JOSEPH FARAH: THE BEST WOMAN LOSTThe best man doesn't always win - not in this fallen world in which we live, anyway.
Neither does the best woman.
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PROFESSOR ALLEGES FELLOW FACULTY MEMBERS TARGET HIS VIEWS ON INTELLIGENT DESIGNA discrimination lawsuit has been launched on behalf of Dr. John Oller Jr., a professor at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette who has gained global recognition as a speaker and has authored hundreds of articles, because he has been targeted by fellow faculty members over his views on creation and intelligent design.
The case is being brought by the Alliance Defense Fund, which explained that Oller repeatedly has been damaged because of the views expressed in his public lectures and published works on communicative disorders, autism causation and intelligent design.
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GYM USES PHOTO OF NAZI DEATH CAMP AUSCHWITZ TO PROMOTE WEIGHT LOSS A Dubai gym's promotional campaign that used an image of a Nazi concentration camp has ignited a firestorm of criticism.
The picture shows train tracks leading to Auschwitz, where millions of Jews were murdered, along with the words "Kiss your calories goodbye." The tasteless ad was one in a series of 10 photos posted on Facebook.
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TIGER' WOODS' EX-WIFE ELIN NORDEGREN DEMOLISHES $12 MILLION NORTH PALM BEACH HOUSE TO BUILD NEW HOMEBought a year ago for $12.3 million, the oceanfront mansion owned by the former wife of Tiger Woods has been demolished and she is building a new house on the lot in the exclusive Seminole Landing development near North Palm Beach.
"It was a beautiful place, incredible landscaping, fantastic ocean frontage," said Realtor John True, who was at the house on Halloween for a charity event after work had begun.
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CHURCH PUTS THE SPIRIT IN WEIGHT LOSSLolly Marzulli is making healthier choices these days, thanks to her church family at Trinity United Church of Christ.
The Akron, Ohio, congregation is encouraging its members to participate in a health initiative in partnership with Western Reserve Hospital of Summa Health System. The 15-week program, called Trinity Trimmers, was launched in January and is in its second round.
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HOT AIR BALLOON CRASH KILLS 11 IN NEW ZEALANDA hot air balloon burst into flames and crashed in New Zealand on Saturday, killing all 11 people on board in the country's worst air accident in more than three decades.
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Police said the balloon appeared to have clipped powerlines and caught fire before crashing into farmland near Carterton, about 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Wellington on New Zealand's North Island.
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FEDS GROUND 'BIRD PLANE' WHOOPING CRANES THINK IS THEIR MOTHERTen young whooping cranes and the bird-like plane they think is their mother had flown more than halfway to their winter home in Florida when federal regulators stepped in.
Now the birds and the plane are grounded in Alabama while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates whether the journey violates regulations because the pilot was being paid by a conservation group to lead the cranes on their first migration instead of working for free.
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by Adam McManus
Over the course of my 20-year career as a radio talk show host, I've met and interviewed a lot of fascinating people.
Many of them are household names which you would recognize instantly.
Tom Snyder, the 46-year-old owner of the regional Colonial Life Insurance office here in Garden Ridge, has got to be
one of the most intriguing people I've met in a long time. He's not famous. He's not a political leader. And he hasn't even written a book.
But he's spearheading a unique Christian ministry in our own backyard whose vision is as big as the Texas sky.
Tom Snyder, founder of Trinity Oaks, teaches a young boy on a Youth Hunt.
If you would like to volunteer to be a guide, call 210.447.351.
Now that he has become a successful businessman, Tom, a member of
River City Community Church here in San Antonio, has a passion to give back to the community - especially to the children in demonstrable, life-changing ways.
That's why he founded
Trinity Oaks, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. At the heart of the ministry are the
youth hunts for 10 to 16-year-olds. Throughout their time, the young people experience firearms safety instruction, target shooting and actual big game hunting.
In the process, Tom wants to give the tweens and teens access to the great outdoors, to
build their character, and to teach them the importance of responsibility in our narcissistic culture.
10 to 16-year-old boys, like the ones pictured above on a Trinity Oaks Youth Hunt develop self-confidence, an appreciation of God's creation and connect with the volunteer hunting guides.
"Our goal with youth is three-fold. First, we want to teach kids that hunting is not just about 'killing animals', but also about building relationships and enjoying
God's majestic outdoors. Second, we want to promote
our country's hunting heritage to future generations," said Tom Snyder.
"Third and most importantly, we want to show children of all ages that they have value and let them know there are people who care about them, people willing to listen to them and mentor them. We have found
you can really reach a child and make a difference in his life just by sitting next to a campfire and listening to what he has to say."
