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    Churches Putting Town Out of Business

    STAFFORD, Texas — They are not the words one expects to hear from a politician or a Southerner, and Leonard Scarcella is both: "Our city has an excessive number of churches." Scarcella is mayor of this Houston-area community, which has 51 churches and other religious institutions packed into...
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    Would this be considered an activist judicial decision?

    Both now in NY and in Washington, bans on publicly voted gay marriages have been upheld with the rational of the majority being, and a paraphrased summation; "limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation (and) is essential to the survival of the human race." Ok all you strict...
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    Conservative Anger Grows Over Bush's Foreign Policy

    "Conservatives complain that the United States is hunkered down in Iraq without enough troops or a strategy to crush the insurgency. They see autocrats in Egypt and Russia cracking down on dissenters with scant comment from Washington, North Korea firing missiles without consequence, and Iran...
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    I don't recall any prayer in school

    I am in my 40s, I went to school in both the Los Angeles school districts, and in Tacoma Washington, and there was never any school sanctioned prayer. Never in school; never at sporting events, never at assemblies. I remember there being what we called a "Bible Bus" after school on Fridays were...
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    Homeland Security Ranks Indiana As State With Most Terror Targets…

    WASHINGTON, July 11 — It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that achild might have written: Old MacDonald’s Petting Zoo, the Amish Country Popcorn factory, the Mule Day Parade, the Sweetwater Flea Market and an unspecified “Beach at End of a Street.” "....The National Asset Database, as...
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    Religion Taking A Left Turn?

    (CBS) At a church in Washington, hundreds of committed Christians met recently and tried to map out a strategy to get their values into the political debate. But these are not the conservative Christian values which have been so influential lately. This is the religious left. "Jesus called...
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    Iraq calls for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S.

    "June 24, 2006 - A timetable for withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq. Amnesty for all insurgents who attacked U.S. and Iraqi military targets. Release of all security detainees from U.S. and Iraqi prisons. Compensation for victims of coalition military operations. Those sound like the...
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    Test: A. Hitler -vs- A. Coulter...no cheating.

    http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jac3he/GiveUpQuiz/gradequiz.php
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    Iraqi "when they stand up, we'll stand down" math.

    Feel free to input or correct any errors. Right now we have roughly 140,000 troops in Iraq trying to keep it under control, not counting the Iraqi battalions not quite ready yet. In otherwords, there are a whole lot of forces over there combined taking on this task, and that's not counting the...
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    Video of Pat Robertson leg pressing 1000lbs..

    ...well, make that a video of Pat doing 'self assisted slight knee bends' with a 1000lbs.... Not something your average 76 year old would do, but diffenately not leg presses...
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    Lioness in zoo kills man who invoked God

    "KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday. "The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes...
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    Would they be beyond taking advantage of one's faith?

    "In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and...
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    Attorney General prepared to quit over Jefferson probe.

    "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and director Robert S. Mueller III said this week that they were prepared to quit if the White House directed them to relinquish evidence seized in a disputed search of a House member's office, The New York Times reported on Saturday...
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    "Lazy Ramadi"

    This "Lazy Ramadi" is a remix of SNL's "Lazy Sunday." Not to bad...
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    Ouote of the week:

    "Even baby Jesus accepted gifts and I don't believe it corrupted him." - Rep. Drew Saunders, D-Mecklenburg, in support of an amendment to the legislative ethics bill that lowers the monetary threshold on gifts lawmakers may receive from neighbors and state employees.
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    DNA Study Maps Human-Chimp Split

    "NEW YORK - One of the most detailed comparisons yet of human and chimp DNA shows that the split between the two species was a long, messy affair that may even have featured an unusual evolutionary version of breakup sex Previous genetic research has shown that chimpanzees and humans are...