Some quotes are entertaining, some are instructional, yet others quotes are inspirational. Every once in a while a quote so profoundly captures an idea that it sends a chill down the spine. “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,...
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Hugo Chavez is raking in some $ 200 million a day in oil sales, most of it from the United States. If Chavez demands payment in euros, it will throw the whole U.S. economy into a crisis.
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“Buyers have vanished,” Anthony shrugged in front of new Shaker maple cabinets and never-used appliances. “If this doesn’t sell post haste, I’m going to bite the bullet and pull it off the market.”
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The Netherlands ended transmission of “free to air” analog television today, becoming the first nation to switch completely to digital signals.
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Dozens of Iranian students burnt pictures of President Ahmadinejad and chanted “Death to the dictator†as he gave a speech at a university in Tehran yesterday.
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A Dutch national linked to a major Phoenix-area Ecstasy smuggling scheme made his initial appearance in federal court in Phoenix, AZ following his extradition from the Netherlands last week. Thirty-one year old Marvin Burnet of Amsterdam, was one of six defendants indicted in connection with the scheme to import MDMA,...
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Can we now finally dispense with the “Bush is dumb” stuff and move on to greener, more left-wing pastures? The House Democrats will head the Intelligence Committee when they take control in January. Believe it or not, that’s not the entirely scary part. The man tapped by Nancy Pelosi to head the committee failed...
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Randolph-Macon Woman’s College will change its name to Randolph College when it admits men for the first time next year, officials announced Saturday.
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The Discovery astronauts and their station counterparts interrupted their timeline tonight to make a quick inspection of the shuttle’s left wing leading edge panels. Astronaut Steve Robinson in space station mission control told the crew an accelerometer in the shuttle’s wing leading edge sensor system had recorded a possible hit overnight.
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You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot from what comments make it on the back of the book. So it is with New York Times bestseller The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Observe the following review from Philip Pullman: “Many religious leaders are men who, it’s obvious...
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About this time each year I re-read “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. By far, the saddest portion of the book is the scene where the ghost of Christmas past forces Ebenezer to relive the day his fiancé breaks their engagement and his heart. While we often assume that Ebenezer did not love Belle,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP While awaiting a federal indictment in an extensive bribery case, Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson easily beat his political opponent in a contentious runoff election on Sunday. But Jefferson may have put himself in the position of facing criminal bribery charges as a congressman rather than a private citizen by pursuing...
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The recent announcement from the National Center for Health Statistics that the out-of-wedlock birth rate is at an all-time high is bad news for America’s children. It would be easier to understand, perhaps, if it were naive teenage mothers who were creating this trend. However, according to the new NCHS study, the trend–which is...
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A University of Utah physicist and his team have made a breakthrough that could pave the way to quantum computing, in which computers can calculate many billions of times faster than they do now.
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“I’ll go so far as to say that someone who is not keeping an eye on a group of six imams chanting in an airport waiting area and then spreading out on a plane and behaving in a disruptive manner, well that person is swimming so far upstream against the basic human wiring of...
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An Italian fathers’ rights activist says he tried unsuccessfully to self-immolate on live television to call attention to dads unable to see their kids.
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Today, outgoing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered a ”farewell” speech in Missouri, and he became one of the first Sec. Gen.’s in the U.N.’s long and bureaucratic history to be scathingly critical of a current president’s policies before leaving office. Annan will no doubt go on to a lucrative career as a public speaker, and possibly Morgan Freeman’s...
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If you, like myself, are among the few people left who seriously want the United States to win the war in Iraq, it’s becoming harder and harder to crawl out of bed each morning not feeling like a nattering nabob of negativism. I don’t mean that infamous alliterative string of verbiage in the same...
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Some would ask, why would I bother running for State Party Chairman in a state as dark blue as Massachusetts? I have my reasons….
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 61, discusses his peace offer to the Palestinians, the threat of civil war in Lebanon and Washington’s shifting strategy in the Middle East.
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