"I retired because I wanted to be with my family and my kids and it was just time...I'm having so much fun being in their lives and being a dad again--full-time dad and not a rent-a-dad or part-time dad. I'm really having a good time with it."--Future Hall-of-Famer Craig Biggio
AK, a reader, sent me...
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This week marks thirty five years since the Supreme Court’s monstrous “Roe v. Wade†decision gave a blanket legalization to abortion, and by which the feminists claim that women have been greatly elevated in society. At this milestone, it is worthwhile to ponder the horrendous consequences they have paid. The network news headlines on...
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Romano Prodi, the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy (commonly referred to as Prime Minister), is facing votes of confidence in both houses of the Parliament of Italy. The Chamber of Deputies voted on Wednesday. The Senate will vote on Thursday. Prodi called for the votes himself on Tuesday in an effort...
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Romano Prodi, the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy (commonly referred to as Prime Minister), is facing votes of confidence in both houses of the Parliament of Italy. The Chamber of Deputies voted on Wednesday. The Senate will vote on Thursday. Prodi called for the votes himself on Tuesday in an effort...
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The strange lights seen by dozens of Stephenville, Texas residents on the night of January 8 are now believed to have been F-16 fighter jets, according to a statement released by the Air Force Reserve. The press release states that ten F-16s from the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth were...
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Maverick Thomas, a baby, just over a day old is in critical condition at the Hennepin County Medical Center’s burn unit in Minnesota in the United States after his oxygen hood caught fire burning 18% of his body. He was under care by doctors at Mercy Hospital located in in Coon Rapids when the...
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To address concerns about unemployed or underemployed Soviet-era weapons scientists in Russia and other former Soviet Bloc nations, the US Department of Energy established the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention or IPP program in 1994. The general idea was to engage former Soviet weapons scientists in nonmilitary work in the short term and create private...
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The New York Times is distressed that private philanthropists can give money to any charity they choose. Only a socialistic Federal government is capable, says the Times, of making wise decisions about dispensing money to achieve social justice. The flip side of American private largess is the stinginess of the public sector. Philanthropic contributions...
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I haven’t heard that Monica Lewinsky has endorsed a Presidential candidate. It seems to me that it might be seen as a magnanimous gesture on her part if she would announce that she supports Hillary Clinton. People might see Lewinsky as being generous to the woman whom she helped to sexually betray. Then again,...
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Gina Elise recently sent me an email promoting her "Pin Ups for Vets." OK, Gina, I'll buy--it seems like a worthy project.
I confess that one thing I like about it is the 1940s/1950s feel, both in the backgrounds and wardrobe, as well as in Gina's physique. As I've noted before, I appreciate a woman's...
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Thousands of Palestinians entered the Egyptian territory from the Gaza Strip, after the border wall at the Rafah passage was destroyed. Palestinians say that this was to allow them to get food and fuel. The Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak announced that his government allowed Residents of Gaza to enter Egypt, on the condition that...
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The Internet-based group “Anonymous” has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a “War on Scientology”. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves “Anonymous”. On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down...
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We often cover the problem of false allegations on my blog, and recently Joshua, a reader, told me that as a teenager he had been falsely accused of molesting his next door neighbor's kids. I asked him to tell us his story, and this is what he wrote:
Joshua's Story
Back when I was a teenager...
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Background: Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman last summer after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes.
Mary Winkler’s claims of abuse were largely uncorroborated during the trial. According...
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I broke this story last February (with help from a Chicago area journalist whom I did credit because I’m extraordinarily noble), and as I said two weeks ago in this space, it had its fifteen minutes and fizzled, which was somewhat expected given the mindset of the establishment media. The story of presidential hopeful...
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Middle-aged virgins are not necessarily the stuff of comedy. Choosing to wait is just fine, writes Dr. Helen Smith -- unless past sexual abuse or a debilitating lack of confidence is making the choice for you....
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