I hope nobody thinks that next week will be business as usual. This week the private sector has gradually wound down its operations. The retail sector – most retailers carry stock for a month approximately, are the last to shut down but already you can see empty shelves and shortages of all the fast...
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Apparently some Australian women are unhappy over the way police are arresting them for domestic violence. They're protesting against alleged police brutality, but the police are saying the woman arrested in the incident was violent.
I've no idea who is right and who is wrong, and since these are Aboriginal women, racism could be an element...
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Marc Rudov Debates Lis Wiehl
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FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto: 07.06.07
“Does a 07.07.07 Wedding Bring Men Luck?â€Â
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The National Child Support Enforcement Association recently held a Webinar on "How to Prevent Child Support Cuts." According to the NCSEA, "a cut in enforcement funds approved by Congress last year threatens to deprive children of $11 billion in support owed to them over 10 years." To learn more about the Webinar, click here.
The NCSEA and the...
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The first female Chief Justice of Ghana, Georgina Theodora Wood was among 77 others who received national awards in Accra today. The awards are for distinguished services to Ghana. Georgina Wood, who became Chief Justice on June 15, 2007, received her award from President John Kufuor. She was given the Order of the Star...
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Just days after the introduction of the ban on smoking in England, the Liberal Democrats Member of Parliament, Charles Kennedy has been caught smoking on a train today. The incident occurred on the 1105 BST Paddington to Plymouth First Great Western service. The train manager is reported to have contacted the British Transport Police,...
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Microsoft have extended the warranty on their Xbox 360 video game console to three years from the date of purchase following a large number of problems with the console and “an unacceptable number of repairs”, costing the company more than one billion US dollars. The fault, which has been dubbed the “red ring of...
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Appears online in The Pink Chameleon I’d seen the two of them together many times, but I could never remember the human’s name. “Hi, Sugarfoot,” I said to the bird on the woman’s shoulder. “Hi, . . . I’m sorry I forgot your name.” I smiled apologetically. “You remembered Sugarfoot, though,” she commented, smiling...
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Appears online in The Pink Chameleon I’d seen the two of them together many times, but I could never remember the human’s name. “Hi, Sugarfoot,” I said to the bird on the woman’s shoulder. “Hi, . . . I’m sorry I forgot your name.” I smiled apologetically. “You remembered Sugarfoot, though,” she commented, smiling...
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"Deadbeat" parent round-ups are continuing in Chicago (I criticized these a few weeks ago in my co-authored column Most Illinois 'Deadbeats' Aren't 'Reprehensible' -- They're Broke , Chicago Daily Southtown, 6/20/07).
Perhaps one reason for these raids is that local sheriff Mark Curran (pictured), who is launching the raids, happens to be married to the...
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Great Britain’s new Prime Minister, who, thanks to attempted car bombings nearly had the worst first week on the job since the Titanic, is under fire for “hiding” things from the public. Just little things though, like that Great Britain may well lose its sovereignty:
The new European Union treaty will mean “transfers of sovereignty”...
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From Sunday July 8th through the 15th, I will be on the road and in the air, on a shoot so I won't be submitting as many pieces as the norm.
I will be travelling with my son Cory, who will be crewing, along with military historian Professor Larry Schweikart who wrote the book and...
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Younger Americans may be more receptive to traditionally liberal social policy than their parents, according to a recent poll conducted by the New York Times, CBS News, and MTV. The survey found those ages 17 to 29 to be substantially more interested in Presidential politics, with nearly 60 percent expressing interest in the 2008...
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During a flight Friday from Chaklala Airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan to Balochistan province, President Pervez Musharraf’s plane was shot at from a rooftop near the flight path. Musharraf was flying to Balochistan province to observe the effects of recent flooding in the area. The Pakistani government has officially denied the plane came under fire,...
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Ice samples retrieved from 1.2 miles (2km) beneath the surface of Greenland have uncovered the oldest known samples of DNA from insects. The samples, estimated to be 450,000-900,000 years old, have also shown that no more than one million years ago, Greenland was once home to forests and animal life. “We have shown for...
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Australian police have questioned four more people in connection with the failed bombing attempts in London and Glasgow, seizing computers and other evidence in several raids. The four being questioned are all doctors, working in hospitals in Perth and Kalgoorlie. They are reported to be of Indian origin, and have all been linked to...
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Nine people have been killed when a cargo plane failed to take off correctly at Culiacán Airport in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico yesterday. The plane, owned by a mail courier company, is thought to have blown a tire during the take-off procedure, causing it to run off the end of the runway and break through...
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The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2014 Olympics to Sochi, Russia, a resort city near the Black Sea, in Guatemala City yesterday defeating Pyeongchang, South Korea, by just four votes. Salzburg, Austria, was eliminated in the first round by 25 votes. According to the Associated Press, several factors played a part in Sochi’s win....
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I orginally wrote this as Friday's radio spot script, but I personally like it as a read, so here's both.
It's all about you.
Last year, I got in trouble with YouTube for trying to air one of my television show segments that included the videotaped beheading of an American captured by Iraqi insurgents. That...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A new conservative voice has emerged from the Keystone State. Republican Ronald Francis recently threw his hat in the ring for a seat in the US Congress representing Pennsylvania’s 4th District. The former Allegheny County councilman already has picked up a significant endorsement for his campaign. Former county Chief Executive...
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