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Warren H. Carroll, Founding and First President of Christendom College and Chairman of its History Department for its first twenty-five years, died on Sunday, July 17. Aged 79, he received last rites prior to his death in his home. Carroll was in a weakened condition having suffered several strokes in the last several years and was recovering from pneumonia. Cardiopulmonary failure was the official cause of death. A native of Maine, Carroll was a summa cum laude history graduate of Bates College, achieved an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, and attended law school in 1962-64. Between 1955...

There appears to be more fallout as a result of the recent remarks made by GoProud Chairman Chris Barron in which he referred to ACU Foundation Chairman Cleta Mitchell as a “nasty bigot.” Barron later apologized for the remark after raising the ire of newly selected ACU chair Al Cardenas who indicated the possibility that the organization may distance themselves from GoProud. Said Cardenas: “I have been disappointed with their website and their quotes in the media, taunting organizations that are respected in our movement and part of our movement, and that’s not acceptable. And that puts them in a...

NEW YORK -- The NFL fined the New York Jets $100,000 on Thursday for violating league rules when assistant coach Sal Alosi tripped Miami's Nolan Carroll on the sideline during a punt return earlier this month. The Jets were fined because Alosi "placed players in a prohibited area on the sideline to impede an opposing team's special teams players and gain a competitive advantage." The NFL called it a competitive violation as well as a dangerous tactic. Alosi and special teams coach Mike Westhoff also have been cited for public comments accusing other teams of employing similar tactics. "We will...

LAKELAND | Jennifer Carroll has the distinction of being the first black female Republican elected to the state legislature. She made history again Wednesday when she became the state's first black lieutenant governor.

Last Modified: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 11:49 p.m. LAKELAND | Jennifer Carroll has the distinction of being the first black female Republican elected to the state legislature. She made history again Wednesday when she became the state's first black lieutenant governor. Florida's new governor, Rick Scott, called Carroll, 51, a "history-maker and a barrier-breaker" when he announced her as his running mate in September. And while Adrienne Frazier, a teacher at Southwest Middle School in Lakeland, is a Democrat, she agrees that Carroll is an inspiration. "As a black woman, it makes me confident to see someone who is...

<p>Black Democratic leaders from Broward said Republican governor candidate Rick Scott made a smart move by picking a black candidate, state Rep. Jennifer Carroll of Jacksonville, as his running mate.</p> <p>“I don’ t think the Democratic Party can afford to sleep on Jennifer Carroll. They do so at their own peril. She is extremely articulate. She is a seasoned legislator. And she is knowledgeable about the issues,” Thurston said. “Her conservative credentials align with the black church in a lot of regards.”</p>

State Rep. Jennifer Carroll will be announced as Rick Scott’s running mate this morning during a news conference in Jacksonville. A source close to the campaign confirmed to The Times-Union Wednesday night that Carroll, of Fleming Island, is the choice. Neither Scott nor Carroll could be reached for comment. The news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. outside Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Carroll is a Navy veteran and has represented parts of Clay and Duval Counties since 2003. Many politicians from around the area say that politically, the 51-year-old lawmaker makes sense as Scott’s running mate. “I just really think...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Sources told Channel 4 that state Rep. Jennifer Carroll and 20-year military veteran is Rick Scott's choice as number two on the Republican ticket for governor of Florida.

This exclusive interview with Dave Carroll is being published simultaneously with the release and posting of his third and final video in the “United Breaks Guitars” trilogy. The video will appear in this Interview upon its posting on Youtube Tuesday evening. With the posting of this final video of the trilogy, I thought our readers might like to get to know more about the man behind the music. Dave was kind enough to give me an exclusive interview for Grand Rants. I spoke with him following his appearance on “The View” in NYC and as he prepared for a several...

One of the top videos on YouTube last year was “United Breaks Guitars.” The catchy country tune chronicled the misfortune suffered by Carroll, whose guitar was broken by United Airline baggage handlers while he was on a flight from Nova Scotia to a show in Nebraska. The first two videos in the trilogy have been viewed nearly 10 million viewers and have made Carroll one of the fastest rising stars on the music scene today.

Good for thought herein: This month, in 1790, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States achieved an important milestone: the installation of the first bishop, in the first American see of Baltimore. Father John Carroll’s consecration — fittingly, on the Feast of the Assumption, 1790 — marked the Church’s transition from infancy to adolescence in our country. More than being mere Catholic history trivia, Carroll’s tenure as bishop provides important lessons, especially in the realm of civic engagement, for Catholics today. But will we, the holy mother Church’s laity and clergy, continue to ignore these principles of living our...

