*It’s Spring Cleaning Time. Clean out your closet and donate your old clothes to charity. *Perform a random act of kindness: Feed someone’s parking meter, mow your elderly neighbor’s lawn… *Register to vote. Living in a democracy and not being a registered voter is akin to attending the same church for years and years...
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In Iraq, he lost custody of 3 kids, now urges change in Arizona law
Army Reserve Capt. Brad Carlson…was at the state Capitol this week urging lawmakers to pass a law requiring that Arizona retain jurisdiction over custody when members of the armed forces are deployed… “I went into harm’s way and my own...
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When looking at the commodities market, it’s hard to decipher what is critical information, and what is just media fluff. Below, Kevin Kerr explains how to tune out the noisy chatter – and zero-in on the significant data from news and media outlets…   by Kevin Kerr  Sometimes when I turn the TV on...
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It takes a great deal of courage to stand with only 300 men against 100,000. However, unlike the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae, the small group of men who goaded President Bush into Iraq did so at no great personal sacrifice. As Bill Bonner explains, it is the common man who will suffer...
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Several men were found guilty of non-support of dependents this week in Coshocton County Common Pleas Court.
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In Iraq, he lost custody of 3 kids, now urges change in Arizona law Army Reserve Capt. Brad Carlson…was at the state Capitol this week urging lawmakers to pass a law requiring that Arizona retain jurisdiction over custody when members of the armed forces are deployed… “I went into harm’s way and my own...
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Mel Gibson’s medium is not celluloid, but blood. All of his movies are drenched in blood. Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ, Lethal Weapon and Apocalypto are all paeans to violence.  If Mel Gibson directed a film about Buddhist monks, the holy men wouldn’t spend their time meditating for world peace, but butchering...
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I have on numerous occasions stated my admiration for the English fatherhood group Fathers 4 Justice, its tactics, its activists (including F4J sympathizer David “Spiderman” Chick, pictured above), and Matt O’Connor, its controversial founder. To learn more, click here, here, here, here, here, and here. In 2005 there was a split between O’Connor and the American Fathers...
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The recent announcement that John Edwards will go forward with his plans to run for the presidency despite the recurrence of his wife’s cancer reminds of a previous situation in which a wife’s cancer figured in politics. When I was growing up, Governor George Wallace was prominent as a kind of protest presidential candidate...
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A federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has returned a two-count indictment charging Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, age 31, of Phoenix, Arizona, with material support of terrorism and disclosing previously classified information relating to the national defense. The indictment, which was returned on Thursday, alleges that Abujihaad provided material support...
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The Castle Doctrine is now in Texas awaiting Governor Perry’s signature.
Critics opposed to the Castle Doctrine and who are urging Governor Perry to nix it fail to understand the concept. It’s not hard to grasp if you love people, it’s hard to follow if you disrespect people.
Editorials encourage Texas Governor Perry to...
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Mugabe’s purge of the opposition is happening throughout Zimbabwe. The intentions are obvious - destroy the MDC’s organisational structures before the elections in 2008.
Here are some of the events for this week:
The old man Frighton Jairos (83 years), father of the MDC Chairman of Mufakose, tells the story:
He was in the dining room of...
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Is it a slip of the tongue when the media reports about “peace protesters”? I mean, it’s often an accurate description, as sometimes they’re anything but peaceful. As a matter of fact, the Bureau of Statistics Pulled Out of Thin Air has claimed that, for the first time in history, your odds of...
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I’ve written and spoken many times about the terrible problem of false accusations of domestic violence or child sexual abuse in a divorce. These accusations are usually (though not always) made by women against men, sometimes as custody maneuvers, sometimes just out of vindictiveness. To learn more, click here and here. (There are, of course, times when...
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