As the 2008 Campaign Season shifts from jockeying and publicity stunts to actual voting, it is all important to consider what America is likely to actually reap by electing any particular candidate. Honesty being a commodity of ever dwindling supply, it is dangerous to rely solely on the words of many candidates. All is...
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Ah, New Year’s Eve. Remember all the fun you had looking at the past year and deciding on what you were going to do this year to make your life better? (If you can, you weren’t at the party I was. We drank like it was St. Patrick’s Day at the Kennedy Compound.) In...
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With only one day to go until the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are leading polls in the early primary states, but Giuliani is still ahead in nationwide polls. How much do the early primary states contribute to determining who eventually wins the nomination? Giuliani has ignored the earliest...
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http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/799784.opn.pdf is the link to the case in question. Wednesday, January 02, 2008  Dear Seattle Times:  Your editorial, “Free attorney, not always says the court,†obviously overstates the argument that was being advanced.  The argument being advanced was not that one is always entitled to an attorney, but rather that one is entitled...
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I found this rather amusing--someone asked Yahoo the question "According to feminists who are some 'good' masculists?" The answer is, apparently, a nonexistent one. The men's movement is called a "white male privilege movement," "bitter boys" who are "cheap and petty," and "intellectually vacant."
On the other hand, there were a couple nice and fair comments, too....
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An entry recently appeared briefly in this blogsite regarding movement philosophy, an issue that I believe is important enough to justify its own permanent slot herein, and sincerely hope Mike will see fit to create same.  Our movement’s oldest periodical, The Liberator, commenced publication in the ‘60s as a divorce reform publication, then matured...
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I've commented many times on how when a woman commits domestic violence against a man, news reports:
1) Don't use the phrase "domestic violence"
2) Lead with the woman's reason or excuse for her violence, only detailing the violence later.
The Associated Press article WA woman arrested after argument over dog in bathroom (12/29/07) is no exception....
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The Republic of Croatia officially abolished compulsory military service on January 1, 2008, which had been in place since it was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and following in the tracks of its neighbor Bosnia and Herzegovina, which did the same two years prior on January 1, 2006. The changes...
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Reports say that the Tipperary Peace Convention located in Ireland will be giving its 2007 Peace Prize to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. “Benazir fought all her battles through dialog and was an example to all those who do not use or surrender to terrorism. Her selection as Peace Prize recipient should act...
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Responding to a request of the chairman of the German Minister of Interior Conference, the interior affairs chief of the State of Saxony, Mr. Albrecht Buttolo, told the Associated Press (AP) today that he sees hardly any chance to ban the German Church of Scientology. His statement adds to heavy critique by the extremism...
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Responding to a request of the chairman of the German Minister of Interior Conference, the interior affairs chief of the State of Saxony, Mr. Albrecht Buttolo, told the Associated Press (AP) today that he sees hardly any chance to ban the German Church of Scientology. His statement adds to heavy critique by the extremism...
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On New Year’s Day, the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League played in the AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic, an outdoor game held at Orchard Park, New York’s Ralph Wilson Stadium. This was the second outdoor game in league history and the first outdoor game held in the United States....
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At the stroke on midnight on January 1, 2008, the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Malta, both small island states in the Mediterranean and former British colonies, adopted the euro as their official currency; less than four years after their accession to the European Union. Because Cyprus and Malta are in different...
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South Australian Premier Mike Rann has said that David Hicks, a convicted terrorism supporter, should apologize unconditionally to the Australian public for his actions. Hicks, who was released from Yatala Labour Prison in Adelaide, was expected to make an apology upon release, but his lawyer read a prepared statement instead. He spent six years...
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A American Foreign Service diplomat for USAID, the United States Agency for International Development and former Peace corps voluteer has been shot and killed in Sudan. John Granville, aged 33 from Buffalo, New York was traveling home from a New Years Eve party in Khartoum when his car was ambushed in a residential area...
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A police station has been hit by a bomb in Naciria, which is at the north of Algeria and is about 50 km east of the Algerian capital Algiers. According to reports at least 4 people are dead and at several are injured. Full details have not yet been released. The bomb went off...
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it is utterly amazing how educators walk in darkness because they will not see the light.
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In analyzing the Virginia Tech Review Panel’s Report to the Governor since it came out, I have praise for the overall analysis. I have praise for the Police and EMS who responded with a well-organized response plan. It...
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We all want to be slim, eat healthy and get our financial house in order, but few of us are disciplined enough to accomplish all that without help. After the indulgences of the holidays, both gustatory and financial, inevitably you’ll probably resolve once again to make some changes in all these areas. You owe...
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" recounts an experiment with a group of pre-school children who were asked to recall a time when someone called Sam Stone visited the classroom. His visit was part of the experiment. The next day the children were shown a dirty teddy bear that was not in the room when he...
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As her once insurmountable lead slips away, Hillary Clinton is desperately trying to turn things around by portraying herself as the most experienced, likeable, and yes, huggable candidate. Maybe voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and elsewhere should hear the story behind her youthful transformation from Goldwater Republican to iconic feminist. The roots of Hillary’s...
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