Too small for a golf ball: What’s that on Mars?

Too small for a golf ball: What’s that on Mars?

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION / NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS How did these Martian rocks form? As the robotic Curiosity rover has approached Pahrump Hills on Mars, it has seen an interesting and textured landscape dotted by some unusual rocks. The featured image shows a curiously round rock spanning about two centimeters across. Seemingly a […]

Evangelicals from the dark side: Terrorism filling a spiritual void?

Evangelicals from the dark side: Terrorism filling a spiritual void?

There is so far no evidence to suggest that Alton Nolen, the man who is accused of beheading a coworker in Moore, Okla., Thursday, has any formal connection with terror groups. Yet there is also little doubt that Mr. Nolen was deeply sympathetic toward extremist Muslim groups, posting rambling Islamist invectives, photos of Osama bin […]

California charter school bans all books by or about Christians

California charter school bans all books by or about Christians

It’s hard to imagine that any school would have a problem with a book about a Christian family that helped Jews escape the Holocaust. But Springs Charter Schools in Temecula, Calif., not only had a problem with “The Hiding Place,” they also took issue with any other book that was written by a Christian author […]

Christianity was finished in Iraq even before the advent of ISIL

Christianity was finished in Iraq even before the advent of ISIL

IRBIL — In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention, President Obama mentioned the need to help Christians and other minorities, expelled from cities and villages in northern Iraq, return from where they came. “We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their […]

Kurdish forces reportedly liberate Christian villages overrun by ISIL

Kurdish forces reportedly liberate Christian villages overrun by ISIL

Several Christian villages that were overrun by members of [Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (or Syria)  ISIS were recaptured by Kurdish peshmerga forces after a clash in northern Iraq that resulted in the death of a senior commander in the terror group on Tuesday. Reports from the AFP and AINA highlighted the victories. In […]

Comet 67P, up close and personal

Comet 67P, up close and personal

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION / ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team; MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/Elisabetta Bonora & Marco Faccin (Alive Universe Images) Spacecraft Rosetta continues to approach, circle, and map Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Crossing the inner Solar System for ten years to reach the vicinity of the comet last month, the robotic spacecraft continues to […]

Apocalypse? No, an ‘unraveling’ of what had passed for civilization

Apocalypse? No, an ‘unraveling’ of what had passed for civilization

NY Times Op-ed It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? It was a time of beheadings. With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads of two American journalists and a British […]

Hypocrisy on the Left over nude selfies

Hypocrisy on the Left over nude selfies

Ben Shapiro, Breitbart.com Over the weekend, a hacker posted nude photos of actresses including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, Lea Michele, Christina Aguilera, and Kirsten Dunst, among others. This prompted rightful anger on all sides of the aisle, as well as an FBI investigation. Then, comedian Ricky Gervais suggested that […]

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