Defender of Faith: Rabbi David Wolpe explains why faith matters (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles) If the bestseller charts are any indication, it's become popular to condemn religion....more...Sharon Little has a lot of determination and motivation to perform (The Kansas City Star) Tragedy inspired the perseverance that led Sharon Little to music. “I was never really into popular music or popular culture growing up,” said Little, a Philadelphia native and the fourth of seven children....more... 2008 ACTING SCHOOLS AND COACHES NYC (Backstage.com) September 11, 2008 The following is a list of New York - area stage and film acting schools, teachers, and coaches organized alphabetically. Also included is a separate list of career coaches/counselors ....more... Press & Media (Heritage Foundation) Is socialism too entrenched in America to be reversed? Sen. Jim Bunning is one lawmaker who has had it. Even as others such as The ... Conservatives should ask themselves one key question over the remaining months of the presidential campaign: What role should America play in the world?...more... Tax cap suit looms; vote delayed until Nov. '09 (New Hampshire Union Leader) The New Hampshire Advantage Coalition is taking the city to court over last week's vote to keep a proposed spending cap off the November ballot. The aldermen, meanwhile, have agreed to put the referendum to a vote, but not until November 2009....more... This cynical choice has left McCain?s honour in shreds (Times Online) I?m an American, California born. It?s true my mother was English and that I was brought up here from early childhood and think myself exceptionally lucky to belong here; I feel as English as I think anyone possibly can. Yet all the same, America is the land of my forebears on my late father?s side....more... Sentence is nine years late (Detroit News) A man inspired by the Harrison Ford movie "Witness" failed to show up at his 1999 sentencing for health care fraud and lived under a new identity in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community....more... The Faith Column (The New Statesman) The Dorje Shugden Society is trying to put a stop to the ban on the worship of Dorje Shugden on the basis of India?s constitution, a country where you are free to worship almost anything. The Indian High Court is due to consider the case in September....more... Lawsuit questions Obama's eligibility for office (The Washington Times) Pennsylvania's former deputy attorney general and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter Philip J. Berg has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania accusing presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of lying about his U.S. citizenship, which would make him ineligible to be president....more... |