BRITISH FOOD DICTATORS BEING RESISTED There’s no doubting the popularity of Jamie Oliver right now. Having previously been the often-lambasted frontman for a laddish food culture, he has reinvented himself as social entrepreneur by training unemployed kids at his restaurant Fifteen – and his ascension to secular sainthood was confirmed by last year’s TV...
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No food panic in the Australian government As he completed a charity bike ride raising more than $300,000 for diabetes research, the federal Minister for Health, Tony Abbott, ruled out a ban on junk food ads on children’s television. The rate of diabetes, mostly caused by poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, is soaring...
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We all know that most colleges are dominated by liberal instructors. That’s a given. Leftists and colleges full of young minds go together like grubs and lawns, but is it possible for some of this campus moss growing on the shady side of the real world to make freakishly stupid political statements on a math test...
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION UPDATE An interesting snippet about illegal Mexican immigrant workers from one of my Southern USA readers: “There is a lot of bleeding heart dialog about how “unfair” it is to pay “sub minumum wage” to Mexicans. Wage is about $5.50/hr. But in this Texas town (and elsewhere) the Mexican illegals get $...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP As the Iranians are moving closer to developing a nuclear weapons program, the Russian government is telling the world not to worry. An Russian official is being quoted as saying the centrifuges available to Iran are not sufficient to launch industrial uranium enrichment. A Russian nuclear expert concurred. “Uranium enrichment...
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By David Heleniak Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a pattern of thoughts and behavior that can develop in a child of separated parents where the custodial parent causes the child, through manipulation and access blocking, to unjustifiably fear and/or hate the other parent. PAS is more than brainwashing, in that the child comes to...
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION UPDATE An interesting snippet about illegal Mexican immigrant workers from one of my Southern USA readers: “There is a lot of bleeding heart dialog about how “unfair” it is to pay “sub minumum wage” to Mexicans. Wage is about $5.50/hr. But in this Texas town (and elsewhere) the Mexican illegals get $...
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by Marc H. Rudov Punani for Sale It’s no secret that a man’s degree of irrationality, in the presence of a woman, is directly proportional to her cup size. Even though this neurophysiological phenomenon isn’t exactly the point of my treatise here, I would be remiss not to mention it. After all, reckless choices...
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NewsMax.com’s, Diane Alden, in her ever frank style reports to Liberty Letters today: GOD forgive me for being uncharitable — but these DUDES are leading a LOT of people down the path to you know where. It is one thing to be “progressive” — it is indeed, an entirely other worldly matter to constantly...
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You can read it here on the restriction of discussing intelligent design in the University because it challenges established orthodoxies. It so far has torqued 4 grad students into sending letters.
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It would appear that, despite many the Republican problems, including the stepping down of Tom DeLay and the general selling out of conservative principle by many Republicans, the Democrats still face an uphill battle in 2006 in what may turn out to be politics’ answer to the Special Olympics. From the Washington Post via MSNBC: An 18-month recruitment drive by the...
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Despite all the whining by the Democrats about the Medicare prescription drug benefit, a new survey of AARP members shows the overwhelming majority of people enrolled in the plan are satisfied with it. But, as California Yankee says, don’t expect to read about this in the mainstream media, since they’ll be very reluctant to...
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The definition of a great day for hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is when he can announce to his countrymen and the world that Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time. That day has come and Ahmadinejad is strutting around the country like a banty rooster, crowing out the good news. When...
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The ancient Greek myth of Narcissus — he who fell in love with his own reflection in a river and pined to death from unrequited love –has come down to us as a parable about vanity. The name of Narcissus is synonymous with conceit.But in the usual reading a vital aspect of the tale...
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