Joseph Perkins

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  Sep 3, 2011

  NY Times' Keller Responds to Christian Critics

  Bill Keller didn’t exactly go to ground after authoring a controversial column, published in the New York Times, suggesting that Republican presidential candidates ought to be aggressively probed about their religious beliefs.

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  Sep 2, 2011

  Bad Labor Day Tidings From the White House

  With Labor Day approaching, the Obama White House has bad news for the nation’s 14 million jobless workers: The bleak unemployment picture is unlikely to get any better between now and the end of next year.

• Sep 1, 2011

  Budget Crunch Has Focus on the Family Affiliate Seeking Donations

  CitizenLink, a family advocacy organization affiliated with Focus on the Family, is mounting a 30-day fundraising campaign to close a $2.3 million budget gap. If the campaign falls short, CitizenLink Executive Director Tom Minnery warns, in an appeal greeting visitors to the organization’s web page, “our ability to act on your behalf will be severely, and perhaps irreparably hurt.”

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  Sep 1, 2011

  Katia Declared a Hurricane; Too Soon to Predict Landfall

  It’s official. Tropical Storm Katia has been reclassified as Hurricane Katia, the National Hurricane Center said last night.

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  Sep 1, 2011

  Maya Angelou Latest to Criticize New MLK Memorial

  A personal friend of the late Martin Luther King Jr. is the latest critic of the new national memorial in his honor. Poet Maya Angelou complained recently that an inscription etched on a 30-foot-tall granite statue of the civil rights leader makes him “look like an arrogant twit.”

• Aug 31, 2011

  Eastern Seaboard Recovering From Irene

  Irene has come and gone, but it will take days, weeks and even months for the Eastern seaboard to recover from the devastation the hurricane left in its wake.

• Aug 30, 2011

  Nation's Second Statewide Voucher Program Debuts in Indiana

  The new school year has begun in Indiana with more than 3,200 low- and middle-income families taking advantage of a new state-funded voucher program that allows them to remove their children from failing public schools and enroll them in better-performing private or church-related schools.

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  Aug 30, 2011

  Landlocked Vermont Dealt a Deadly Blow by Hurricane Irene

  The worst flooding Vermont has suffered in 83 years has claimed the lives of three residents of the Green Mountain state. The victims include a woman swept away by the raging Deerfield river in Wilmington, a man who drowned in Mendon when flood waters took him away, and another man found dead in Lake Rescue in Ludlow.

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  Aug 26, 2011

  Jesse Jackson Rains on MLK Celebration With Attack on Tea Party

  Before Hurricane Irene could do any damage to what was supposed to be a unifying event on Washington, D.C.’s mall, the Rev. Jesse Jackson rained on the planned Martin Luther King Jr. celebration with a vitriolic attack on the growing Tea Party movement.

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  Aug 26, 2011

  Bernanke Blames Lawmakers for Economic Woes

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today that the weakened state of the U.S. economy is attributable, in large part, to the dysfunctional process by which the nation’s lawgivers make fiscal decisions.