MAS' Esam Omeish Seeks Virginia Office Campaign Mum on MAS Ties, Radical Omeish Speeches IPT News May 1, 2009 The last time the public got a good look at Esam Omeish, he was resigning from a Virginia immigration panel, claiming that the posting of videos showing him praising Palestinians who chose "the jihad way" to liberate their land was part of a smear campaign against him. Now Omeish is diving into the deep end of smear campaigns, offering himself as a candidate for a partisan legislative seat in Northern Virginia. Omeish is among four Democrats vying to win their party's...

(last paragraph) When that consensus assumes, for example, that World War II was "good," or that the United States arms build-up "won" the Cold War, it protects the militarized economy, the status of the military-industrial elite, the iron lock of incumbents on office. Any reinterpretation of this salvation history, it is feared, would undermine the economy, disempower the elite, unsettle politics - and deprive the citizenry of meaning in an otherwise meaningless world. Voters may want change, but not change at this level. Yet "national security" is bogus - part ghost story with which the nation scares itself at bedtime,...

Late Tuesday night, ESPN.com, citing multiple sources, reported that Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is pursuing USC coach Pete Carroll according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to the story, the Falcons "might be willing to grant Carroll far-reaching responsibilities." The Falcons on Tuesday said they were extending their simultaneous searches for a new head coach and general manager. On Tuesday, the Falcons were granted permission to interview Tennessee defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz. That interview is slated for this week. But the team was denied permission to talk to New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo.

Jill Carroll's captors appear to be involved in some of the most high-profile kidnappings of Westerners in Iraq during the past two years. A Monitor investigation - including interviews with other kidnap victims, US, Iraqi, and Italian investigators, as well as court testimony in Iraq - ties her abductors, or others close to them, to at least five kidnapping incidents, including Ms. Carroll: [...] The strongest evidence suggests that the same group that took Carroll also abducted Ms. Sgrena, the Italian journalist. In early March, Abu Rasha, the leader of one of the three cells handling Carroll's kidnapping, went into...

The insurgents allowed her to conduct occasional interviews about their organization in which she learned that they belonged to an insurgent council, including members of al Qaeda. "The main captor during all these interviews I would do was anxious to tell me about this. He told me his name was Abdullah Rashid," she said. "He said he had helped form this council … in Iraq that brought together some of the main Sunni insurgent groups, and he was the head of it. One of those groups in that council was al Qaeda and Zarqawi." She was held from Jan. 7...

At the beginning of Jill Carroll's 82-day captivity by Al-Qaeda terrorists she recalls asking for a quick death by pistol rather than beheading. "I don't want the knife", said Carroll to her kidnappers. She feared that they would execute her when she found out they were to use her in a second propaganda video. Her pleas seemed to have confused them, because they said they didn't plan on killing her. She said in an 11-part series at the Christian Science Monitor where she is a staff writer, how terrified she was during her captivity. She says that they were very...

CERTAIN she would be murdered by the men who kidnapped her on a Baghdad street and fatally shot her translator, American journalist Jill Carroll begged her captors at one point to use a gun to end her life rather than a knife. "Promise me you will use this gun to kill me by your own hand. I don't want that knife, I don't want the knife, use the gun," Carroll remembered crying hysterically to the Iraqi man who was watching her with a 9mm pistol at his side. For the first time since she returned to the United States in...

CAMP HABBANIYAH - Jill Carroll ‘s kidnappers are now locked up. Marines captured four members of an insurgent kidnapping cell responsible for the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor. Marines of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment captured and detained three members May 19, in a small village west of Fallujah. A fourth member of the same kidnapping cell was detained later by Marines of 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment. Both battalions operated as part of Regimental Combat Team 5. Carroll was held hostage by insurgent captors for 82 days between January and March...

LONDON (AFP) - An Irish journalist working for the British newspaper The Guardian has been kidnapped by armed men in Iraq, the London-based newspaper said. "Rory Carroll was... kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad. Carroll, 33, an experienced foreign correspondent, had been conducting an interview in the city with a victim of Saddam Hussein's regime. He had been preparing an article for today's (Thursday's) paper on the opening of the former dictator's trial yesterday," the paper said in its online edition. "Carroll, who was accompanied by two drivers and a translator, was confronted by the gunmen as he left the house...

