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Galloping Globalism – October 28

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 05:03 PM PDT

I think that most of us who have wondered why America is not prominent in the Bible in the last days now have our answer. Of course America did not exist in Bible times for anyone to write about. But surely the most powerful nation ever would have some veiled reference to it in the [...]


.Obama inks defense bill with hate crimes provision – October 28

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 03:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON – Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation. The $680 billion bill authorizes spending but [...]


Ares 1-X Rocket Launch a Soaring Success – Fox

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:35 PM PDT


Obama Signs Defense Policy Bill That Includes ‘Hate Crime’ Legislation – Fox

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:35 PM PDT


Obama’s Media Control Strategy – AIM – October 28

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:32 PM PDT

You may not have noticed that the Obama Administration, in addition to trying to seize control of the health care and energy sectors, is implementing a national “broadband plan” to redefine the media and transform America’s system of government. It’s designed, they say, to provide “open government and civic engagement.” But it looks increasingly like [...]


J Street conference: Some successes and some awkward moments

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:12 PM PDT

If this new lobby wants to become a serious player in Mideast politics, it will have to work much harder. [...]


Harrycare Buckles to Government Option

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced yesterday that his "Harrycare" bill will include a government option. Looking a great deal like a man who can see the end of his political career looming over the horizon, Reid buckled to the [...]


Democrat senators exempt home states from Baucus healthcare bill

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:07 PM PDT

Senate Democrats, who think healthcare "reform" is so important that we shouldn't take time to read the legislation, are now scurrying to exempt their home states from its costly provisions. In a Wall Street Journal article last Thursday, Kimberly [...]


Democrat senators exempt home states from Baucus healthcare bill

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 02:07 PM PDT

Senate Democrats, who think healthcare "reform" is so important that we shouldn't take time to read the legislation, are now scurrying to exempt their home states from its costly provisions. In a Wall Street Journal article last Thursday, Kimberly [...]


Barak: Talks with Syria central to regional peace

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:59 PM PDT

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday responded to remarks by Syrian President Bashar Assad, who declared that Syria was ready to resume peace talks with Israel, saying that peace with Syria was a pivotal in the path toward regional peace. [...]


Haifa University: Anti-Israel Professors Named and Shamed

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:56 PM PDT

Students at Haifa University received a diary with an advertisement listing lecturers who belong to 'Fifth [...]


MK Moses Challenges Police to Defend Jewish Worshippers

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:47 PM PDT

MK Moses challenges police over Arab attacks on Jewish worshippers in [...]


UN chief: IAEA inspection of Iran nuke site is a positive step

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:41 PM PDT

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed as 'a positive step' Iran's decision to allow UN nuclear inspectors access to a recently disclosed uranium enrichment plant in the Islamic [...]


Kfar HaRoeh Yeshiva Turns 70

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:25 PM PDT

Alumni of the first Bnei Akiva yeshiva gathered to mark 70 years since its [...]


Peres: Rabin’s vision of peace will be achieved

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 01:25 PM PDT

President Shimon Peres on Wednesday opened the ceremony commemorating the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, saying that the former prime minister's vision of peace will not be abandoned. [...]


Scholarship Fund Created for Families Hoping to Adopt a Child through Nightlight Christian Adoptions

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:54 PM PDT

Contact: Leisa Brug, Nightlight, 949-413-4447 ANAHEIM HILLS, Calif., Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rick Bee, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nightlight Christian Adoptions (Nightlight) announced today that in honor of the agency's 50th anniversary, they have approved the establishment of a $50,000 scholarship fund for prospective adopting parents who might not have the financial resources to adopt eligible children. The scholarship fund is part of the agency's Babushka Fund est Source: Nightlight Christian [...]


Akko Kids Join Prayers for Rain

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Schoolchildren in Akko pray for winter rains, encourage the public to join [...]


Assad: Syria ready to renew talks with Israel

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:19 PM PDT

Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Wednesday during a meeting with the Croatian President Stipe Mesic that his country was ready to resume peace talks with Israel, the French news agency AFP reported. [...]


