63% of Non-Citizen Households, and other links

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• 63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs -- "Of non-citizens in Census Bureau data, roughly half are in the country illegally. Non-citizens also include long-term temporary visitors (e.g. guestworkers and foreign students) and permanent residents who have not naturalized (green card holders)."
• An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities -- "A superheated blast from the skies obliterated cities and farming settlements north of the Dead Sea around 3,700 years ago, preliminary findings suggest."
• Child Euthanasia without Parent Approval Pushed for Canada -- "Remember, the issue here is whether doctors should be allowed to kill children. One would think that — at a bare minimum — such homicides should require parental permission. But no."
• Coptic Woman Details Horrors of Living as a Christian Female in Egypt: ‘It’s Hell’ -- "Magdy stated that Christian women are afraid to file reports because they fear police will discriminate against them if they do."
• Character Matters: George H. W. Bush -- "George Bush was beacon of civility in a cruel profession."
• Does God Try? -- "Think about the notion of God ‘trying’ to do something. Is the idea of God ‘trying’ actually a sound way to think about Him?"
• Missionary Martyrs: Are We Paying Too High a Price to Evangelize the World? -- "In following Christ by laying down their lives, Charles and John did no more than follow the example of Jesus."
• New CPRC Research: Mass Public Shootings are much higher in the rest of the world and increasing much more quickly -- "The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase over time has been much bigger than for the United States."
• Pontius Pilate’s Name Is Found on 2,000-Year-Old Ring -- "The language of the ring’s inscription is Greek, which Roman officials used to communicate with the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean."
• Southern Baptist agency warns ‘eugenics is real’ in Supreme Court brief about Down syndrome and abortion -- "This country will one day shudder at the thought of a child being snuffed out in the womb simply because that child had an extra chromosome. The abortion industry’s defense of abortions based on sex, race and disability exposes their thirst for profit."
• The decision to close BTSR was gut-wrenching. It was also necessary. -- "There were many difficult but honest discussions, sometimes leading to tears and always undergirded with prayer."
• The substitute teacher who told kids Santa wasn’t real gets the boot -- "School officials say a substitute teacher who told first-grade students in New Jersey that Santa Claus isn't real will not be returning to the school."
• Video: Man Confronts Teacher Who Put His Grandson in a Dress -- "Irate leftists have posted the video, originally shared by the grandfather, to demonstrate his homophobia and bigotry."