During the 2010/2011 hunting season alone, Tom personally acted as the lead field guide for every one of the
20 youth hunts attended by 85 young people, 53 of whom were first-time hunters. Typically, each hunt is comprised of 3-5 youngsters along with their fathers and some volunteer guides. Each youth is assigned to an adult.
Their goal for the upcoming
2011/2012 hunting season is to have
30 youth hunts attended
by 100 kids and 75 first-time children hunters.
Amazingly, Trinity Oaks covers every single expense
including the cost of transportation, the lease of the land, the hunting license fees as well as the food, lodging and the mounting of the child's wildgame trophy.
All the
meat is processed for free by volunteers, ground up and frozen into family packs. It's then
distributed to needy families and homeless shelters throughout San Antonio as well as
orphanages in Mexico.
ACTION STEPS FOR ADAM'S ARMY:
1. If you would like to suggest a boy or girl between the ages of 10 and 16 to
participate in a future Trinity Oaks youth hunt, please
call 210.447.0351, and tell them you are a McManus subscriber, or
email.
2. If you would like to volunteer to become a guide or firearms trainer for some of the
youth hunts, please
call 210.447.0351 and tell them you are a McManus subscriber or
e-mail. 3. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Trinity Oaks to ensure that the
Youth Hunts and Wounded Warrior Hunts continue, donate on-line here. The cost of sending one underprivileged kid on a Christian Youth Hunt is $1,200. And now, thanks to the generosity of one sponsor,
anything that you give up to $100,000 will be doubled.
So,
if you give $150 today,
your donation will be doubled to $300 and fund one-quarter of the $1,200 cost for one kid to participate in this life-changing ministry.
You can also make a
tax-deductible donation by check made out to "Trinity Oaks." Send it to: Tom Snyder, Trinity Oaks, 9385 Miller Lane, San Antonio, Texas 78266.
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SAN FRAN ASSEMBLYWOMAN GETS PROBATION ON SHOPLIFTING CHARGE; BLAMES TUMORA state assemblywoman accused of shoplifting at a Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco's Union Square pleaded no contest Friday to a misdemeanor charge and her attorney said a benign brain tumor might have led to the incident.
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CAST OF FILM ABOUT KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN GROWS AS REPUBLICANS CLAIM SECRETS LEAKED TO FILM-MAKING TEAMKathryn Bigelow is firming up the cast for her high-profile film about the killing of Osama bin Laden as Republican politicians in the US continue to worry at claims that president Barack Obama's administration leaked details about May's special operations mission to the film-making team.
The Wrap reports that Bigelow has signed Joel Edgerton for a major role and is in talks with Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong and Edgar Ramirez. Previously announced members of what is shaping up to be a stellar cast include Tom Hardy, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce.
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STUNG BY FBI, PERVERTED STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY IN CHILD PORN CASEThe Department of State diplomatic security officer recently snared in an undercover FBI child pornography investigation yesterday pleaded guilty to a single felony count, pursuant to a deal struck with federal prosecutors.
By copping to transporting child porn, James Cafferty, 45, now faces a mandatory minimum prison term of five years (though a judge could sentence him to up to 20 years in custody). Cafferty, who most recently was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in London, is seen in the mug shot at right.
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DAVID LIMBAUGH: DEMOCRATS SHOW NO WILLINGNESS TO TACKLE SPENDING MADNESSPresident Obama is calling for dramatic defense cuts that could threaten our national survival while obstructing structural reforms to our entitlement programs that are essential for our national financial survival.
It just doesn't get much worse than this.
President George W. Bush attempted in good faith to reform Social Security, and Democrats savaged him.
Rep. Paul Ryan proposed a comprehensive financial plan that would, as painlessly as possible, restore national fiscal sanity, and Obama and his Democrats have misrepresented the plan (saying it would end Medicare) and used class warfare and fear-mongering to kill it in the cradle.
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MCCAIN: IRAQ 'UNRAVELING' UNDER OBAMA PULLOUTArizona Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain says President Obama has placed the United States in "great peril" with his policy on troop withdrawals in Iraq and Afghanistan.
McCain charges in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV that the pullout of all U.S. troops from Iraq was politically motivated to please his liberal base.
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VIRGINIA SCHOOL ACCUSED OF MAKING STUDENTS PERFORM PRO-OCCUPY SONG
A Charlottesville-area elementary school has been accused of making students sing a pro-Occupy Wall Street movement song.
Written and performed in October as part of the Kid Pan Alley group at Albemarle County schools, "Part of the 99" has resulted in a backlash from parents nationwide, and has given the foundation reason to train its facilitators to steer students away from controversial subject matter in their songs.
