Thirty hours worth of 9/11 tape from the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD to those who love either acronyms or the movie War Games, have been released. Much of it is transcribed and is available at Vanity Fair. It’s lots of reading and listening, but is very interesting, disturbing, haunting and riveting,...
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Are all of your pants split at the seams, it may not be your fault that you are obese. You don’t have to look at your pudgy face in the mirror and blame yourself for being too lazy to work out and too weak to resist second helpings. Relax, you don’t have to take...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A US appeals court ruled in favor of New York City Police Department conducting random bag searches at subway station entrances throughout the city. The court said that it viewed the random searches “as an adequate method to curb terrorism.” “In light of the thwarted plots to bomb New York...
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One Authority, One Gun, eh? Commenting on the latest resolution to the Israel – Lebanon Conflict, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed the Security Council late Friday, and here is one excerpt which caught my attention. From UN News, August 11th, 2006, Kofi Annan said: “Secondly, the resolution rightly has at its core Lebanon’s...
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Singledom kills you People who have never married run a significantly higher risk of dying early, even though they are more likely to exercise and less likely to be overweight in later life. A study of census and death certification data for more than 67,000 American adults has revealed that those who stayed single...
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Obesity panic now extends to babies Must be all the fizzy drinks and Big Macs that they eat. The findings below do seem to have squeezed out some faint recognition of the fact that your tendency to weight is largely hereditary and that it is now mainly fat working-class women who are having the...
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The Left’s Love Affair with Europe Certain people of the leftist persuasion are always trying to convince the rest of us that Europe is superior to America and, quite frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of it. We even hear that certain Supreme Court justices are less interested in what the Constitution says, or...
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MA: Bullets scare off intruder: “Police are looking for a man who broke into an Everett Street home Saturday and then fled when the homeowner’s son opened fire on him. The gunfire broke out at 5 Everett St. at about 9:15 a.m. Saturday when the homeowner’s 30-year-old son came by to check on the...
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For the weekend, I want to divert from talking about all the problems in Israel, Lebanon and other places, and relax by taking some time to discuss something about which I don’t care too deeply: the fall of celebrity. I’ve always had a soft spot for people who gained fame at a very young age, because it...
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Over the course of the modern era, whether fairly or not, orthodoxy has come to be associated with glumness and austerity. Thus, those coming across Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton might assume they are in for a dull and obtuse recitation of doctrine and dogma. They will, however, be delightfully surprised by Chesterton’s wit, feistiness,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Russia’s cash-strapped defense, biotechnology, chemical, aerospace, and nuclear industries continued to be eager to raise funds via exports and transfers. Some Russian universities and scientific institutes also showed a willingness to earn much-needed funds by providing WMD or missile-related teaching and training for foreign students. Given the large potential proliferation...
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Burned into the Western consciousness of both Christians and Jews, and even of non-believers, is the notion that ours is a Fallen World. Eve ate of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, then gave it to her husband Adam, and, thus, plunged our world into a cataclysmic mess. Let’s take a...
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