Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak has called for increased sanctions on Iran, a day after the United States said Tehran is feeling the pressure of international measures meant to push it to stop enriching uranium. Barak said Thursday after meeting his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo that while current sanctions are affecting Iranian officials, more action [...]
In the midst serious controversy over the religious foundation of Liberia, a group of Church leaders here are hearing up to launch a campaign to solicit “one million signatures” from the Christian community to petition the House of Representatives to repeal a constitutional clause, which states that Liberia is a secular nation. The luncheon, which [...]
By the end of the year, Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping, who visits the United States this week, will have been installed as China’s President. As the era of Xi’s rule begins, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and other top Administration officials should tell him directly that America’s historic commitment to human rights cannot be [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, once seemingly unbeatable in Indiana, has been scrambling to reintroduce himself to Hoosiers amid a barrage of attacks that he has lost touch — an argument his tea party challenger repeated Wednesday in front of the Indianapolis home the incumbent sold decades ago. The Republican who has spent [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 15–> “If you don’t vote, you are voting for Obama,’’ Beinecke said. “My husband and I think Romney has the experience, but he has the problem of being a moderate.” Gingrich and Paul, Beinecke said, “are not electable; and Santorum doesn’t have the experience, but he is the most consistent on the [...]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In an unusual two-committee vote Tuesday evening, Maryland delegates grappled with several proposed amendments before voting 25-18 to send controversial same-sex marriage legislation to the full state House, where it could be debated as early as Wednesday. The 25 yes votes included the first in the state House by a Republican, Delegate [...]
At this university, most debates about reproductive morality center on abortion, so the furor last week regarding whether Catholic universities and hospitals needed to cover contraception in employee heath care plans may seem a more foreign concern. However, the debate illustrates an important clash between liberal and religious ethics over the scope of the state’s [...]
By JASON L. RILEY In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it’s passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program in [...]
Joseph Kelley said his son Rashawn was struggling in D.C. public schools before his scholarship. “Either he doesn’t get it, or he doesn’t care,” Sheila Jackson, parent of a D.C. Opportunity Scholarship recipient, said upon hearing the news that President Obama’s budget eliminates funding for the popular program. Jackson sounded torn about which was worse. [...]
Security camera images show three men who Thai police suspect were involved in bomb blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday. Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET: Iran claimed Wednesday that it has taken two major steps toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear [...]
Iran today refused to “accept” or “deny” its role in the bomb attack on an Israeli car in New Delhi but questioned the basis of the allegations, saying it should be left to India to verify the real position. “We are not accepting or denying this (Israeli allegation about Tehran being behind the car [...]
BANGKOK– Israeli officials ramped up accusations Wednesday that Iran was launching covert attack plots, saying “sticky” bombs found in a Thai house rented by Iranians were similar to devices used against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the violence, while Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the allegations [...]
By Will Morris Despite some promising developments, Christians in Turkey continue to suffer attacks from private citizens, discrimination by lower-level government officials and vilification in both school textbooks and news media, according to a study by a Protestant group. In its annual “Report on Human Rights Violations,” released in January, the country’s Association of Protestant [...]
“His jerseys have sold out, even including the counterfeit ones,” said Zheng Xiaojun, a 24-year-old clerk here in the capital of Zhejiang province, near Shanghai. Lin’s stunning success with the Knicks over the last week and a half has captured the imagination of the Chinese, from Communist Party bosses to the often-persecuted Christian minority. He [...]
Yesterday, a number of free-market economists and advocates voiced concern about the central feature of Rick Santorum’s economic policy. In short, Santorum picking winners (manufacturing) and losers (non-manufacturing) is no better than President Obama doing it — neither has the expertise to outwit the free market. Moreover, given that manufacturing has improved productivity (by slimming [...]
WASHINGTON Leaving a House of Representatives Republican caucus meeting one morning, Rep. Vicky Hartzler had to pause a moment to get her bearings. She was on her way to an Armed Services Committee hearing, but navigating the maze of corridors beneath the Capitol could still puzzle her./pp Hartzler’s political compass, however, always stays on course. [...]
