New Orleans voters handed Rep. William J. Jefferson a landslide reelection victory over state Rep. Karen Carter. Normally this would not be big news, congressional incumbents almost always win. But Jefferson was videotaped by the FBI taking $100,000 in alleged bribe money, and $90,000 of those marked bills were found inside a freezer in his D.C. apartment....
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By Thomas E. Brewton Christians must strive to live a life of Christ-like humility, while living in the world. Sunday’s sermon at the North Stamford, Connecticut, Long Ridge Congregational Church was preached by the Rev. Dennis Reiter. His texts were Philippians 1:27 – 2:11; 4:2-3 and Acts 16:12. Rev. Reiter noted that, as described...
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“No matter how hard you hit someone with this flogger, it will not hurt,” said Ann Slabosky, a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as she unleashed a black leather whip on the forearm of her partner.
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Iowa man is facing charges that he married another wife
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The latest trend from California could be non-marriage marriage — thanks to a new bill sponsored by state Sen. Carole Migden to expand civil unions to heterosexual couples.
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Khulud Abdul-Aziz enrolled in a course on manners, fashion and cooking that prepares young women to be good wives, saying she does not want to end up another statistic in Saudi Arabia’s rising divorce rate.
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China is trying to make both marriages and divorces easier, more private and healthier, Minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju said here on Sunday.
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Meanwhile, the number of single men buying homes stayed flat at 9 percent. “I think it may be simple — guys don’t get serious about real estate until they meet the right woman,” says NAR spokesman Walter Molony.
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The sudden appearance of large animals more than 500 million years ago may be due to a huge increase of oxygen in the world’s oceans, according to Canadian researchers.
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Oil producing countries have reduced their exposure to the dollar to the lowest level in two years and shifted oil income into euros, yen and sterling, according to new data from the Bank for International Settlements.
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If President Bush hasn’t come up with this plan to get his nominees through a Senate that will soon be controlled by Democrats on purpose, it sure is one heck of an accident. First, Bush nominated Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Gates’ answer to a single question from Carl Levin secured a landslide thumbs-up from the...
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Every holiday season for 25 years there were Christmas trees at the airport serving Seattle. But one complaint — accompanied by the threat of legal action — was enough to get them removed.
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They came armed with clubs, kerosene and Molotov cocktails, chanting, “Let’s burn the infidels, let’s burn the Crusaders.”
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Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an official said.
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by Jim Kouri, CPP  In a biting statement sent to the Republican National Committee, English First said that it seeks to defeat the nomination of U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R- Florida) for the post of Republican National Committee General Chairman. “Sen. Mel Martinez is Spanish for Harriett Miers — someone unqualified for the...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP  In a biting statement sent to the Republican National Committee, English First said that it seeks to defeat the nomination of U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R- Florida) for the post of Republican National Committee General Chairman. “Sen. Mel Martinez is Spanish for Harriett Miers — someone unqualified for the...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Federal law enforcement officers arrested 35 fugitive aliens and other immigration violators in a weeklong operation in Massachusetts. The enforcement action is the latest under Operation Secure Streets, a national initiative targeting illegal aliens with prior convictions for driving under the influence. Of those arrested, 25 are fugitives who had...
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FOLIC ACID: MASS MEDICATION IN BRITAIN PROPOSED Sufferers from some conditions (such as histadelia) are told to avoid folic acid. Looks like no convenient bread purchases for them in future! Britain will take the first step towards mass medication of the population this week with the publication of proposals to add the vitamin folic...
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FLYNN THE FOOL Ideology can make a fool out of otherwise creditable scientists. The way that the remarkable temperature stability of the 20th century (according to the U.N. only .6 of one degree rise over the entire 20th century) can be portrayed as an era of global warming is ample proof of that. And...
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UT: U redirects victim disarmament fight: “University of Utah leaders are taking their gun fight to the Legislature, hoping to keep at least part of the school’s controversial gun ban intact. After losing a lengthy and costly court battle, U. President Michael Young is working with legislators to find if the no-guns rule could...
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