6 Sep 2008 at 2:23pm ... and politics is religion. With Sarah Palin, America has taken one very large leap toward a completely theocratic politics. For Palin, as for Rick Warren, there can be no distinction between politics and religion: all politics is subject to ...
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6 Sep 2008 at 11:09am The obvious historical implications of John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin as a running mate, hot on the heels of Barack Obama officially securing the Democratic presidential nomination, were quickly and duly noted: One way or the other, a demographic ...
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6 Sep 2008 at 8:18am Pakistani security forces stand next to posters of the presidential candidates, including Asif Ali Zardari, centre. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP Asif Ali Zardari easily won a parliamentary vote to become Pakistan's new president today despite past ...
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5 Sep 2008 at 2:21am BILL: Just when I thought hanging earrings from your eyelids, or driving an outsize safety pin through your nose went as far toward pain as fads and fashions could go, I just heard about "cutting": kids ? including many teenage girls ? mutilating ...
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4 Sep 2008 at 9:35pm A WOMAN is recovering after being repeatedly stabbed by a cyclist after a suspected "bike rage'' incident in Dianella early this morning. The 56-year-old was walking on Lyndhurst St at about 7am when the man cycled up to her and stabbed her several ...
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4 Sep 2008 at 7:54pm A new school year brings new challenges, the least of which involve reading, writing and arithmetic. The greater choices facing some students today aren't academic, but social and sexual - even in middle school, where tweens meet the hookup culture ...
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4 Sep 2008 at 6:33am A fight broke out just before 10 p.m. Wednesday in a state-run hurricane shelter in the former Sam?s Club on Jewella Avenue near Meriwether Road. No serious injuries were reported. It began when a teenage girl struck another in the head with a ...
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