By Robert J. Hume The New Jersey Legislature’s votes this week on same-sex marriage have become even more critical in light of recent judicial activity. Last week’s decision from a federal appeals court in California has all but foreclosed the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a broad decision favoring marriage equality anytime [...]
Martin Griff / The Times of TrentonBishop David M. OâConnell in a January 2010 photo. By The Most Rev. David M. O’Connell I have heard it said often that “reasonable people can disagree without becoming disagreeable,” and I’d like to believe that, although I do not always find it to be the case. Some people [...]
After preparing for the worst, public-school officials in Lebanon County say Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal could have been much worse. Under the proposal, which Corbett unveiled last week, basic subsidies would rise by about $45 million to $5.4 billion – that’s an average increase of about $90,000 for each of the state’s 500 school [...]
MANCHESTER — The Manchester School District is considering changes to school choice rules that would limit parents from moving their children from one school to another. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Brennan said Wednesday his office is considering the change after the state Department of Education altered its rules. “This doesn’t mean the district doesn’t have [...]
BANGKOK – Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Israel’s defense minister has accused Iran of being behind a bombing in Thailand. Ehud Barak said Tuesday’s explosion in Bangkok “proves once again that Iran and its proxies continue to perpetrate terror.” He said that [...]
The attack sounded all too familiar. An assassin on a motorcycle reportedly slapped a magnetic bomb on a car on Monday afternoon and rode away as the occupants scrambled to escape the vehicle. Nearly half a dozen similar attacks in Tehran have targeted scientists linked with Iran’s controversial nuclear program in recent years. And Iranian [...]
(AP) JERUSALEM – Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Officials were also trying to determine whether Israelis were the intended target of an Iranian man carrying explosives who blew his own legs off in Bangkok. Authorities in Thailand said the Iranian was [...]
Last week presidential hopeful Rick Santorum warned that President Obama and “other liberals” are leading people of faith down a path that ends at the guillotine. Santorum is right that Christians are facing imminent death. Right now, millions of Christians in Nigeria and Sudan are being bombed, starved, ethnically cleansed, or intimidated. Evidently Santorum wasn’t [...]
Posted February 14, 2012 11:38:25 Photo: Gao Zhisheng was arrested in February 2009. (Stringer: Reuters) The wife of leading Chinese dissident and lawyer Gao Zhisheng has voiced fear over his whereabouts, say she has no way of knowing if he is still alive. Geng He, who fled to the United States with the couple’s children [...]
Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina opened CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) with an analogy. He compared Republicans and Democrats not to allies with differences fighting together for a common cause (as President Obama did in his State of the Union address); instead, he compared Republicans and Democrats to the Giants and the Patriots, a [...]
Rick Santorum | Credit: Dave Davidson – Prezography.comTwo polls released on Monday find that Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has built a lead over Mitt Romney in Michigan — where George Romney, the father of the GOP presidential candidate, served as governor during most of the 1960s. Santorum has been rising in state and national [...]
“We’ve got momentum on our side,” said Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network. Referring to George’s controversial suggestion that gay rights activists might become “like the Ku Klux Klan” toward Catholicism, Thayer said, “The shrill comments coming out of the Catholic leadership are indicative that they believe they’re losing.” George apologized for the [...]
“We’ve got momentum on our side,” said Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network. Referring to George’s controversial suggestion that gay rights activists might become “like the Ku Klux Klan” toward Catholicism, Thayer said, “The shrill comments coming out of the Catholic leadership are indicative that they believe they’re losing.” George apologized for the [...]
The controversy over President Obama’s order on contraception and religious institutions is not going away as a political issue. The two sides seem to be hardening their positions. The divide between many American Catholics and their bishops remains. And it’s raising questions over who benefits most in the run-up to the presidential election. Is it [...]
The controversy over President Obama’s order on contraception and religious institutions is not going away as a political issue. The two sides seem to be hardening their positions. The divide between many American Catholics and their bishops remains. And it’s raising questions over who benefits most in the run-up to the presidential election. Is it [...]
Print this Article Email this Article Feb. 12 — To the Editor: I want to thank Paula Salvio and Joe Onosko for their researched findings about school vouchers, which is what House Bill 1607 will provide. Their research supports what experienced educators and public school students already understand — the public school system is where [...]
