At Contentions, Bill Siegel has an excellent analysis in which he compares the 'Palestinians' to alcoholics or drug addicts. The entire concept of a “peace process” is, perhaps, the enabler’s most seductive tool. Peace does not require a process. When peace or the...
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Disgraced ex-church pastor Ted Haggard, along with his wife Gayle, took to the Oprah Winfrey show today to promote the new HBO documentary about his fall, "The Trials of Ted Haggard," and discuss his life-long...
"Stress shown to Shrink your Brain Feeling stressed? Well here is another good reason not to be so. It has now been discovered by scientists that if you experience long term...
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This is the town I went to high school in, and it's 60 miles south of where I just moved from. I knew Patricia Haggard."REDDING, Calif. -- A 63-year-old man is dead after shooting three people, one fatally, burning his estranged girlfriend and then shooting himself with a...
Everyone remembers Larry Craig from the 'foot tapping scandal' but few appreciated that this matter was part of much bigger investigation by the local paper. Yesterday, reports of 8 incidents where Craig allegedly...
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Trouble for Larry Craig:"BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported Sunday.
One of the men is the former escort whose...
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"The megachurch founded by the Reverend Ted Haggard, who was fired over drug and sex allegations, has laid off 44 people amid falling income following the scandal.
The cuts, announced during services in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Sunday, amount to about 12% of the...
DENVER Feb 6, 2007 (AP)— One
of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for
the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that
he is "completely heterosexual." Haggard also said his sexual contact with men
was...
In the footsteps of such venerable characters as Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Baker, Ted Haggard's hypocritical fall from grace is almost a cliche now. Except that Haggard alledgedly out-sinned even the finest fallen angels. After being accused of getting hopped up on...
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"DENVER (Reuters) - A second Colorado evangelical leader in little over a month has resigned from the pulpit over a scandal involving gay sex, church officials said on Tuesday.Paul Barnes has resigned from the 2,100-member Grace Chapel, a church he founded in suburban Denver,...
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Dan Savage writes a truly savage and witty column in today's Village Voice, and threatens CNN's Paula Zahn with scatalogical harm. Adopting an ersatz evangelical tone, Savage preaches to his followers to "make a...