NOW WHY WOULD THIS BE? SEVENTY per cent of mothers of obese or overweight children do not consider them overweight, new research shows. The author of a study outlined in the Medical Journal of Australia published today says the findings back the view that parents see their children’s health through rose-coloured glasses and inadvertently...
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COFFEE CORRECTNESS Like all socialism, socialist coffee is good only for its own chosen elite. But it’s a cheap ego-boost for the parlour pinks Fair Trade certification, intended to raise the living standards of coffee farmers in Nicaragua and elsewhere, has grown into a complex bureaucracy and an industry in itself. Starbucks, the longtime...
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You gotta love the logic of a mealy-mouthed Middle Eastern dictator like Moamer Kadhafi (or Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, or whichever of the other umpteen spellings and variations you might prefer). In an interview with the Italian Sky TG24 television channel, he said that Saddam Hussein should still be considered Iraq’s legal president because the current...
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By Selwyn Duke While art imitates life, it’s also true that life imitates art. It’s with this in mind that my eyebrows were raised upon hearing about Big Love, a series with which HBO breaks new, albeit not hallowed, ground. It stars Bill Paxton as Salt Lake City businessman Bill Henrickson, a man with...
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Iranians Training Bombers, Terrorists for Iraq War
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The British government has shown American intelligence officials information indicating that Iran is operating “training camps” for bombers who carry out terrorist attacks on coalition forces, Iraqi security forces and civilians. It appears that the training is accelerating in order to create havoc and destabilize the fledgling Iraqi government. Previously,...
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Giving Men the Same Choices Regarding Child Rearing as Women   The so-called “Roe v. Wade for men†case, somewhat of a misnomer for reasons to be explained, sponsored by the National Center for Men, raises many serious issues. If abortion is immoral (as I believe it is after the child develops consciousness),...
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Yes, folks, the female double standard lives! Debra LaFave, the former schoolteacher from Tampa who raped a 14-year-old boy, was rewarded today with a slap on the wrist. Our society continues to hold women to a lower standard of behavior. Recently, for example, a college girl from Florida Atlantic University admitted to falsely accusing...
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EVIDENCE FOR WHAT THE LEFT HAVE CONSTANTLY DENIED Documents seized in Iraq immediately after the US invasion in 2003 point to the presence of al-Qa’ida members in the country before the war, and show there had been moves to hide traces of “chemical or biological materials” from UN weapons inspectors. The documents have been...
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EVIDENCE FOR WHAT THE LEFT HAVE CONSTANTLY DENIED Documents seized in Iraq immediately after the US invasion in 2003 point to the presence of al-Qa’ida members in the country before the war, and show there had been moves to hide traces of “chemical or biological materials” from UN weapons inspectors. The documents have been...
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by Michael M. Bates Blogosphere liberals were chuckling to themselves this week. I don’t begrudge them that. It’s a refreshing change of pace from talking to themselves. The source of their amusement was Sunday’s article in the Toronto Star titled, “How to spot a baby conservative.” The story centered on a study conducted by...
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This took a lot of de Gaulle! Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, trying to get a grip on unemployment in France, enacted labor market reforms which basically included eliminating tenure, or a “guaranteed” job, for just the first two years of employment. This caused over a million younger people to take to the streets (that...
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As time goes on, the media continues to be content with spinning the WMD tale…that there were none, even when information has been disclosed to indicate that Saddam Hussein, in fact, had WMDs in his possession. Recently, tapes have been released with Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader talking with Iraqi officials on how to...
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Dopamine is good gear: “When Wayne Kanuch received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 1993, the last thing he imagined was that the drug prescribed to treat his illness would turn him into a compulsive gambler and put his libido into overdrive. Mr Kanuch’s marriage ended in divorce, partly as a result of the...
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GOP candidate for governor Jim Oberweis has certainly come up with a novel way to decide who’ll get the Republican nomination to run against Democratic incumbent Blagojevich. At the end of a political campaign it’s not uncommon for a candidate to grasp at straws, but Jim Oberweis literally proposed drawing straws to decide who...
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In the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons sent an emissary in the form of a religious minister genetically engineered to look human (that in and of itself an apt metaphor for many of today’s churches) to the Galactica crew claiming the annihilation of the colonies of man had been a mistake and...
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Couple of quick notes this morning. An earlier blog post regarding actor/comedian Richard Belzer’s comments on the U.S. military being unintelligent unemployable dopes is now a column in The American Spectator today. If you missed the post in question, check out the column at the Spectator. Here’s an email from Ron R. concerning the Belzer column:...
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Erica Jong Fantasizes About Bubba (former President Wm Clinton)
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MICHIGAN: “My God is Mother” Billboard Incenses Orthodox Episcopal Clergy
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