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Disposable Army
In today's American war zones, there are more civilian contractors on the ground than combat troops. However, when a contractor is injured or killed, they must face an insurance system that delivers sub-standard care. Failure to enforce companies to purchase mandated worker's compensation insurance for employees and a lack of awareness among hires has resulted in severs gaps of coverage for individuals working in overseas war zones.
Tags: insurance; workers; war zones; overseas; contractors; civilian; private; profits; employees; troops; care; health; coverage;
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The Family
"The family is a story of a self-described 'invisible organization' of Christian conservative activists dedicated to organizing political and business elites into linked small groups they call 'prayer cells' or invisible believing groups.' Members and associates of the Family, also known as the Fellowship, include prominent figures such as senators Sam Brownback, James Ihnofe, and John Ensign; representatives Frank Wolf, Joe Pitts, and Zach Wamp; former attorneys general John Ashcroft and Ed Meese; and many others."
Tags: Christian fundamentalist; Christian Right; government; Focus on the Family; Ivanwald; Arlington, Va.;
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Database Delay
Unethical car sellers putting salvage vehicles on the road has presented a danger to those on the road. KGTV shows how a database could have saved billions of dollars while preventing unnecessary deaths on the road.
Tags: CARFAX; auction; rental car; John Ashcroft; Attorney General; resale; history report;
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The Fall of the House of Bush
Unger's book "examines how and why America took a radical turn to the right under George W. Bush thanks to the coming together of two powerful historic movements, neoconservatism and the Christian Right." It also examines how these two movements influenced the White House and the decision to go to Iraq.
Tags: Iraq; politics; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; IA; war; Christianity; Christian right; neoconservatism; government; intelligence agency
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God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
"Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation's capital. God's Harvard grooms these students to be the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation." The book's aim was "to capture this nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also of crisis, as it struggles to avoid the temptations of modern life and still remake the world in its own image."
Tags: God's Harvard; evangelical movement; Roe V. Wade; gay rights; lawyers; politics; immoral; godless nation
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End-Time Christians Promote War with President Bush's Administration
According to close observers of President George W. Bush, End-Time Christian leaders have influenced Bush so that he has become steeped in the ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse and war with satanic forces in the Middle East. President Bush is also said to be trying to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God’s end-of-days plan.
Tags: Christianity; end of the world; religious impact; doomsday; faith;
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Secret Police
KGTV "audited Sand Diego county law enforcement agencies requesting public records. Working with CalAware, a state-wide open records advocacy group, we went undercover to see how these agencies would comply with California's Open Record laws."
Tags: CalAware; undercover; open record; law enforcement; oral request; written request; public documents
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Hillary's Prayer
Hillary Clinton is involved in a religious prayer circle called "the Fellowship" which includes high-powered politicians that hope to restore Jesus back into Capitol Hill. This article looks into how both politics and faith shape Hillary into the person she is today.
Tags: Christianity; God; Bill Clinton; Senator;
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The Purge
"Christians in Iraq are being hunted, murdered, and driven from their homes in a wave of ethnic cleansing perhaps more brutal than any in the community's 2,000-year history. Before the U.S. invasion, Iraq was home to more than a million Christians- a small but thriving minority, which Saddam Hussein protected. Under the American occupation, Iraq's Christian community, one of the oldest in the world, has been driven towards extinction."
Tags: Iraq; ethnic; religion; Christianity; military; Islam; militants; Middle East
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Exporting Faith
The Boston Globe used "a complete raw database of all USAID awards (prime contracts, grants and agreements) obligated from FY 2001 to FY 2005" to investigate the results of President Bush's Executive Orders that "created the faith based initiative and relaxed federal regulations for religious groups using government funds that once sought to protect church-state separations." The series shows that the percentage of USAID awards going to ngo faith based organizations in 2005 was almost doubled the percentage in 2001, from 10.5% to 19.9%. This creates the potential for problems where aid recipients "might forgo assistance because they don't share in the religion of the provider."
Tags: separation of church and state; faith-based initiatives; foreign aid; executive orders; church-state ties; White House Office of Faith and Community Based Initiatives; President Bush; USAID; NGO; Christian evangelicals; Kenya; Angola; Pakistan; Focus on the Family; James Dobb; FOIA; UNICEF; UNDP; State Department; Samaritan's Purse; National Association of Evangelicals; Americans United for Separation of the Church and State; Global Health Outreach; Offfice of Volunteers for Prosperity; Youth for Christ; World Vision; Yellowbook;