Cyberchondriacs: “You can pick up a thousand cures for cancer, diagnose glandular fever in your tea break and identify any number of diseases likely to strike in the next 24 hours. But while the internet may be a mine of medical information, it is not always good news for your health. Concerns about people...
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I’m sure if you read the local CU blogs, you’ve read about the attempts to make the Champaign-Urbana area smoke-free. Well, I’ve written to the local paper on the subject (here). Basically, nothing is stopping people from talking to their favorite restaurants and getting them to go smoke-free. However, instead of being responsible for...
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“Half of U.S. children are minorities”. When it turns into “Over half of U.S. children are minorities”, which it will before too long, it will then win the “Oxymoronic headline of the year” award.
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ANOTHER DOS ATTACK? TONGUE-TIED is down again at the time of writing — apparently because of a DOS attack on the host. The mirror version of TT is still available here. ************************** Brookes News Update How China’s monetary policy drives world commodity prices: Since China’s monetary pumping relative to real economic activity has been...
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“Chairman” of Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Knee Deep in Bribery & Corruption
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A businessman who paid bribes to a member of the US House of Representatives who claims he’s chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, has pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery and the payment of bribes to a public official, according to the...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A businessman who paid bribes to a member of the US House of Representatives who claims he’s chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, has pleaded guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery and the payment of bribes to a public official, according to the...
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ANOTHER DOS ATTACK? TONGUE-TIED is down again at the time of writing — apparently because of a DOS attack on the host. The mirror version of TT is still available here. ************************** Brookes News Update How China’s monetary policy drives world commodity prices: Since China’s monetary pumping relative to real economic activity has been...
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The scientific arguments in favor of creation ex nihilo are recent arguments on a historical basis. The ancient Greek philosophers and scientists, like Plato and Aristotle, believed that the universe and all the matter in the universe were eternal. They also believed that God was co-existent with matter and he created from that co-existent,...
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Once again, a ‘mainline’ protestant denomination will be revisiting the topic of homosexuality at a national meeting this summer. The Episcopal Church’s triennial general convention is to meet this summer in Ohio, and opponents and proponents of openly gay people serving as bishops expect the question of acceptance of homosexuality in the Episcopal Church...
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Betcha this doesn’t get anything close to the same amount of media coverage as the Duke case involving a serial female rape accuser with a very weak case:   Woman Accused of Raping 13 year-old Boy May 9, 2006, 8:33 PM EDT ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) _ A 34-year-old woman has been accused of...
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My own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder… American Founder, Thomas Paine, from his 1776 work, “The Crisis,” Installment...
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But, sir, I have yet a more cogent reason against going to war for the honor of the flag in the narrow seas, or any other maritime punctilio. It springs from my attachment to the principles of the government under which I live. I declare, in the face of day, that this government was...
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Diann burns over alleged racism Diann Burns, Chicago’s highest paid television news reader, and her husband recently built a $3 million mansion in the swank Lincoln Park area. Monday’s Chicago Sun-Times reported the couple is now suing the contractor for inferior work. Disputes between contractors and homeowners are common. In this instance, though, Ms....
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Senator Joseph Biden is running for president. The man whose platform may include making the world safe for hair plugs won rave reviews for last week’s speech in South Carolina, a venue not commonly frequented by Delaware Democrats.While his decision to seek his party’s nomination isn’t “official,†the senator has made his intentions clear....
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Writing in NewsMax.com today, fellow pundit and friend, Diane Alden, writes of Tom Barnett’s book, “The New Pentagon Map:” Usually bad plans or “visions” have an architect or supporters. The doctrine of pre-emptive war has them as well. A major blueprint in the “new world order” exists. Thomas Barnett is a notable Bush/Rumsfeld adviser...
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Remember the good old days when, if government officials wanted information on you, they’d just heist your FBI file? Now the stink is over the National Security Agency tracking phone calls. I’m starting to fear that my calls to the pizza place may someday be turned over to health Nazi’s and I’ll end up penned...
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I am on N.O.W.s mailing list and get regular emails. Today’s cause concerns the television show Commander in Chief. You’d think they would get the hint as to how out of synch they are with the people with this one. Maybe they will get the government to fund the show so it can stay...
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Were any anti-government “militia†or other separatist organization to consistently discuss Timothy McVeigh as merely a “rental truck operator,†their underlying sympathies would become glaringly obvious. While such a description is not absolutely inaccurate, it clearly misrepresents the overall significance of McVeigh and his actions. Yet Washington liberals shamelessly persist in their efforts to...
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Normally, those with disabilities bring warm feelings to heart as they struggle to achieve and get ahead despite their limitations often with a positive outlook most of us could learn from. Ironically, though, the deaf seem to rank among the loudest leftwing activists out there. At Gallaudet University in the Nation’s Capital, students and...
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