“Fat” mirror: “For those who dread looking at themselves in the mirror, life is about to get a little bit worse. A bathroom mirror that predicts future weight gain based on personal habits has been developed by technology company Accenture to assist those engaged in the battle of the bulge. The experimental technology dubbed...
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A GOOD EXCERPT FROM TARANTO: “Unknown assailants killed a senior Hamas activist in Gaza on Tuesday,” Reuters reports: “Unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead Mohammed Tatar, a senior member of Hamas’s military wing, as he drove his car in Gaza city, Palestinian medics and a security source said. No one claimed responsibility for the...
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A GOOD EXCERPT FROM TARANTO: “Unknown assailants killed a senior Hamas activist in Gaza on Tuesday,” Reuters reports: “Unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead Mohammed Tatar, a senior member of Hamas’s military wing, as he drove his car in Gaza city, Palestinian medics and a security source said. No one claimed responsibility for the...
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US Continues to Face Challenges in Iraq
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The United States, along with its coalition partners and various international organizations, has undertaken a challenging and costly effort to stabilize and rebuild Iraq following multiple wars and decades of neglect by the former regime. This enormous effort of nation-building is taking place in an unstable security environment, and a...
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 For a long time, many, many Americans have believed that Liberalism is a mental disorder. Savage wrote a book on it. I wrote a book on it. Dr. Laura has commented on excess baggage messing up relationships. Lots of authors have noticed, and correctly, I believe, that there is a marked difference between...
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Yet another woman with no responsibilities. It’s not her; it’s her bi-polar condition. Memo to women: Try this with me and I promise you I will kill you. TIOGA-NICETOWN – May 17, 2006 – A Philadelphia man is recovering from an attack, allegedly at the hands of his wife. The assault on his private...
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On May 15, 1776, the Continental Congress published a resolution finding that it was necessary to form new governments “for the preservation of internal peace, virtue and good order, as well as for the defense of their lives, liberties, and properties.”
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In 1775, when the conflict with Great Britain was heating up, and trade embargoes were in force – American Founder John Jay wasn’t converted to the idea that all this state interference in the colonies’ economies was for the best. Said he: “We have more to expect from the enterprise, activity and industry of...
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The film The Da Vinci Code opened today. The movie will no doubt do blockbuster numbers, but the book and movie have already managed to put more undies in a twist than a simultaneous panty raid on every sorority house in America. The revolving door of Code offendees continues to turn. In addition to...
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The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed by President Bush in January without any public debate, but evidence is now surfacing which Congress should have examined before the law was passed. VAWA is a nearly-billion-dollar-a-year extension of one of the major ways that Bill Clinton bought the support of the...
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A federal judge on Friday blocked a southern Kentucky high school from including prayers in its graduation ceremony Friday evening. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking a restraining order on behalf of an unidentified student at Russell County High School in Russell Springs, 90 miles south of Louisville....
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The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents. “There was a felony they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me,” said Sen. John Ensign, the...
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Clinton and RU-486 When getting to the bottom of ideas that may become law, I try and look at the original intent, as we tend to get bogged down by all the political minutia. So, because of recent revelations, let’s do a little review on the abortion issue, shall we…? Now I know most...
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Here’s an idiotic article about how millions of dollars a year are spent on what the authors conclude are unnecessary medical tests. Their conclusion is that some of these tests were ordered to make money, and some were ordered as part of a screening program that may not have been necessary for some of...
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When the president of the United States receives his country’s first formal communication from an Iranian “president†since the regrettable unpleasantness involving Iran’s unlawful seizure of the American embassy and the taking of hostages back in 1979, one might reasonably expect a conciliatory tone. You know, at the very least, something along the lines...
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Two partners at the famed plaintiff’s law firm of Milberg Weiss have been indicted for bribing people to file class action lawsuits against companies that they owned stock in and lost money on. Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, the law firm that has won more than $45 billion for investors in securities-fraud cases, and...
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Some are comparing it to the Danish cartoon featuring Mohammed wearing a timebomb turban, and the subsequent protests. Well, this is a little smaller than that, sort of a takeout box version. A satirical student newspaper at Massey University in New Zealand, called “Chaff”, printed a mock Cosmopolitan magazine satirizing China’s former leader Mao Zedong on the...
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As the Senate works towards giving amnesty and a “path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants, some Republicans, at least, are trying to tone the bill down with amendments. Unfortunately for America, the Senate as a whole seems hell-bent on killing any restrictions on their bill. The Senate voted 50-49 to kill an amnesty bill amendment...
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