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"BORN AGAIN; HERE IN AMERICA"

Mother's Love Brings Newborn Son "Back to Life."
UK paper says: "Miracle mum brings premature baby son back to life with two hours of loving cuddles after doctors pronounce him dead."

Telling It Like It Is - Political News:

Despite hiring, US unemployment rate seems frozen.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work.

Scarcity of jobs puts more at risk of foreclosure
1 in 10 homeowners with a mortgage is at risk of foreclosure as unemployment remains high. The jobs crisis is putting more Americans at risk of losing their homes.

Israelis and Palestinians urged to stick to peace talks after Hamas attack kills four in West Bank.

Private sector unexpectedly cuts jobs in August
U.S. private employers unexpectedly cut jobs in August, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday, delivering another blow to the already faltering economic recovery.

Gallup poll - Republicans Take 10-Point Lead over Dems. 51% Voters for Republicans 41for Dems

Troops Come Home to Tough Economy
Returning troops will face a deep recession and some may resort to taking lower paying jobs so that they can provide for their families. There is help available through the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Will we allow Pastor Mayandy to be executed like Terri Schiavo?
Pastor Joshua Kulendran Mayandy was being treated in a hospital in Brampton, Canada. They have now decided to withhold food and water from him, allowing him to slowly die of dehydration and starvation, just like Terri Schiavo.

Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally Draws Hundreds of Thousands. Sharpton Leads Counter-Rally.
Just steps away from where Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech 47 years ago, conservative commentator Glenn Beck today fervently declared that "America today begins to turn back to God."

Telling It Like It Is - Political News:

1.6 gross domestic product: grim economic outlook The revision is a significant slowdown from the annual rate of 3.7 percent in the first quarter and 5 percent in the last three months of 2009.

U.S. to Remove Temporary Cap From BP Gulf Oil Well
NEW ORLEANS -- The U.S. government said engineers will start work Monday to remove the temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing out of BP's blown-out Gulf well so that crews can raise a key piece of equipment from the seabed.

Video: White House submits historic report to U.N.
U.S. One of Worst Human Rights Offenders?

Celebrating Mother Teresa's 100th birthday and the irony at the Empire State Building.

Recovery in danger as firms, homebuyers cut back
WASHINGTON – The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades.

Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, "As we expected, the baseless lawsuit promoted by the Louisiana abortion industry to temporarily stall our 'Ultrasound Before Abortion Act' has been cleared up," said Benjamin Clapper, Executive Director of the Louisiana Right to Life Federation. "This life-saving piece of legislation will now go into effect in abortion facilities across Louisiana."

Court Blocks New Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research A federal judge temporarily blocked the Obama administration Monday from using federal dollars to fund expanded human embryonic stem cell research, saying the research involves the destruction of embryos.

Egg Recall Exposes Gaps in Federal Oversight Two federal agencies are downplaying their oversight roles in the wake of a massive egg recall that so far has affected 22 states and shined a light on what lawmakers and watchdogs for years have claimed is a broken system.

Obama admin. blocks release of pivotal HHS abstinence study
A taxpayer-funded study that indicates parental and adolescent support of abstinence education is not being released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as it does not support the administration's objective - or that of vocal "safe sex" activists - of eliminating all abstinence-education funding.

U.S. on Target to Remove Combat Troops From Iraq by Month's End U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait. U.S. military officials are hustling to reduce the number of troops in Iraq to 50,000 to meet President Obama's Aug. 31 deadline for an end to U.S. combat operations.