Cover Story | Ten years ago Governor George W. Bush jump-started his faith-based initiative by standing up to Texas bureaucrats over licenses for Teen Challenge. Now Bush administrators in Washington are hassling Teen Challenge groups around the country. The reason? Licensing.
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In this issue: "Faith-based about-face," Aug. 27, 2005
"If Social Security were a worker instead of a government program,
it probably would have retired several years ago."
Heritage Foundation president Edwin…
Going postal It's not quite "man bites dog," but Louisiana police
weren't amused with Mark D. Plumb's antics. The Butler, Mo., man
was arrested in Houma, La.,
Movies |
In a scene near the midway point of Broken Flowers, Bill Murray
silently stares down at his dinner plate and stacks crinkle-cut
carrot rondelles on his fork.
Television |
Al Gore's television network Current-TV, which he bought with other
investors, is not, as many assumed, a liberal version of Fox News.
Nor does it have…
Sports |
Right now, millions of football fans are taking their Monday
morning quarterbacking seriously-some would say too seriously. What
sort of sports obsession is…
Money |
Here's a pop quiz for students heading back to college this week:
What goes up but never comes down, defies the rules against
perpetual motion, and increases…
Imagine that Imagine the novel idea of being a missionary in Africa
or elsewhere and sleeping on a dirt floor, swatting flies, and
going behind a tree to do…
