The state of New Jersey has recently announced that it will be creating a state agency to deal with the growing problem of obesity among that state's citizens. This follows on the heels of many other local and state governments taking action against trans fat and other health measures designed to slim down the... »
I told a man I know, who is a bachelor who works as a cook, that I knew about two couples who were disputing concerning care for a newborn. In both cases, the husband and the wife agreed that the baby should have parent care. In both cases, the man wanted to stay home... »
The image of eleven-year old Jamison Stone of Alabama, posing with a 1,051 pound hog that he killed, is a hit on the Internet and on TV.  Jamison has been enjoying his 15-minutes of fame, doing the requisite morning network shows. He has even been guaranteed a cameo in an upcoming movie “The Legend of Hogzilla,”... »
Barring any last-minute outbreak of war, I will debate Lis Wiehl on Friday, June 1st, at 4PM ET, on FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto. If you haven’t heard, Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod), of the NY Yankees, was spotted in Toronto with a busty blonde -- not his wife. Besides becoming an... »
by Jim Kouri, CPP Two defendants — one soldier and one capo of New York’s Genovese Organized Crime Family — pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman, to conspiracy to commit murder and extortion. According to documents filed in Manhattan federal court and the defendant’s plea proceedings: Pasquale Deluca,... »
…Then give me another word for it. Proponents of the immigration bill making its way through Congress are constantly claiming “it’s not amnesty”. For example: Amnesty is forgiveness for being here without any penalties — that’s what amnesty is. I oppose it. — President Bush. OK, if “amnesty” means forgiveness without any penalties, then we need another word... »
Michael Gerson of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the one time “conscience of the White House”, presents the perfect it’s-all-about-winning stance that some Republicans of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP adheres to in this current amnesty for illegals conflict. The idea is that if the GOP is seen as responsible for... »
Michael Gerson of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the one time “conscience of the White House”, presents the perfect it’s-all-about-winning stance that some Republicans of the Karl Rove wing of the GOP adheres to in this current amnesty for illegals conflict. The idea is that if the GOP is seen as responsible for... »
(Pictured: The Yates family before Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub) Background: Gilberta Estrada recently hung her four small daughters, three of whom died, and many are blaming her ex-boyfriend Gregorio Frayre Rodriguez, against whom she had a temporary restraining order. What many fail to realize is that domestic violence restraining orders... »
It’s time to decide what and who you will support if you want to make change. People who hurt enough support change. Reading your comments for the past year and a half leads me to believe that you hurt badly; more than hurt, many of you endure considerable suffering. You suffer as you are restricted... »
Did you know there’s industrialized life on Mars and Neptune? There has to be. Recent reports show that global warming is on the rise dramatically on Neptune, and ice caps are melting on Mars. There must be relatively intelligent but ecologically stupid life on these planets flying jets, driving SUV’s and using aerosol hairspray. As... »
Nobody’s Opinion: Remember in Jurassic Park, when the “scientists†explained the chaos effect to America? How a butterfly in one part of the world could flutter its wings and affect some other part of the world? Well, I’ve decided that somewhere in Africa, some Nigerian guy must have stepped on a butterfly, which died... »
The father and son in the article below were separated by divorce when the boy, now 20, was only a toddler. Father and son serving in Iraq reunite in Baghdad Associated Press, 5/28/07 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Amid the sounds of mortar and machine-gun fire, a father and son both serving in Iraq were reunited in Baghdad... »
The International Relations Center describes Linda Chavez as “George W. Bush’s first choice for labor secretary, Linda Chavez is a right-wing pundit, anti-union demagogue, and foreign policy hawk. She has supported or worked for a string of rightist outfits, including the Manhattan Institute, the Independent Women’s Forum, and the Center for Equal Opportunity.†Well, we... »
Among the major candidates for President of the United States in 2008 are an African-American, an Italian-American, a woman, and a Mormon. Isn’t this a great time to be alive? »
By my reckoning, the United States officially became a matriarchy on January 20, 1993. That’s the day Hillary Clinton moved into the West Wing. Soon she prevailed on Bill to establish the President’s Interagency Council on Women, the group that railroaded feminist-inspired policies and programs throughout the federal government.  Matriarchy refers to a society in... »
More than any other single person, Jerry Falwell was the embodiment and single most recognizable icon of the Religious Right. However, the association is even deeper than that. In many respects, Jerry Falwell was the heart and soul of the Religious Right, which is why many people hated him so much. They fully understood... »
As the Associated Press article on the Gilberta Estrada murders notes, in recent years there has been a spate of Texas women murdering their children, and not one was held criminally culpable for her actions: In 2004, Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter's arms with a kitchen knife. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young... »
Another test of whether Bloggers should be considered journalists or not is soon coming up in Hawaii. At issue is whether or not a Blogger there should be forced to turn over her sources for a story she wrote on a questionable land deal. A lawyer trying to get an Internet... »
Gilberta Estrada hung her four small daughters, three of whom died--and it's her ex-boyfriend's fault?! For example, Christian Newswire just issued the press release "Victim of Domestic Violence Hangs Self and Four Daughters" in which they claim: "Domestic Violence is a destroyer. It is believed that Gilberta Estrada hanged herself-after hanging her four young daughters first.... »
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