August 31, 2007

Plethora of Current News Stories

Jim Schneider wrapped up the week with an overview of the following stories from the news desk:

-Idaho senator Larry Craig reportedly plans to resign today in the storm over his alleged homosexual advances toward an undercover police officer in a Minneapolis airport restroom.

-Kansas governor issues executive order making it illegal to discriminate against state employees because of their sexual orientation or gender identity regardless of their job performance.

-New York apparel executive and top Democratic fundraiser, wanted as a fugitive in California, has turned himself in to face a grand theft charge.

-Senator Hillary Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason why voters should make her president. The problem is, nerely 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building in Little Rock, Arkansas.

-An Iowa county judge strikes down the state's 1998 defense of marriage act as unconstitutional.

-California governor tells the state Supreme Court that the term, "marriage," can be terminated because registered domestic partners already have all of the same legal rights, benefits, duties and obligations as married couples.

-Ford updates homosexual support with more funding in spite of eight straight monthly sales losses.

-In order to avoid controversy, Planned Parenthood is said to be looking to secretly buy land in various locations.

-Recent Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Canada releases plan establishing United Nations law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law and sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies.

-Radio sensing stations being installed by Communist China to track traffic and cargo up and down the NAFTA superhighway corridor.

-Union Pacific Railroad to build rail terminal alongside I-35 in San Antonio.

-New Arizona law chasing illegal aliens out of state.

-Raid in Ohio chicken plant checks for illegal aliens.

-Two Texas National Guard soldiers admit helping to smuggle illegal immigrants into U.S.

-Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida indicted for carrying explosive materials across state lines.

-New York city public academy is deemed an incubator for Islamic indoctrination.

-A court decision that opens the doors to books about witches at a Pennsylvania elementary school but rejects the Bible as being too proselytizing is being challenged.

-Liberty Counsel files suit against Denver school district over student who was forced to publicly apologize for sharing her faith at her graduation.

-Florida hospital chaplain claims he was fired from his position for including the word, "Jesus" at the end of his prayers.

-Presidential candidate Fred Thompson is not in support of a constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriage.