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The weepy one, who died of colon cancer, had this to say about regrets over the collapse of the Praise The Lord ministry she ran with her corrupt, philandering ex-husband, Jim Bakker. From the BBC story: “I believe when I leave this Earth because I love the Lord, am going straight to heaven,” a gaunt [...]
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From the NYT: France is the country that produced the Enlightenment, Descartes’s one-liner, “I think, therefore I am,” and the solemn pontifications of Jean-Paul Sartre and other celebrity philosophers. But in the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, thinking has lost its cachet. In proposing a tax-cut law last week, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde bluntly advised [...]
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