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Christians Released From Iranian Prison After 259 Days, Refused to Denounce Christian Faith

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Voice of the Martyrs‘ friend, Elam Ministries, which serves the growing church in Iran, announced today via this news release that Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh have been released from Evin Prison in Tehran. Family members picked them up at the prison this afternoon, Iran time.

More from the release appears below:
The two women [...]

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Report: U.S. Failing to Address Urgent Biothreat

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The United States is failing to address its most urgent threat—biological proliferation and terrorism—concluded a report issued today by the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. In a news release yesterday, the commission also felt the Obama Administration has given appropriate high-level attention to the nuclear threat but [...]

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Question: ‘Why Didn’t Voters Pay Attention?’

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

“Why didn’t voters pay attention?” is a question I asked myself after taking a fresh look at “Foster Friess on Barack Obama: Rhetoric vs. Record”, a video which first appeared in a post on this blog Oct. 28, 2008.

Narrator Foster Friess, a successful businessman and Army veteran living in Jackson Hole, Wyo., begins by [...]

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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Oct. 12, 2009

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments

“Acronym” is Uncle Jay’s word of the week, and he employs them frequently while covering a wide range of topics (below) in this week’s edition of Uncle Jay Explains the News:

NASA blew up the moon;

Miley Cyrus decided to dump her Twitter page in order to regain some of her privacy — and then she sang [...]

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‘Democracy for Iran’ Billboard Surfaces in St Louis (Update)

October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Reboot Congress reports that a digital billboard ad (above) advocating “Democracy for Iran” has sprung up near the intersection of Manchester Road and Highway 141 in suburban Saint Louis.
I contacted DDI Media, the St. Louis-based company that owns the billboard, to find out who paid for the ad but ran into a temporary “roadblock” of [...]

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