By Vincent Fiore As happens with most anything even remotely political these days, the mainstream media gets it and decides to present a picture that does not represent the actual importance–meaning news–of the event. In essence, it might be viewed as the liberal “imprimatur.†Let’s take Sunday’s NFL playoff championship games between the Chicago...
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Nobody is an expert in all areas of knowledge. Yet, from foreign policy to economics, we give undue weight to opinion polls. This problem was addressed in Can Voters Make the Decision to Pull Out of Iraq?. No matter what politicians and the media make of them, opinion polls, for example, evidencing very low...
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Three Mexican men — two of them illegal aliens — face the possibility of life in prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking a 13-year-old girl in Jackson, Wyoming. The guilty pleas were announced on Friday by US Attorney Matthew H. Mead, District of Wyoming. Jacobo Dominguez Vazquez, 33; Jose Luis Chavez, 42; and...
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Immigration fraud is yet another method used by criminals and terrorists to gain entry into the United States illegally to carry out their agendas. The Identity and Benefits Fraud Unit, an investigative component of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is the agency responsible for detecting, deterring, and disrupting the fraudulent schemes used by terrorist...
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As most everyone knows by now, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) has recently thrown her hat into the ring of contenders for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination. Because I happen to think that Ms. Clinton is among the most disingenuous individuals in American politics, I have decided to relate what I believe...
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Reading the list of nominated films, I feel like Barney Frank in the woman’s locker room: There’s hardly anything here I’ve seen or am very interested in seeing. Al Gore’s global warming film “An inconvenient truth” got two nominations. Will it win? In late February, the Gore-loving, global warming fearing Hollywood glitterati will jump in their three-mile-per-gallon limos and head for the red...
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Erin Pizzey, founder of the battered wives’ shelter, describes how militant feminists – with the collusion of the Labour Party – hijacked her cause and used it to try to demonize all men.
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Chaplain Lt. Gordon James Klingenschmitt has been court-martialed and dismissed from the U.S. Navy. His crime? Praying in Jesus’ name in uniform outside a chapel. You read it right. After 15 1/2 years of exemplary service, Lt. Klingenschmitt is being drummed out of the Navy. Understand that Klingenschmitt has a meritorious military record. He...
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Since the beginning of the Bush administration genuine conservatives have been taking a beating, but now there is hope. Friday 12 January 07 finally brought some good news for the conservative movement and the cause of authentic conservatism and constitutionally limited government! Rep. Ron Paul has set up an exploratory committee for a possible...
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The headlines are abuzz today with the latest polls that seem to show George W. Bush with the lowest approval ratings going into a State of the Union speech since Richard Milhous Nixon in 1974.  Keeping in mind that a poll, based how it forms its questions, can acheive almost any desired result, for...
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President Bush plans to reach out to the opposition in his State of the Union address tonight with new and recycled proposals on health care, energy, immigration and education, but the uproar over his decision to send more U.S. troops to Iraq has eclipsed potential consensus on domestic policy.
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The fabric – which gets thicker the more it is stretched – could be used to create an aeroplane wing that could change shape in mid-flight.
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Born and bred in a blue state as the daughter of the new speaker of the House, Pelosi surrounded herself with reds to find out how the “other side” lived. When she started making “Friends of God,” Pelosi wasn’t used to speaking so frankly about religion.
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The Vienna City Council, citing the need to fight sex bias, has launched a campaign to show images of women as well as men on public information signs
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A senior official of Israel’s central Holocaust memorial on Saturday assailed Jewish settlers who harass Palestinians in a tinderbox West Bank city, saying the abuse recalled the anti-Semitism of 1930s Europe.
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“I came here to Barack Obama’s elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa … like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Vause said on the “Situation Room” Monday. “I’ve been to those madrassas in Pakistan … this school is nothing like that.”
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A study of 6,814 people found that cynical distrust was associated with signs of inflammation which in turn increase the risk of heart disease.
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A former Giordano’s pizza waitress claims managers sexually harassed her and even urged her to terminate a pregnancy because she was no longer attractive to them.
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Sponges and kitchen scrub brushes can be loaded with disease-causing viruses and bacteria. So microwave them, scientists say.
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A Saudi court has ordered a drug user to spend six months memorizing the Koran, but he faces a year in prison if he fails to recite the Muslim holy book by heart, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
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