Print this Article Email this Article Feb. 12 — To the Editor: I want to thank Paula Salvio and Joe Onosko for their researched findings about school vouchers, which is what House Bill 1607 will provide. Their research supports what experienced educators and public school students already understand — the public school system is where [...]
Curtis Loftis By Curtis Loftis || More than 15,000 low-income students attend private schools in South Carolina. Their parents scrimp and save. They make sacrifices. They’ve put their children’s education at the top of the family’s financial priority list. Those parents also pay taxes. More than $8.5 million this year in state income taxes alone. [...]
Curtis Loftis By Curtis Loftis || More than 15,000 low-income students attend private schools in South Carolina. Their parents scrimp and save. They make sacrifices. They’ve put their children’s education at the top of the family’s financial priority list. Those parents also pay taxes. More than $8.5 million this year in state income taxes alone. [...]
TEL AVIV // During the Egyptian protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak as president last year, Israel worried its critical peace partner would be taken over by Islamist radicals. Now, as another Arab neighbour – Syria – faces escalating bloodshed and turmoil, Israel appears more relaxed about regime change there. The difference? Analysts say Israel doubts [...]
TEL AVIV // During the Egyptian protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak as president last year, Israel worried its critical peace partner would be taken over by Islamist radicals. Now, as another Arab neighbour – Syria – faces escalating bloodshed and turmoil, Israel appears more relaxed about regime change there. The difference? Analysts say Israel doubts [...]
<!– Share Email Print –> Tweet Share Email Print Google+ Facebook Gun is only way to fight Israel, Hamas head says February 13, 2012 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The “gun is our only response to the Zionist regime,” [...]
<!– Share Email Print –> Tweet Share Email Print Google+ Facebook Gun is only way to fight Israel, Hamas head says February 13, 2012 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The “gun is our only response to the Zionist regime,” [...]
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:33am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Bombers targeted staff at Israel’s embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement. The New Delhi bomb wrecked a vehicle with diplomatic plates and [...]
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:33am EST JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Bombers targeted staff at Israel’s embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, wounding four people, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of involvement. The New Delhi bomb wrecked a vehicle with diplomatic plates and [...]
<![CDATA[ ]]> To the Editor: So. Catholic Bishops have discovered the Trojan horse in Obamacare: Abortion. And its enforcement through Catholic employers. In violation of our Faith. Why so surprised? The Obamacare embraced by much of the Catholic hierarchy is riddled with the absolute power of the State over medical “services” from conception to death, [...]
<![CDATA[ ]]> To the Editor: So. Catholic Bishops have discovered the Trojan horse in Obamacare: Abortion. And its enforcement through Catholic employers. In violation of our Faith. Why so surprised? The Obamacare embraced by much of the Catholic hierarchy is riddled with the absolute power of the State over medical “services” from conception to death, [...]
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Print E-mail By Daniel Malloy The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Long before the tea party movement became an American political phenomenon, Newt Gingrich chucked empty produce crates into the Chattahoochee River in Roswell as part of a tax day re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party. Evan Vucci AP Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich touts his “long tradition [...]
Tea Party Patritots co-founder Mark Meckler warned the president’s move to require insurance companies to eliminate co-pays on contraception would “invigorate the Tea Party” and predicted higher turnout by conservative activists in 2012 than their watershed 2010 showing during an interview Monday on Fox News. “One of the fundamental tenants of the Tea Party is [...]
At a moment when the tea party movement has taken a back seat in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Sarah Palin went to Washington this weekend to remind Republicans that she still represents an insurgent force that the Republican establishment ignores at its peril. Though she remains a tea party favorite, it is [...]
At a moment when the tea party movement has taken a back seat in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, Sarah Palin went to Washington this weekend to remind Republicans that she still represents an insurgent force that the Republican establishment ignores at its peril. Though she remains a tea party favorite, it is [...]
One of the first same-sex couples to marry in California is now becoming one of the first same-sex couples in the state to call it quits. Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, whose lawsuit led the California Supreme Court to throw out the state’s ban on same-sex marriage in 2008, filed for divorce in Los Angeles [...]