Conservative lawmakers in Congress are pressing President Bush to issue an executive order that they say would protect freedom-of-speech rights of military chaplains.
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Louis Farrakhan’s “Millions More Movement” explains on its website: “It’s time for our leadership to stop acting solely on behalf of our churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and organizations. It is time for us as leaders to come together and begin to think, plan and act on behalf of the whole of our people.”
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WASHINGTON â While Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers presided over a major Texas law firm, the company was forced to pay more than $30 million to settle claims with investors cheated out of millions by two clients and came under federal scrutiny for its role in a tax-shelter case.
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(AgapePress) - A white lawmaker in Tennessee has been barred from becoming a member of the state’s Black Caucus. State representative Stacey Campfield says he attempted to join the black political group in order to better serve the large minority constituency in his precinct. However, the Knoxville Republican says a leader of the Black Caucus [...]
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(CBS) This CBS News Poll finds an American public increasingly pessimistic about the economy, the war in Iraq, the overall direction of the country, and the president. Americans’ outlook for the economy is the worst it has been in four years. Most expect the price of gas to rise even further in the next few [...]
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NEW YORK - Though decried by many gay-rights leaders, âoutingâ â the practice of exposing secretly gay public figures â is expanding into new terrain as Internet bloggers target congressional staffers, political strategists, even black clergy whose sermons and speeches contain anti-gay rhetoric.
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WASHINGTON - With support across party lines, chief justice nominee John Roberts was confirmed Thursday as President Bushâs selection to replace the late William H. Rehnquist.
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Addressing a California ballot initiative, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would “kill” anyone who took one of his daughters to have an abortion without notifying him.
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WASHINGTON â Americans who don’t believe in God have decided it’s time they had a lobbyist in the nation’s capital. Their new advocate describes herself as a “soft, fuzzy atheist.”
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Thursday that the Justice Department will fight to overturn a federal court ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance can’t be recited in public schools because it contains a reference to God.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush took responsibility on Tuesday for any failures in the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina that struck two weeks ago and acknowledged the storm exposed deficiencies at all levels of government four years after the September 11 attacks.
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For the better part of two years, the word coming out of the Bush White House was that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a female CIA officer’s identity and that whoever did would be fired. WASHINGTON (AP) — But White House press secretary Scott McClellan would not repeat [...]
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“Derrick’s bravery cost him his life, and all Americans honor him.” — President BushWACO, Texas (AP) — President Bush on Saturday praised Minnesota high school security guard Derrick Brun for saving countless students by bravely confronting the teenage gunman who shot and killed him.“Derrick’s bravery cost him his life, and all Americans honor him,” Bush [...]
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Falls from 52% rating in a poll taken last weekWASHINGTON President Bush’s approval rating has fallen to 45%, the lowest point of his presidency, according to a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll.The finding, in a poll of 1,001 adults Monday through Wednesday, is a dip from 52% in a poll taken last week. Bush’s previous [...]
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While the role of conservative ministers and black Republicans has risen sharply in the past five years under President Bush pushing his agenda for a social and moral values movement, black Democrats are showing signs that the heat is on them.Black Democratic leaders are openly talking about the importance of faith, opening the door to [...]
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“He would be a clarion voice in the United States Senate to keep America on the principles that our Founding Fathers gave us” — Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) President Lou Sheldon
A prominent charismatic pastor is considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2006. Bishop Keith Butler, pastor of one of Detroit’s largest churches, Word of [...]
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) refusing to comply with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit.WASHINGTON The nation’s largest civil rights group is refusing to turn over documents for an Internal Revenue Service investigation into allegedly improper political activity, claiming the probe is politically motivated.In a letter sent to the IRS Friday, [...]
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St. Louis School Board member Bill Haas, who also is running for mayor, says in a Web log that loneliness, depression and financial problems have led him to consider suicide. Our prayer is that many people would respond to Bill in his desperate cry for help. May God bless him to have [...]
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Transsexual men fight for right to use women’s restrooms. Discrimination or an invasion of privacy? (CNSNews.com) - An anti-discrimination proposal before the Alameda County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors would allow men to go into women’s bathrooms, a conservative group is warning.The Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a pro-family group, is urging concerned citizens [...]
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Jenna’s gesture shocks those who recall it meaning devil worshipJenna Bush’s Longhorn salute during her father’s inauguration festivities caused a stir in Norway, suggesting that Austin and Oslo are two cities separated by the same hand gesture.“Sjokkhilsen fra Bush datter,” read an outraged headline on Norwegian news Web site Nettavisen. Translated: “Shock greeting from Bush [...]
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