Jim Schneider led this fast-paced program that featured headlines of interest to Crosstalk listeners.  Here are the stories that were covered in just the first quarter hour alone:

--The U.S. Forest Service in Montana denies a lease extension for a WWII memorial statue of Jesus that’s been maintained by the Knights of Columbus.
--Islamist militant extremists behead a 17 year old Somali Christian near Mogadishu.
--The Justice Department forces a middle-American school district to pay a Muslim teacher $75,000 and implement a sensitivity training course throughout the district after administrators refused to allow the teacher to take 3 weeks off for a trip to Mecca in 2008.
--A Florida appeals court clears the way for a judge to use Islamic law in a lawsuit involving a local mosque.
--In South Africa a teenage girl is in a coma after she and a friend were doused with gasoline in an apparent satanic ritual.
--The Supreme Court will take a first look at the lawsuits challenging Obamacare next month.
--The Obama administration will allow California to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Medi-Cal.
--Family members are barred from visiting a dying loved one when it’s discovered they don’t have the proper HIPAA password.
--The State Department has purchased more than $70,000 worth of books written by President Obama.
--An atheist group is trying to stop student led prayers that invoke the name of Jesus before high school football games in an Alabama school district.
--Two former employees of late term abortionist Kermit Gosnell have plead guilty to third degree murder for their parts in the deaths of an abortion patient and a baby born alive during a failed, late term abortion.