Today the question of whether or not China should have received the Olympic bid seems somewhat irrelevant. It won the bid seven years ago in 2001, so the decision has clearly been made. On the other hand, anyone who has caught a glimpse of the coverage of this year's international Olympic torch relay is well-aware that China's Olympic hosting duties are hardly a non-controversial event.
Today we ran a story on the growing persecution of Messianic believers in Israel. In the story, we mentioned a story done by Channel 1, a national Israeli news channel about Ami Ortiz, the 15 year old nearly killed by a bomb on March 20th. If you would like to see the story with an English translation, here's the link:
Leave your opium, pornography, and drugs at home, and don't even think about soiling the Chinese flag if you plan to attend the Olympics this August.
In the general election, Barack Obama will paint John McCain as "George W. Bush III." In a speech delivered tonight, McCain is effectively saying, "Give me a break."
Barack Obama’s friend, Pastor Michael Pfleger has been told to leave his parish for awhile. Read below from the Chicago Sun-Times:
GG: Who’s Jesus to you? OBAMA: Right. Jesus is a historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history. GG: The conversation stopper, when you say you’
This coming in from Ben Smith at The Politico this afternoon. Read below:
Goodness gracious. I want to take a lunch break but this dwindling delegate math is so riveting I can’t break away. I think I’ll order out. Let me just say that since it looks like Hillary Clinton won’t concede tonight she really is robbing Obama of a clear cut victory. She could have seen the writing on the wall and she could have looked at the delegate clock and then decided to drop out and let Obama have his moment tonight. That doesn’t look like it will happen. The ev
Life is so confusing. I can’t even keep my checkbook straight and now I’m supposed to make heads or tails about this Democratic nomination fight. Yeah, right.