The freed American hostage Jill Carroll arrived home after 83 days of captivity in Iraq yesterday - to a barrage of criticism from Right-wingers who accused her of showing too much sympathy for her kidnappers. But after an emotional reunion with her family in Boston, the 28-year-old freelance correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor spoke of her loathing for the gunmen who threatened her with death "many times" during her ordeal. She described her captors as "criminals at best" and denied allegations that she had refused to answer questions from the American military. She also disavowed a video-taped statement made...

Former hostage Jill Carroll strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened. In a video, recorded before she was freed and posted by her captors on an Islamist Web site, Carroll spoke out against the U.S. military presence. But Carroll said the recording was made under threat. Her editor has said three men were pointing guns at her at the time. "During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video. They told me I would be released if I...

Seems Jill Carroll is refusing to talk to authorities concerning her captives. She already has been caught lying in her post release interview where she says she was not threatened, since she was on video with AK- 47's trained on her head. Stokholm syndrome???? I'm not buying it...how about you?

Freed US hostage Jill Carroll praised Iraq's insurgents and predicted their victory in an interview conducted by her captors before they released her today, according to a video posted on the internet. The footage, which could not be independently verified, appeared to have been filmed shortly before the freelance journalist was released today nearly three months after being kidnapped in Baghdad. "Did you think the American army or the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) would save you at any time?" a muffled male voice asked Ms Carroll in accented English. "Sometimes I thought maybe that they might come, they might...

Breaking - Jill Carrol released in Iraq - more to come

BAGHDAD, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. forces hunting kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll are raiding Iraqi homes in a race against time but, as with much of their counter-insurgency war, face the dilemma that their tactics can foster resentment. Operations designed to take her captors by surprise have angered those Iraqis who say troops have blasted their way into their homes, put sacks over their heads and detained their relatives in the search for Carroll, who was abducted on Jan 7. One such raid, shortly after the reporter was seized, targeted one of Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosques; the sight of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The mother of an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq appealed for her daughter's life on Thursday, the eve of a deadline set by her captors for the release of all women in U.S. custody in the country. "Taking vengeance on my innocent daughter, who loves Iraq and its people, will not create justice," Mary Beth Carroll said in a message aimed at the gunmen holding Jill Carroll, 28. Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East joined intensifying calls for mercy. But as new video images emerged Thursday of the pale, dark-haired woman surrounded...

Iraq's ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq are to be released early.                                Hostage takers demanded on                  Tuesday that women be freed The six will be freed because there is insufficient evidence to charge them, a justice ministry spokesman said. The US forces have refused to confirm the releases, but say they would not be based on any operational activities. The group holding US journalist Jill Carroll has said she will die unless all Iraqi women prisoners are freed. The status of prisoners held by coalition...

Outgoing, gung-ho and gregarious. As the picture of kidnapped reporter Jill Carroll emerges, a school friend from her days in Ann Arbor says it's those same qualities that will help her survive. Communities in Ann Arbor and Amherst, Mass., where Carroll, 28, attended the University of Massachusetts, are struggling to come to terms with her disappearance. Carroll was freelancing for The Christian Science Monitor when she was kidnapped Saturday. She had been on her way to meet a Sunni Arab official in one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods when gunmen ambushed her car and killed her translator. U.S. and Iraqi...

BAGHDAD, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A female Western journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday and her translator killed, police said. They said she was on her way to a meeting with a Sunni Arab leader when a car carrying an unknown number of gunmen blocked her vehicle in the Adel district near Malik bin Anas mosque in west Baghdad. The gunmen shot dead her driver, an Iraqi journalist who also worked as her translator, abandoned their car and drove off in hers. There has been a spate of kidnappings of Westerners in Iraq over the past few months...

Poem penned by U.S. Founding Father discovered in English schoolBy Simon Caldwell Catholic News Service LONDON (CNS) -- A poem written by one of the U.S. Founding Fathers has been discovered in the archives of a Catholic high school in England. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, one of the signers of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, wrote the poem in Latin in 1754 when he was a student in his final year of high school in Saint-Omer, France. It was found in the archives of Stonyhurst College in Clitheroe, England, by Maurice Whitehead, a professor at the University of Wales, Swansea,...

All deserve second chance, presumption of innocence Gregory Kane May 11, 2005 CHARLES CARROLL was convicted of second-degree murder in 1995 and paroled in 2001. Four years later, after being hired to teach at Community Initiatives Academy in East Baltimore, he has been charged with rape and sexual abuse. The predictable shouts of protest have been heard. The questions have been raised. The most prominent one is: How can a school, even a private one, trust a convicted murderer to be around children? In 1996 Anthony Tyrone Mills fatally stabbed my brother, Tyrone Kane. In 1997 Mills was sentenced to...

