Ted Haggard, who started New Life Church in his Colorado Springs basement and built it into a megachurch with thousands of worshippers, has begun a new church in his living room. "We wanted to do something in our house to connect with friends," said Haggard, whose ties to New Life ended with the revelation that he'd been involved with a male prostitute in Denver.
The latest Army statistics show that 75 percent of military-age youth are ineligible to join the military because they are overweight, can't pass entrance exams, have dropped out of high school or had run-ins with the law. So many young people between the prime recruiting ages of 17 and 24 cannot meet minimum standards that a group of retired military leaders is calling for early childhood education to combat the insidious effects of junk food and inadequate education. "We've never had this problem of young people being obese like we have today," said Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
An Italian judge convicted a CIA station chief and 22 other Americans accused of being CIA agents Wednesday of kidnapping in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan. A symbolic victory, the case was the first ever to contest the United States practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another more open to torture.
Paint the town in pinstripes! Hideki Matsui tied a World Series record with six RBIs, Andy Pettitte won on short rest and the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 on Wednesday night, seizing that elusive 27th title. It was the team's first since winning three straight from 1998-2000.
An arrest has been made after four men were killed in a parking lot in Mount Airy, the small North Carolina town that was the inspiration for Mayberry in television's The Andy Griffith Show. Marcos Chavez Gonzalez was charged with four counts of murder in the shooting late Sunday outside a TV store, police said. Mount Airy, population 8,700, is the hometown of Andy Griffith and has built a tourist trade on nostalgia for the 1960s show that continues to thrive in syndication.
Let AQ murder 3000 Americans? Go back to your history books and read. Your boy's Carter & Clinton own that little "mishap".
It was your boy Chimpy that ignored the PDB stating that OBL was set to the strike in the US.
Your boy is doing a fine job by substituting Afganistan.
#17 | Posted by wisgod
Regarding Afghanistan, aren't you forgetting when Chimpy pulled this whopper out of his Gannon-gaped ass back in'03?
Working with a fine coalition, our military went to Afghanistan, destroyed the training camps of al Qaeda and put the Taliban out of business forever."
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In an interview with CBS's "Early Show," Levi Johnston continued the war against Sarah Palin he has been waging almost daily on his Twitter account. He reiterated negative revelations he made about Palin in a recent Vanity Fair piece, saying that her daughter Bristol played the mom role in her children's lives, and that Palin repeatedly referred to her son Trig as her "retarded baby."
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Bernie Kerik pleads guilty.Chimpy sure knew how to pick'em.
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