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May 2010 Archives

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General Logan said that we ought to guard the graves of the dead with 'sacred vigilance.'
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The W.H.'s failure to designate a spokesperson may have been intended to convey an all-hands-on-deck approach. 
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Thousands of people marched through the streets of Phoenix on Saturday to protest a state law taking effect July 29 that will allow the police in Arizona to check the immigration status of people they have stopped for another reason.
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BP's Robert Dudley, Carol Browner, Luis Gutierrez, J.D. Hayworth, E.J. Dionne, David Brooks
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The retired General and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs speaks on the oil spill in an exclusive 'This Week' interview.
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The latest effort by BP to stem the flow of oil didn't work. We'll ask Bob Dudley, BP's managing director, White House environmental advisor Carol Browner, and Congressman Ed Markey what's next? Also CBS News Investigative Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson on this episode of "Face the Nation."
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OCEAN MARVEL: A deep seas drill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2006.
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Discussing What Went Wrong in the Gulf, Rep. Markey Says Oil Company Is "Making It Up as They Go Along"
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On 'This Week,' Powell Also Talks Gays in the Military, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan
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Interview With BP's Bob Dudley; Interview With Senator Vitter; Interview With Admiral Mullen; Interview With Senator Jim Webb
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As the oil continues to flow, the political and environmental fallout is just getting started.
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Some conservative organizations are attempting one last push back in their fight to keep gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military.
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Obama is sworn-in on Lincoln's Bible.
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Barack Obama explains his job.
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Politics is an ugly and cynical profession with more than its share of phonies and opportunists who tell you what you want to hear so they get where they want to go.
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It took almost the entire press conference at the White House on Thursday for President Obama to find his voice in responding to the oil disaster in the gulf -- and it is probably no accident that it seemed like the only unrehearsed moment. The president was trying to convey why he takes this problem so seriously, when he noted:
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Bill Clinton is a fixture on cable news, Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor. It feels like 1997 -- but it's 2010. And Barack Obama can't be happy.
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Demonstrators wave flags and banners in Washington on October 11, 2009 as tens of thousands of gay activists marched to demand civil rights, a day after President Barack Obama vowed to repeal a ban on gays serving openly in the US military. Gay rights groups are urging quick congressional approval of a proposal to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military while allowing the Pentagon to continue its review of how to implement the new policy. 
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President Obama speaks on Memorial Day last year at Arlington National Cemetery. This year he'll be at a national cemetery in Illinois. 
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Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), left, has said the White House offered him an administration job in exchange for not running for the Senate. 
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Kevin Boswell, a Louisiana State University researcher, skims some oil from the surface of Gulf waters.
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A chaplain prays over a wounded American soldier at the military hospital on March 22, 2010 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Military chaplains face dilemmas --- serving both God and soldiers faithfully. The demise of 'don't ask, don't tell' will add new concerns for believers who support or oppose gays serving openly in the military.
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Gov. Mark Sanford, left, with Will Folks and State Representative Nikki Haley, a candidate for governor.
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In 2003, Lawrence H. Summers, center, announced Elena Kagan was succeeding Robert C. Clark, left, as dean of Harvard Law.
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Do you want your kids to get a good education and learn a little something about Jesus? Then send them to a Christian school. They'll learn "a little something" about Jesus--or maybe they'll learn that Jesus is "a little something."
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Q: Illegal immigrants are flouting U.S. laws, but does affluent America (or Arizona for that matter) have a larger moral or spiritual obligation to help illegal immigrants who are trying to better their lives? What about religious obligations to welcome the stranger? Are we our brother's keeper?
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Democrats hope to vote to repeal the military's policy on gay service members, pending a Pentagon review.
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Bestselling author, Vanessa Davis Griggs, releases her novel, The Truth is the Light, Tuesday, May 25, 2010.
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Some evangelicals support Beck's view of salvation and social justice. Others see the Fox News commentator as 'a danger to true evangelical theology.'
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Joe Sestak, John Cornyn, Robert Menendez, Tom Friedman, Paul Gigot, Andrea Mitchell, Bob Woodward
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Joe Sestak, John Cornyn, Robert Menendez, Tom Friedman, Paul Gigot, Andrea Mitchell, Bob Woodward
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaks on how the government is handling the oil spill, Senator Alexander (R-Tenn.) examines on if the Tea Party is helping or hurting the Republican Party, and Joe Sestak who took on the White House and the Democratic establishment in Pennsylvania.
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Press Secretary Gibbs Says Gov't Doing Everything Possible to Stop Leak, Says Palin Should Get More Informed About Drilling
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ALBERT MOHLER

Ruth Gledhill calls upon Anglicans to just drop the issue of homosexuality "for the sake of God, themselves, and the common good."
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Jake Tapper Interviews Tim Kaine and Michaele Steele, Plus the Roundtable
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Jews for Jesus founder left his mark on evangelism.
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DNC, RNC Chairmen Take On Big Political Issues
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DNC, RNC Chairmen Take On Big Political Issues
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Interview With Governors Rendell, Pawlenty; Interview With Admiral Thad Allen
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Mary Helen Berlanga accused fellow members of the Board of Education of "rewriting history."
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My sentiments on immigration are expressed by the welcoming words of poet Emma Lazarus' that grace the base of our Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
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Some Republicans are counting on female candidates such as Meg Whitman, left, and Carly Fiorina to broaden public perceptions of the party.
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Signature Programs
In 1944, President Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill; President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964; President Reagan explained his program to lower taxes in 1981, and in March, President Obama signed the health care reform bill.
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Tuesday's big winner, Mark Critz, ran against Obama's health care overhaul.
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The Kentucky Senate primary revealed the weakness of Sen. Mitch McConnell's party leadership. 
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Top Dems want Obama to stop bashing Washington and start blaming GOPers for problems.
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Kagan has steered clear of championing the old-line civil rights positions on race-based programs.
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Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Jonathan Alter, Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy, Bob Shrum
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Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Jonathan Alter, Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy, Bob Shrum
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The charismatic renewal has disappeared like yeast into bread dough.
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GOP Senator Questions Nominee's Politics and Ability to Ignore Them on Bench; Dem Calls Her "Inordinately Qualified"
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Protester Susan Peralta waves her sign as State Troopers confer.

