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And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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