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Much controversy continues to surround president-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his upcoming inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2009.

Warren is very popular among the Christian right. He is the California mega-church, anti-gay marriage pastor, who during the campaign last fall held a meeting at the Saddleback church which featured the Republican candidate and President-elect Obama. (more…)

Damon Weaver is a student reporter at the Katherine E. Cunningham Elementary School in Canal Point, Palm Beach County, Florida.

You may have seen Damon’s interview of Vice-President-elect Joe Biden during a campaign visit to Palm Beach County last fall. Now Damon wants an interview with President-elect Barack Obama. Watch this video request:
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The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme of $50 Billion has adversely affected two foundations that have been generous,  longstanding supporters of the national security and reproductive freedom work  performed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The two foundations have been damaged by the Madoff scandal — forced to close their doors and terminate their grants. (more…)

For the first time in 42 years a sitting governor of the great state of Florida got married.

On, Friday, December 12, 2008 in an early evening ceremony in St. Petersburg, Florida  Republican governor Charles Crist exchanged vows with socialite millionaire Carole Rome. Crist promised to love, cherish and honor his new wife,  the president of her family’s Halloween costume company,  in the presence of family, friends and political associates at the First United Methodist Church.

This is the second marriage for both the governor and the former Ms Rome.

While invited guests helped the newly weds celebrate their union,  a few protesters organized by Impact Florida gathered in the park across the street from the  church to demonstrate their displeasure with the fact gays in Florida can not enjoy the same freedom to marry the one they love.

We’re sending holiday blessings along with best wishes for the season to our friends at the Love and Charity Mission in Racine, Wisconsin and Love and Charity Mission II in Memphis, Tennessee.

picture credit: Jim Bovin-Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mother Louis Hunter-Milligan is the founder and leader of the mission, who for  more than forty years has made a positive and lasting impression upon hundreds, if not thousands of less fortunate men, women and children, people who have passed through the doors of this charitable mission. (more…)

An Iraqi news reporter tossed two shoes at American President George W. Bush during a news conference during his most recent secret trip to Iraq.

We believe no insult was intended, even though security dragged the reporter away. We think it’s cultural; a different way of saying good-bye to a beloved dignitary.

Myron Rolle wants to be a professional football player, and a neurosurgeon, as well as a successful Rhodes Scholar.

Many have said Rolle is over-hyped and over-rated.  Even FSU’s defensive coordinator, Mickey Andrews, last year criticized Rolle for, get this, studying too much! (more…)

The buzz everywhere is that Bernard Madoff’s investment business was nothing but a fraud. Word on the street is that it’s been fraudulent for at least the past ten years of its existence! (more…)