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There is nothing in the Constitution about abortion, and the Constitution does not implicitly protect the right.

After some inquiries about Farmer Dean, who last posted seven months ago, I PMed dp0622 who has been in touch with Farmer Dean and his wife. Below is the latest msg. FARMER DEAN, WHO HAD COLON CANCER SURGERY 8 MONTHS AGO AND WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUT IN THREE DAYS SUFFERED SEPTIC SHOCK AND IT WAS TOUCH AND GO FOR A LOOONG WHILE. NOW HE’S GOOD! THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT GOING HOME!! LAST TUBE IN HIM IS FEEDING TUBE. AT ONE POINT, KIDNEYS AND LUNGS WEREN’T WORKING ON THEIR OWN AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS WERE WRONG. THIS IS A...

Evangelical broadcaster James Dobson Wednesday praised Ted Cruz's bid for the Republican presidential nomination, saying in a new television ad that the Texas senator is critical to naming more conservatives to the Supreme Court. "With Justice Scalia's death, we need a president who will defend the Constitution and nominate conservatives to the high court," Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said in endorsing Cruz as a private citizen. "I know Ted," Dobson said. "He's a Christian family man of the utmost integrity."

Arab terrorists opened fire on Tuesday night at an IDF force of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion at Turmus Aya Junction, in the Shiloh region of Samaria. The terrorists conducted a drive-by shooting against an IDF jeep, but fortunately the terrorists were unable to wound any soldiers. In response, the soldiers returned fire, killing one of the terrorists and leaving two others wounded. The wounded terrorists were arrested. The incident comes just hours after rocket warning sirens were sounded in the Gaza belt region. It was later clarified that the Iron Dome anti-missile system had accidentally identified gunfire from Gaza as...

TV evangelist Jim Bakker says don't fret, he's got everything you need to survive any disaster. His survival kits include everything from padded clothing to buckets of beans to enemas. The disgraced pastor, who served 5 years for fraud/conspiracy, has a daily TV broadcast promoting his Morningside Church – a Christian retreat and retirement community set on 600 acres of land near Branson, MO. Of course, Bakker doesn't technically own Morningside. He still owes the IRS more than $6 million in taxes he neglected to pay in the 1980s.

Many of you have known that our son, Jemians Terror, has been working in a very dangerous part of the world. Please rejoice with us because God has preserved him safely through this third tour. He is out of that dangerous place.

Our Air Force son is home safe. Thanks be to God for keeping him safe while he was in Iraq and for returning him home to us! Thanks folks for all the prayers!!!

Police focus on 3 in Vegas boy's abduction Grandfather already arrested; police say he may have stolen millions from Mexican drug cartel Associated Press Oct. 18, 2008, 10:25PM1 2 Las Vegas Review-Journal Authorities continued to scour northeastern Las Vegas in their search for Cole Puffinburger. Share Print Email Del.icio.usDiggTechnoratiYahoo! BuzzThe grandfather of a 6-year-old boy who was kidnapped from his home here was held in a Southern California jail Saturday as authorities continued to investigate his relationship with the Mexican drug dealers who allegedly kidnapped his grandson. Clemons Fred Tinnemeyer, 51, was arrested in Riverside, Calif., by FBI agents late...

LAS VEGAS – A 6-year-old boy kidnapped from a Las Vegas home by alleged drug dealers posing as policemen has been found alive in a neighborhood northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said early Sunday. The child was "in extremely good condition" and had been taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas for examination, Las Vegas police Capt. Vincent Cannito said at a news conference. "He is safe and in our custody," Cannito said. "It's a blessing this child has been found." Cole Puffinburger was recovered at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday after a caller informed detectives about a...

RIP Tammy Faye.She looked pretty bad on LKING live the other night.

Two years ago, they came with the keys and opened the door to the old Heritage Grand hotel. It smelled rotten. Ceiling tiles had fallen. Debris littered the floor. In just a few months, 333 volunteers had cleaned and renovated the hotel, said Trevor Tiessen, conference administrator for MorningStar Fellowship. MorningStar Ministries bought 52 acres of the former Heritage USA property from developer Earl Coulston, and has been working since then to renovate and restore the salvageable buildings. The group's hope is to bring new life to the land that once was home to evangelist Jim Bakker's religious empire. The...

WASHINGTON (AP) GOP officials say Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman will step down from his post in January.

From Tom, ZM's husband:Sorry for the long silence.... It has been quite a ride. On Monday 8/28 we met with ZM's oncologist to learn the results of the chest and abdomen CT scans. As I told you in my last update, all the news was good and we decided to switch to the chemo pill since ZMs veins were shrinking. We had great fun for the rest of the week planning how to use the time we would be getting back since she would not be sitting in the infusion room for 4 hours every Friday. Over the labor day...

What ever happened to the televangelists of the 1980s? Not a few Americans have grown nostalgic for the 1980s--at least in music and fashion. For those of us who study the intersection of religion and culture, it is hard not to be. Just think back: In the '80s, the Religious Right was in its infancy and ministers from both the left and right were making serious runs for the presidency. Not least, televangelists had successfully jumped from early-morning Sunday network slots to prime-time cable television. Twenty years ago televangelism had its greatest year on record. With their own slick productions...

The 165,000 people who gave $1,000 to Jim Bakker's planned Heritage U.S.A. resort in return for promised four-day vacation stays will receive just $6.54 each. That's partly because attorneys will receive $2.5 million of the $3.7 million settlement fund (created by former PTL accountants years ago), under a July 24 order issued by U.S. District Judge Lacy Thornburg in Asheville, North Carolina. A claims administrator will receive $200,000 to track down people entitled to money. Had the victims been given the entire settlement, it would have amounted to only $22.42 each. Thomas T. Anderson and Associates, a California-based law firm,...

The nearly 165,000 people around the world who lost money to former PTL televangelist Jim Bakker will soon get some money back: $6.54 each. The deal approved by a judge Friday ends a 15-year battle in criminal and civil courts that dethroned the flamboyant preacher, defamed his television ministry and left hundreds of victims going to their graves without compensation. U.S. District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg of North Carolina's Western District gave a Charlotte law firm 30 days to hand out the money to those who sued Bakker in civil court after he was found guilty in 1989 of wire...

Enough research has been done on religion in Eastern Europe that one can say with considerable confidence that religion is reviving in the former socialist countries. At a recent conference at Nuffield College (Oxford) European scholars (Geoff Evans of Oxford and Ariana Need of Amsterdam) and American scholars (Michael Hout and myself) were able to compare notes and discover a convergence of findings. There are two major religious changes in the former socialist countries, one obvious and astonishing, the other more subtle but in the long run perhaps more important and, alas, more likely to be missed. There is, first...

Sounds like the start of a Christmas carol? Not really. It's the start of good news in the head because of happenings in the past several years or whatever. First, the future looks bright for Catholics. Consider: the awful stuff is out. Priests, not all of them, molest little boys and teen boys and sometimes grown boys. Remember when Swaggart was hooking up with a hooker from time to time, scouting out the alleys in town? Recall when Jimmy and Tammy were goofing off at PTL Club environs -- one scene being Jimmy having his feet massaged by PTL personnel...