California’s oldest living person and last surviving World War I veteran has died at the age of 112. It’s being reported that the man, George Johnson, survived largely on a diet of sausage and waffles. Let this be a lesson to us all — sausage and waffles will kill you!
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by Jim Kouri, CPP More than 60,000 thousand of protesters in Argentina loudly demanded President Nestor Kirchner get tough on violent criminals including juveniles. Argentinians say they are angry over the increasing number of violent crimes. Their capital Buenos Aires, was once considered one of the safest cities in Latin America. But in recent...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A Mexican national convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl over a period of two years is among the 40 criminal aliens arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents here during the past four months as part of Operation Predator, a nationwide ICE initiative targeting those who prey upon...
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This clip is from the Associated Press stylebook. It is used by newspapers across the country to provide guidelines in how stories should be written. By and large, many guidelines are neutral and simple are matters of style (i.e. capitalization, punctuation, etc). However, in this one entry, standing unique in comparison to the whole...
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 Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson was one of the lucky ones.  On July 16 the three-time Super Bowl player was arrested in Weston, Mass. for assaulting his wife. But two weeks later Jackie Johnson came clean: “My husband, I adore him, and, it was my fault. . . . It breaks my...
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Here’s an amazing admission of wrongness by a mainstream media outlet: “It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband.”  That’s from an editorial at the Washington Post. Hang on to your hat, this is uncharted territory. Here are excerpts: “We’re reluctant to return to the...
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Here’s an amazing admission of wrongness by a mainstream media outlet: “It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband.”  That’s from an editorial at the Washington Post. Hang on to your hat, this is uncharted territory. Here are excerpts: “We’re reluctant to return to the...
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According to Kofi Annan, Syria has agreed to be in charge of enforcing an arms embargo of the terrorist group Hezbollah. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday that Syria had pledged to step up border patrols and work with the Lebanese army to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah. Annan also said that...
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In New York City, the front of just about every single city bus is adorned with a giant picture of Katie Couric, promoting her ascent to the throne recently vacated by Dan “they are too real!” Rather. Indeed, taking over for Dan Rather after the fake National Guard document fiasco takes some of the pressure off....
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RUMSFELD CALLS OUT THE DEMS About time! The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has compared Bush Administration critics to those who sought to appease the Nazis before World War II, warning that the US is confronting “a new type of fascism”. Mr Rumsfeld, speaking at an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City on...
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Do gun owners really want to stop attacks?: “On July 14, 2006, I did a column on the Richard Celata raid conducted by the FBI, Canadian BATF and the U.S. BATFE …. At the end of that column, I once again urged all gun owners to get the Dr. Edwin Vieira CD and begin...
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My wife and I got back late today from a few days in New York (very late, as a matter of fact, as it’s the next day now). As some of you know, I do a bit of writing (okay, every month) for Glenn Beck’s “Fusion Magazine.” Glenn also of course has a nationally syndicated...
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Boomers targeted in new waistline scare Below is Steven Milloy’s comment on the same study that I critiqued yesterday. He also points to the unrepresentativeness of the sample, plus other difficulties �Just a few extra pounds could mean fewer years, study finds,� headlined a front-page, above-the-fold story in the Washington Post this week. The...
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