British PM, Gordon Brown, gave a speech almost exactly 20 years after a former prime minister evoked a muted response to her quote: “If a man will not work he shall not eat.” Margaret Thatcher made her stance known that she felt the open and free market economy would be the answer to all of […]

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Dr. Sally Satel in the Wall Street Journal is proposing that we pay for kidneys. She got hers from a friend, so she is aware of the problem of waiting for a kidney first hand.
However, when she laments that the Philippines is the latest country to “get tough” on organ transplants from paid donors, one […]

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By The Heel
Special To The Stiletto Blog
After the Rev. Al Sharpton’s massive protest last week that shut down several major roadways in New York City during the evening rush hour, NY Gov. David Patterson said: “They felt that they had no other choice but to take the action that they took, and I respect the […]

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Generally speaking one expects our politicians regardless of political color to do their very best for all sectors of the population. Not so in Ohio. Yesterday the Republican heavy Ohio Senate voted to change the Payday Loan industry. And change it in such a fashion that the vast majority of the 1600 or so Payday […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
TO:
Mr. Larry Cornett
Director - Earth Religion Rights Network
http://members.aol.com/lcorncalen/erro.htm#INTRO
Miss Wren Walker and Mr. Fritz Jung
Founders– The Witches’ Voice, Inc. - NeoPagan News Network
http://www.witchvox.com
Dear Sirs and Madam … or … whatever,
We have recently uncovered a development to which we are compelled to alert you with utmost urgency. It is our belief that armies of […]

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Archbishop Cruz, an outspoken critic of those who exploit the poor and of those guilty of corruption, has himself been arrested for libel because of an article he wrote four years ago.
The Bishop claimed that women working for PAGCOR (Philippine Gaming Commission) were told to go to a birthday party for the first Gentleman, and […]

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I’ve had it up to here with the MSM, especially the NYTimes and it’s clone, the International Herald Tribune. Today’s IHT has an article on how reporters in India were aghast that Bush “Blamed” the rice shortage on Indians eating too much.
But of course, he never said such a thing, and shame to the IHT […]

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Death and grief are not subjects that readers are eager to read about, and as Leslee Tessmann writes in Sacred Grief these are topics most people avoid at all costs. She acknowledges that she was the same way, and for years she saw grieving as something one had to do “…  and by no means […]

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The list of species that global warming zealots claim will be wiped out by climate change is long: Antarctic penguins; Arctic polar bears; Australia’s koalas; British dragonflies …   
But in what could be a case of Darwinian evolution in action, the BBC reports that “great tits cope well with warming.” Presumably, great tits won’t do […]

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(London, UK) Autism campaigners have urged Britain’s Social Care Minister, Ivan Lewis to launch a debate on Autism and the Elderly. Concerns have been raised over the social care of people with autism and Asperger’s syndrome.
The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown speaking at the King’s Fund in London said yesterday that England was facing a […]

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Payday Loans have become a bit of a hotbed of discussion of late. Legislation wending its way through the Ohio Legislature would certainly kill the industry. Lawrence Meyers is deeply involved with the industry from the financing standpoint and agreed to talk to me about the industry and the challenges that they are facing.
Thanks for […]

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For the 16 years they have been married, Michelle Obama has been Barack Obama’s closest advisor, second only to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Should Obama be elected, his presidency promises to be another two-fer. In case you have any doubts, columnist Robert Novak reports that Hillary Clinton will not be offered the vice presidency, because Michelle Obama has […]

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We at BNN would like to wish all the mother’s out there a very Happy Mother’s Day!
Today is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of celebrating this day. Ann Jarvis started it back in 1908. She got the idea from her mother who had passed away about 3 years earlier.
When Anna was just a child […]

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Ohio has become the hot bed of contention over Payday Loans. It is a simple concept. You need a few bucks for a few days, and you pay a small fee. Sounds simple? Well it is anything but simple. The Ohio legislature is set to close the industry down. At the center of the controversy […]

