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Internet telephony, or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has been around the consumer market for a while now. Personally, our family has been using Vonage for almost 2 years now and let me tell you, the experience has been wonderful. Currently we are paying about $25 per month for both local and long distance phone calls. We no longer pay the added fees traditional telephone companies make consumers pay. ...More

A military unit based at Andrews Air Force Base is making history with its new commander. Colonel Stayce Harris was installed Sunday as the first African-American woman to command an operational Air Force flight wing. She takes command of the 459th air refueling wing with Sunday's change-of-command ceremony. (click here for the rest of the story along with a video stream) Congratulations, sis!! More

For just a moment, forget all the emotions surrounding your take on the abortion issue. The question "Does abortion puts the next baby at risk?" deserves an answer that is worth the investment of research and investigation. Below is an excerpt of an article that possibly provides some answers to this question: Having an abortion almost doubles a woman's risk of giving birth dangerously early in a later pregnancy, according to ...More

Juliette Ochieng recently posted a piece that basically asks the question "why is there more women in the church than men?" This is something that I have touched on sometime ago, but I think the issue calls for a revisit simply because this is something that thought about, but rarely talked about. Having been an avid church-goer for many years (since the age of 7), I have always noticed that ...More

Newsweek magazine said on Sunday it erred in a May 9 report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article... Editor Mark Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Muslim holy book down the toilet. The report sparked angry and violent protests ...More