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This article is a part of a collection of essays written recently by Dr. Horton after his interview on 60 Minutes which aired on October 14, 2007. "Name it, claim it"; the "health-and-wealth" or "prosperity gospel" : these are nicknames for a heresy that in many respects is only an extreme version of perhaps the most typical focus of American Christianity today more generally. Basically, God is there for you and your happiness. He has some rules and principles for getting what you want out of life and if you follow them, you can have what you want. Just “declare...

WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out. The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated...

Dressed in a pressed navy suit, Odell Horton Jr. entered the federal courthouse in Downtown Memphis Wednesday afternoon. For Horton, the former vice president and general counsel of Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division, his quirk of fate was unavoidable. Seven weeks ago, on May 3, President George W. Bush signed a bill adding the name of Horton's father to the Clifford Davis Federal Building on North Main. The late Odell Horton Sr. served as the first African-American on the federal bench in Memphis. But Horton wasn't visiting the building to honor his trailblazing father. He was there, under grand...

WASHINGTON -- The White House announced this morning that President Bush has signed into law a bill that changes the name of Memphis's Downtown federal building in honor of the late U.S. Dist. Judge Odell Horton. "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," Horton's widow, Evie, said on hearing the news. "I know Odell must be smiling in heaven." Horton was an assistant U.S. attorney, the Memphis hospitals and health services director, a Shelby County Criminal Court judge and president of LeMoyne-Owen College before taking the federal bench as the first African American to hold the post in Memphis. Prior to his district judgeship,...

Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division president and CEO Joseph Lee III and general counsel Odell Horton Jr. will resign effective Friday, Mayor Willie Herenton announced this morning. Herenton said he was accepting their resignations because the city-owned utility had developed a "public relations problem." He said he made the moves in order to allow MLGW to move forward. "Ratepayers deserve calm," said a solemn Herenton. The mayor earlier had rejected Lee’s offer to resign, but he was now accepting it because he had come to a "different point of view." MLGW, the mayor’s office and the City Council have...

Former Massachusetts Superior Court judge Maria Lopez has a message for her detractors -- especially the local politicians and attorneys who criticized her outspoken behavior on the bench and the sentence of parole she handed down to Charles ``Ebony" Horton for kidnapping and assaulting a child in 2000. Thank you. If there had been no public outcry over Lopez barking at prosecutors, there is a good chance that the judge would have missed the opportunity to become what she calls ``the poster child for the post-menopausal woman" as the star of ``Judge Maria Lopez," a nationally syndicated daytime court show...

THE killers of the British backpacker Katherine Horton allegedly boasted about their actions within minutes of her being beaten and raped. "Delicious, very delicious," shouted Bualoi Posit, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, as they climbed back aboard their fishing boat, until told to be quiet by the vessel's mate.

Mom got a special present the Christmas, I think, when she had the first four grandchildren around: Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss, of course. It was the perfect gift, from my sister, who knew how much Mom would enjoy reading to the kids. Many years have passed and the rascals have grown. I imagine the book ended up in Mary's pre-K collection at St. Mary's. I had forgotten about it until we took our 15 1/2 year old baby to see Seussical the Musical the other night, which blends the two Horton plots with various other Seuss characters...

Looking up at me with one of those puzzled expressions, my three-year-old son James, flanked by his siblings (seventeen-month-old triplets), queried, “Daddy, why are you still working? You said you’d play outside with me.” My reply was sharp and impatient: “I’m working on something important right now.” As soon as the words left my mouth I realized I had just told my son that keeping my word to him was less important than doing what I wanted to do. After all, it was the Lord’s work! Besides being selfish, it’s just such responses—in word or deed over time, that make...

Winston-Salem – Feb. 16 Senator Ham Horton (R-Forsyth) - CommentaryWe still don't have a Superintendent of Public Instruction. June Atkinson, the Democrat candidate, won a clear majority.  But some 11,310 votes were cast out-of-precinct.The case went to court and the court found that the law was clear: a voter must vote in his own precinct.   So the 11,310 votes were thrown out and the State Board of Elections was ordered to declare a winner without considering these votes.  Enter the Democrat majority in the State Senate, which has introduced Senate Bill 82, the effect of which would be to...

Fair use for education/discussion purposes: Yahoo! News News Home - Help AFP CIA renditions of terror suspects are 'out of control:' report Sun Feb 6, 5:57 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites)'s 'rendition' of suspected terrorists has spiralled 'out of control' according to a former FBI (news - web sites) agent, cited in a report which examined how CIA (news - web sites) detainees are spirited to states suspected of using torture. Michael Scheuer a former CIA counterterrorism agent told The New Yorker magazine "all we've done is create a nightmare," with regard...

I live in Virginia, and I had the pleasure of seeing the new Bush Campaign commercial called "PRIORITIES". This political commercial is probably the most devastating since the "Willie Horton" ads from the campaign of 1988. Check it out NOW!! The best part is that it tells the truth!! And the last line is haunting............. "Senator Kerry has his priorities. Are they yours" ?????

August 28, 2003FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Diane Schachterle (916) 444-2278or ds@racialprivacy.org CONNERLY AND NGUYEN CHASTISE LEGISLATORS FOR UNCIVIL DISCOURSEYesterday, the California Legislature convened a "hearing" to consider Proposition 54. As predicted, the hearing was nothing more than a sideshow orchestrated to allow the opponents of Proposition 54 to showcase their irresponsible fearmongering charges against the initiative. That is precisely why the chair of the American Civil Rights Coalition, Ward Connerly, refused to legitimize such an event by attending.Connerly had this to say about Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally's demeaning treatment of Kevin Nguyen, Proposition 54 proponent: "Kevin is a man of unparalleled dignity...

1941 Bismarck sunk by Royal Navy On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic near France. The German death toll was more than 2,000. On February 14, 1939, the 823-foot Bismarck was launched at Hamburg. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler hoped that the state-of-the-art battleship would herald the rebirth of the German surface battle fleet. However, after the outbreak of war, Britain closely guarded ocean routes from Germany to the Atlantic Ocean, and only U-boats moved freely through the war zone. In May 1941, the order was given for the Bismarck to break...

<p>KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Around dusk, the elephants start moving out from the Sabie River into the bush for the night.</p> <p>A big old wrinkly male with huge floppy ears leads a half dozen females, recalcitrant teens and calves across the paved road running beside the river. One of the females flaps her ears and makes a step toward a car that has gotten too close. The car speeds away.</p>

  The Very Idea Of ItBy Michael HortonTorture, pain, and (worst of all) feeling abandoned by every other creature and the Creator besides. These experiences of countless victims -- particularly during and since the Holocaust-can hardly be compared with the experiences of well-fed and even overfed consumers in highly developed democratic societies. Whereas the twentieth century is often regarded -- especially by those of us too young to remember most of it -- as a golden era of prosperity, it was also an epochal graveyard filled with the collateral damage of ideological tyrants. Adolf Hitler's "final solution" was the most...