Amy Alkon, the Advice Goddess, points out that Denmark has come up with a clever new way to stop people from speeding. I'd describe it, but it's better that you see it yourselves. To watch, click here. The Danes have some clever ideas. I had a Danish college roommate in the mid-80s who told me about...
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a very real and significant problem in America. This month would be a good time to address the attempt of state governments to combat domestic violence through the issuance of temporary and permanent restraining orders. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade...
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The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to former U.S. Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. and to a UN Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Nobel committee cited “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are...
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United Nations Envoy Jan Eliasson said Thursday that negotiating a ceasefire in the conflict occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan will be the main goal of the peace talks scheduled for later this month. “The first very concrete step … is that we will go for and hopefully achieve a credible cessation of...
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The official results of the 2007 Ontario General Election now show that the Ontario Liberal Party has been re-elected. The Liberal Party lead by Dalton McGuinty will spend the next 4 years in a majority government. McGuinty is the first Liberal premier to have back-to-back majorities since Mitchell Hepburn, who held office from 1934-1942,...
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An aging McDonnell Douglas MD-83 passenger jet (registration: SU-BOY) of Egypt’s AMC Airlines with 156 passengers and 7 crew on a charter flight made an emergency belly landing yesterday at the Atatürk International Airport in Istanbul, after requesting permission to perform an emergency landing for technical reasons. The plane was returning vacationers to Poland...
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After lots of speculations and speculative London betting on the outcome it has been announced that British author Doris Lessing (“The Golden Notebook”, 1962) is the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. At the International Book Fair at Frankfurt, Germany, which is currently underway, this decision has met with general approval, as...
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BOSTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) partnered with Boston-area law enforcement officers to arrest fifty nine foreign nationals who now face federal criminal charges or deportation, as part of Operation Community Shield, a nationwide effort to combat violent street gang activity. The arrests are part of a multi-city enforcement operation over the...
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Being committed to a movement which has not yet come into its prime--the fatherhood movement--I'm sometimes interested in the stories of the unlikely successes of other social movements. One of the biggest underdog movements in history to succeed, though we don't talk about it much, is the industrial labor movement. Most of the big industrial unions were...
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I just spoke with Jordan Talge of Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman’s office (202-224-5641 and Jordan_Talge@coleman.senate.gov) as part of the admittedly quixotic emergency drive to stop the vote on the CJS Act Monday morning that will give $430 Million to radical feminist groups (who don’t vote Republican). This young man helpfully provided me with the...
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Yes, Indecency. In previous editions of Good For The Country, I mentioned how wrongful death lawsuits may play an important role in reclaiming the sovereignty of the adult students murdered on a campus which had no power to stop a shooter and which frustrates the target from acting in self-defense. Yes, adult students submit to...
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Contrary to all the media gushing, Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize is no more an affirmation of his greenhouse gas beliefs than Yasser Arafat’s 1994 award was a disavowal of Israel’s right to exist. Nor is it any more worthy. According to the 1895 will of the Prize’s founder, Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, the...
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"In the American family, the mother comes first, then the kids, then the dog, then the cat, and then the father."--Tomas, my Cuban immigrant father-in-law I guess we can now add the family hamster and goldfish in there before the father, too. Recently California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California legislature took strong measures...
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Only in an alternate universe should Al Gore be able to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless ravings about man-made global warming and the potential for planetary doom. And yet . . . And yet he just did. Well, okay, he won it jointly with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....
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Some conservative groups are openly suggesting abandonment of the Republican Party in 2008 and are looking for “third party” candidates who better represent their views. The exodus from the Democratic Party continues to pick up momentum with their traditional voters looking for a new home. Perhaps it is time for a more fundamental look...
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Author’s note: This piece was published over a decade ago in a publication of the Unitarian Universalist Church. I find it appropriate now because October is World AIDS Awareness Month. The Open Hand Project is described by its manager, Chris Chimera, as a Meals-on-Wheels serving HIV-positive people with need. People are considered with need,...
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I know it is a joke to try to get through to the cowardly manginas in Congress, but here is my letter to about 20 Senators this morning. Anyone hear can copy the text to write to the other 80 Senators if you think any of them are worth the time: Good Morning, This is about the...
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