The White House has announced plans to expand its Office of Faith-Based Initiatives.  In an address to the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama said the office would reach out to nonprofit organizations and “help them determine how to make a bigger impact…and learn their obligations under the law.”  From a number of things said […]

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What do Children Owe Toxic Parents?
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A lot of feedback about stopping bullying by toxic parents focused on what children owe those abusive parents.  After all, even though they harassed, abused and tormented their children, those parents still fed, clothed and housed them.
Many of those parents now claim that a debt is owed them.  No matter […]

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Toxic parents can make your life miserable, especially if you’re still trying to win their approval or if you think you must see them during the holidays.
Most people can call it quits with bullying lovers, end false friendships and divorce abusive spouses.  But stopping bullying by toxic parents seems more difficult.  And it’s even harder […]

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Just last week we reported on a 9 year old girl from Missouri, Elizabeth Olten being murdered by a 15 year old female and they have decided to charge her as an adult on murder. I was beside myself when I heard that a 15 year old child could have done this, thinking what is […]

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The early 21st century stands as a period of profound moral confusion.  On the one hand, mothers and doctors are permitted to crack open the skulls and suck out the brains of nearly-born babies with government sanction under the banner of partial birth abortion.  Should these very same people hike into the woods and crack […]

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TedLipien.com, SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Clinton might have asked what the “enhanced” definition of “to enhance” IS? The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw is busy blaming a Polish translator for mistranslating U.S. Ambassador Lee Feinstein’s TV interview answer about Polish troops in Afghanistan, which caused a diplomatic uproar in Poland. In an interview broadcast last […]

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Missouri has responded effectively to cyber bullying via web sites and text messaging; has your state?
After the Lori Drew case in Missouri, in which a MySpace account was used to bully 13-year old Megan Meier, who committed suicide, Missouri legislators passed laws criminalizing cyber-bullying, harassment and abuse, and schools created zero-tolerance policies.  School authorities and […]

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I have to say I am writing this with tears so please forgive any typos I may make and miss correcting. It is times like this when I hate my job. For the second time in two days I sit here in front of my computer trying to report that the lives of two little […]

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In an incredibly chilling move, the White House tried to freeze out Fox News from interviewing Obama’s Pay Czar, while granting interviews to all the other major news organizations.  As the video notes, often the White House makes a particular official available to all the groups, one after the other, but today’s event broke with […]

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Somer Renee Thompson was on her way home after school Monday afternoon with her twin brother and her older sister when after a fight she ran ahead of them running towards her home. This was the last time this 7 year old child was seen alive.
When her mother started wondering where she was when she […]

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Clearly, the White House hasn’t quite figured out the difference between the two.  Now, I will say that some many who complain about liberal bias in the media and quote Keith Olbermann to, in part, prove it also need this bit of education.  (Quoting Keith Olbermann to show he’s an unserious clown is an entirely […]

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The founder of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, has watched as his organization has lost its focus and come unmoored (to mix metaphors), and has written a piece in the NY Times about what he sees as the principal reason.
AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding […]

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Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Tony Blinken, national security adviser to the vice president, said in a briefing with reporters before Biden left for Europe October 20, that leaders in Warsaw, Bucharest and Prague should think less of what the U.S. can do for them and more about what they can do with the United States.

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Like the Bush strain before it, Obama Derangement Syndrome is an overly hysterical reaction to what are essentially policy differences.  The most recent episode of the podcast I contribute to, Shire Network News, dealt with this very real issue.  (And this is a right-leaning podcast; we do police our own.)  Talk of a possible military […]

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In this recession, lots of specific problems crop up that we moan and groan about.  But habitual whiners and complainers want us to wallow in their negativity even in the best of times.  In her article in the Financial Times, “Office moaners are something to groan about,” Emma Jacobs points out that habitual complainers can […]

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The financial press and economists are starting to raise their voices about the deficit and the debt that is burdening our country and threatening our future.  Amid the news that the dollar hit a 14 month low last week, concerns abound about how government is spending our money; money earned in the form of taxes, […]

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Well Friday morning Caylee Anthony’s Mom was back in the news as she had to appear in court for the judge to hear the new motions filed in her case. Of course Casey’s proud parents showed up for court showing their support for their loving daughter. Cindy in her movie star style hair cut and […]

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The news media today contains very little straight news; the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor are two possible exceptions. If you, dear reader, know of any better sources of straight news, please leave a comment.Many if not most reporters today seem to take on the role of commentator and/or news analyst; […]

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We will be running our regular Sunday radio program at 3pm central (4pm Eastern). Our panel will be Simon & Jan Barrett, TJ Hart of WSKY 97.3, investigator William Cobra Staubs, and crime writer Denny Griffin. Once again, it has been an interesting week in the case.
The search for Haleigh Cummings is now well into its […]

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Okay, before I move on to the next installment of Ron’s Manifesto, I must comment on some of the feedback I received on the first article. I find it amazing that you can title an article “What I Believe” and still anger so many people, as though they do not believe you should be allowed […]

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In this day and age, it is difficult to get people to clearly tell you what they believe and support. It’s pretty much impossible to get this honesty from politicians. I have decided to air out my views on a variety of topics, at the risk of possibly alienating a few. I believe it is […]

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Zachary Christie, A six y/o “A” student at John R. Downes Elementary School in Delaware, brought his favorite Cub Scout camping utensil (a combination knife, fork and spoon) to school to eat lunch with it — he eats all his meals at home with it and saw no problem with taking it to school.That […]

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Juxtaposed on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on Saturday were two stories that tell opposite sides of the lingering economic crises.  One article discussed the slight uptick in global trade as an indicator of the economic recovery to come.  The total interchange of good and services between countries fell more sharply in […]

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With all of the political haggling over the payday lending industry and whether or not the payday loan is a legitimate credit option, it is certainly an interesting twist to find that some of the top banks in the nation are entering the fray by offering similar loan products to their checking account holding customers. […]

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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner would not receive at the White House the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who is on a visit this week to Washington. President Obama apparently wanted to avoid upsetting Chinese communist leaders before his official trip to China.
Unwelcome at the White House […]

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As reported in the Huffington Post, to focus attention on National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, Disney star Demi Lovato has gone public.  She was bullied so much in school that she and her parents chose to do home schooling rather than face the bullies at school.  Her story follows Miley Cyrus telling of being bullied, […]

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Against her lawyer’s advice Misty Croslin decided to take a trip to NYC and appear on the CBS early show. What she felt she had to gain from national coverage is anyones guess, but the result is, Misty once again has no legal representation. Her appearance on the CBS Early Show came as no surprise, it […]

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Blogging from Phoenix- Republicans have joined Al-Qaeda and the folks at FOX in condemnation of an American winning the Nobel Prize for peace. To the surprise of everyone President Barack Obama was awarded the most prestigious accolade the world bestows today and the enemies of freedom and democracy quickly voiced their collective disdain.
Some responsible conservatives […]

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Blogging from Phoenix- Mormon media pundit Glenn Beck seems convinced another Obama conspiracy is a foot, his latest theory, President Barack Obama is intent on building a secret private army. According to Beck this post modern version of the Hitler youth is called AmeriCorps.
Currently 500 or so members of AmeriCorps serve the state of Arizona, job-related tasks of […]

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What If? We are still verifying some of this information, but we decided that it was important to get the news out.
The drums have been busy this morning, and there are some interesting items that are worthy of consideration.
One of the reasons that Ronald Cummings has cited as a cause for the break up of […]

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