (immigrating) are still booming [...]

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Archbishop John Sentamu, himself an African from Uganda and the second most senior Church figure in Britain, has called for Britain to intervene in Zimbabwe. He has seen that South Africa is either unable or unwilling to do anything about the Zimbabwe situation and compares Zimbabwe’s President/Dictator Robert Mugabe with the former President/Dictator of Uganda [...]

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[Needless to say long standing prejudices die hard.  Anthony Appiah drew the useful distinction between "extrinsic racism" which can be corrected by factual information and "intrinsic" which resists because it is linked to the identities and interests of those manifesting it: http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~simoncu/167/appiah.htm The Jena case which involved a school yard fight (something most of us [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —No other nation has allowed such a free run on its History by Linguists and Communists A week was too long in Indian [...]

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Christians have to face up to such criminal church conduct as that reported here: Argentine Church Faces ‘Dirty War’ Past By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO The Roman Catholic Church in Argentina is beginning to come to terms with its complicity in the atrocities committed during the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/world/americas/17church.html?th&emc=th Lest one is tempted to [...]

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According to the AP, Ameritrade is reporting that someone hacked into their systems and made off with 6.3 million people’s information: Online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Friday one of its databases was hacked and contact information for its more than 6.3 million customers was stolen. A spokeswoman for the Omaha-based company said more [...]

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Writing about farm subsidies in The Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson observes, “most of today’s farm programs are simply income transfers from consumers and taxpayers to farmers … Farming has become the economy’s most pampered, protected and subsidized sector.” In 1933 FDR signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act under duress, notes Samuelson: “The head of the [...]

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This USA Today story about an AP report should be called headline abuse instead of “detainee abuse” because if one were to just read the headline and move on, you’d get the wrong impression about what the story really reveals. You’d obviously read USA Today’s headline, “Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses,” and assume the story [...]

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We have seen it time and again; the MSM taking these relatively good economic times in which we live and spinning them into some sort of Depression era disaster as if things are really all bad. Well, the CBS station in New Rochelle, New York has decided that the so-called housing slump is now somehow [...]

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It sounds like a joke, but the US Army is developing a Humvee made of foam and balsawood. It sounds like a joke but it’s actually about using modern materials to stop bullets/shrapnel and using foam to cushion blasts from IED’s. (roadside bombs). Gizmodo has a photo and reports: the Army has battled with how [...]

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