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The creator of Veggie Tales posted this video. I need points to use to counter this. It's being shared by Christian friends. https://youtu.be/W4eS2E-PoGo

I was wondering if any of your churches prayed for Trump and others who have Covid. I found it interesting that mine did not. I can't remember a church not praying for a president who was in the hospital. It turned me off.

I’m considering filing for divorce. On the grounds of infidelity and betrayal — and I’m heartsick. Don’t get me wrong, I adore my husband. It’s my union with an intimate partner of more than three decades, the evangelical church, that’s in trouble.

I have a special needs daughter who excelled after going to private school. We would have loved financial help in any form to help pay for her schooling and therapy. She went from below grade level in reading in 3rd grade to above grade level in 2 years using an Orton-Gillingham based multi-sensory reading program. I would love to use her as an example of how vouchers could help students. I would live to testify about how damaging public school was to her (pulling her from recess, not remediating her reading just dumbing down the work). Any ideas how I...

I don't know what has changed in society, but I am done. The stupid protests of the last week have pushed me over. I'm going to limit my Facebook presence I really need to move out of California, but my husband has work here. I'm beginning to think the terrorist have won because they have split our nation.

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain his "Ebola czar," knowledgeable sources tell CNN. The president on Thursday signaled his openness to the idea to have one individual coordinating the entire federal response to any threat of an outbreak in the United States. "It may make sense for us to have one person ... so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more regular process just to make sure that we're crossing all the T's and dotting all the I's going forward," Obama said.

<p>Dallas police say they have assigned an officer to guard Nina Pham's dog, who was taken to a safe location on Monday, around the clock.</p>

Ray Hutchison, the husband of former U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and a power broker who played a key role in the creation of many of North Texas' most important economic engines, died at a Dallas hospital Sunday, News 8 has learned. Hutchison, who lived in Dallas with his wife, was a prominent municipal bond lawyer with the Dallas law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. Sources told News 8 that he died of a heart complication. Hutchison was 81. “Ray has been involved in virtually every major government development project of the past five decades,” said Ben Brooks, his close friend...

American pastor and missionary Thomas (Tom) Randall has been imprisoned in Manila, Philippines on allegations that an orphanage he and his wife founded in the country has been operating as a front for human trafficking and that dozens of poor children living at the facility had been suffering sexual abuse for years. Randall was on a mission trip in the country when state and social welfare authorities apprehended him and two workers on Jan. 12 at the Sankey Samaritan Orphanage in Lucena City, Philippines, reportedly on allegations that he had been negligent regarding alleged abuse and sex trafficking at the...

I'm requesting prayers for my family. We are having lots of medical problems. My husband had prostate cancer surgery in December. The initial reports are good, and the path report indicates they got the cancer. However, the cancer was upgraded to a stage 3 gleason of 7. He goes in for follow up testing the middle of March. In the meantime, my 15 year old daughter is having finger spasms. I thought it was going to turn out to be nothing, but last week the neurologist says it's a degenerative disease called dystonia. She's a really good flute player (only...

NBC Bay Area is showing a live raid of Occupy Oakland. The police surrounded the group and first let the protestors leave peacefully, but then they went in and started arresting people. The news is saying the occupation of Oakland is over.

I just got 3 spam e-mails on my Free Republic E-mail. I don't know how to contact the moderators and not sure what to do about it. Anyone else have this happen, and what did you do about it? Thanks!!

A team of advanced math and science students at San Jose's Valley Christian High School has plenty of reason to be excited. Their experiment aboard the International Space Station was turned on Friday, and they're starting to get batches of data and photographs. They also received the first video on Monday of their module as Space Station Commander Scott Kelly was checking it out. The project is trying to determine whether plant-based food can be grown to sustain astronauts during their lengthy space missions. So far, everything is working perfectly.

I need some help and I thought freepers could help. My daughter has low vitamin d due to anti-seizure medication she is taking. We are giving her 4000 IU of D3 every, but her levels have only gone from 19-24 (under 30 is deficient), and we've been supplementing for over a year. Our pediatrician is not sure what to do. My daughter is also symptomatic of low Vitamin D. This past year she has gotten lots of colds, her allergies are worse, and her problems with asthma are significantly worse. I know there have been lots of posts about problems...

Tea party protesters fed up with government spending and mounting federal debt marked tax day Thursday with one of the largest rallies in the state, urging voters to boot out career politicians in the November elections. A crowd estimated by police at around 10,000 people — from kids to seniors, but predominantly white — descended on the Alameda County Fairgrounds to express their frustration with those in office and the recent passage of the national health care bill. ...

Former Silicon Valley congressman Tom Campbell will announce Thursday that he's dropping out of the California governor's race to run for Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat, a move that will upend both races and reverberate across the Golden State's political landscape.

Another earthquake just hit San Jose. 4th one this week. This one was not as strong as yesterday, but it was longer.

Just felt an earthquake in San Jose. It was short but strong jolt. Don't know the center or any other information yet.

Thousands of people filling the sidewalks and spilling onto Tully Road had arrived early Saturday morning to receive one of 5,500 doses of coveted swine flu vaccine. "There's no way there's enough," said George Reis, who was helping with crowd control. "They keep coming."

Just had an earthquake in San Jose. It was small, but the 2nd one this week.