In a deal announced Tuesday, the Minnesota Twins have traded pitcher Johan Santana to the New York Mets. The trade is yet to be finalized, pending a physical examination and agreement on a contract extension, but an agreement is expected to be made before 5:00 EST Friday.
In exchange for the three-time all-star and two-time Cy [...]
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Alonzo Spellman, a former National Football League player, was arrested Tuesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma after a twenty minute car chase with police. Officers used “spike sticks” that flattened three tires on Spellman’s car, but he refused to get out until officers fired pepper-spray pellets into the vehicle.
Spellman was hospitalized and had to attend psychiatric evaluations [...]
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Here’s a headline that’s like music to my ears: “John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race.” It’s the kind of news that makes me feel like getting up and dancing a jig. No more will we have to suffer his disingenuous pandering about “two Americas.” No more of his class warfare buncombe. [...]
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Roger Clemens, future Hall of Famer, welcome to family court.
No, Roger isn’t getting divorced–in fact, former teammate Jose Canseco wrote that Clemens was very devoted and faithful to his wife Debbie during his baseball career. What I mean is this–Clemens has been accused in the Mitchell Report of using steroids. Clemens hotly denies this but [...]
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Ladies, when was the last time you visited a nursing home? Did you wonder why nearly all the residents were women? The reason is simple – men meet their maker 5 years sooner than members of the fairer sex.
It wasn’t always that way. Back in 1920, men and women had almost identical life spans. But [...]
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Give CNN points for stating the obvious, if points are deserved for such a prosaic report. But, don’t forget that by doing so, it is their gleeful kick in the ribs to George W. Bush and that particular aspect was the goal in the first place for reporting that the race for the White House [...]
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Two men who threatened members of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Special Investigation Gang Unit were arrested here last Tuesday following a joint operation of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Rudy Villanueva and Tony Logan, both of Miami, were arrested for violations of federal law. The arrests stem [...]
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Personal Essay
A previous version of this was published in Georgia Writers News. I am attaching an addendum to it based on subsequent events. I am putting it up now because it is relevant to yesterday’s blog about the resonance of the novel and movie Carrie being because of Carrie’s depiction of the teased teenager.
Maria Ruiz, [...]
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“My own father, Randolph, was born in 1915, in Athens, Georgia. He does not know his biological father, and various men passed in and out of his and his mother’s life.
“At age 13, my father came home one day and, according to his mother’s boyfriend, ‘made too much noise.’ My father and the boyfriend [...]
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Two people, a nine year old boy and a 23-year-old woman from Jakarta in Indonesia, have died from the H5N1 Avian Flu virus marking the country’s 100th death from the disease. Both died on Sunday, January 27.
“The woman died yesterday, but we just received the results that she’s positive with bird flu. The total number [...]
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“We’ve all witnessed scenarios where, on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up or even cheering. Or, in the workplace males tease young and older female co-workers; make obscene gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting (often correctly) that everyone will join [...]
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President Bush has delivered his final State of the Union Address to Congress and the American people. In the speech he urged the American public to support his Iraq policies and called on other politicians to take action to boost the U.S. economy.
For the seventh and final time, George W. Bush walked to the podium [...]
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The Internet-based group “Anonymous” released a new video on YouTube Monday, announcing international protests outside Church of Scientology centers set for February 10. The video “Call to Action” uses the same computer synthesized voice as a previous video titled “Message to Scientology”, which was posted to YouTube last Monday. The “Message to Scientology” video has [...]
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Regarding the new Bush Administration tax cutting stimulus package, professor George Reisman warns,
Today, we have a credit crisis emanating from the collapse of the real estate bubble that the Fed launched in order to cope with the effects of the collapse of the stock market bubble that it had launched only a few years [...]
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Cartoonist Lynn Johnston makes a prescient point about marriage in the For Better or For Worse cartoon above. It reminds me a bit of the line Bruce Springsteen wrote in the song he penned about his divorce:
“But for you, dear, my best was never good enough.”
Thanks to Jim, a reader, for sending it.
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Liberty Counsel. Long Beach, CA – The Long Beach District School Board has approved a
settlement agreement with Christopher Rand, a high school student who
was denied credit for community service hours he completed at his
church. Chris has now received full credit for the hours. The district
administration also rewrote its community service learning policy to
allow students to [...]
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Once again, the faux term “gun violence” is used as if the guns themselves are causing said violence, this time in a Miami Herald story. I have to say, this story by David Ovalle is amazing for the near Olympic grade gymnastics it shows as it twists the “tragedies” of death and casualties visited upon [...]
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Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a/k/a Simon Trinidad, a senior member of the US State Department-designated foreign terrorist group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, was sentenced to a prison term of 60 years by a federal judge in Washington, DC on Monday for his role in a conspiracy to engage in the hostage-taking [...]
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I doubt many in the men’s and fathers’ movement feel this way, but there are occasions when our feminist opponents do something so embarrassing that I end up feeling a little sorry for them. Such is the case with New York State NOW’s reaction to Ted Kennedy’s recent endorsement of Obama over Hillary.
According to the [...]
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When the Iraq war began nearly five years ago, tens of thousands of parents who serve in the Armed Forces expected hardship and sacrifice. However, they never expected that their children might be taken from them while they were deployed, or that their own government might jail them upon their return.
Military service sometimes costs parents [...]
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