US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested nearly 300 gang members and gang associates here in the Los Angeles area over the last four months as part of a far-reaching law enforcement operation by ICE that generated more than 1,700 arrests nationwide, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of...
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By now it should be painfully obvious to all but the most myopic liberal pawns that their Democrat leadership is not concerned with America’s financial status, but is instead milking the situation for every bit of political advantage it might achieve for them. The effort to craft a Congressional “bailout” of the banking industry,...
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(The following is based on a report submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police by the US Department of Justice.) Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today announced nearly $240 million in grant awards that support communities and law enforcement in preventing crime. These grants are administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance...
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“The family court system needs to be investigated,” says Paul Fisher, the Fathers 4 Justice Daddy Activist who recently spent three days 125 feet above ground on a crane in Ohio. Fisher was drawing attention to what he claims is family court corruption. “The mainstream media is ignoring this serious issue affecting a lot...
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So how did they come up with that $700 billion bailout figure? A Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com last week: “It’s not based on any particular data point. We just wanted to choose a really large number.” That they did and, in so doing, scared a many Americans. Watching cable news after the House sensibly...
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Lachrymose tales of battered women abound when representatives of abuse shelters come calling, hat in hand, for taxpayer money. But what is the truth of the matter — are abuse shelters really brimming with hapless victims trying to break free of the cycle of violence? The answer to that question is a surprising “No.â€ÂÂ...
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As the financial industry slips further into despair and drags the economy down with it, I can’t help wondering how the brightest minds in the financial world failed to see this coming. The only answer I get in return from our esteemed presidential candidates, the talking heads on TV and virtually everyone else I’ve...
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I’m not surprised that the GOP is allowing a partisan, left-wing pseudojournalist to be the moderator for a vice presidential debate, but some conservatives still get angry and sometimes shoot-from-the-hip in response to the media’s liberal-left bias. Below is the reaction of one of the top conservative leaders in the United States today: By...
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Our Financial Crisis: The Result of Centralized Planning (2008-09-29) by David John Marotta Assigning blame for recent events in the financial markets is today’s most pressing political issue. Unintended cause and effect are both complex and subtle, but recognizing the culprits is important if we want to avoid giving them additional power and responsibility....
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Author’s Note: This was originally published in “The Hatchet: Lizzie Borden’s Journal of Murder, Mystery & Victorian History.†There appears to have been a special relationship between Lizzie Borden and a poetic work entitled “My Ain Countrie.†The words ‘At Hame In My Ain Countrie’ are inscribed in an oak mantle in Maplecroft. Vida...
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If my checking account goes into overdraft to a dramatic degree, obviously my bank would hear nothing of coming to the rescue with funds not only to ameliorate the overdraft, but to get me on my feet again. The same would apply if half of the depositors in the branch I use did likewise....
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