Rev. Ann Holmes Redding had a surprise for members of her Church recently. She admitted she had converted to Islam 15 months ago:
Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill.
On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest.
She does both, she says, because she’s Christian and Muslim.| MORE ›
Hispanic Americans are angry at Governor Schwarzenegger for saying something ridiculous, naive, racist!
What did he say?
“You’ve got to turn off the Spanish television set. You’re just forced to speak English, and that just makes you learn the language faster.”
He excused himself, knowing that people would get angry:| MORE ›
An article appeared in today’s Guardian, saying that British Prime Minister Tony Blair believed that the US did not have a good post-war plan. He worried constantly about this, he talked to Bush about it, but was ignored. Despite his worries, however, he assured the public “at the time of the war in 2003 that he was satisfied with the post-war planning.”
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Up on the surface, the signs of the trouble at the Jefferson Memorial are small:
A few blacktop patches over uneven seams in some concrete. A cordoned-off section where the sea wall has slipped below the front plaza. The “tilt meter” boxes that visitors can’t see unless they know where to look.
Underground, though, the problems may be huge: Slowly, almost imperceptibly, parts of the complex seem to be sinking into the mud.| MORE ›
The question is, does this mean he has to veto his own spending / decisions?
resident Bush warned Congress on Saturday that he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending.
”The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies,” Bush said in his radio address.
Yes, Bush believes to spend as follows:| MORE ›
This is quite ironic, isn’t it?
Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City.
“They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize medal,” said Ramallah-based Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman. “Hamas militiamen and gangsters blew up the main entrance to the house before storming it.| MORE ›
Today is the second round of the French elections for Parliament. The BBC has an article up about it. Sarkozy’s party, the UMP, is expected to win in a landslide: analysts predict the UMP will win “well over 400 seats or more than two-thirds of the total.”
Every conservative in Europe hopes that the experts are right on this one. France needs a strong president, who is able to push through the necessary reforms. Not only France will benefit from this, the EU as a whole will.| MORE ›
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who defied PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s “presidential decree” to dissolve the Hamas-led government, called for unity among Palestinians and urged people to remain calm as fighters from his Hamas movement consolidated their hold on Gaza.
Haniyeh said Hamas was still committed to unity agreements it signed with Fatah.| MORE ›
The Washington Post reports that there are currently two surges in Iraq:
Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and taking hundreds of casualties that have been underreported and sometimes concealed, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials and company representatives.| MORE ›
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