CBNNews.com -- Earlier today I was on Newswatch talking about today's crucial primaries in DC, Maryland and Virginia.
With victories doubtful today in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, Hillary Clinton will need to win Ohio and Texas to keep her campaign alive. More below from The New York Times:
U.S. scientists have just announced finding an additional path by which H.I.V. ravages the human body. Dr. Anthony Fauci and his government team identified a receptor in the body. H.I.V. triggers the receptor and then helps guide the virus, if present, to the gut intestinal area. In the gut, the virus rapidly reproduces in the lymph system, a key part of the body's immunity.
It has been six years in a row that North Korea has held the dubious distinction of being the worst persecutor of Christians. According to the Open Doors' 2008 World Watch, there is no other country in the world where Christians are being persecuted in such a horrible and relentless way.
Chinese lion and dragon dances, fireworks, and street vendors selling paper parasols, lanterns, and balloons for the Year of the Rat. None of these things would be unusual rituals for traditional Chinese New Year celebrations throughout Asia, but yesterday I was thousands of miles away in London's Trafalgar Square.
The British newspaper The Independent reports that "Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to "honour" related violence, including murder, every year…The Association of Chief Police Officers …warns that the number of girls falling victim to forced marriages, kidnappings, sexual assaults, beatings and even murder by relatives intent on upholding the "honour" of their family is up to 35 times higher than official figures suggest."
"The U.S. military is seriously deficient in meeting "the threat of Islamist insurgencies," That's the opening line of the top story on CNN's website on Monday night.
On Sunday, hundreds of Israelis from the town of Sderot blocked the main road into Jerusalem. They demanded that the government protect them after forty rockets slammed into their town over the weekend. They were particularly upset because two brothers, 19 and 8 year old Rami and Osher Twito were hit during one of the attacks. Eight year old Osher lost one leg in the explosion and doctors are fighting for the other.
Harambee is the official motto of Kenya in Kiswahili. It means "let us all pull together."
My good friend and political partner in crime Robin Mazyck just returned from a Mike Huckabee event in Virginia Beach, Va., and reports that Huckabee told the crowd that Paul Weyrich is endorsing him.