Forget his role in building the Panama Canal or his responsibility for America’s emergence as a world superpower with our victory in the Spanish-American War. Teddy Roosevelt is the reason America has football. In most other countries around the globe, “football” is soccer, the world’s most popular sport. However, in America, it evolved from a controversial, injury-ridden…

Homosexual New York Episcopalians will be allowed on Sunday to get married by priests in Brooklyn and Queens, but not in the Bronx or Manhattan or on Staten Island; in Syracuse but not in Albany, reports the New York Times. That is because the Episcopal church nationally has not taken a firm position nationally on…

Pornography opponent Morality in Media says children are encountering pornography on the Internet at alarming rate — with their average first exposure coming at age 11. MIM’s four-week “Be Aware: Porn Harms” National Awareness Campaign enters its second week on July 18th. Dawn Hawkins, MIM’s Executive Director and director of the campaign, said pornography’s consequences for…

Toward the end of his testimony before the British Parliament Tuesday, Australian news mogul Rupert Murdoch apparently was the target of shaving cream thrown by a spectator — who was promptly slugged by the News Corporation chairman’s wife. The dramatic scene unfolded inside the House of Commons hearing where Murdoch, who also owns Fox News Channel,…

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