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FoxNews: Sounds like a pair of Marines have quite a double date in store. Justin Timberlake, after encouraging his “Friends With Benefits” co-star Mila Kunis to accept an admiring Marine’s video invite to the upcoming Marine Corps Ball, has accepted a video invitation to the ball from his own admirer in the Corps. “I don’t [...]

Typically Spanish: The Bishop of Getafe wants the priest to abandon the parish, undergo a psychiatric cure and take an HIV testPhoto from the Antena 3 video below. A Spanish priest, Andrés García Torres, who has a parish in the Madrid dormitory town of Fuenlabrada has said he will go to Rome to show that [...]

Washington Post: The Lutheran denomination that GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann quit in June sought to explain its belief that the papacy is the anti-Christ after reports questioned whether Bachmann is anti-Catholic. Six days before Bachmann officially launched her presidential campaign last month, the Minnesota Republican and her family verbally requested to leave Salem [...]

The Hill: A fall-back plan to avert a national default is under negotiation by Senate leaders and is on track to be unveiled by Wednesday or Thursday of next week, according to a Senate Democratic aide. Senate leaders estimate they will have to have the contingency plan ready to go by Thursday to have enough [...]

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” – Wise old saying Courtesty Gatewaypundit

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Friday that he will return to Cuba to begin a new phase of cancer treatment that will include chemotherapy. Chavez said he would go to Havana on Saturday “to begin what we’ve called the second phase.” Chavez said he was sending a letter to the president [...]

Jeffrey Katzenberg Politico: About 40 percent of President Barack Obama’s record-breaking $86 million second-quarter fundraising haul came from big-money bundlers, according to a POLITICO analysis of donors listed on Obama’s campaign web site. No fewer than 27 mega-bundlers managed to collect at least $500,000 for a joint account run by Obama’s 2012 campaign and the [...]

AFP: The first American soldiers of about 10,000 due to leave Afghanistan this year have flown home, military officials said Friday, kicking off a gradual drawdown due to be completed in 2014. US President Barack Obama in June announced that 33,000 American troops would leave Afghanistan by the end of next summer, leaving behind 65,000 [...]