Israel’s Maverick Academic

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 12:01 PM PDT

Israel's youngest professor – 30-year-old Ely Porat – doesn't just have a career in academia, but also in the Israel [...]


Illegal Aliens Abscond Under “Humane” ICE Program

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:57 AM PDT

Touted by the Obama Administration as key to overhauling the nation's immigration detention system, a program that monitors illegal aliens instead of jailing them regularly loses track of offenders and the government distorts records to cover it up.

Operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the intensive monitoring program allows illegal aliens to check in by phone, wear ankle monitors and obey a curfew rather than go to prison while they wait for court appearances. ICE claims the alternatives-to-detention program is a huge success and Obama assures it's a great model for his plans to create a more humane immigration detention system.

But records and statistics obtained by a Houston newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) tell a much different story. Nearly one in five illegal immigrants who participated in the tracking project absconded while under supervision during the last five years, according to the records. Authorities were unable to locate nearly 20% of 6,373 illegal aliens enlisted in the program during that time. About 5% were subsequently rearrested for other matters.

ICE brags about a near perfect success rate because it simply erases those who absconded from the records as if they never existed. The Department of Homeland Security's largest investigative agency, with about 20,000 employees and 400 offices worldwide, includes only active participants when it calculates its heavily altered statistics. 

Based on the blatantly misleading data, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is working to expand the alternatives-to-detention program, which currently has about 20,000 participants. The former Arizona governor, who has a documented history of opposing immigration enforcement, will submit a proposal to Congress before year's end in hopes of accomplishing that goal.

It's all part of the Obama Administration's plan to pass a "compassionate" and "comprehensive" immigration overhaul that aims to legalize an estimated 12 million undocumented aliens. The legislation is currently being drafted by the chairman of a key congressional task force, Illinois Democrat Luis Gutierrez, and promises to offer undocumented immigrants U.S. citizenship and humane treatment in [...]


Senators Agree to Extend Homebuyer Tax Credit

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:29 AM PDT

Senators agreed Wednesday to extend a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers and to offer a reduced credit to some repeat [...]


Seven Skills to Achieve the Life You Desire

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:24 AM PDT

Contact: Tracy McCarter, The B&B Media Group, 800-927-0517 ext 109 MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Mike is the main character in The Rest of Health, a new work of creative non-fiction by authors David and Sonya Cameron. The Rest of Health brings readers along as Mike confronts both the areas of conflict and the neglected facets of his life. Along the way, he discovers that true health is not something that can be achieved by simply producing the right numbers. Mike's journey Source: The B & B Media [...]


Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit for Taxpayers to Stop Phoenix Police Chief from Receiving Illegal Pension Benefits

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:23 AM PDT

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a taxpayer lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Pension Board, its five members, and City of Phoenix Chief of Police Jack F. Harris to stop the illegal payment of pension benefits to Chief Harris valued at approximately $90,000 per year. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit on October 28 with the Superior Court for the State of Arizona on behalf of taxpayers and residents of the City of Phoenix, including a number of active and retired members of the Phoenix Police Department.

According to Arizona law, if a retired member of the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System "subsequently becomes employed in the same position by the employer from which the member retired, the system shall not make pension payments to the retired member during the period of reemployment."

According to Judicial Watch's lawsuit, Chief Harris retired from the City of Phoenix Police Department "on or about January 19, 2007," and was subsequently rehired as "Public Safety Manager." However, Chief Harris continues to head the Phoenix Police Department. He not only uses the title of "Chief of Police," but he also wears the same uniform and has the same office at Police Headquarters as he did before his "retirement." Chief Harris is listed as "Public Safety Manager/Police Chief Jack Harris" on the Phoenix Police Department's organizational chart. Nonetheless, Chief Harris continues to take pension payments, contrary to the requirements of the law.

