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“We shall break the cross and spill the wine ... God will (help) Muslims to conquer Rome ... (May) God enable us to slit their throats, and make their money and descendants the bounty of the mujahideen,”

A family friend is trapped in Lebanon.

TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea fired two missiles on Wednesday, Japanese NHK television reported. NHK said one missile landed in the Japan Sea 600 km (370 miles) from the Japanese mainland. Shortly afterwards it quoted the Japanese Defense Ministry as saying North Korea had fired a second missile.

WASHINGTON — The Senate sidetracked sweeping immigration legislation Friday, leaving in doubt prospects for passing a bill offering the hope of citizenship to millions of men, women and children living in the United States illegally.

Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions: 1)What would you do? 2)What would you do if you were black? Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.

A fallen Army serviceman from Mobile has come home. A plane carrying the body of 26 year old Army Specialist Steven Ray Givens arrived at Mobile Regional Airport Thursday night. Givens died in a firefight with insurgents in Iraq on Mother's Day.

Kathleen Faircloth-Smith fights back tears as she recounts the last moments she spent with her son Bradley before he died. "My last weekend at Camp Lejeune before he left for Iraq will fill my heart for a long time."

KERRY: Thank you very much Well, again, the president didn't answer the question. I'll answer it straight to America. I'm not going to appoint a judge to the Court who's going to undo a constitutional right, whether it's the First Amendment, or the Fifth Amendment, or some other right that's given under our courts today — under the Constitution. And I believe that the right of choice is a constitutional right.

As usual the media got it wrong. This little girl if a very good friend of our family - my daughter in particular. She is in very critical condition in USA's Womens and Childrens Hospital. My wife just spoke with her mom and it is unknown it Tashina will survive. She has very severe head trauma and the doctors are running out of options to get the swelling under control. Nothing has worked yet, and she may not make it through the day. She does not know that her Dad dies in the crash. PLEASE break out the prayer PING...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A defiant Saddam Hussein rejected charges of war crimes and genocide against him in a court appearance Thursday, telling a judge "this is all theater, the real criminal is Bush."

(AgapePress) - A Christian attorney says the numerous anti-family rulings by activist judges of late would not be happening if Christians had not sat on the sidelines for so long.

Working through its consulates in the United States, the Mexican government is waging a war of subversion against our nation — with the silent complicity of Washington. “It breaks my heart to see what’s happening here,” lamented 47-year-old Utah native Alex Segura to THE NEW AMERICAN. For more than 10 years, Segura resided in California, watching in disbelief as large portions of that state were effectively reclaimed by Mexico through rampant illegal immigration. “Now I’m seeing the same thing happening here,” he observes. “We see very militant people, allied with the Mexican government, and supported by political leaders in this...

A confrontation between a West Mobile man and a sheriff's deputy turned deadly this afternoon. Investigators say the deputy shot 41 year old Jimmy Booth in Booth's front yard. It happened on Peachtree Avenue around three o'clock. Investigators say Mobile County Chief Deputy Mark Barlow fatally shot booth after Booth charged Barlow with two knives. But neighbors question whether lethal force was necessary. "You don't go to a gun fight with a knife, and it seem like they could have shot him in the knees, they could of you know why shoot him two times in the chest," says neighbor...

The Church Gossip The church gossip and self-appointed arbiter of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several church members were unappreciative of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being drunk after she saw his pickup truck parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She commented to George and others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing. George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked...

<p>You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper there an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.</p>

(MOBILE, Ala.) Mar. 10 - A man is dead after Mobile police open fire in a crowded shopping center parking lot. It started around 9:30 Wednesday morning in front of the Big K-Mart on Schillinger Road near Airport Boulevard. Police say they were called because a man was driving erratically in the parking lot. When police arrived, 40-year-old Wayne Stewart was changing a tire. Officers say Stewart was bleeding and appeared very upset. When they attempted to calm him down, police say Stewart pulled out a carpet-cutter and lunged towards them. It was then that two officers shot Stewart as...

All of the 9-11 murderers had visas issued to them by officials of the State Department. Most, if not all, of those visas were granted in clear violation of … regulations and federal law. — Peter Gadiel Peter Gadiel describes himself as a lifelong Republican, but he is doing battle with the GOP’s top standard-bearers. He believes that President George W. Bush and many of the Republican leaders in Congress have sold out the American people on one of the most important issues of our day: protecting our borders against penetration by terrorists. "It is incredible that after the tragic...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats gunning for a ban on assault weapons forced down a bill preventing gun manufacturers from liability after the bill's sponsor said the amendment made the measure too unpalatable.

Subject: perspective This is a cool story. I sat in my seat of the Boeing 767 waiting for everyone to hurry and stow their carry-ons and grab a seat so we could start what I was sure to be a long , uneventful flight home. With the huge capacity and slow moving people taking their time to stuff luggage far too big for the overhead and never paying much attention to holding up the growing line behind them, I simply shook my head knowing that this flight was not starting out very well. I was anxious to get home to...

Americans have been trained well by Leftists. Relentless propaganda has created myths about American government which conceal critical facts. Seldom has this propaganda been more effective than in spinning the old lie that the United States Constitution requires that religion and government be separate. The Leftist argument is based upon the First Amendment to the Constitution, which says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...” What did this term - establishment of religion - mean? The history of the late Eighteenth Century, the period in which these words were penned, and...