Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and Rosie O’Donnell are backing GreenStone Media, a new radio network featuring all female hosts. The network was launched on September 12. Their stated goal is to counter conservative talk radio’s “male point of view.â€Â According to Lowell Ponte’s September 6, 2006 NewsMax.com article, “Fonda, Steinem and Rosie Challenge Rush,...
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A roadside billboard is arousing the ire of local men who are upset at its portrayal of men as society’s chief abusers.
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Since its inception in 1998, the Roth IRA has been off limits to those with high incomes. Thanks to the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act (TIPRA) signed by President Bush in May 2006, wealthy Americans will be allowed to convert their traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs beginning in 2010. There are years and...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A just-released report claims that Florida’s death-penalty system is full of problems with fairness, accuracy and racial disparity in sentencing. The report was released by a group of Florida lawyers and jurists whom critics say are left-wing activists who have always opposed capital punishment. Florida is one of the leading...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Early Sunday morning in the West Bank, two more churches were firebombed by members of the “Religion of Peace” as anger over the Pope’s comments grew throughout the Muslim world. One Christian church — a 170-year-old stone structure — was firebombed before dawn and its interior was destroyed, according to...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Early Sunday morning in the West Bank, two more churches were firebombed by members of the “Religion of Peace” as anger over the Pope’s comments grew throughout the Muslim world. One Christian church — a 170-year-old stone structure — was firebombed before dawn and its interior was destroyed, according to...
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Albert Einstein referred to compound interest as “the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” However, earning compounding interest in a tax free environment is even better. Individual Retirement Accounts were created to give Americans an incentive to save for retirement by combining the benefits of compounding interest with a favorable tax status. While both...
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purge: (v) 1. The removal of elements or members regarded as undesirable and esp. as treacherous and disloyal. 2. To rid (as a nation or party) by a purge (n). - Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition Oh, but isn’t this going to conjure up images of cattle cars, gas chambers and Stygian vaults...
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One of the mixed benefits of a long-term interest in history is the eventual recognition of the recurring theme of the struggle of those who would increase the intrinsic value of an individual human being over the fierce objections of those who seek to continue dominating and/or subjugating them using their favorite selection from...
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It’s about time that we probe an assumption that has insidiously worked its way into our culture — the notion that women are the guardians of goodness and grace, while all those male neanderthals are emissaries from the dark side.  I will freely admit that men indulge in a number of vices, those...
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 “Progressives” aren’t progressive A follow-on from my post of 15th.: It’s usually the people on the Left who joyfully choose to be called “progressive”-there are several left of center and far Left publications that contain “progressive” in their title, for example. In this instance, however, the designation fails to fit altogether. That is...
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Ms. magazine ran a petition in its debut issue entitled “We Had Abortions†and signed by 53 well-known American women. The magazine is now trying to garner signatures of women both famous and obscure for another such petition. I have suggestions for other types of lists (not necessarily “petitionsâ€ÂÂ). I would like to see...
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Ms. magazine ran a petition in its debut issue entitled “We Had Abortions†and signed by 53 well-known American women. The magazine is now trying to garner signatures of women both famous and obscure for another such petition. I have suggestions for other types of lists (not necessarily “petitionsâ€ÂÂ). I would like to see...
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 Guns save lives: “‘Somebody tried to mug me, and I shot him,’ said New Yorker Margaret Johnson after a perpetrator ripped off her necklace, choked her and tried to grab her purse, reported the New York media over the weekend. This incident offers a graphic illustration of the need for gun ownership on...
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Sen. George Allen is all image and no substance. He has a penchant for posing in cowboy boots and waving Confederate flags. His shtick may play in some small redneck towns in Virginia, but most Virginians are turning against him. Virginians are tired of a senator who eschews the office for photo ops. We don’t...
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This marks the first time that pro-Democrat ads have been written on a flying animal since Teddy’s pink elephants and little green monkeys sported “Kennedy for President in ’80” signs. Those of us who are conservatives must consider our political position in life and realize that it’s in opposition to around at least 80% of world...
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Today’s column at WorldNetDaily revolves, as they often do, around a post here at the blog a few days ago about Rosie O’Donnell’s “radical Christianity is as dangerous as radical Islam” comments, along with a claim that the U.S. answer to being attacked on 9/11 was to bomb innocent civilians. Give a read to “Not a...
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The only value captured terrorists hold is in the information they can provide — information which has prevented terrorist attacks and led to the capture of still more terrorists. Information gained from Abu Zubadayah, for instance, led to the capture of Ramzi bin al-Shib, which in turn led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh...
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Down with the fertility police Proposals that women who are too fat, too thin or over 40 should be denied IVF are draconian attempts to define what is a `good parent’ Fat people, apparently, don’t deserve to have children. Nor do people who are too old or too young, too thin, or, by default,...
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