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Forget his role in building the Panama Canal or his responsibility for America’s emergence as a world superpower with our victory in the Spanish-American War. Teddy Roosevelt is the reason America has football. In most other countries around the globe, “football” is soccer, the world’s most popular sport. However, in America, it evolved from a controversial, injury-ridden…

Homosexual New York Episcopalians will be allowed on Sunday to get married by priests in Brooklyn and Queens, but not in the Bronx or Manhattan or on Staten Island; in Syracuse but not in Albany, reports the New York Times. That is because the Episcopal church nationally has not taken a firm position nationally on…

Pornography opponent Morality in Media says children are encountering pornography on the Internet at alarming rate — with their average first exposure coming at age 11. MIM’s four-week “Be Aware: Porn Harms” National Awareness Campaign enters its second week on July 18th. Dawn Hawkins, MIM’s Executive Director and director of the campaign, said pornography’s consequences for…

Toward the end of his testimony before the British Parliament Tuesday, Australian news mogul Rupert Murdoch apparently was the target of shaving cream thrown by a spectator — who was promptly slugged by the News Corporation chairman’s wife. The dramatic scene unfolded inside the House of Commons hearing where Murdoch, who also owns Fox News Channel,…

The Borders Group, the bankrupt 40-year-old bookseller, said on Monday that it will move to liquidate after no last-minute savior emerged for the company. Borders said in a press release that it will proceed with a proposal by Hilco and the Gordon Brothers Group. That liquidation plan will be presented to the federal judge overseeing…

A pro-life activist who has engaged in sidewalk counseling for 14 years has been taken to court by the federal Department of Justice. The complaint to the court submitted by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice alleges that the elderly Richard Retta non-violently obstructed a woman from entering Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan…

“So,” writes former Associated Press staffer and author Robert Mims. “the Vatican has weighed in on the growing scandal with media mogul Rupert Murdock’s News of the World cell phone hacking scandal. The Holy See’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, opines that its high time the news media to adopt what His Holiness has termed “info-ethics.” “I heartily agree,”…

Enterprising Texan Kenneth Robinson is either a hero or a squatter, depending on your point of view — has taken possession of a foreclosed $300,000 house for a mere $16. That’s the amount he forked over to file a claim of “adverse possession” of the property with the Denton County courthouse. Robinson contends that the abandoned…

Tony Campolo tells of a time when he was speaking in Honolulu, Hawaii. Campolo lives on the east coast of the United States so his body was six hours ahead of Hawaiian time. At three o-clock in the morning it felt like nine o-clock to him. Awake and hungry for breakfast, he found himself in…

On film released Tuesday, Medicaid advisors appear to tell applicants to keep quiet about such things as being Russian drug smugglers, living off the labors of sex workers, or that they are seeking medical care for Irish Republican Army terrorists who have sneaked into America after a battle with police. Filmmaker James O’Keefe says he has film…
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