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15 hours ago ago from Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

God Is Not Great author Christopher Hitchens got a feel for the evangelical climate at the Air Force Academy in May and came away with some troubling questions. In a column headlined In Defense of Foxhole Atheists, he asks: Is there a clique within the United States military that is seeking to use the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as an opportunity to mount a new crusade and to Christianize the Seems like that concern didn't end with the ...

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On this date (December 17, 2001), United States Marines raised the Stars and Stripes over the long abandoned American Embassy in Kabul, inaugurating what United States envoy James F. Dobbins promised would be a long commitment to the rebuilding.

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The number above is the national debt of the United States (at 11:30am on 12/16). You hear this number all the time on the news, but how often do you think about the magnitude of $12 trillion. The number becomes extremely daunting if you put things in perspective: The estimated population of the United States is 308,000,000 so each citizen's share of this debt is $39,371.96. Twelve trillion dollars could cover 46 thousand square miles about ...

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