Judicial Watch previously requested in a letter dated August 27, 2009, that Arizona Attorney General Goddard take action to enjoin the payment of the illegal pension benefits to Chief Harris. However, Attorney General Goddard refused to take action, according to a September 26th letter from the Attorney General's Division Chief Counsel Donald Conrad. Arizona law empowers a taxpayer to institute an action if the taxpayer makes a written request to the Attorney General to institute such an action and the Attorney General fails to do so within sixty (60) days. As the sixty day period has passed without any action by the Attorney General, Judicial Watch is filing this Arizona taxpayer lawsuit to end "illegal payment of pension benefits to Chief Harris."

"Police Chief Harris' alleged double dipping is of deep concern to Arizona taxpayers who are outraged by this apparent waste of taxpayer funds. And certainly our tax-paying Phoenix law enforcement clients want to protect their pension fund. In the absence of leadership from Attorney General Goddard, Judicial Watch is happy to represent Phoenix taxpayers as they seek to enforce the rule of law against Chief Harris and the Phoenix Police Pension Board," stated Judicial Watch President Tom [...]


ServiceU Adds Social Networking Enhancements to TransactU & EventU

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

Contact: Lauren Hunter, 916-838-2184, lauren@laurenhunter.net MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- ServiceU Corporation (www.ServiceU.com) has added social networking features to its popular web-based software tools, EventU and TransactU, that allow users to share activities and involvements across social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. "We have the privilege of serving many highly innovative organizations. This is just another example of the wa Source: Lauren Hunter Public [...]


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Overall, About Two Thirds of U.S. Adults Disagree that Viewing Hardcore Adult Pornography on the Internet is ‘Morally Acceptable’ and that Such Viewing ‘Provides, Generally, Harmless Entertainment’

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 11:04 AM PDT

Contact: Robert Peters, President, Morality in Media, 212-870-3210 NEW YORK, Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Overall, 76% of U.S. adults disagree that "viewing hardcore adult pornography on the Internet is morally acceptable" and 74% disagree that "viewing hardcore adult pornography on the Internet provides, generally, harmless entertainment," according to a survey commissioned by Morality in Media and conducted by Harris Interactive. This compares with 15% who agree that such viewing is Source: Morality in [...]


Foreign Ministry ‘Forgets’ Rabin Speech Opposing Two States

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT

Foreign Ministry has released copies of several speeches delivered by Rabin but did not include his last, in which he opposed a PA [...]


UN chief: IAEA inspection of Iran nuke site a positive step

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:48 AM PDT

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed as 'a positive step' Iran's decision to allow UN nuclear inspectors access to a recently disclosed uranium enrichment plant in the Islamic [...]


EmbryoAdoption.org Adds More Web Videos to Raise Awareness about Family-Building through Embryo Donation and Adoption

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:43 AM PDT

Contact: Leisa Brug, 949-413-4447; EmbryoAdoption.org FULLERTON, Calif., Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- To raise awareness about the relatively new process of human embryo donation and adoption, the one-stop informational Web site EmbryoAdoption.org launched three new Web videos. The first video, "A True Story of Embryo Donation & Adoption," reveals a compelling story of two families brought together by their common desire to become parents. Two additional videos share embryo donation Source: Nightlight Christian [...]


Orlev to Barkat: Reconsider Busing Cuts

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:26 AM PDT

Chairman of Knesset Education C'ttee asks J'lem mayor to rethink decision to cut transport of children to [...]


Eco-nuts, al Qaeda Hate Civilization Equally

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 10:12 AM PDT

Around the globe, environmental protesters tried "a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef," according to The New York [...]


Scientology: Religious sect, or money-making cult?

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:57 AM PDT

Scientology French judges said they did not order the church offices closed because they did not want to drive Scientologists underground, where they could not be monitored.

At least five other cases involving complaints against the church are under investigation by courts around France, according to press reports. [video]

‘Assassination Turned Netanyahu into a Devil for the Left’

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:54 AM PDT

Expert says if Rabin were not assassinated, Netanyahu would have won the 1996 election handily and Rabin himself might have stopped Oslo process. [...]


