“The US government has agreed to pay $3.4bn (£2.1bn) to settle a long-running case over Native American land.  The Cobell case, filed in 1996, alleged the government had mismanaged billions of dollars in income from natural resources on Native American

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davidl on December 8th, 2009

Biology is not a mortal sin.    We can not be held to account over those actions for which we have no control.   I that light, I reject the Jimmy Carter standard that it is a sin to have lust in

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davidl on December 8th, 2009

Man bite dog, and I link to Barbara Walter    Jenny Sanford on her husband chronic infidelity, from Brad Larosa and Lauren Sher, ABC News:

“It’s been a crazy year. … Certainly his actions hurt me, and they caused consequences

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2009
  • MESSAGE TO RICK SANTORUM: Go home. You’re neither wanted nor needed. Particularly, as POTUS.
  • ACORN: NO ILLEGALITY? The Politico:

    An outside review of the beleaguered community group ACORN has found “serious management challenges,” but no pattern of illegal activity.

    The

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