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Retired Killeen, Texas, cop Greg Ebert knew there was something wrong with the nervous 21-year-old ammunition customer. “He stands here and asks the manager, ‘what is smokeless powder?'” recalls Ebert, who works at Guns Galore.  “Well, my God, if you don’t know what it is, why would you buy six pounds of it?” Thursday, police arrested 21-year-old Private…

If you’ve paid any attention to the public discussion on the nature of marriage in the past few years, you’ve no doubt heard the call from some for the government to get out of the marriage business altogether and just leave it to religious folks. This has caused many to ask two key questions: Is…

On July 25, the California Medical Board issued an “interim suspension order” against a contract abortionist for Planned Parenthood, according to Jeremy Kryn, writing for LifeSiteNews. “Earlier this year, Doctor Jesse James Joplin had been placed on probation for seven years,” reports Kryn. ” The conditions of Joplin’s probation provided that he abstain completely from the…

Beliefnet’s John Kennedy reports a website in support of gay marriage in Minnesota has come out with a new vulgar video in which actors mock and slander Christians and even shows two young boys kissing each other.   The purpose of the website is to raise money for Minnesotans United for All Families, an organization whose…

“As the White House and Congress debate cuts in federal spending, millions of dollars are being funneled overseas to help build many Islamic mosques and structures,” alleges TV star Chuck Norris. He says a USAID official confirmed about $2.3 million was used on a Cairo mosque “to help lower the groundwater at the mosque area, replacing…

The World Jewish Congress says Iran should be barred from taking part in the Olympics and other international sporting events until its athletes stop boycotting their Israeli counterparts. The congress called the Iranian behavior “unsportsmanlike and smacks of anti-Semitism.” “Iranian swimmer Mohammed Alirezaei pulled out of a race that included an Israeli at the world swimming championships…

A long-planned exhibition of nearly 70 pieces of Buddhist art from Pakistan will finally open at New York City’s Asia Society on Aug. 9, after political intrigue in Pakistan and a breakdown in American-Pakistani relations delayed it for six months, according to the Buddhist Channel internet site. “Anti-Americanism, which soared in the aftermath of the killing…

The charitable agency Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois in Belleville has petitioned to join a lawsuit filed by the Catholic Charities agency in Springfield, Peoria and Joliet, Illinois. The suit seeks relief against efforts by the Illinois attorney general’s office and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to halt the Roman Catholic agencies from…

Justin Bieber and dad just after receiving tattoos This photo just released to the British newspaper the Daily Mail shows Justin Bieber just after he receive a Hebrew-language tattoo earlier this year — and shows that his dad got one just like it at the same time. The inking was done in Israel earlier this year.…

Christian leaders, whether speaking from the Holy See in Rome, the stages of America’s mega church multimedia wonders or the meanest, rusting music-stand pulpit of storefront inner-city chapel, all decry what they see as the growing bias of secular media toward believers. And, in part, it’s true. As a long-time journalist myself, I’ve seen mere…
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