Two days before Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a biography of actor Tom Cruise written by journalist Andrew Morton, was released in the United States, a video showing Cruise promoting Scientology was leaked to the Internet. The promotional video appeared on video-sharing sites including YouTube, Gawker.com and radar online.com, and clips from the video...
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Perhaps it is overly limiting to discuss the present state of our nation, and thus its prospects for the future, without broadening the topic to include all of Western civilization. Nevertheless, for at least the past century as well as a goodly portion of the century before that, America provided the primary defining force...
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January 3rd came and went…and the political world didn’t end! Oh, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd both dropped out of contention for the Democrats after the Iowa Caucuses, but they weren’t exactly lighting up the Democrat side that much. Besides, in Biden’s case, I think he was just copying Dodd’s strategy. Yet, to hear...
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Brad Renfro, an American film actor has died at age 25. Renfro, who had a history of substance events during his short life of 25 years, was found dead yesterday morning in his Los Angeles home by paramedics who had been summoned to the scene. The cause of death has not yet been determined,...
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Sun Microsystems, the company behind the UNIX-based Solaris Operating System, the Java platform as well as OpenOffice.org, has announced that it is acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind the open source database application MySQL, for a reported US$1 billion; $800 million to purchase MySQL’s stock, and $200 million worth of options. Sun CEO Jonathan...
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I don’t like to be unduly critical of the media, having some connection with them, but enough is enough. Particularly they fail to cover Latin America well, as evidenced by their inattention to what has been going on here in Central Mexico. I live on the shores of Lake Chapala, the largest lake in...
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At a recent speech by Hillary Clinton, a supposed protestor held up a big sign reading Iron My Shirt. Hillary Clinton immediately denounced the sexism of the taunt. Some people have suggested that the protestor was a plant. I have no idea as to whether the protestor was a plant or someone genuinely anti-Hillary...
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"'I couldn't stand the screaming,' historian Amy Swerdlow remembers about Bella Abzug. 'She was just so aggressive -- assertive doesn't do it -- aggressive and carrying on.' That from Gloria Steinem. Journalist Doug Ireland recalls 'those volcanic eruptions of Abzugian temper.' 'She got so angry that she punched me,' colleague Ronnie Eldridge reports...This is...
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Last week, Naked News announced that it would dramatically increase its international language mandate to news reporting, with three new broadcasts. Already reporting in English and Japanese, the global organization is launching Spanish, Italian, and Korean-language programs, for television, the web, and mobile devices. Wikinews interviewed one of the English broadcast anchors about the...
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President Bush ended his Middle East tour after a show of support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. President Bush began his Middle East tour in Israel, where he sought to encourage the peace process. He ended it in Egypt, one of only two Arab states that recognizes the state...
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"We're middle-class people with middle-class values. We came to Palm Beach for what was supposed to be the best day in the lives of two human beings, and ended up with two full days of crass negotiations for a prenuptial agreement.
"It was like a business transaction. That attitude is foreign to us. There was...
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The lamestream media told you: Candidates are battling it out in a tight competition for second place in the Iowa caucus, according to Wolf Blitzer, reporting breathlessly on CNN after the voting ended. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: What really happened was that data from the race, which had already been decided, trickled...
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The lamestream media told you: Nothing. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported a total of 11,177,335 for 2007, up from 10,036,933 reported by NICS in 2006. After a state-level adjustment, background checks showed an increase of 4.1 percent from 2006 to...
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Waterboarding is torture, according to the 2006 U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation. (See “Waterboarding Isn’t Torture.”) It also bans hooding, hypothermia, forced or simulated sex acts, religious degradation and certain types of threats. The Geneva Convention says, “Prisoners of war who refuse to answer questions may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed...
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So much for the conventional wisdom which said that the thing people liked so much about John McCain was his propensity to deliver “straight talk” even when it was stuff nobody wanted to hear. Straight talk is supposed to be a good thing because it’s another way of saying honest talk and honesty is...
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So much for the conventional wisdom which said that the thing people liked so much about John McCain was his propensity to deliver “straight talk” even when it was stuff nobody wanted to hear. Straight talk is supposed to be a good thing because it’s another way of saying honest talk and honesty is...
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USA Today financial columnist Sandra Block's column below all but comes right out and says that men are selfish for retiring at retirement age. Instead, men should continue to work, work, work while--guess what?--women should retire earlier.
According to Block, by working well past retirement age, men can "make up for all the times you came...
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“There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish a Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people.†-         President George W. Bush, January 10, 2008 Geopolitics is such a complicated subject, you see, far beyond the...
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