by Jim Kouri, CPP France is now charging travelers a new tax on their airline tickets, amounting to a surcharge of between $1.25 and $50. The French government claims the new tax is earmarked to help the world’s poor. The airline surcharge, which is based on the traveler’s ticket price, came into effect this...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP France is now charging travelers a new tax on their airline tickets, amounting to a surcharge of between $1.25 and $50. The French government claims the new tax is earmarked to help the world’s poor. The airline surcharge, which is based on the traveler’s ticket price, came into effect this...
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Porno-candy trafficker and anti-Fathers’ Movement writer Trish Wilson must have hit a dry spell with her Penis-Pops, since she’s asking for donations from her readers. “We are in serious financial straits…I just put a PayPal donations button at the very top of my left sidebar.” Gee, I guess there isn’t a very large market...
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I write from the Arkaroola Wilderness Resort in the far north Flinders Ranges of South Australia where I do geological field work in this mountainous and unforgiving wilderness in summer. This is a privilege. Field work is an attempt to understand nature and this intimacy with nature stimulates questioning. Science is based on dominant...
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I once had a theory, back when I was about 10, that everything in stores should be free, as that would eliminate poverty. In my theoretical world everyone would only take what...
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A distinctly underappreciated BlogWonk named Gonzman made a very telling remark on his blog a few weeks ago. I doubt if anyone beyond a few diehard fans like myself noticed it, but the Gonzman’s point was that – as far as he was concerned – any theocratic position that does not affirm the basic...
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“How pleasant is the smell of the earth whose thirst is quenched by blood pouring out of young bodies.” If you need proof that the Palestinians have the world’s most demented society, you need look no further than the above quote. It’s from a televised Palestinian “public service announcement” of a few years ago...
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“How pleasant is the smell of the earth whose thirst is quenched by blood pouring out of young bodies.” If you need proof that the Palestinians have the world’s most demented society, you need look no further than the above quote. It’s from a televised Palestinian “public service announcement” of a few years ago...
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We’ve all seen them, drivers yakking away on their mobile phones, totally oblivious to their surroundings. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a traffic engineer to know that using your cell phone while driving is very dangerous.  Drivers who talk on their cell phones are not safely ensconced in a phone booth where...
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Former President Jimmy Carter (words that come out as difficult as “ex lover Sandra Bernhardt“) has an oped column in today’s Washington Post. It’s entitled “We need fewer secrets.” Here’s the opening paragraph: The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) turns 40 tomorrow, the day we celebrate our independence. But this anniversary will not...
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Today’s column at WorldNetDaily revolves around the situation in and around the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court recently ruled that detainees at Gitmo can’t be tried by the military, and there are repeated calls to close Gitmo. I discuss both what could happen as a result of the Court’s ruling, and...
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The 1949 Geneva Conventions were created in the aftermath of the horrors of Nazi Germany. The First Geneva Convention, “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field,” was first adopted in 1864 as part of the founding of the Red Cross, but revised at the...
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MI: Woman kills man in self defense: “A couple’s fight turned deadly in the city of Saginaw overnight. It happened on the 2300 Block of Hanchett on Saginaw’s west side around 1 a.m. This is not the first time police have visited the home. This is the city’s 13th murder of 2006. But this...
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THE NYT HAS BEEN A PROMOTER OF TYRANTS FOR A LONG TIME We all know about the lying Duranty and Stalin but here is more: The late New York Times journalist Herbert L. Matthews is now an almost forgotten name, except, perhaps, among journalism students and those who remember the earliest days of the...
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