… the advent of Jesus Christ upon earth was required to teach that all the members of the human race are by nature equal and alike. - Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy In America," 1835.
Liberty Letters Comment: Alexis de Tocqueville, who with a philosopher's and sometimes a prophet's pen understood so much about America and...
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Background: Murderess Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman last month after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes.
Winkler scammed the court with uncorroborated claims that Matthew (pictured with...
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Adventurer Steve Fossett has gone missing over western Nevada. He took off in a single engine plane Monday morning, planning to return around noon, and has not been seen since. Fossett took off at around 9 a.m. local time Monday (16:00 UTC) and was to return around noon. When he failed to return, his...
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September 4, 2007 Padres crush Diamondbacks, pulling 1 game ahead * Padres 10, Diamondbacks 2: Going into this game, the first of a three-game series, the Padres and Diamondbacks were in a virtual tie, each team sitting at 14 games above .500. The Padres were led by Brian Giles, who hit two of the...
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Police in Oak Bay, British Columbia, a suburb of the provincial capital Victoria, report that five bodies were found in a home after having been summoned there on a 911 emergency call. The 911 call came in at approximately 3 a.m. local time, but police were not able to enter the home until 9...
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Wolbachia has on some occasions inserted almost its entire genome into species that it infects reported scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute and the University of Rochester. This is the first example of large-scale horizontal gene transfer between single-celled and multicellular organisms. Although horizontal gene transmission is common among single-celled organisms, it is...
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The federal prosecution in Belgium has finished an investigation into the activities of the Scientology Church in the country, and is planning to file a lawsuit against the Belgian and European sections of the religious movement, and 14 individual members. The inquiry began in 1999 after some former members accused Scientology of swindling. Now,...
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“Please, sir, I want some more.â€Â
The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale….
“What!†said the master at length, in a faint voice.
“Please, sir,†replied Oliver. “I want some more.â€Â
* * *
“That boy will be hung,†said the gentleman in the white waistcoat. “I know that boy will be hung.â€Â
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Someone I know was talking with me about the restaurant in which he works. He expressed, as he has in the past, an acute dissatisfaction with his job. He continued that there were several reasons for that dissatisfaction. One of them was that “some of the people who work here do things that they...
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For Spanish-speaking readers, I was quoted by the Univision network in their recent piece "El rol del padre divorciado--Cómo mantenerse cerca de los hijos" ("The Role of Divorced Dads--How to Maintain Your Relationship with Your Children").
I discussed the difficulties divorced dads face, in part because of mothers' interference with fathers' relationships with their children....
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An announcement from Stuart Meltzer, Esq. of Nassau County, New York:
As a result of my over 18 years experience in the Family, Matrimonial and Criminal Courts in the New York area, I have witnessed a steady decline in Equal Protection and Due Process rights afforded to litigants. Most disturbing is the fact that those...
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Last month my column highlighted the often-neglected voices of fathers in the abortion debate. Afterwards, several men contacted me to recount their painful memories. Wayne Auman of North Carolina was one of those courageous men. His memories are so vivid and his pain so poignant, I invited him to share the story in...
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Last week we listed the ways university student are enticed into using credit cards. This week we will examine the economical impact of those initially small and convenient monthly payments. If your credit card minimum payment was $10 and you repaid it every month for 15 1/2 years with an accruing interest of 15.9%,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Jose Ramon Hinojosa Santos, the head of an international drug ring that shipped heroin and cocaine to the United States, Western Europe, and Canada, was extradited to the United States from the Dominican Republic late Sunday evening. He was arraigned Monday afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann...
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Older men and much-younger women is a hot topic on which everyone seems to have an opinion...just ask Fred Thompson. PJM advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith offers her take on the subject, along with her opinion on a reader's very...
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