With fanfare befitting its subject, The Discovery Channel has announced its TV special in March 2007 on “The Lost Tomb of Jesus.” The film is directed by James Cameron (”Titanic” 
and Simcha Jacobovici, the latter being also co-author with Charles Pellegrino of the forthcoming book The Jesus Family Tomb.
This media sensation stems from the 1980 [...]
Evidently his Crawford Winter White House has 25,000 gallons of rainwater storage, gray water collection from sinks and showers for irrigation, passive solar, geothermal heating and cooling. “By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.” Furthermore for thermal [...]
Monday is deadline to submit hated phrases.
Published February 25, 2007
At this point in time, we’ve reached the end of the road, if not the end of our ropes.On March 4, The Facts is going to run a list of phrases that because of overuse, misuse or sheer annoyingness, readers think should be banished.
And Monday is [...]
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee [...]
Dear John:
As you know, we’ve been working real hard in our town to get prayer back in the schools. Finally, the school board approved a plan of teacher-led prayer with the children participating at their own option. Children not wishing to participate were to be allowed to stand out in the hallway during the prayer [...]
I recently heard a story of a man in India that carried two pots of water from a brook to his house on each end of a long pole. One pot was perfect, but the other had a crack and by the time he arrived home it would only be half full of water. After [...]
On several occasions the lid was left off of our well and an animal, in at least two cases it was a cat, fell in the well and drowned. Some one would come in the house and said, “There is a dead cat in the well!”
We all knew what had to be done and no one [...]
Two of these fellows are obviously Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty, but the third one I just can’t pin down. Maybe Al Gore or Joe Biden. Hmmm, could be Keith Olbermann, I just can’t tell. Oh! Wait! It’s Al Franken.
Before reading the next paragraph, please answer the following three-part question.
What is the single most significant thing you could begin doing regularly that would: (1) enrich your spiritual life? (2) create a better atmosphere for your family? (3) make you more effective at your work?
Now that you have named this vital and specific thing that [...]
HOUSE HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF THE PLANET’ CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
HEARING NOTICE
Tue Feb 13 2007 19:31:25 ETThe Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse [...]
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