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Cites Harvard Military Recruiting Spat When Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Was Law School Dean
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Jake Tapper Interviews Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions, Plus the Roundtable
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Here is a wild proposition, one that many who obsessively follow politics did not expect to entertain before Mem-orial Day. 
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Pope Benedict XVI participated at the traditional annual mass at Fatima's Sanctuary in Portugal on May 13.

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Interviews With Joe Sestak, Arlen Specter

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The Mojave Desert cross, the subject of a tense Supreme Court case in April, was stolen.

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Why the left needs the "religious right."
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Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Nominee
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Solicitor General Elena Kagan spoke during the annual meeting of the 7th Circuit Bar Association & Judicial Conference of the 7th Circuit Monday, May 3, 2010 in Chicago.
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Obama's speech here marked his second commencement appearance of the season, and was more traditional than the broad critique of government he delivered at the University of Michigan.
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Michelle Obama is 'a hot commodity,' says one senior Democratic official. 'People like her.' 
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Michael Steele fires Rob Bickhart after the RNC suffered through sex scandals and dwindling donors. 
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'Reform is already delivering real benefits to millions of Americans,' says Obama. 
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Eric Holder, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Katty Kay, Wes Moore
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Eric Holder, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Katty Kay, Wes Moore
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Kenneth Starr will run the largest Baptist university.
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Bob Schieffer discusses this past week's disconcerting events including the failed plan to close the oil leak, the discovery that Faisel Shahzad had ties with al Qaeda, and the mystery over what caused the stock market to plummet.
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Calls High-Speed Trading Suspected in 1,000-Pt. Drop in Dow a Sign of "Casino Environment" in Financial World
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Jake Tapper Interviews Eric Holder and Rudy Giuliani, Plus the Roundtable
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Downtown workers join area residents in praying during the 59th annual National Day of Prayer at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday.
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Interview With John Brennan; Interview With Senators Nelson, Shelby
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Last Wednesday morning, in a meeting with the magazine's staff, our owner, Donald E. Graham, the chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Company, announced that NEWSWEEK was going to be sold.
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When reporters told Doris Lessing she had won a Nobel Prize in Literature as she was hauling groceries out of a cab in 2007, she said: "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I am delighted.
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Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie and other top Republican operatives have modeled a massive political machine off Democrats' successes. 
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As Christians, we know we need to pray, and we may have the desire to pray, but somehow, in the hustle and bustle of this fast-paced world in which we live, we allow prayer to get pushed to the back burner of our lives. 
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Weeks after getting dropped from a Pentagon Prayer Day event, evangelist Franklin Graham says that his 'religious rights are being denied.' 
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President Obama talked with Gov. Bobby Jindal as he arrived in New Orleans to view oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Janet Napolitano, Ken Salazar, Thad Allen, Hillary Clinton, Charlie Crist, Lamar Alexander, Jennifer Granholm, Mike Pence, Bill Richardson
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Guiterrez, GOP Senate Candidate Hayworth at Odds Over How to Deal With Illegal Immigration
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Transcript: "This Week" with Lamar McKay McKay, Janet Napolitano, Ken Salazar and Thad Allen
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On 'This Week,' President of BP America Answers to Oil Spill
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Interview With Secretaries Salazar, Napolitano; Interview With Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen; Interview With Senatorial Candidate Marco Rubio
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The reasons and causes--territory, ideology, WMDs--may change with the times, but our lust for it is eternal.
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DON'T blame it all on Arizona. The Grand Canyon State simply happened to be in the right place at the right time to tilt over to the dark side. Its hysteria is but another symptom of a political virus that can't be quarantined and whose cure is as yet unknown.
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A few years ago, I was at an event with New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The conversation turned to why terrorist groups, particularly those associated with Al Qaeda, had not carried out any attacks inside the United States since September 11th. 
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What should you do when you're the Mayor of America's 5th largest city, your state has just enacted America's most far -reaching law regarding illegal immigration, and you're trying to make a career of leftist, race-baiting politics?
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The news from Greece continues to get worse.  As protests and demonstrations against the new austerity measures break out across the country, the euro was shaken yet again as investors worried about Greece.
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Sarah Palin may hunt moose with a rifle, but when she's out for bigger game, she relies on an unorthodox approach to bring down her quarry: Deprive it of food. "Please, starve the beast!" she recently implored a Tea Party Express rally in Boston.
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Nine years ago The Economist ran a big story on oil, which was then selling for $10 a barrel. The magazine warned that this might not last. Instead, it suggested, oil might well fall to $5 a barrel.
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Black Christian News: www.BCNN1.com / Black Christian Book Company: www.BlackCBC.com (Based upon Amazon.com rankings, BarnesandNoble.com rankings, and BlackCBC.com rankings.)
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