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Tammy Faye Messner dies — (CNN) — Tammy Faye Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer who battled drug addiction and later inoperable cancer, died Friday morning, CNN's Larry King said Saturday night. He said the family had asked him to make the delayed announcement. — She was 65.
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Anita Gates / New York Times:
Tammy Faye Bakker, 65, Emotive Evangelist, Dies — Tammy Faye Bakker, the diminutive and elaborately coiffed gospel singer who, with her first husband, Jim Bakker, built a commercial empire around television evangelism only to see it collapse in sex and money scandals, died Friday at her home near Kansas City, Mo. She was 65.
Gateway Pundit:
Goodness... What's Happened to France? — ** Pajamas Media has the official response from the US Embassy on this unbelievable development in France. — Here's a closer look: — Volunteers form a human chain to honor fallen U.S. troops in World War Two and form the words …
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Think Progress:
Kristol Rips YearlyKos, Run By A 'Left-Wing Blogger' Who Was 'Not Respectable 3-4 Years Ago' — Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol attacked the Democratic presidential candidates for their decision to attend the YearlyKos blogger convention.
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Look who's holding hostages again — How do you feel about the American hostages in Iran? — No, not the guys back in the Seventies, the ones being held right now. — What? You haven't heard about them? — Odd that, isn't it? But they're there.
Rod Liddle / Times of London:
BBC in need — Poor old Auntie Beeb is unwell. She's confused and no longer knows right from wrong, truth from fakery — The BBC executive board gathered for its regular meeting last Tuesday morning for coffee, biscuits and meltdown. The previous evening, at 5pm …
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Christopher Booker / Telegraph:
Christopher Booker's notebook — A lunatic crop of laws for global warming — The cool wet summer of 2007 may be looked back on as the moment when global warming finally got serious: in two respects. First, we are beginning to see the scarcely credible costs of the legislation our politicians …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Kit Bond and the credibility of war supporters — Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri, one of George Bush's most blindly loyal Senatorial servants, wrote a letter yesterday to the New York Times which contained a startling admission tossed in as a throwaway line: … Bond told AP the same thing:
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New York Times:
Yes, We're Safer (1 Letter) — To the Editor: — Re "Same People, Same Threat" (news analysis, front page, July 18): — It is disappointing to read the twist that the Democrats and the mainstream media put on the recent National Intelligence Estimate. — Your news analysis asks, "Are we safer?"
Maggie Jones / New York Times:
How Can You Distinguish a Budding Pedophile From a Kid With Real Boundary Problems? — In the early 1980s, a therapist named Robert Longo was treating adolescent boys who had committed sex offenses. Their offenses ranged from fondling girls a few years younger than they were to outright rape of young children.
Pupster / Innocent Bystanders:
John Edwards, Esq. — A few months ago, Mrs. Pupster told me she had collected enough Coke rewards points for another magazine subscription, and since none of the choices appealed to her, she picked one for me. "Maxim?" I asked hopefully, "Guns and Ammo? Field and Stream? ESPN?" Uhm...no.
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Christopher Torchia / Associated Press:
Turks Cast Ballots for New Parliament — ANKARA, TURKEY - — Turks voted for a new Parliament on Sunday in a contest viewed as pivotal in determining the balance between Islam and secularism in this nation of more than 70 million. — Many people cut short vacations to head home to cast their ballots …
John Bolton / Times of London:
Does Britain really want to be Belgium? — When John Bolton left the United Nations, some of the fun went out of the multi-storey talking shop. No longer was the walrus-moustached rightwinger there to cast barbs at the silver-tongued bureaucrats who took pride in peddling compromises …
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Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign — As you may have seen today, TMZ.com has obtained two photos of Mitt Romney posing with a supporter in South Carolina. The supporter was holding a sign with the homemade writing, "NO TO OBAMA OSAMA AND CHELSEA'S MOMA" (sic).
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