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President Barack Obama Was President Obama mocking Congress for reaffirming the nation’s official motto “In God We Trust?”   In the video, the President reaffirms his belief in God, then speaks for the Almighty — stating that the Creator wants Congress to approve legislation that would put people back to work. Then Obama seems to…

A Montreal judge has ruled that Paula Celani worshiped illegally — fining her $144 — charted with cult activity.  “On a Sunday morning two years ago,” reports Graeme Hamilton in Canada’s National Post newspaper, she and “about 80 members of her Catholic lay group gathered in a hall they had rented from the city.  They watched an…

So, now is it cool to mock Quarterback Tim Tebow’s faith? Apparently Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch thinks so. He openly mimicked Tebow’s familiar prayer pose after sacking Tebow in the second quarter this week. “Ridicule Tim Tebow for his slow release, for missing open receivers, for throwing passes that sail out of bounds, and for sometimes dancing in…

In what the Parent’s Television Council called “a sucker-punch to families everywhere” a court ruling which “reaches the level of judicial stupidity,” has ruled that there was nothing indecent about pop singer Janet Jackson’s breast being bared before 90 million people during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. The Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals has…

“There were some times that you just had to reach down and find that faith that you were going to find him,” said County Sheriff David Hines. The lawman was speaking to reporters after mute, autistic 8-year-old Robbie Wood — missing for five days — turned up near a rock quarry about a mile from a…

It’s not exactly a new idea — that America’s motto should be “In God We Trust.” However, the House of Representatives made it official once again Wednesday by a vote of 396 to 9. The Senate passed a similar resolution in 2006. In fact, “In God We Trust” has been America’s legal, official motto since 1956. In…

After more than a month of protests demanding better employment opportunities and benefits, the Washington, D.C.-based media watchdog group Accuracy in Media decided to offer protesters camping out at “Occupy DC” real jobs. AIM’s “headhunters” set up a table in the middle of the protest area near the Capital and offered job application forms from a wide…

Only five years old, Arnoldo already knew about rejection, denial and disappointment. It’s a hard lesson for a child whose only desire is to be normal. Through no fault of his own, the low-income Venezuelan boy was born with a disfiguring cleft palate. Whenever he could bear playing alone no more, he would go outside…

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has bought the Nashville-based Thomas Nelson, Inc., Christian publishers, reports Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg for the Wall Street Journal. The purchase was made by News Corp.’s HarperCollins book publishers. No terms of the sale were disclosed, but “it comes nearly 18 months after an investor group led by private-equity firm Kohlberg &…

The late Moammar Gadhafi reached out through Jewish channels to try to repair relations with the United States during his final decade as Libya’s leader. “Now it can be told,” writes Ron Kampeas for JTA, the Israeli news service. “For the last decade or so, the Jews had secret back channels to Moammar Gadhafi. His overtures to the pro-Israel community “began…
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