From Chuck Asay of the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Given the way recess and physical education time are being pared back in our schools, I'd add a third box--'Back in My Day, We had Recess.' Christina Hoff Sommers, in her book The War on Boys, describes this new trend and its particularly negative impact...
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Speaking of the female sentencing discount, La Crosse County, Wisconsin has decided to let all of its female prisoners out of jail.
Supervisor Keith Belzer, one of the architects of the policy, says that women who are in jail are almost always there “because of some kind of relationship with a man.†Wow.
To write a...
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Japan has backed down from a highly controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales off Antarctica, after fierce criticism by Australia. The Japanese whaling fleet, however, still plans to hunt almost 1,000 whales this season. Today’s decision will save 50 humpback whales that Japanese whalers had planned to catch and kill in Antarctic waters....
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Cathal Ryan, an early board member of Irish non-designated flag carrier, and son of late co-founder Tony Ryan, has died. He was 48, and had been diagnosed with cancer. Cathal bacame one of Ryanair’s first pilots, having trained as one in the 1980s in Sri Lanka, when his father set up the airline in...
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A judge has issued a ruling in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh. Defendant Sean Hoey, who faced 56 charges relating to a car bomb that killed 29 people and injured more than 200, has been found not guilty. A stunned silence in the public gallery of Belfast Crown Court...
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A judge has issued a ruling in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh. Defendant Sean Hoey, who faced 56 charges relating to a car bomb that killed 29 people and injured more than 200, has been found not guilty. A stunned silence in the public gallery of Belfast Crown Court...
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Activists from the Lakota Indian Tribe, an Indian nation on United States soil, have signed and delivered a document purporting to withdraw or cancel all treaties with the U.S. and formally establish independence from the country. “We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the...
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Jusman Syafii Djamal, minister of transport for Indonesia, has recommended that local airlines should not purchase aircraft from European manufacturers, such as Airbus. It is a direct response to the decision of the European Union (EU) to add all 51 of Indonesia’s air carriers to the list of air carriers banned in the EU....
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Jusman Syafii Djamal, minister of transport for Indonesia, has recommended that local airlines should not purchase aircraft from European manufacturers, such as Airbus. It is a direct response to the decision of the European Union (EU) to add all 51 of Indonesia’s air carriers to the list of air carriers banned in the EU....
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The former General Secretary of the Greek Ministry of Culture, Christos Zachopoulos, 54, attempted suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of his apartment in central Athens. He was found lying in the pavement outside his home in Kolonaki at 14:00 EET (UTC+2). According to evidence, Mr. Zahopoulos had fallen from the fourth floor...
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On Sunday, after nine years of touring and recording, Christian pop group JUMP5 performed their last show in Nashville, Tennessee. Playing at Rocketown in downtown Nashville, the performance reunited the group of four with Libby Hodges, who left the group in 2004. Preceded by a VIP meet-and-greet, the show was scheduled to start at...
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Author’s note: This was originally published a few years ago. It was winter in 1946 and a relieved America was still celebrating its victory in World War II. The Cold War had just started. A showdown between the Truman Administration and the defiant labor leader of the coal miners, John L. Lewis, who was...
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The lamestream media told you: In a story unrelated to the House vote on waterboarding, Jim Davenport writing for the AP reports that presidential candidate John McCain “suffered mistreatment” as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: John McCain was sadistically tortured during his 5-1/2 years as a Vietnamese...
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The lamestream media told you: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to declare the interrogation technique known as “waterboarding” as torture, in a move designed to outlaw its use by the CIA and other federal operatives fighting terrorism. The new U.S. Attorney General evaded the question repeatedly during his confirmation hearings, but was confirmed...
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For fathers and the children who love them and need them, Massachusetts sometimes looks a lot like feminist hell. In this series, Ned Holstein, Executive Director of Fathers & Families, points to four um...problematic...Massachusetts family law bills. The first bill Holstein cites limits the freedoms of all dads--even married ones with no children!
From Holstein:
Here are four...
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I appeared yesterday on the nationally-syndicated Lars Larson Show (pictured) to discuss my co-authored column, Biden’s Misguided S1515 Will Exacerbate Domestic Violence System’s Problems (Philadelphia Daily News, 12/7/07). The guest who was on the show before me was presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, and it served as yet another reminder of...
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Evolutionists sometimes try to re-frame the debate over evolution such that it appears that there is no debate. They fear that merely using the term “evolutionist†could lead people to the belief that not all scientists are Neo-Darwinian “evolutionists.†( A belief that would be correct .) Some Darwinists have even spun urban legends...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A Crespatown, Maryland man was sentenced on Friday to 50 years in prison for two counts of sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography. William Edward Wray, II, was sentenced before US District Judge Richard D. Bennett to 50 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release,...
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