NEW YORK - Two 16-year-old girls living in New York have been detained since last month on immigration violations amid concerns they were potential recruits for a suicide bomb plot that never materialized, officials said Thursday. The girls — one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea — were picked up by authorities on March 24 and put in a detention center, the officials said. Details about the case, first reported Thursday by The New York Times, were sketchy, and a supporter of one of the girls claimed the accusations were false. The Times cited a government document that said the FBI...

A WASTE OF TIME By MICHAEL PATRICK CARROLL New Jersey does not suffer from a property tax crisis; it suffers from a spending crisis. More accurately, we suffer from a political irresponsibility crisis. In Abbott v. Burke, our Supreme Court short circuited democracy, asserting that the constitution compels certain levels of spending, regardless of what the people, acting through their elected representatives, prefer. As a result, some people get to spend money on themselves, and send the bills to others, who have no choice in the matter. Obviously, spending has exploded, and the beneficiaries demand ever more, to which demands...

Church greets Muslims in holy monthThe Catholic Church in Australia has marked the Islamic holy month of Ramadan by sending prayerful greetings to Muslims. It reaffirmed a shared commitment to peace, built on the four pillars of truth, justice, love and freedom. The local greetings coincide with a message to all Muslims throughout the world from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. President of the Pontifical Council Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald said it seemed appropriate to centre this year's message on the need to construct peace, based on Pope John XXIII's landmark letter on peace, issued 40 years ago...

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State Rep. Jennifer Carroll on Saturday told a joke about U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. Carroll quiet in wake of joke Democrats have raised a stink, called for apology after crack about Clinton. By STEPHEN MAJORS The Times-Union State Rep. Jennifer Carroll, R-Green Cove Springs, is not commenting further after defending a joke she made Saturday about U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Miami Beach, Carroll said Clinton was visited by the ghosts of Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. According to The Associated Press, the joke had Clinton asking each president what she could do...

<p>TALLAHASSEE -- On April 7 at the state kickoff for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Tallahassee, state Rep. Jennifer Carroll took her seat next to some of the most prominent Republicans from across the state and country.</p> <p>Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, Attorney General Charlie Crist, Commissioner Charles Bronson and Carole Jean Jordan, chairwoman of the Republican Party of Florida, joined Carroll in the backdrop of the campaign event.</p>

Columnist: Davis attacked female workers Accuses L.A. Times of bias after last-minute dish on Schwarzenegger Posted: October 6, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Accusing the Los Angeles Times of tabloid tactics by publishing unsubstantiated allegations about Arnold Schwarzenegger on the eve of the California recall election, a columnist said the paper has been sitting on information Gov. Gray Davis is an "office batterer." Los Angeles-based political commentator Jill Stewart, a Democrat, said Davis "has attacked female members of his staff, thrown objects at subservients and launched into red-faced fits, screaming the f-word until staffers cower." Weeks ago, the...

The United States will next week appoint a former head of Shell Oil to run Iraq's oil industry, it was reported today. "The US Government is setting up Iraq's oil industry to run much like an American corporation, with a chief executive and management team vetted by US officials who would answer to a multinational board of advisers," the Wall Street Journal Europe reported.The advisory board would be chaired by Philip J Carroll, a former chief executive of Shell Oil, the US unit of the Dutch-British oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell, the newspaper reported.Mr Carroll would work closely with an Iraqi...

<p>''THE NOVEL is a Protestant art form, requiring the free play of the mind,'' George Orwell wrote. ''There are few Catholic novelists who are any good, and most of them are bad Catholics.'' Orwell did not know the work of Walker Percy or Flannery O'Connor. I'll leave assessments of my own novels to others, but in truth I can't read that phrase ''bad Catholic'' without a shudder. What is a bad Catholic anyway?</p>

Perhaps you remember George W. Bush's innocent use of the word "crusade" six months ago, and perhaps you recall the furor it provoked. Commentators around the globe quickly pounced: Why, the word is a provocation, they insisted. It will rattle Muslim moderates and confirm the worst fears of the radicals who hate us so. There are two things to keep in mind, however, about Bush's use of "crusade": He meant it in the familiar secular sense, not as a synonym for holy war. And he never used it again. Now comes Yasser Arafat, one week ago today, exhorting Palestinians to...