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One of my emails notified me that a Michael Crescenz, a classmate of mine, will be buried Monday May 12 in Arlington Cemetery. He was killed 40 years ago, in Viet Nam. Ah, it’s been many years since I thought of Michael, and even then I remember him as a young boy, not as the […]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
“To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
There is at present but one flag upon Earth’s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful […]

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It was over a year ago that New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin announced his plan to install CCTV cameras in high crime areas of the city. He claimed that 50 cameras would be operable within a week, and a total of 200 online by the end of the year.
Well the scheme has not worked […]

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The stories coming out of Myanmar (Burma) are just getting worse and worse. The death toll from last weekends cyclone is now over 22,000, and informed sources are claiming that it could rise significantly. The top U.S. diplomat in the country has said the toll could top 100,000.
While it is sad that so many lives […]

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Trust Definition
Trust, as defined by the common law legal systems pertains to a relationship in which a person or entity called the trustee possesses legal title to certain property or which we refer to as the trust property or trust corpus, but is obliged by a fiduciary duty to exercise that legal control for the […]

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Last week, there was a lot of publicity about a shipment of arms from China destined to be delivered to Zimbabwe being stopped when local trade unionists refused to offload the shipment in Durban.
Mozambique also refused to offload the shipment, and China, after a lot of international pressure, seemed to agree that the arms would […]

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Florida leads the country in the number of breeders and dealers of exotic animals and also leads the nation in the number of killings, maulings and escapes by big cats. It is probably true for other exotic animals as well, but only Big Cat Rescue seems to keep track and their records only reflect exotic […]

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I love hospice, because I’m old enough to remember when dying patients ended up in hospitals, or we docs would try to make house calls and try to get neighbors to help give adequate care in their homes. But with hospice, nurses helped me care for my patients by checking them frequently at home, and […]

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US President George Bush has joined his top diplomat in suggesting that the growing prosperity of India’s large middle class is contributing to rising food prices around the world
He said “So, for example, just as an interesting thought for you, there are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That’s bigger […]

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That heparin contamination that killed a few dozen folks might have been a deliberate act, not an accident…well, duh…
I noted that two weeks ago…
And this is on the heels of the fake protein in cat/dog food, and the lead in the kids’s toys.
But in Africa and Asia, things are worse. The tainted cough medicine that […]

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I love conspiracy theories.
The stories often have a smidgen of truth in them, but are amplified until they become larger.
So we are now reading lots of news stories about the genitalia stealing witches in Africa and that mobs are going around killing the witches in Africa.
Actually, the problem, called Koro, is a world wide phenomenum.
Usually […]

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It took some 20 years, but finally Rev. Jeremiah Wright said something that got Barack Obama’s goat: Wright called him a politician. That was the last straw.
Obama was moved to take Wright to task for his lost week-end (rather, the week-end Wright probably destroyed his chances of becoming president) spent dissing all those white voters in MA and […]

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Welcome to the meat of the future: lab grown meat.
No, it’ not science fiction, and it’s not tofu burger. It is growing meat from a cell similar to how scientists grow tissue cultures, but in this case, it would be taking stem cells, manipulating them to produce muscle in tissue culture, resulting in sheets of […]

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The small but prosperous Gulf kingdom of Bahrain has appointed a new Ambassador to the United States.
And she is Jewish.
Surprised?
Most Americans can’t tell a Shiite from a Sunni, or a Farsi from an Arab.
And a lot of blogs seem to think “Arab =Muslim”, a generalization that would come as a surprise to Lebanese Christians or […]

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Rice prices have skyrocketed from 18-25 pesos/kg to 24-32 p/kg at the local Palenke.
For farmers and workers who average 100 pesos a day (roughly two dollars), this puts a strain on their budget. So to prevent rice riots, the President is planning to allow poor people to buy subsidized food, and because of the worry […]

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Does Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have a point that Barack Obama (D-IL) is the weaker candidate against John McCain (R-AZ) because of his inexperience and inability to attract white, blue collar support? Is Obama justified in his claims that Clinton is the weaker candidate in the general election because she is too polarizing and Americans are […]

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