by Jim Kouri, CPP (This article is based on an FBI Strategic Plan submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police.) The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) on Monday announced the opening of a new laboratory and office suite for the forensic examination of...
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It is a holiday protocol predicament. A town in Florida placed a Jewish Menorah in the center of its public forum, forcing the Christian Nativity scene to one side. While to some the question would be moot or just a matter of decorative taste, according to Sondra Snowdon, a self-described Christian activist, it is...
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By Thomas E. Brewton It is said that diplomats must be prepared to negotiate with the Devil, which raises the question whether anything can be gained by negotiating with pure evil. Is it realism to assume that the Devil can be made less than evil? Release of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report puts...
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Two Swedish border control officers risk disciplinary action for keeping a photo collection of “exceptionally beautiful” women that passed through their checkpoint, police officials said Tuesday.
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Iran’s president warned Washington’s European allies on Tuesday that Iran would reconsider its relations with them if they insist on punishing Tehran for its nuclear program, saying that would amount to an act of “hostility.”
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Two percent of adults command more than half of the world’s wealth, while the bottom 50 percent possesses just 1 percent, according to a U.N. development institute study released on Tuesday.
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In a report dated Nov. 16, 1998, wired.com has published a story accusing the Israelis of actively researching genocide. The article has no attribution, but is published on the wired.com domain.
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But the military is well aware that any adverse publicity could finish the program, and it does not want to risk distressed victims wailing about evil new weapons on CNN.
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If confirmed, this would increase the possibility that microbial life could have existed recently or possibly exists now on the Martian surface.
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A full-body x-ray machine to be tested this month at a US airport has raised concerns about privacy issues with some rights advocates saying the technology amounts to a virtual strip search.
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INDONESIA is grappling with its first real political sex scandal, courtesy of a widely circulating video of one of the country’s most powerful politicians in a hotel room with a popular singer.
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Two sisters who brutally murdered their mother’s partner with a Stanley knife and a hammer in what a judge has called the most grotesque killing he had seen have been jailed in Ireland.
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exuality in general and homosexuality in particular are increasingly becoming concerns of the modern Arab state. Politicians, the police, government officials and much of the press are making homosexuality an “issueâ€ÂÂ: a way to display nationalist bona fides in the face of an encroaching Western sensibility; to reject a creeping globalization that brings with...
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Frontpage Interview with Kay Hymowitz
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Director Gibson applies the same breathtaking production values and attention to detail as he did in “Braveheart” and “The Passion.” But he amplifies the violence beyond the brutal of “Braveheart” and the excruciating of “The Passion” to something approaching abhorrent at the height of the carnage in “Apocalypto.”
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Political Correctness will be our undoing. Secret Santa According to Sher Zieve, “Due to concerns regarding Austria’s growing Muslim population, the country’s officials are said to have banned references to St. Nickâ€â€Âalso known as Santa Clausâ€â€Âin its kindergarten schools. The Muslim immigration into Austria is said to be at 400,000 and growing.†“As Muslims...
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On Monday, NASA announced plans to once again put human beings on the moon, and to build a base on or near a lunar pole. The base will be the hub for future missions to Mars, or so it is planned. This announcement will bring on the usual criticisms, chiefly â€ÂÂhow can we spend...
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President George W. Bush is a lame duck with waning support at home and a shattered reputation abroad. Even a sniveling puppet like Nouri Al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of the Green Zone, feels emboldened enough to publicly snub Dubya.   President George W. Bush has learned the hard way that acting like a cowboy, in the...
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 GASP! ORGANIC CHICKEN BAD FOR YOU Organic chicken is less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than free range or battery-farmed meat, scientists have discovered. Tests on supermarket chicken breasts found organic varieties contained fewer omega-3 fatty acids and lower levels of antioxidants, giving the meat an inferior taste. Some were found...
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Western aid to the Third World does not alleviate poverty The humanitarian case for aid has been based on an analogy with the Western welfare state. The idea was that many people favour welfare to transfer wealth from the relatively rich to the relatively poor within a country, so they will favour welfare to...
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