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A new survey of 30,000 high school students by the Josephsen Institute reveals: 30 percent admitted stealing from a store within the past year. 42 percent said that they sometimes lie to save money. 64 percent cheated on a test during the past year (38 percent did so two or more times), up from 60…

Amy Sullivan, National Correspondent for Time Magazine, says that during the election season pro-Obama religious liberals felt “thrown under a bus” by the Obama campaign. Many had gone out on a limb to say Obama favored abortion reduction. But the campaign then went into a minor panic after Sarah Palin’s selection, fearing she would help…

A guest post by Rev. Susan K. Smith I heard a statistic on Monday that sobered me. I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio). It was AIDS Awareness Day, and the reporter said that in Washington, D.C., over 90 percent of all newly-reported AIDS cases are African American women. Whoa. They did some interviews…

Greed is not just the province of wealthy bankers. The stampede at a Walmart on Long Island reminded us that greed, one of the classic Seven Deadly Sins, can grip anyone, anywhere. From the New York Daily News account about the death of 34-year-old temporary employee, Jdimytai Damour Roughly 2,000 people gathered outside the Wal-Mart’s…

Planetwire.org, a website on family planning issues, reports: Two new radio advertisements for condom use began to target Catholics in the U.S. Hispanic community here today, World AIDS Day, with the message that “good Catholics use condoms” to protect the people they love. Full report here.

As a leading Latino evangelical, Sam Rodriguez occupies a fascinating spot on the political landscape. Latinos went decisively for Obama but also supported Proposition 8 in California banning gay marraige. Rodriquez is President of National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and as such understands the oft-misunderstood religious contours of the Latino vote better than anyone. In…

About two months ago I sagely predicted that mainline Protestants would flood to Obama and white evangelicals (thanks to Obama’s positions on abortion, Sarah Palin and other factors) wouldn’t go anywhere near him. It looks like I got it pretty much exactly backward. I’ve written elsewhere why I think evangelicals did move to Obama in…

Stephen Colbert and Elvis Costello offer a new Christmas Carol, hailing “a redeemer, and a savior, an obese giving toys for good behavior” and arguing that there are “much worse things to believe in.”“…Believe in the judgment, believe in jihad, believe in a thousand variations on a dark and spiteful God…” The Colbert ReportMon –…

To invoke a much-overused cliche that seems to keep popping into my head today, we are all Chabadniks now. The Brooklyn-based Hasidic group comes in for its share of criticism, but today all Jews–all people–can do little but mourn those who fell in the Mumbai massacre. For those not familiar with Chabad, the first question…

365,000 died because Thabo Mbeki didn’t believe HIV caused AIDS. These people, a new study concluded, would have accounted for 3.8 million years of life. Apparently, Mbeki didn’t believed that AIDS science grew out of a racist conspiracy to oppress black Africans.
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