Much of my financial instincts were developed watching my parents manage money on a daily basis. Even now, one of the highest compliments that I can be paid is for someone to say, “The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.” Last week my father authored specific examples of contrarian investing. This week I’d...
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A half truth is a whole lie. -Yiddish Proverb Definition The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control define dating abuse as the physical, sexual, or psychological/emotional violence within a dating relationship. The 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) documents that,...
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Police find unharmed woman on top of man — choking him — arrest both
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A Mexican national, described by federal law enforcement as a “one man crime wave,” was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday for his role in a conspiracy to distribute 15 kilograms or more of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri. Roy Rodriguez, 22, US address unknown, was sentenced by United States District...
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It’s Labor Day weekend, and that got me to thinking: I wish I were French. The French are a wonderful people. Their food is excellent. Their cities are filled with remarkable architecture and an abundance of culture. And, boy, do they have the free time to enjoy it all. Back in 2000, French politicians,...
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The case is a shambles but the NYT has tried a new tack to keep from looking like Mike Nifong’s cheerleaders. Taylor points out their folly in Slate. Like the headline, the piece cultivates a meretricious appearance of balance. But its flaws are so glaring that it was shredded by bloggers within hours after...
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I read David Blunkett’s article in the Sun today (August 30th) with a mixture of disbelief and incredulity. [I was going to reproduce it here but trying to navigate the Sun's web page is a fate worse than spending two weeks locked up with the Blair's, being forced to watch Cherie Blair smile at...
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Isn’t the mainstream media getting into enough trouble because of Photoshop? Now CBS is using it to make Katie Couric look slimmer. Word is that they’re just testing it so they can once and for all create some not only convincing but trimmer phony National Guard documents. I’m in Manhattan right now, and I can safely...
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Reporters Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa; managing editors, news, Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea; and editor Jim Amoss, are the newest winners of the Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy. The award’s previous winner was former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, who engineered what became known as the “Memogate†(aka Rathergate)...
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Here’s one for the books. A senior member of the terrorist organization Hamas, which constitutes the official elected government of Gaza, has written an opinion piece in a local newspaper in which he says that Palestinians have been “attacked by the bacteria of stupidity.” Wow! Talk about getting it straight from the horse’s mouth. “The...
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Here’s one for the books. A senior member of the terrorist organization Hamas, which constitutes the official elected government of Gaza, has written an opinion piece in a local newspaper in which he says that Palestinians have been “attacked by the bacteria of stupidity.” Wow! Talk about getting it straight from the horse’s mouth. “The...
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Especially around Labor Day, union leaders like to act as though they speak for all workers. The truth is they don’t even speak for all members of their unions. Organized labor’s most treasured value, solidarity, has been smashed. Six million union members have left the 15-million-strong AFL-CIO for the more militant Change to Win...
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More stupid anti-conservative psychology The recent book by John Dean (of Watergate fame), called Conservatives Without Conscience has been a great hit on the Leftist blogs. There is for instance a huge and hugely self-satisfied comment string about it here. The comments there that amused me most were the ones by Leftists saying that...
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Realistic females in Colorado: “Stop! I have a gun. Leave my house,” shouted the 11-year-old girl. And with the words barely out of her mouth, Noel Smith opened fire. Any intruder would be dead on his back, but this was just practice. Noel, along with seven other women, was practicing her marksmanship at a...
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Remember the scene in one of the “Naked Gun” movies where Frank Drebin gives a speech and then goes to the bathroom, forgets to turn off his wireless microphone, and an ensuing audio nightmare is broadcast to a roomful of nauseated people? Well, CNN now owes the Zucker brothers some money for copyright infringement. It was only late...
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It is a sign of cultural confusion when the most-heralded account of individual bravery in the Iraqi war centers around a teenage girl who did nothing that could be considered heroic.  When her convoy made a wrong turn behind enemy lines, 19-year-old Jessica Lynch passed out during the ensuing ambush. For that she...
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The horror in which an elderly man killed ten people and injured forty-five others in a traffic accident highlights the flaws in our excessively automobile oriented culture. Russell Weller, the 86-year-old who wrecked havoc when he plowed through a farmer’s market, lived in California, the most notoriously car glutted state in the nation. Many...
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Reporters Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa; managing editors, news, Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea; and editor Jim Amoss, are the newest winners of the Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy. The award’s previous winner was former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, who engineered what became known as the “Memogate†(aka Rathergate)...
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Morning sickness theory: “Morning sickness seems to come with the territory for some women in the first few months of pregnancy. And scientists now reckon they know the reason. It could all be down to the woman�s diet � it�s the body�s way of protecting the fetus from a �bad� diet. A woman who...
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The ACLU is upset that New Jersey schools are asking students for Social Security Numbers when they enroll for school. As usual they are upset for the wrong reasons and deceiving the public in the process. First, the ACLU is at the forefront of litigation and lobbying to prevent the United States from having...
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