Chocolate may boost brain power: “Chocolate lovers rejoice. A new study hints that eating milk chocolate may boost brain function. “Chocolate contains many substances that act as stimulants, such as theobromine, phenethylamine and caffeine,” said Dr Bryan Raudenbush from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia. “These substances by themselves have previously been found to...
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U.K.: LITTLE KIDS TO BE HARASSED OVER “OBESITY” Nobody seems to be mentioning that moderately “overweight” people live longest! Children are to be weighed at the ages of four and ten and their parents warned if they are too fat. The school screening regime is aimed at fighting the obesity epidemic which threatens a...
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Another Memorial Day is upon us, and I thought I would share with you a brief encounter I recently had. The first Saturday in May, I spent a beautiful Spring day at our local Boy Scout Reservation, Camp Mitigwa, near Boone Iowa. Another Memorial Day is upon us, and I thought I would share...
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Stop the ACLU has the latest on the NSA’s litigation against phone companies and their state-by-state effort to hammer those phone companies (and thus drive up the price we pay for telephone service) based on the USA Today story detailing the NSA buying phone records from those companies. Problem is? There doesn’t seem to...
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A sapphire is a beautiful gem. It is also extremely valuable. And it is very strong. That last quality, rather than its’ beauty or worth, is why the word “sapphire” has been used as a nickname for American women of African descent at least since it was the name of an overbearing female character...
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Every Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the American men and women who have died in combat. With speeches and solemn ceremonies, we recognize their courage and valor. But one fact goes unacknowledged in our Memorial Day tributes: all too many of our soldiers have died unnecessarily–because they were sent to fight for a...
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A comical reworking of “Happy Birthday To You” ends, “You look like a monkey and you act like one too.” If certain scientists have their way, that ditty might very well come to be seen as something akin to a racial slur. It is reported that researchers from MIT and Harvard are contending that,...
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A British study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health examines health and obesity in women in four major groups: married working mothers, homemakers, single mothers, and childless women. It focuses on 2,000 women born in 1946 and their health and obesity at ages 26 and 54. As a group, women who...
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“But let it be remembered, that whatever marks of wisdom, experience, and patriotism there may be in your constitution, yet like the beautiful symmetry, the just proportions, and elegant forms of our first parents before our Maker breathed into them the breadth of life, it is yet to be animated, and till then may...
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Stand Your Ground laws are making their way throughout America. Legislators are coming to realize that — unless they are corrupt — they will see more prestige and revenues from a healthy community than a crippled one, and that their careers can flourish with supportive, independent voters better than with a constituency of forever...
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“To punish men for acts by laws made subsequent to the commission of such acts has, by all civilized nations, been deemed arbitrary and unjust.” – John Jay, July 1776 Liberty Letters comment: Yet this is what we now witness today via administrative law, new laws which go back in time and punish men...
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SMALL GOVERNMENTS NOT ONLY PROMOTE WEALTH BUT ALSO HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT A few excerpts When it comes to government spending, less is more. Less government spending and involvement in the economy – both in terms of regulatory interference and taxation burden – are associated with higher rates of economic growth, better...
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ABC News Refuses to Retract Bogus Story
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by Jim Kouri, CPP ABC News continues to refuse to retract their story by newsman Brian Ross who reported yesterday that House Speaker Dennis Hastert is under investigation by the FBI to determine his role in a public corruption scandal. ABC’s Ross reported that “anonymous” federal officials said Hastert and other lawmakers are being...
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hus he acted during his last sad hours. To the exclusion of every other concern, religion now claims all his thoughts. Disburdened of his sorrows, and looking up to God, he exclaims: “Grace, rich grace!” “I have,” said he, clasping his dying hands, and with faltering tongue, “I have a tender reliance on the...
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“Gilligan, you’re doin’ a heckuva job…” With the needle on the public perception meter already hovering right around the “O.J. Simpson” level, FEMA staged a hurricane drill, and everybody got caught in the swirling eye of confusion: A mock hurricane exercise in Louisiana was abruptly canceled in the middle of the drill when local and federal...
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THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED QUEEN Anne, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parliament, makes some observations on the importance of the Union then forming between England and Scotland, which merit our attention. I shall present the public with one or two extracts from it: “An entire and perfect union...
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SMALL GOVERNMENTS NOT ONLY PROMOTE WEALTH BUT ALSO HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND A CLEANER ENVIRONMENT A few excerpts When it comes to government spending, less is more. Less government spending and involvement in the economy – both in terms of regulatory interference and taxation burden – are associated with higher rates of economic growth, better...
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In my collaborative piece with Noel Sheppard, we took a high altitude view of the potential abuses of power represented by internet media giant Google’s selective exclusion of sources in its news search. I would like to follow up with a more focused look at the instance of such misapplication which first brought the...
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As the United States Senate continues relentlessly towards the goal of amnesty for illegal aliens, its political movers and shakers are illuminating the despicable realities behind the phony “compassion†of liberalism. In a stunning act of treachery against the American people, the Senate has set the stage to plunder America’s social security system and...
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