Beer is good for you: “A main ingredient in beer may help prevent prostate cancer and enlargement, according to a new study. But researchers say don’t rush out to stock the refrigerator because the ingredient is present in such small amounts that a person would have to drink more than 17 beers to benefit....
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Food freedom an increasingly precarious right Discussing the food Nazis, Walter Williams once said, “Allowing government to be in the business of caring for people for any reason moves us farther down the road to serfdom . . . . If government is going to take care of us, it will assume it has...
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Al Gore’s global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is out and doing well at the theaters for a movie of it’s type (#10 right now). This means that people are taking it seriously. A lot of people took The Blair Witch Project seriously too, so this in and of itself is meaningless. This is why...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Two new lawsuits have been filed against the Franciscan Sisters Order, which is headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota. As with the sex abuse cases brought against Catholic priests, the alleged sex abuse in these cases was homosexual in nature. The lawsuits, filed in Olmsted County, MN stem from the sexual abuse of two...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Over 2,100 criminal aliens, illegal alien gang members, fugitive aliens, and other immigration status violators have been apprehended as part of a nationwide interior immigration enforcement operation that began last month, according to officials at the Department of Homeland Security Dubbed “Operation Return to Sender,†the initiative began on May...
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Though no doubt irritated by the practice, most Americans pretty much put up with the number of businesses and public utilities providing services in both English and Spanish, often with the interloping tongue regularly showcased as the primary mode of speech offered. However, as speakers of English let the good manners and propriety, for...
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Today in World Cup Soccer action, we have what some might understate as a “grudge match” taking place in Dortmund, Germany. Yes, it’s Germany vs. Poland. Riot police are at the ready. English, Dutch and Polish hooligans are threatening violence, and Nazi Skinheads are dusting off old “submarines with screen doors jokes” for retaliation....
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Geno’s Steaks (one of the finest food purveyors in the City of Brotherly Love in my opinion) is being threatened with a lawsuit for putting up a sign in their restaurant which states that, in the United States, we speak English. The suit is being filed by a (get this) civil rights agency, the...
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In the very first chapter of her 2002 book, “Slander: Liberal Lies About The American Right,†Ann Coulter exposed the duplicitous character of those who “demand campus speech codes, an end to ‘intolerance,’ and ‘hate speech’ laws†while continually bearing-down on a single target when attacking conservative women – Their appearance. Now that Ms....
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The Pentagon, taking heat from people whose lives as yet don’t hinge on information that a suspected terrorist possesses, has announced that it will release all of their interrogation tactics to the public. From the A.P.: The decision, which comes after months of internal debate and pressure from members of Congress, would reveal interrogation...
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There is serious trouble afoot in that sprawling country to the north of the U.S. A massive terror plot has been uncovered and foiled in the heart of the liberal, open-minded, accommodating country of Canada. It seems a mysterious group of people had acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertilizer, but the...
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AZ: Court rebuffs appeal in hiker shooting case: “A state court today turned away an appeal asking that a new state law on self-defense be applied retroactively to the second-degree murder trial of a retired Phoenix-area school teacher in a 2004 fatal shooting on a hiking trail in remote southeastern Coconino County. The state...
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HAPPINESS I have been thinking and reading about happiness ever since I came across the work of Michael Argyle on the subject in the 1970s. And I think I can finally summarize the facts about it very simply. It seems that happiness is to a quite extraordinary degree a trait rather than a state....
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