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One of Central Florida's best-known religious properties, the former forum for televangelist Benny Hinn's sermons, will hit the auction block Tuesday. It's the result of a multimillion-dollar foreclosure that displaced the property's most recent congregation, that of pastor Clint Brown's...

beyond the usual good-natured rib-tickling pick-on-barry thread fare: WASHINGTON — It’s not the kind of history Barack Obama planned on making — but Americans now rate him as the worst president since World War II. With two years left to go in his second term, Obama “beat out” predecessor...

so you might as well hear this from uncle locutus first: White Sox Gave Fans White Ponchos, Which Turned Into Pictures of People in White Hoods John Danks had 10 strikeouts in a White Sox 3-2 win over the Angels on Wednesday. It was a rainy night, so the club apparently gave out white...

US Civil War Pictures more here Pictures of the Civil War Select Audiovisual Records National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC 20408 Civil War Photos

YES! yabut... Irving Shipbuilding has announced four aboriginal tradespeople will be hired by a subcontractor as part of a signing and roofing contract for the National Shipbuilding...

Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis. Her photograph was chosen as the image...

Dean Skoreyko ‏@bcbluecon "Pembina Foundation and Pembina Institute have received nearly $7 million from American foundations" http://linkis.com/com/924fY It is no coincidence that U.S. foundations are funding a...

Fired employee suing company over racist paint names A black worker named Clinton Tucker claims in court that Benjamin Moore paints fired him after his repeated complaints about their “despicable and racially insulting paint colours called ‘Clinton Brown’ and ‘Tucker Chocolate.’” Tucker...

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris has been found guilty of 12 counts of indecently assaulting four girls in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. One of the victims was a childhood friend of his daughter, another was an autograph hunter aged seven or eight. Prosecutors said Harris was...

^ via drudge Paris (AFP) - France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling, French prosecutors said Wednesday, a dramatic move in a criminal probe that could wreck his hopes of a political comeback. The decision came after Sarkozy was...

Justin Trudeau is going to bring in a carbon tax. Just like his dad, Pierre Trudeau, did. His dad called it the National Energy Program, and claimed it was for national sovereignty reasons, or whatever excuse worked with the media of the day. It's 2014, so the excuse now is "the...

TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford was dogged by fans and detractors as he made a series of public appearances on Canada Day — a day after returning from a stint in a Muskoka rehab. Flanked by staffers and volunteers holding “Ford for Mayor” placards, supporters cheered while residents — who did not...

The Canadian dollar this morning hit its highest point of the year, trading at 94.08 cents US. That's the loonie's highest level against the U.S. dollar since Dec. 31, when the Canadian dollar entered the new year at 94.14 US. The loonie's strength comes despite weakness in one of the...

President Obama once promised to remake America’s image around the globe. He has kept that promise — only not in the way many voters who backed him had hoped. Mr. Obama’s latest step in the image makeover is to tell Canada — the U.S.’s largest trading partner, largest supplier of energy...

heh The Supreme Court issued a contentious 5-4 decision at the end of its term Monday, decreeing that Hobby Lobby — and by extension any other "closely held" family company — did not have to pay for employee contraception under the Affordable Care Act. Furious at the decision, many...

Food stamps have become a major facet of the American system. And as the number of welfare recipients increases, so does the number of items that can be purchased with a food stamp Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card. Government assistant programs have been on a steady recipient...

willie given a free-pass because...he so slick, and cool. short video here: Journalists: Unprofessional 'Professionals' - Small Dead Animals

via sda With Canada's 147th Birthday in mind, Charles Adler hosts an interesting conversation with new immigrants about why they moved to Canada. You can listen to it here.

The unfortunate demise of some douchebag western leader, bombing a plane or kidnap-beheadings are way too 90's...this is how to properly terrorism. power grids, water supplies, internet, air traffic control networks and such. An ongoing cyberespionage campaign against a range of targets...

Thunderbirdski the rest here: These Soviet Concept Vehicles Are Clearly From An Alternate Universe