Police in Hollywood, Florida, United States are investigating a strange bank robbery involving a bomb-like device being attached to a bank teller. Law enforcement sources said the bomb-like device was cylinders taped together with wires. The bank teller said that yesterday three armed men came into his house in Dania Beach, Florida and strapped...
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A Russian teenager has accomplished an unprecedented feat in the history of world aviation. He flew a distance of 1,300 kilometres in a wheel well of a Boeing 737 and lived. The fifteen year old Andrey Scherbakov spent two hours in the wheel well of the airplane at extreme temperature of – 50 centigrade....
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After testing positive for marijuana amid the latest drug test, former NFL star Michael Vick was placed under tighter restrictions by U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson. Vick must be home between between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and he must submit to random drug tests that will be conducted in the future. Hudson also...
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The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science was recently approved as a charitable foundation in the United States. Started by biologist Richard Dawkins in April 2006, the IRS has approved the foundation’s effective date of the tax-exemption as 20 April 2006. As a result, the donors who gave money before the 2007 IRS...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is responsible for addressing the threat of nuclear smuggling. Radiation detection portal monitors are key elements in our national defenses against such threats. DHS has sponsored testing to develop new monitors, known as advanced spectroscopic portal (ASP) monitors. In June...
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In my recent blog post I've Never Seen My Son Move So Fast..., I explained how quickly my teenage son moves to get away from me whenever there are teenage girls around.
Afterwards, a reader pointed out a Toyota car commercial which captures the teenage "I'm ashamed of my parents" sentiment perfectly.
As for father-son ads,...
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Western Civilization has a long history of misogyny. Male superiority was an unquestioned cultural norm in ancient Greece and Rome. Aristotle said, “silence is a women’s glory”. The advent of Christianity brought little relief. Eve committed the greatest crime of all time when she picked the forbidden fruit and corrupted Adam. Henceforth women were...
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 By Rinaldo Del Gallo, III, Esq. Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Monday, I represented a defendant in a criminal trial, a father that was charged with assault and battery on a child. The father had scooped his child by one arm and placed him in his motor vehicle so he could be brought home after...
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I'm quoted on the marriage movement and federal marriage programs in Mary Meehan's recent article Marriage as social medicine (Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/25/07). According to the article:
" said the pro-marriage movement has become 'kind of a mania' and is 'very dismissive of non-custodial fathers.' It makes the assumption, he said, 'that no man will take...
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Throughout the whole Columbia/Ahmadinejad debacle there had been something bothering me, some elusive but relevant factoid fluttering around the edges of my mind, but remaining just out of reach. And then it hit me. Remember an incident where a certain radical professor wished for something to befall the United States which he referred to...
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Want a textbook example how the Left manufactures a crisis, passes a law that rolls back Constitutional protections, snookers card-carrying conservatives, and bilks American taxpayers? Look no farther than IMBRA, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. A little background: It’s no secret that conditions in post-socialist Russia are grim. Author Sonya Luehrmann recounts how...
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Sigh--no comment needed...
Her word rules, and he goes to jail
Some women swindle with domestic violence law
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Women are kicking their mates out of the house in record numbers in Costa Rica. Some of them are enjoying it and using the law designed to protect women against domestic violence...
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