"My parents have been divorced for nearly a decade, and both have remarried. The problem is, even after all this time, my mother is still mad at my father...Mom makes me feel like I can't love them both at the same time."
My mother often points out good blog/newspaper column fodder to me (such as...
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A westbound London Underground train has derailed between Mile End and Bethnal Green on the Central Line shortly after 9am BST during the morning rush-hour leaving hundreds of passengers stranded who had to walk along the tracks to leave at the nearest station. Transport for London have said that 20 people received medical attention...
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About two weeks ago Mr. Mugabe made a speech at the funeral of a General who died under mysterious circumstances and in it he attacked the private sector for raising prices in the name of regime change. He threatened the mining companies as well as everyone else and said that if they did not...
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On July 4, 2007 The Boston Globe reported during the Watergate scandal that presidential hopeful Fred Thompson telephoned President Nixon’s lawyer informing the administration that the Senate Watergate Committee “knew about the taping system and would be making the information public.” The Watergate tapes eventually led to Nixon’s resignation, which staved off impeachment. The...
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Sydney’s transport systems fell into chaos on friday after gale force winds caused damage to an overhead train line on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Services on the North Shore Line were cancelled, leaving commuters stranded in the city. Just after 2:30PM, a maintenance hatch blew from a train travelling North on the Harbour Bridge...
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A three year old British girl, Margaret Hill, has been kidnapped by a group of gunmen in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. This event is the latest in a long line of kidnappings of expatriates with links to the Nigerian oil industry, following the abduction of five workers from a Nigerian oil rig....
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To promote The Simpsons Movie that will be released next July 26 and 27, a dozen 7-Elevens in the United States have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts, the grocery store from the popular TV series. Most of the other 7-Eleven stores will also sell products with brands reminding of The Simpsons, such as Buzz Cola,...
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The war on so-called "deadbeat dads" is often really just a war on low-income men who are unable to pay the money the deeply-flawed child support system demands. Roughly 100,000 men are jailed each year for alleged nonpayment of child support. In many cases this amounts to debtors prison--men being jailed because they are...
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“President Bush equated the war in Iraq today with the U.S. war for independence. Like those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’ Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting ‘a new and unprecedented war’ to protect U.S. freedom.” Quote from LA Times President Bush’s Orwellian comments...
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25 people were killed today and 33 were injured when a large explosion ripped through a karaoke bar in Tianshifu, Liaoning Province, China. The state-run Xinhua news agency says the cause of the disaster is under investigation. Four people are reported to be in a serious condition. Originaly, Xinhua reported only five fatalities, but...
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The National Organization for Women is holding its annual national conference--"Fast Forward: Women Take Charge"--on July 13-15. Among the featured speakers will be Jennifer Granholm, the Governor of Michigan.
Unlike many in the men's and fathers' movement, I do not see the feminist movement as a national disaster or an evil conspiracy. I think feminists...
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A couple of car bomb attempts fizzle in London. A flaming car crashes into the airport in Glasgow but there’s no explosion. What’s next, a string of firecrackers that fail to go off in Piccadilly Circus? What a bunch of rank amateurs! Is this what’s got everybody in a tizzy? And then there was...
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At least 5 to 10 police officers in Afghanistan have been killed and at least 11 others were wounded after a suicide bombing in the southern part of the country in the town of Spin Boldak at a checkpoint. Police officers were having lunch inside a room at the checkpoint when the bomber, who...
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A westbound London Underground train has derailed between Mile End and Bethnal Green on the Central Line shortly after 9am BST during the morning rush-hour leaving hundreds of passengers stranded who had to walk along the tracks to leave at the nearest station. Transport for London have said that 20 people received medical attention...
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A third United States soldier has been charged in an on-going investigation into allegations that several members of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment had premeditated the murder of Iraqi civilians, and then planted AK-47s around the corpses to give the false impression that the victims had been insurgents. Sergeant Evan Vela, of Phoenix, Idaho,...
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Five men have been kidnapped in a raid on a Royal Dutch Shell oil rig in Nigeria. In the early morning raid, several armed men in boats opened fire on the rigs security guards. A Nigerian security expert says he doubts the two New Zealanders kidnapped from the oil rig will be killed. Bola...
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On Wednesday morning at 2:15 a.m., PDT (UTC-7) the son of former Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore III, was pulled over by Orange County Sheriff’s Department in California for driving 100 mph (approximately 160 km/h) on the San Diego Freeway. The deputy smelled marijuana in his car which, when searched, contained a small...
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This weekend the European Commission launched its own channel on YouTube, a highly popular website for distributing videos made by its users. Margot Wallström, the Commission Vice-president responsible for the communication strategy of the EU, explained that the channel on YouTube will be used to distribute informational and promotional videos about the EU. YouTube...
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The United Kingdom’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), a division of the security agency MI5, has now reduced the United Kingdom threat level from ‘critical’ to ‘severe’. Since the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow the threat level in the United Kingdom was at ‘critical’ meaning an “attack was imminent”, however the Home Secretary,...
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On Monday July 2, 2007 Kent Hovind’s appeal was denied by Eleventh Circuit Court. Hovind filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals claiming he was prevented from challenging the amount of his tax liability. According to the Pensacola News Journal, “the three-judge panel ruled that Hovind failed to raise the issue at...
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