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The All Progressives Congress on Thursday urged the Peoples Democratic Party to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians.

The APC said it was wrong, irresponsible and uncharitable for the PDP to seek to make political gains out of the worsening insecurity and increasing terror attacks in the country.

This was contained in a statement signed by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital.

According to the party, Nigerians are too discerning to be hoodwinked by PDPs ceaseless finger-pointing and name calling, as exhibited by the partys overly-exuberant and rarely-introspecting spokesman.

In response, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the opposition party was simply trying to vent its frustrations on innocent Nigerians.

Metuh said, Their statements are as ugly as their looks and their actions. They are carrying their personal frustrations on Nigerians; we are a peaceful nation, they should leave us alone.

However, the APC insisted that Nigerians who watched the live telecast of the APC rally in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday saw how the party, left with no choice than to proceed with the rally in view of the suddenness of the Jos bombings and the fact that INEC could not be prevailed upon to change the timetable of the Ekiti polls, made it as sober as possible under the circumstances.

The APC statement partly read, Despite the presence of musical groups and other performers, all musical breaks in the programme and all other scheduled performances were cut out, while the rally itself was drastically abridged. There is no doubt that the PDPs spokesman did not even bother to get the full details of the rally before rushing to the media in his usual jumpy self.

Mr. Olisah Metuh is definitely eager to act like an opposition spokesman rather than the spokesman for the ruling party. This is not a problem as his party is definitely fighting hard to trade places with the APC as the main opposition party come 2015. We can only appeal to Mr. Metuh to wait for a few more months and, in the meantime, start learning the ropes as an opposition spokesman.

The party equally reminded the PDP that the Ekiti rally was not the same thing as the illegal rally in Kano, where President Goodluck Jonathan led other PDP leaders to engage in Azonto dance less than 24 hours after 75 of his compatriots were killed in the first Nyanya bombing.

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Bible teaches us to reward achievement but liberals disagree

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A recent study found liberals were more likely to fib about attending servicesshowing there's still a greater stigma against atheism than belief.

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Last week, the Public Religion Research Institute published a study showing that Americans want their fellow citizens to think they are more religiously observant than they really are. When asked by a live human being on the telephone how often they attend religious services, respondents were more likely to say they attend frequently. When filling out a self-administered online survey, by contrast, they were more likely to admit that they do not.

Surprising? Not terribly. But this may be: Liberals were more likely to exaggerate their religious attendance than conservatives. Liberals attend services less frequently than conservatives do. Yet their desire to be thought more religiously observant than they actually are is greater.

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Why does this matter? Because its more evidence that the claim that liberals are waging a war on religion is absurd. You can hardly listen to a GOP presidential hopeful or flip on Fox News without hearing the charge. In 2012, Rick Perry promised that if elected hed end Obamas war on religion. Bobby Jindal recently warned that the American people, whether they know it or not, are mired in a silent war against a group of like-minded [liberal] elites, determined to transform the country from a land sustained by faith into a land where faith is silenced, privatized, and circumscribed. Ann Coulter explains, Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they cant stand the competition.

Notice the claim. Its not merely that liberals are not religious themselves. Its that they disdain people who are, and this disdain creates a cultural stigma (and a legal barrier) to religious observance. Bigotry against evangelical Christians is the last acceptable form of bigotry in the country, Ralph Reed said recently.

The truth is almost exactly the reverse. Over the past few decades, liberals havefar more than conservativesturned away from religious affiliation, though not necessarily belief in God. But while they may feel proud of their views on religion-informed issues like evolution and gay marriage, theyre not particularly proud of their lack of religious observance per se. Indeed, theyre aware that theyre violating a cherished social norm. Asking liberals to admit that they are disproportionately secular is like asking conservatives to admit that they are disproportionately white. Its a truth they find embarrassing. Liberals love left-leaning religious figures like Sister Simone Campbell, the immigrant-rights-championing nun who addressed the 2012 Democratic National Convention, for the same reason conservatives love right-wing African Americans like Herman Cain and Dr. Ben Carson: They defy a negative stereotype.

After all, if liberals really stigmatized the religious, wouldnt some of them have objected when John Kerry flaunted his Catholicism in 2004 or Barack Obama flaunted his adult embrace of Christianity in 2008? Is there a single example, even in the most liberal city or district, of one Democratic candidate trying to outdo the other by proclaiming herself more hostile to religious belief?

I doubt it, because most secular liberals understandeven if Fox News commentators dontthat Americas last acceptable religious prejudice isnt against evangelical Christians. Its against atheists. According to a 2008 poll, more than two-thirds of American atheists said they feared the repercussions in their community if they openly declared their belief that there is no god.

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QUEBEC CITY There was a nervousness in the air as MNAs faced off in the very first Question Period since the April elections.

Premier Philippe Couillard fielded some tough questions on the economy, but the biggest blow came with the news that yet another Liberal is being called to testify at the Charbonneau Commission.

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The Premier is an experienced politician, but the magnitude of the change Quebecers voted for on April 7 has only just started to sink in.

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That didnt stop Couillard from cracking a few jokes though saying he was glad he would now get to see the right side of the Speakers face.

I hope that goes on for another four and a half years, laughed Jacques Chagnon, Speaker of the National Assembly and MNA of WestmountSaint-Louis.

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Chagnon says he hopes good relations between the parties will last but that didnt stop the Parti Qubcois from launching its first attack.

The Premier is leading the province toward a credit rating downgrade, said Stephane Bedard, the PQs interim leader.

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Sen. Menendez Talks Immigration Reform One Year After Legislation Passed Crucial Committee Hurdle
Senator Bob Menendez talks about immigration reform on the Senate Floor exactly one year after the Senate #39;s "Gang of 8" legislation passed the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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