A November 11th Washington Times article “Abused wives in India pin hope on anti-violence law” resulted in a number of letters to the editor of the Times, claiming that the article is biased. The Times article blithely repeated an eye-popping claim that “A 2005 U.N. Population Fund report found that 70 percent of married...
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How do you assign numerical value (usually dollars and cents) to all of the shared “property” of what might have been a long, complicated affiliation?
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Supporters of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf rallied Friday to back amendments to the country’s rape laws that drop the death penalty for extramarital sex and revise a clause on making victims produce four witnesses to prove rape cases.
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The conflict between politics and reproductive health efforts — now the subject of much controversy in the United States — is a worldwide problem, health policy experts said Friday.
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The divorce may not be valid since same-sex marriages are not legal in Oklahoma…
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An ambitious teenager in Rochester Hills, Mich., is ranked as the 18th amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion — combining atoms to create energy.
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The truth is he failed to pay attention during a terror training class and BLASTED them off…
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said military force alone cannot defeat terrorism, acknowledging Sunday that solving the Mideast crisis was key to curbing violent extremism.
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Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
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Muslim feminists from around the world vowed to create the first women’s council to interpret the Koran and overcome two stereotypes about their religion: Muslims are terrorists and Islam oppresses women.
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service through its control centers (MegaCenters) helps provide for the security and protection of federally owned and leased facilities. To address issues surrounding this task, the Government Accountability Office reviewed FPS’s performance measures and past MegaCenter assessments, assessed the MegaCenters’ performance measures, and...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service through its control centers (MegaCenters) helps provide for the security and protection of federally owned and leased facilities. To address issues surrounding this task, the Government Accountability Office reviewed FPS’s performance measures and past MegaCenter assessments, assessed the MegaCenters’ performance measures, and...
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by Jim Kouri While President George W. Bush’s approval ratings are low in the United States, he is held in high esteem in by the citizens of Israel. The Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Danny Ayalon, who will be leaving his post shortly, plans to build a center for advancing freedom in the...
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From the Associated Press   “The Dutch government, facing re-election next week, said Friday it plans to draw up legislation “as soon as possible” banning the head-to-toe garment known as burqas and other clothing that covers the entire face in public places.” I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, a culturally...
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Robert Bidinotto is editor-in-chief of The New Individualist, a monthly magazine of culture and politics (www.newindividualist.com). This review appears on his blog: http://bidinotto.journalspace.com. Let me officially and publicly swallow words of worry that I wrote based on what turns out to be highly inaccurate advance news reports about the “feminization” of James Bond in...
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I’ve long written of the joke that is called “Campaign Finanance Reform,” and it’s starting to rear its illogical yet carefully planned head again. From the A.P.: Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Friday said potential 2008 presidential rival John McCain’s campaign finance reforms gives the Republican senator an advantage over other candidates by allowing him...
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Though the sermon “Long Range New Covenant Thinking: Early Marriage†by Ovid Need available at SermonAudio.com does a commendable job of explicating the passages regarding dominion over creation and of expounding the need to train children for family life, it uses these passages as cover to impose personal opinion as revealed doctrine. According to...
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 DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANYBODY? The paranoid person always takes himself seriously. It is rarely the case that such a person presents to a psychiatrist seeking help or complaining about their psychological projections, no matter how bizarre or out of touch with reality they may be. Because for the paranoid individual, his...
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 Clumsy Kiwi cop accidentally stuns himself: “A clumsy New Zealand policeman attending a domestic dispute accidentally shot himself and a teenager with a stun gun before pepper-spraying an innocent woman, reports said on Friday. The constable was loading his weapon when he accidentally blasted himself with the stun gun’s 50,000 volts while trying...
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Value in a firm handshake? A strong grip, a good education, a wife, and not becoming overweight are among the keys to a long life for middle-aged men who would like to grow old in good health, a new study shows. Nine factors were good predictors of which middle-aged men would live healthily into...
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