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daily parenting devotional Legacy Deuteronomy 5:9-10: For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments (NIV). God knows […]

Michele Bachmann was only joking around when she said the recent earthquake and hurricane were a message from God to scare Congress into action, her spokeswoman said. The backtracking Republican had her mouthpiece explain her humor to the Talking Points Memo website on Monday after the St. Petersburg Times reported her comments at a weekend campaign rally […]

Negotiations failed again for Ms. Mary Ward, the Brooklyn great-grandmother whose home was sold following a predatory lending scheme. After an eviction blockade the prior Friday, August 19, organized by non-profit housing advocates and local residents, supporters were able to postpone the eviction of Ms. Ward by city marshals. The successful blockade ended with Assembly member Annette […]

Ninety-eight percent of Florida’s welfare applicants passed a new mandatory drug screening that was implemented by the state. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said in June that it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” drawing criticism from the ACLU and numerous Democrats who see the new drug-screening law as unconstitutional. Contrary to Scott’s […]

NEW YORK — After the rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn fell apart, many people have been pointing figures at the accuser, Nafissatou Diallo. Still there are many political and social reasons the case was dropped, including the drastically different backgrounds of the accuser and the accused. The Daily Beast Reports: And Diallo? Her biography is, […]

GEORGIA — Cheating has been uncovered in at least five more Georgia schools after an investigative team made up of Richard Hyde, who first uncovered widespread cheating in Atlanta schools, as well as workers from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation expanded their search to schools outside of Atlanta. Analysis of test erasures are not conclusive, […]

Writer Lawrence E. Adjah reflects on Hurricane Irene from abroad in India, and shares how it brings back old memories of the 2005 disaster, Hurricane Katrina. He writes: I remember Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, I remembered it from a distance sitting in a New York City office with my eyes glued to the lobby TV. I […]

Fans of the late-great Michael Jackson said they couldn’t resist the opportunity to visit the singer’s childhood home in Gary, Indiana. “We were exploring the area and decided to come here,” Rotoloni said. The local friends, including Joe Dallmann, who now lives in California, were fans as youngsters of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album released in […]

SAN ANTONIO-Dustin Darsp attempted to rob a gas station for K2, a legal compound known as “fake weed” by pretending his hammer was a gun. Unfortunately for Darsp, a man carrying a real gun was in the store and shot him after he exited. My San Antonio reports: Darsp apparently grabbed a box of K2, […]

Twenty years ago, race riots erupted in Crown Heights and an innocent Jewish student was murdered in response to the accidental killing of an African-American child. After the murder, the Rev. Al Sharpton came to Crown Heights and further whipped up an already incensed crowd, leaving some in the Jewish community to demand twenty years […]

Six years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and its surrounding communities, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin says he regrets not calling a mandatory evacuation sooner in a candid sit-down interview with BET.com. According to Nagin, his outspokenness made him an easy target and a scapegoat in many situations. “I was […]

NEW YORK — A homeless man from the Bronx named Jeffrey Richards saved a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old from a burning house by climbing the…