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...ridicule that the state of Illinois has suffered since the corruption scandal of its governor was first revealed, for all the jokes made at the expense of the Land of Lincoln's long, sordid history of graft, there is one thing that is often overlooked: Rod Blagojevich is the first governor of the state to be impeached...
...hope is that people on both sides can realize that when 30,000 children die each day because of poverty and hunger, the closest thing to Jesus' heart might not be marriage amendments. I think we can find some common ground on these tough issues...
...needs to be a relationship of both significance and substance. I think it could be both. Without naming presidents, sometimes in the past there were prayer breakfasts and meetings and photo-ops, but how much real engagement was there? Highlighting the role of faith communities is a good thing if done with integrity. But we need a two-way street. That means real prayer for this president and his family, and support even from people who didn't vote for him. He also needs to know that we're going to raise hard questions and challenge him when necessary. When...
...there's one thing guaranteed to make news organizations queasy, it's becoming news rather than reporting it. No wonder the BBC, Britain's venerable public-service broadcaster, is looking green around the gills. In the past couple of years, "Auntie Beeb" has rarely been out of the spotlight, amid speculation on the future of the broadcaster's public funding, scandals over mismanaged phone-in competitions and red faces after footage of the Queen was wrongly edited to suggest she had stormed out of a photo shoot. Yet all of these controversies pale in comparison to the storms of anger...
...Taliban leaders demanded that he hike up his trousers to expose his ankles in the manner of the Prophet Muhammad. The teacher knew Muslim teachings and had earned jihadist stripes fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Their edict was wrong, Islam told the Taliban enforcers; no such thing had been demanded even by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the '90s. The scuffle that resulted left Islam's body hanging in the town square. To drive home their warning to the locals, the militants also shot the teacher's father...