Ever get the feeling that simply living your faith in America is becoming a rebellious act? In Seattle, that feeling just turned into a brutal reality. Mayday USA, a Christian group, had the audacity to hold a public concert in Cal Anderson Park. Not a protest. Not a political stunt. Just a peaceful gathering of […]
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You can almost hear the creak of old furniture every time someone in Washington feels the political ground start to shift. There’s a familiar grumble from the folks who got real comfortable in the old arrangement—like someone just walked in and threatened to swap their favorite leather recliner with a folding chair. And sure enough, […]
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Let’s be frank: navigating the world’s hotspots these days feels like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Another day, another crisis, often fanned by breezy incompetence. It’s enough to make a sane person wonder if anyone’s actually got a grip on the steering wheel of this crazy global carnival ride. And in times […]
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Since the housing bust, bank home foreclosure has become a rather everyday sort of event, but today there’s a new twist. A Florida couple that bought their home with cash — and never took out a mortgage, mind you — has lashed back at what could only be described as a predatory, and painfully incompetent, […]
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If you are someone who owns a car, you are probably like most people: you keep your vehicle registration in the glove box of your car. That’s usually where most people keep this information just in case you may be pulled over by cops and have to verify vehicle information. As of recently, however, law […]
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Since the housing bust, bank home foreclosure has become a rather everyday sort of event, but today there’s a new twist. A Florida couple that bought their home with cash — and never took out a mortgage, mind you — has lashed back at what could only be described as a predatory, and painfully incompetent, […]
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A teenager who reported being brutally gang-raped by an organized group finds herself in trouble with the law, casting doubt on the authorities’ response to such allegations. A severely beaten teenage girl, who reported being gang-raped by an “Asian sex gang,” found herself charged with seven counts of “perverting justice.” The 19-year-old Ellie Williams went to […]
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You know, some people in the political arena have all the subtlety of a runaway freight train when it comes to holding a grudge. And just when you think they’ve finally hung up their spurs and retreated to the quiet life, perhaps to write a tell-some-but-not-all memoir, they pop up again, usually with something […]
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Oklahoma’s first execution since it botched the lethal injection of a death row inmate saw convicted baby rapist and killer Charles Frederick Warner exclaim from the death chamber: “My body is on fire.” Convicted in 1997 of raping and killing an 11-month-old girl, Warner was scheduled to be put to death on April 29, the […]
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Ever get that peculiar, almost guilty pleasure watching a carefully constructed house of cards begin to wobble? You know, the kind built by people who assured everyone, with unshakeable confidence, that their architectural genius was beyond reproach. It’s a universal human thing, I suppose, to observe the dawning realization on their faces as the inevitable […]
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