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1. Al Gore's Network May Surprise You
2. Billy Graham: I Didn't Endorse Hillary Clinton
3. Michael Schiavo's Lawyer: An Oddball
4. Doctor: Sometimes Less Medical Tests Better

1. Al Gore's Network May Surprise You

When Al Gore said he was out to take on Fox News with his new cable network, we thought for sure he'd be lining up the likes of Teddy Kennedy, Howard Dean, John Kerry and their ilk for 24 hours of non-stop "Hate America First" programming.

No so fast.

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Broadcasting & Cable magazine reports that after buying the small cable news channel Newsworld International, Gore may be taking a completely different tack.

Gore has hired David A. Neuman to be president of programming for his network, now called the Current Network.

The magazine says Neuman has laid out a less political, more younger and hip programming lineup.

"An overhaul of the modest news channel Newsworld International, Current appears likely to disappoint many Gore critics when it launches Aug. 1," the magazine says. "They had assumed it would be a bastion of preachy, liberal-leaning news.  But the network initially aims to be a montage of short videos packaged into theme programs. Subjects could range from skateboarding to a chronicle of a young immigrant's visit to family back home. Neuman expects some of the material to be submitted by the channel's young-adult target audience."

Neuman has a varied background in entertainment and news programming. His last gig - heading CNN's programming - didn't go so well. Fox News has pummeled its rival in the ratings wars.

Perhaps there is a silver lining in all of this. Neuman did complete a one-year fellowship at the Reagan White House. B&C says the position "horrified" Neuman's liberal father.

2. Billy Graham: I Didn't Endorse Hillary Clinton

Rev. Billy Graham said Friday that he didn't intend to endorse Hillary Clinton for president when he told her husband at a massive New York City revival meeting last weekend that she should "run the country."

His son Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tells the Charlotte Observer:

"For a long time, my father has refrained from endorsing political candidates and he certainly did not intend for his comments to be an endorsement for Senator Hillary Clinton."

"My father, of course, was joking," the younger Graham said, when he hosted the Clintons onstage and told the crowd of 90,000. "They're a great couple... He should be an evangelist because he has all the gifts and he could leave his wife to run the country."

Although Billy Graham has called himself a Democrat, Franklin said that didn't mean he supported the former president, saying, "His political views, as well as mine, are quite different than the Clintons."
The Clintons, however "remain good friends," he added.

Rev. Graham felt compelled to issue the clarification after receiving more than 100 e-mails and calls of protest, the Observer said.

Rev. Graham's words of praise for the former first couple prompted significant consternation among his some of his most devoted followers.

National Clergy Council President, Rev. Rob Schenck, for instance - who had traveled from Washington, D.C., to Queens, New York just to hear his "role model" preach - walked out of the event after the Clintons were feted onstage.

"I was stunned and appalled," Rev. Schenck told the Christian Wire Service.

"It was disturbing to watch Billy Graham, a man whom I've admired for years, being used by evil to mislead countless Christians," complained Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny [BOND].

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3. Michael Schiavo's Lawyer: An Oddball

In a stunning profile of George Felos -- the attorney who helped Michael Schiavo put his wife Terri to death -- an author and famed theologian shows the weird side of the crusading right-to-die lawyer.

This is certainly a story the mainstream media ignored.

Writing in Crisis magazine, Benjamin Wiker, co-author of "Architects of the Culture of Death" and a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, uses Felos' own words to expose his oddball views.

Wiker is no friend of Felos' views. He writes of Terri's Shiavo's death: "Cold blooded murder, sanctioned by the state of Florida, watched by millions. Horrible, but again quite transparent. Michael wanted the money. His wife Terri, had to die for him to get it. And so he hired a 'right-to-die' expert, lawyer George Felos.
 
"Felos exudes a different moral odor than his client, and I wasn't the only one who noticed. He wasn't just morally wrong; he was creepy. One has the nagging feeling that he represents a more hidden and poisonous evil."
 
Drawing on Felos' 2002 autobiography "Litigation as Spiritual Practice," Wiker quotes Felos extensively, showing his motivation for fighting to help the sick engage in euthanasia.

Writes Wiker: "I bought the book ... [In] reading it, I am convinced that he represents an entirely new and even more dangerous aspect of the euthanasia movement - the spiritual killer."
 
In the book he writes about "speaking through his stomach  to Mrs. Browning, a seemingly unresponsive woman in a nursing home. This noiseless communication - quite noisy on a 'spiritual' level, as Felos reports her screaming at the top of her spiritual lungs - convinced him that Mrs. Browning wanted to escape from her body. He happily took on the case, thereby launching his right-to-die career."
 
Felos is a devotee of yoga. Wiker explains that Felos believes that if a person clings to the earthly realm instead of entering a higher state of blissful consciousness his soul is condemned to re-enter another body after death. Wiker writes: "In many of his visions he "saw our souls -[his and his wife's] prior to this incarnation discussing what each needed to learn in this birth and in compassion and love for each other agree to take this journey."
 
In this "journey" however, their marriage is a disaster. At one point he writes about being angry at his wife: "I was on fire, fueled by thoughts of bludgeoning and tearing her apart. If she were there at that moment I thought I would kill her - happily destroy her."
 
In that failing marriage, however, he and his wife were thinking about having a child.

Says Felos: He "heard the soul of my yet-to-be conceived child emphatically shout ‘I'm ready to be born  ... will you stop fooling around?'"
 
During a plane ride he wondered "what it would be like to die right now." This aroused his Kharmic, cosmic powers and this actually caused the plane's automatic pilot to go haywire and turn the plane into a nosedive. He stops wondering just in time. "'Be careful what you think,'" an inner voice then warns him. 'You are more powerful than you realize.'"
 
Finally, Wiker reveals this amazing fact: Four hours after Terri died Michael filed a petition for administration of her estate. On Larry King's show he said the money from his lawsuit on behalf of Terri had dried up, leaving only about $25,000.

"As it turns out, that given the behind the scenes financial shenanigans with Felos, there was about $1 million in the account, perhaps $2 million depending on how well investments did since 1993. Felos received a little over $500,000 for his efforts."
 
The taxpayers paid for Terri's hospice bill through Medicaid, thereby saving Michael's jury-award money.

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