A convicted felon who attempted to establish an Al Qaeda terrorist training facility in Oregon will be deported in the coming days. Semi Osman, 35, a native of Sierra Leone, was ordered deported by Immigration Judge Kenneth Josephson last Friday. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers, last week ICE prevailed in its...
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So I am sitting here with my wife watching American Idol, and being reminded again and again why I absolutely frigging hate this show. The contestants, especially during the early tryouts sessions are mostly pathetic, no talent hacks who are looking to be famous. I don’t know if they are looking to be the...
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On January 4th, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and tenuous control of the Senate. With the change of power comes the possibility of something big government types dread. Having to beg Ted Kennedy for political favors. Heck, the last lobbyist who asked Kennedy for a favor when he was in the...
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Arguably the greatest jazz tenor saxaphone player since John Coltrane, Michael Brecker, died in New York City on Saturday. The Grammy Award-winning Brecker was a renowned session musician recording with the likes of Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Herbie Hancock, Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, Cory Daye and many others. Brecker, 57, died of leukemia...
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The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the subsequent the global war on terrorism have triggered the largest activation of National Guard forces since World War II. As of last year, over one-half to two-thirds of the National Guard’s 500,000 personnel had been activated for overseas warfighting in Iraq or domestic homeland security missions...
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Will we have a reprise of the post Nixon-era Congressional invasion of the President’s Constitutional powers that led, among other things, to eviscerating the CIA? Congress is reassessing the President’s Constitutional powers, as it did in the aftermath of President Johnson’s Vietnam war and President Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The new Democratic Congressional majority are...
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Britney Spears’ now infamous exposure of her pubis has drawn attention to the lack of modesty in today’s America and the desire among many for a resurgence of it. Luckily for the latter, there is a “modesty movement†among young women who want clothes that are cool (in the colloquial sense) without exposing too...
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In a ruling sure to make philandering spouses squirm, Michigan’s second-highest court says that anyone involved in an extramarital fling can be prosecuted for first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.
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Republicans are going to have to motivate the base like no other year in ’08, and the typical wishy-washy game-playing double speaking politicians aren’t going to cut it. After reading a post at Mr. M’s blog which discussed the refreshing straight-talk and ideas that come from Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, I added them...
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The Vaginal Parachute
Women don’t want penalties, or disincentives, for their MissBehaving. And, judging by our overwhelmingly profemale reproductive, civil, workplace, and marital laws, women have prevailed.
Whether observing the behaviors of individuals, companies, or governments, one can conclude that economic incentives and disincentives are at the root of almost all decisionmaking. Governments go to war...
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The Vaginal Parachute
Women don’t want penalties, or disincentives, for their MissBehaving. And, judging by our overwhelmingly profemale reproductive, civil, workplace, and marital laws, women have prevailed.
Whether observing the behaviors of individuals, companies, or governments, one can conclude that economic incentives and disincentives are at the root of almost all decisionmaking. Governments go to war...
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The Vaginal Parachute Women don’t want penalties, or disincentives, for their MissBehaving. And, judging by our overwhelmingly profemale reproductive, civil, workplace, and marital laws, women have prevailed. Whether observing the behaviors of individuals, companies, or governments, one can conclude that economic incentives and disincentives are at the root of almost all decisionmaking. Governments go...
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January is often referred to as “Generals Month” as no less than four famous Confederate Generals claimed January as their birth month: James Longstreet (Jan. 8, 1821), Robert E. Lee (Jan. 19, 1807), Thomas Jonathan Jackson (Jan. 21, 1824), and George Pickett (Jan. 28, 1825). Two of these men, Lee and Jackson, are particularly...
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A few years ago Democratic pollster Celinda Lake sounded the alarm that the Dems needed to reach out to male voters, or else resign itself to becoming a party of the perpetual minority. At first everyone laughed her off.  Then candidate John Kerry disastrously admitted in the 2004 campaign that his wife and...
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Muslim women discover the simple virtues of skin-tight polyester
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Spain’s justice minister has refused to deliver a lecture at a university in Saudi Arabia after authorities banned visiting female journalists from attending.
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Uofficial negotiations between Syria and Israel took place between 2004 and 2006, producing agreements that both sides hoped could act as a framework for a future peace deal, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz.
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PMS has another meaning besides Post Menstrual Syndrome. In former Duke District Attorney (DA) Mike Nifong’s case it stood for Prosecutorial Misconduct Syndrome. I see alot of PMS in my caseload as Forensic Trial Consultant in criminal child sex and adult rape cases. In fact, I was interviewed for a story about it a...
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For what experts say is probably the first time, more American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census results.
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As one who voted for George W. Bush twice (the first time was an accident — I was aiming for Buchanan) I often sit back and conduct a performance evaluation of sorts — which is the primary right of every voter — and the results are frustratingly perplexing. It’s not that I regret voting...
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