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If the Church allowed women to be priests, the pews would be as full as mosques are right now. The message from headquarters was sent to field agents worldwide: “This is your mission, if you choose to accept it. Take one of the most powerful institutions in the history of mankind and change it so radically—in all the wrong ways—that in the span of 50 years, it will be a shell of its former self, relegated to a backwater shaped only by the sad ghosts of the past.” Was this a Mission Impossible communiqué sent at the height of the...

This animation is to reveal how demoralizing it must be to wildlife in hunting season’s first day.

Dubai investment group buys midtown landmark Friday, November 11, 2005 By Aleksandrs Rozens Associated Press NEW YORK - A Dubai-based investment firm Thursday said it has purchased 230 Park Avenue, a 34-story office high-rise in midtown Manhattan. The property, commonly known as the Helmsley Building, sits above Grand Central Terminal's underground commuter train and subway complex. The buyer, Istithmar PJSC, purchased the building for $705 million. The seller was 230 Park Avenue Investors LLC, of which Robert Bass of Fort Worth Texas is a lead investor. Current tenants include ING Baring, Tokio Marine and the Bank of Argentina. The building...

Does anyone have any links to the count of dead in Iraq? Such as number of Iraqi's? Number of insurgents? Etc.? Of course trying to find anything accurate on the web is real hard since there is so much left wing noise out there. Thanks.

Democratic Party "defense hawk" Rep. John Murtha is racheting up his criticism of the war in Iraq, by urging young men and women not to join the military - a position apparently shared by his close congressional ally, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Asked during an interview broadcast Monday night if he would "join the military today," the decorated Vietnam combat veteran told "ABC's Nightline" - "No." Murtha kept his answers brief, allowing "Nightline" interviewer John Donovan to spin his comments. "I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want...

... "Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense. It is at least impeachable as having a sexual escapade under the Oval Office desk and lying about it later."

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My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend. He was once a lieutenant governor – but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984. In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986,...