Background: Recently hero father Manuel Jesus Cordova Soberanes gave up his attempt to come to the United States and instead turned himself over to the Border Patrol, all to save the life of a injured nine-year-old American boy.
Cordova found the boy wandering in the Arizona desert after the boy's mother was killed in...
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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney appeared be the winner Saturday in the Nevada Republican Caucuses in the bid to be the next President of the United States. With 2% of the votes counted, Romney was leading his nearest competitors by more than a 3 to 1 margin, or having 45% of the votes. Romney,...
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Adam Aircraft Industries has laid off 300 members of its 800-strong workforce and suspended operations at their plant in Ogden, Utah. The moves come as the result of unexpected financial difficulties. In addition, Adam is transferring much of its work at Pueblo, Colorado to its headquarters at Centennial. The only operations that are to...
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At least ten people on board have died in a plane crash on a mountain near Huambo, Angola. There are no survivors, and some sources place the death toll at 11 and others 12. It is thought that two of the deceased were Portuguese businessmen. Angola is a former colony of Portugal. The Beechcraft...
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In the midst of this presidential race, many GOP faithful appear to have forgotten that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and his friend Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) were planning last December to introduce a new immigration bill that is even more liberal than their past “amnesty” bill. They’re calling it a fast-track to citizenship for...
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In the midst of this presidential race, many GOP faithful appear to have forgotten that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and his friend Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) were planning last December to introduce a new immigration bill that is even more liberal than their past “amnesty” bill. They’re calling it a fast-track to citizenship for...
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"I'm gonna find me a reckless woman / razor blades and dice in her eyes / Just a touch of sadness in her fingers / thunder and lightening in her thighs"--from "Silver Stallion," by The Highwaymen
I was something of a fan of the former country music super group The Highwaymen (Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie...
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By Craig J. Cantoni This season’s Super Bowl will be played about 10 miles from my home in Scottsdale, Ariz. In one of the silliest gestures produced by the unwarranted mass hysteria over global warming, the host stadium is planting trees to counteract carbon dioxide produced by the game. If global warming is truly...
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The lamestream media told you: The NFL has moved to make the Super Bowl greener, to help offset greenhouse-gas emissions from the game, and will be “planting thousands of trees in Arizona’s forests blackened by wildfires.” The NFL has received praise from its environmental partners and public agencies, but some say the league isn’t...
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The popular video website YouTube has been blocked in Turkey once more. Several sources quote complaints against a video that insults Atatürk, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey, as the reason for the block. On Friday, internet users in Turkey found the website replaced by a notice saying: “Access to this...
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George W. Bush, the president of the United States has suggested an economic growth package that could be worth almost 1% of the United States’ GDP (the US GDP is approximately US$15 trillion). The package is expected to come in the form of tax cuts. In a speech which took place yesterday Mr.Bush said...
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"When he turned 18, Michael B. Elgin Jr. was a homeless father of a toddler, trying to get himself through high school while living with friends, relatives and, sometimes, in his car. Elgin did not know at the time, his lawyer says, but by failing to register for selective military service within 30 days...
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Matthew Higa, 23, has been arrested in connection with the death of a two-year-old boy. Higa is alleged to have thrown the child from a pedestrian overpass into oncoming traffic on Honolulu’s H-1 Freeway. The local coroner’s office noted that the child, whose name is being withheld, died on impact after falling 30 feet...
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The United States found itself Thursday on a Canadian list of countries where foreigners risk torture and abuse. The country is listed alongside countries such as Afghanistan, China, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Syria in a leaked internal training manual. Both Israel and the United States are officially allies of Canada. The manual...
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Israel has sealed its borders with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after a surge in cross-border attacks this week. As Robert Berger reports from VOA’s Jerusalem bureau, the move is raising fears of a humanitarian crisis in the impoverished territory. Israel has closed all border crossings into Gaza, in response to an escalation in Palestinian...
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In a recent editorial for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maureen Downey claimed that the overwhelmingly male Georgia state legislature “trades in caricatures of women, casting them as helpless when the state is intruding on such personal decisions as abortion.†She criticizes a proposed law that would force women to “sit through a state-scripted lecture on...
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Background: I'm starting a blog-based collection of bedtime stories for children, both stories I've told my kids and stories that other parents (and grandparents) tell their kids. If you've got a good bedtime story, please send it to me for consideration in this collection.
The core of these stories will be those I tell...
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