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...solution or answer to life's problems." Respected blogger Michael Spencer--known as the Internet Monk--asked, "How many young people are going to be pointed to Osteen as a true shepherd of Jesus Christ? He's not. He's not one of us." Osteen is an irresistible target for experts from right to left on the Christian spectrum who--beyond worrying that he is living too high or inflating the hopes of people with real money problems--think he is dragging people down with a heavy interlocked chain of theological and ethical errors that could amount to heresy...
...recurring complaint among young Muslims in Europe is that they are suspect because they are Muslim. But today the only people engaged in planning and carrying out bombings and random murders, from North America to Europe to Malaysia, are proponents of radical Islam. As long as radical Muslims target non-Muslims at random, what else should they expect? The targeting that government authorities engage in is designed to prevent bombings and random murder. So, yes, you are being viewed with suspicion. And you will continue to be until radical Muslims stop targeting us, because human life is valuable...
...certainly did. Witnesses at the blast site described a mangled Humvee, a bomb crater about four feet deep, scattered body parts, and most chillingly, a bra tangled in tree branches above the vehicle, where it was hurled by the strength of the explosion. Although coalition forces were the immediate target, the size and range of the blast at a busy intersection suggests that the civilian casualties were intentional. Massoud Circle, where the attack occurred, is located near an apartment complex housing thousands of families, where many windows were shattered...
...they are allowed to come face-to-face with a terrorist," followed by supervised fieldwork before they can direct an interrogation. Detainees are also questioned by subject-matter experts - analysts who may have been following a terrorist's bloody career for years before getting the opportunity to confront their target in person...
That "cap-and-trade" approach works because it provides certainty--companies have a specific greenhouse-gas-emission target--and because free markets are the most efficient way to reward innovation. A market-based system has two added benefits: it creates new revenue sources for companies clean enough to sell credits, and it enables free markets to determine the best solutions instead of having governments bet on what they think are going to be the winning innovations. That vision is one reason a Republican Governor and a Democratic legislature were able to agree on the global-warming act and many business...