Former New York Newsday publisher Robert Johnson, 60, pleaded guilty on Friday in Manhattan federal court to charges that he possessed child pornography and destroyed computer records that were the subject of a federal investigation. Johnson retired as CEO and publisher of Newsday during the course of the federal investigation. Johnson’s plea today is...
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An important truth has been lost in the controversy over the way the Philadelphia Phillies handled pitcher Brett Myers after his recent arrest for spousal abuse. Mrs. Myers’ injuries and the accounts of several witnesses leave little reason to doubt her husband’s culpability. Nevertheless, the Phillies at first reserved judgment about the case, and...
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Ruth Sheehan: You know. We know you know. Whatever has been happening in the newsroom at the News & Observer, you know now that you falsely accused three young men of rape, and you did it with impunity (even if you cannot admit it now). You wrote on March 27 that someone on the...
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Anti-stupidity pill: “A German scientist has been testing an “anti-stupidity” pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported today. It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilise short-term memory and improve attentiveness. “With...
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ANTIOXIDANTS BAD FOR YOU This article is from last year but it deserves a re-run Many cancer patients take a range of antioxidant vitamins in hope of improving their odds, but some research suggests the supplements may be doing more harm than good. A report published in CA, an American Cancer Society medical journal,...
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I’m wondering. Help me wonder. Either Georgie Bush is the minor, depressing, witless ferret I think he is, or I am. It has to be one or the other. If things don’t start looking up pretty soon internationally, I’m going to be pretty sure which. As best as I can tell, what the Maximum...
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The world’s in desperate need of more fellows like Father Tom Kram.  He arrived at my childhood parish, St. Germaine’s, in 1967, one year before I began the first grade. The old neighborhood was booming then because of the church. Families wanted their children to master solid values and receive an excellent education. ...
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  Remember Sheik Hasan Nasrallah’s blow-hard statement about rocketing Tel-Aviv if Beirut were bombed? Nasrallah is the head of Heizbollah, by the way.    It was meant to be a “get-tough” statement but was really like some yelling across the Grand Canyon, “If you come over here, I’ll knock your block off!”    Nasrallah knew...
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Over the weekend, the 61st anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and subsequently Nagasaki, was observed. It’s common, as Hiroshima’s mayor did this year, to mark the anniversary with a call for a nuclear-free world. In 2006, when you say “Fat Man and Little Boy,” you could be referring to Michael...
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New research has shattered a favourite left-wing myth about race relations Excerpt below from here Dear me, another political illusion shattered. Every time some new research comes out, it seems to destroy yet another of those firm foundations on which we build our political assumptions. One of those foundations, to put it bluntly, is...
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TX: Barber shoots robber: “What seemed like a normal morning at an East Texas barber shop, ended with gunfire. Just before 10′clock today, police say a man entered Ervin’s Barber Shop on Old Noonday Road and asked for a haircut. He then pulled out a gun, demanded money from the barber and threatened to...
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Today’s column over at WorldNetDaily is a bit of a departure from day-to-day politics and current events bickering. John Glenn was in a car accident late Friday. This is completely unrelated to anything, other than it got me to thinking about the early days of the space program and the men who made that...
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