Prayer Book for Rabin

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:51 AM PDT

In honor of Yitzchak Rabin Memorial Day, the Amit religious-Zionist education network has published a 15-page prayer book in memory of [...]


TV Violence against Women More Graphic, Frequent than Ever Before, PTC Says

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:48 AM PDT

Violence against women on television is being shown with increasing frequency, more graphically and in ways never before seen in TV history, according to a report by a television watchdog [...]


Judicial Watch Statement on Allegations President Obama Rewarded Party Donors with White House Perks

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:45 AM PDT

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement today in response to allegations reported by The Washington Times that during the first nine months of his administration "President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings."

"This new Obama scandal is disappointingly reminiscent of the Clintons' scheme to rent out the Lincoln Bedroom to top Democratic donors in the 1990s. In this case, however, it appears the entire White House complex is for sale in the Obama administration. A number of federal laws could have been broken by this White House fundraising program. Attorney General Holder can demonstrate his independence by appointing a special counsel to conduct an independent investigation of these serious allegations. In the meantime, the Obama White House needs to respond to our and others' requests for information about White House [...]


PublishAmerica Presents ‘Wasted’ by S.R. McDaniel

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:17 AM PDT

Contact: Shawn Street, Public Relations, 817-689-6375, pr@publishamerica.com FREDERICK, MD, Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- PublishAmerica is proud to present Wasted: 7 Days to a Lifetime Journey by S.R. McDaniel. Wasted is the story of a young man's seven-day journey of homelessness, drugs, and faith. The effects of an ugly divorce, the destruction of the family unit, and the erosion of faith produce results that lead him to a world awash in drugs and alcohol. It's set in the 1960s Source: SR [...]


New home sales unexpectedly tumble – Reuters

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:17 AM PDT


A Drop in The Wrong Bucket – The President has proposed sending $250 to every Social Security recipient – NY Times

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:17 AM PDT


White House For Sale To Donors

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 09:14 AM PDT

Keeping with the infamous Clinton tradition of selling coveted White House access for political donations, Barack Obama rewards wealthy contributors with exclusive visits, parties and other intimate activities at the executive mansion.

The deep-pocketed contributors and bundlers are being aggressively courted by the commander-in-chief and his Democratic Party to raise large sums for congressional candidates in the 2010 elections. To thank them for giving generously to his presidential campaign—and inspire them to keep the dollars flowing—Obama has promised high-dollar fundraisers VIP White House access, private briefings with advisers and invitations to important speeches.

The secret Obama deals were made public this week by a Washington D.C. newspaper that obtained internal Democratic National Committee documents, including advisory board and finance committee papers. They reveal that high-dollar fundraisers have been promised access to senior White House officials in exchange for pledges to personally donate $30,400 or to raise $300,000 for the 2010 midterm elections. 

Droves of Democratic fundraisers and donors have already been graciously thanked with special invitations to quaint White House functions, private bowling at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, special banquets and private time with the president. A couple of bundlers even caught a flick with Obama in the White House movie theater. 

Obama is hardly the only commander-in-chief to unscrupulously use the White House to raise cash, though he's the first to promise Americans he'd end the practice as part of his highly publicized change rhetoric. George W. Bush rewarded his top donors, known as "Pioneers," with overnight stays and parties.

In the 1990s Bill Clinton sold Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers and other White House perks for millions of dollars. Contributors were also ushered into the Oval Office for coffees, lunches and other meetings with the former president and First Lady and taken for rides on Air Force One. Many of those donors also gave hefty sums to Hillary's failed presidential [...]


Droughts, Floods, Climate Change and Human Responsibility

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:58 AM PDT

Contact: Dr. Joseph Chavady, 850-390-4837 MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- "Each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work" (1 Cor 3:13). Briercrest College in Canada set fire to one of its large dorm buildings. In a recent interview the Dean of Briercrest College stated that it invites students to think about creation in careful sustained ways. At the sam Source: [...]


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