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PAT BOONE: 1 CONSERVATIVE'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONSI'm a deeply committed conservative. And not just politically; I'm just as conservative in my moral, spiritual and cultural convictions. Always have been, going back to my earliest memories, coming of age in Tennessee.
So, as I gaze into the coming year, convinced we as a people are poised at a literal do-or-die crossroads in our destiny, I feel the need to make some serious personal resolutions. And I hope that every real American conservative, whether Democrat, Republican or independent, will join me in these demands of ourselves as citizens.
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IS THIS HOW OBAMA WIN WILL BE GUARANTEED?A mysteriously funded, highly organized effort to secure a place on the 2012 presidential election ballot for a third party candidate has ties to President Obama and top Democrats, WND has learned.
The group, calling itself Americans Elect, or AE, seems designed to appear like a massive, grassroots effort involving millions of citizens acting to draft a third party candidate.
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ELIGIBILITY APPEAL SEEKS LEVEL ELECTION PLAYING FIELDA man who was on the American Independent Party's presidential ticket in California in 2008 as well as a certified elector for the party have asked a full panel of a federal appeals court to hear their claim that Barack Obama wasn't qualified to be president, stacking the election unfairly against qualified candidates.
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SHERIFF JOE TO ERIC HOLDER: 'PROVE IT!'Arpaio willing to go to federal court to vindicate his department
Maverick Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is challenging the Obama administration's Department of Justice to present evidence to back its charge that his office is discriminating against Hispanics.
"Prove it," Arpaio said in remarks directed at Holder in an interview with WND.
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WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES PAY INCREASE FOR FEDERAL WORKERSThe White House will propose a 0.5 percent pay increase for civilian federal employees as part of its 2013 budget proposal, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the plans.
The modest across-the-board pay jump would be the first increase for federal workers since before a two-year freeze began in late 2010. Raises for within-grade step increases and promotions have continued during the freeze.
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543,812 UNION WORKERS RECEIVE OBAMACARE WAIVERSLabor unions continued to receive the overwhelming majority of waivers from the president's health care reform law since the Obama administration tightened application rules last summer.
Documents released in a classic Friday afternoon news dump show that labor unions representing 543,812 workers received waivers from President Barack Obama's signature legislation since June 17, 2011.
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SHERIFF ARPAIO ANNOUNCES RE-ELECTION BID IN ARIZONAMost people know him simply as "Sheriff Joe" - the self-proclaimed toughest lawman in the United States. And, apparently, the five-term boss of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix wants another four years.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio formally announced his re-election campaign Thursday, boasting a record $6 million war chest and promising to "continue to protect the citizens of Maricopa County by enforcing all the laws." That would include immigration law that has gotten the sheriff and his department crosswise with the Justice Department in Washington.
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MAN BROKE INTO ELDERLY BROOKLYN WOMAN'S HOME, STAYED FOR THE HOLIDAYSAn elderly woman from Brooklyn who has lived alone for years suddenly found herself with a roommate. A stranger slipped into her apartment while she was away for the holidays, and made himself right at home.
The freeloader not only broke into 82-year-old Joyce King's East Flatbush apartment, he moved in, eating in one of her chairs, watching TV, setting up an XBox, all while King was visiting family between Christmas and New Year's.
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33-YEAR-OLD ACCUSED OF CLIMBING THROUGH WINDOW, HAVING SEX WITH 13-YEAR-OLDLOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- It's a story straight out of any parent's worst nightmare. Indiana State Police say a 33-year-old man, Jeremy Mullins texted a 13-year old girl to come see her.
Police say she let him in through a window in her Scottsburg, Indiana home and they had unprotected sex. Sgt. Jerry Goodin of Indiana State Police says, "At this point, it really doesn't matter if it was locked or open, if the front door was locked or open. He has no business going in there sneaking into the home."
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IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO TOUR US FOES IN LATIN AMERICAIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under increasing pressure from debilitating Western economic sanctions, Sunday begins a tour of Latin America aimed at shoring up ties with his few remaining allies.
Ahmadinejad will meet fellow US foe and firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on a four-nation trip that coincides with rising international concern over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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BRITISH NAVY SENDS ITS MIGHTIEST SHIP TO TAKE ON THE IRANIAN SHOW OF FORCE IN THE GULFIran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, which served as the conduit for 17 millions barrels of oil every day last year.
Naval commanders believe the deployment of HMS Daring, a Type 45 destroyer, will send a significant message to the Iranians because of the firepower and world-beating technology carried by the warship.
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