This week, Wictory Wednesday presents US Rep. Mark Kenney for the Senate in Minnesota. Having served 3 terms in the US House of Representatives, he has the advantage of name recognition in the state. Current the race is to replace retiring Senator Mike Dayton (D) and is considered to be a race where the...
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FAT TYRANNY Like Communism, it MIGHT work some day It’s been two years since Arkansas schools started sending letters home to parents with their kids’ report cards – letters telling them if their children were fat. Plenty of parents weren’t happy. But a lot of them did something about it. Suddenly there were more...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP While the United States prides itself on having the best law enforcement officials and prosecutors in the world when it comes to investigating terrorism and prosecuting terrorists and their associates or supporters, there is an obvious lack of expertise in terrorism on the part of trial judges. Too often, federal...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The head of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives praised the role bomb technicians and investigators play in the global war against terrorism at an international conference of law enforcement and military explosives experts.    Speaking to the members of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and...
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The best place for a woman to get divorced is England. Translation: she can steal more money from her ex-husband in the UK than anywhere else. The article below from Forbes magazine underscores the financial danger to men of marrying nonearning and under-earning women. Despite all the proclamations of marriage as the bedrock of society, governments...
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently said that he would sign a public petition in support of animal testing in research. And the ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, almost as if in reply, claimed: “Animal Tests Are Unreliable and Cruelâ€ÂÂ.The debate over animal research has never been as public and centre stage as it is...
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“The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.”–Proverbs 15:4 (NIV) Irrational outbursts and commentary are prevalent these days. People lash out emotionally without thinking of the consequences of their words. No matter how passionate one feels about an issue, it is never an excuse to cross the...
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Just when you thought politicians couldn’t sink any lower (and I mean that in a figurative sense – at ease, Teddy), along comes Patrick Kennedy, fresh from rehab and tan, rested, and ready to pander to any and all minorites! From the NY Daily News: Rep. Patrick Kennedy said yesterday he wants to be...
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My blogfriend Bookworm has decided to hold this carnival due to personal experience. Working through Blog Carnival, I’ve decided to go crazy and have a carnival of my own. The goal of this first edition to have people submit posts describing their political conversion to conservatism. You can also submit articles to me, and...
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Developers are already working on an improvement to high-definition television. Ultra High-Definition Video is the brainchild of NHK Japan. “This is actually 16 times the resolution of currently available, standard HDTV,†said Kojhi Mitani of NHK Japan. “Think of it as four times horizontally and four times vertically the amount of information. Noooo! Westy...
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O Canada, how can this be happening? A massive terror plot foiled in the heart of this liberal, openminded, accomodating country. A mysterious group of people had acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate to blow up buildings, including the Parliament of Canada. Who would try to perpetrate such a dastardly deed? As reported in the...
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Even though the majority of Americans polled support a ban on same sex marriage, and 45 out of 50 states have already banned it, Charles Gibson of ABC World News Tonight claimed on the air that the American public is evenly split on the issue. A new ABC News poll found that by a...
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When I entered the business world in the 1960’s, there was not much discussion about dress codes in American offices. Men were expected to wear white shirts and ties, with a business suit. Women wore dresses, or skirts and blouses. These were the expected norms, and accepted by most office workers. The youth movements...
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June 6th, 2006 came and went. “666†is supposedly the day when the Anti-Christ will be born. I contend that several million currently walk amongst us. Last weekend, one of my kids during a passing conversation said that, with all due respect, some in our generation are kind of “computer challengedâ€ÂÂ. I had to...
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Earlier this year, The Federal Emergency Management Agency stopped paying for hotel rooms for many of hurricane Katrina’s 40,000 evacuees. FEMA spent over $500 million to house people in the wake of the disaster, but that wasn’t enough for some who are just getting settled in. August 29th will mark the one-year anniversary of...
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By Jonathan David Morris Two and a half years ago, I wrote a column called “So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish,†in which I came out against the Iraq War before war supporters coming out against the Iraq War was cool. I’ve always looked back upon that column fondly, but I have...
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TN: Crime victims stop would be robbers: “Usually criminals worry about being caught by police but in Murfreesboro criminals need to watch out for their victims. In the last two months, five different victims took bold risks in stopping crime. Tim Davis’ Salt and Pepper Christian bookstore is full of statements that mirror is...
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THE DILEMMA OF THE POST-SOVIET LEFT After the collapse of the Soviets, the Left have no alternative to capitalism so they deny reality instead. Some excerpts below from an article by George Watson on their sad state: The commonest form of subjectivism in our times, moral or cultural, is to deny that any value...
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