“I don’t like fighting,” Douglas said during a recent Marriage Intensive. A lanky man with a wide, beaming grin, he made no bones about his conflict style. “I’m not going to fight if I can help it,” he continued. “If she pushes me, I might blow up, but more than likely, I’m going to walk away.” “And that drives me crazy,” his wife Jackie, said. “I want to talk things out. I pressure him more when he walks away from me.”
Why was Ronald Thomas Smith II, an American teaching at Benghazi’s International School, shot to death last Thursday in Libya, even as he “was looking forward to his first Christmas in the United States with his wife and toddler son?"
Most Western media and analysts dismiss the killing as a random act of violence incited by a recent al Qaeda video.
A video recently appeared of an Islamic Sunni cleric in Syria inciting Muslim schoolboys, most of whom appear to be between the ages of 5 and 12, to hate and kill Christians and others.
According to a report in Arabic (scroll down for video), among other things, the sheikh calls on the children to “slaughter all Christians for being infidels” and that he boasted that “the Christians of Syria are under continuous attack and their churches and monasteries subject to violence.”
Could the Obama administration's Mideast foreign policy be in advertently enabling what many Muslims dream about, the Islamic caliphate? The caliphate is a super-national entity implementing Sharia law.
Pinhas Inbari, a senior analyst with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, says U.S. policies have brought two major powers in the Middle East together -- Turkey and Iran -- and also the two main branches of Islam, Shiite and Sunni.
South Africa's anti-apartheid movement had Bishop Desmond Tutu, Iraqi Christians have The Vicar of Baghdad (Canon Andrew White), and Sudan has Bishop Macram Max Gassis.
President Barack Obama is applauding a bipartisan budget deal aimed at avoiding another government shutdown.
The plan, announced Tuesday evening by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., would cut $85 billion in spending.
But some wonder whether the congressional budget deal is good for taxpayers and the economy or will just lead to more government spending.
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Here's The Brody File story on Sarah Palin's New Christmas book where she talks about how there is a, "War On Christmas." This aired on The 700 Club this morning.
Will Mike Huckabee run for President of the United States in 2016?
After being with me through years of reporting and two books about the bad guys (including my latest, The Brotherhood), there are few stories that shock my wife at this point.
But as we watched my latest report together today, she shook her head in disbelief at just how thoroughly the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the Obama administration. Yes, it is even worse than you think.