Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Oct 4, 2014

  Under 6 Percent Unemployment Rate May Really Be Double? Economic Experts Explain Why

  While people celebrate the fact that America's unemployment rate has fallen below six percent for the first time since 2008, some economic experts say not so fast and point out the discrepancy between the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed persons.

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  Oct 1, 2014

  Suit Against Pennsylvania Wedding Venue That Declined to Host Same-Sex Weddings Unsuccessful

  A Pennsylvania wedding venue will not have to refund a deposit to a straight couple wedding party that disagrees with the owner's stance on same-sex weddings.

• Oct 1, 2014

  ISIS Threatens Swiss Aid Worker After He Tweets Coordinates of Islamic State Bunker Preventing Aid From Reaching Refugees

  A Swiss humanitarian aid worker in Syria is facing death threats coming from ISIS-associated Twitter accounts after tweeting the location of a bunker seized by Islamic State near the Turkey-Syria border.

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  Sep 30, 2014

  New Iraqi TV Series Devoted to Mocking Islamic State in an Anti-ISIS Propaganda Campaign

  An Iraqi state television station is now airing a nationally televised parody series that directly mocks Islamic State militants and acts as an anti-ISIS propaganda tool, hoping to prevent more people from joining the jihadist movement.

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  Sep 30, 2014

  New AP US History Curriculum Will Make Students Want to 'Sign Up for ISIS,' Ben Carson Jokes

  Retired neurosurgeon and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson, criticized the newly modified AP U.S. History curriculum being taught in America's high schools joking on Monday that after completing the course students would want to "sign up for ISIS."

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  Sep 30, 2014

  'Every Single Christian Wants to Leave' Iraq, Says Vicar of Baghdad

  The Rev. Canon Andrew White, the "Vicar of Baghdad," says he fearful that Christianity might soon become nonexistent in the Nineveh province of northern Iraq after Islamic State militants have seized most of the region's churches and established offices inside church buildings.

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  Sep 29, 2014

  Documentary Highlights First-Hand Accounts of IRS Targeting Conservative, Christian Groups

  A documentary set to be released in October aims to show the American public exactly how the IRS is unfairly treating certain groups by sharing first-hand experiences from those "oppressed" by the IRS.

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  Sep 29, 2014

  Religious Freedom Can Unite Libertarians and Social Conservatives, Experts Agree at Values Voter Summit

  With conservative Christians and Libertarians sharing common ideologies that stand against big government and federal overreaching, the two groups' need to put aside their few differences and unite in order to defeat Democratic agenda that "assaults" on American liberties, a panel of prominent social conservatives agreed Saturday.

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  Sep 27, 2014

  Values Voters Want Ted Cruz, Ben Carson for President in 2016

  The Family Research Council, a social conservative Christian activist group, announced Saturday that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has won the council's annual Values Voter Summit straw poll for the second consecutive year, while retired neurosurgeon and best-selling author Ben Carson finished second in the polling.

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  Sep 26, 2014

  Ted Cruz Says His Father Abandoned Family When He Was 3-Years-Old, Returned After Accepting Christ

  In a speech stressing the importance of protecting America's religious liberties and other inalienable rights that so-called "radical" Democratic policies are trying to limit, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reflected on his own family's path toward the Christian faith, which included his father abandoning him and his mother when he was three years old before returning to them after finding Jesus.