Posted in January 20th, 2010
Unless you’ve been living in a closet for 2 week, or are a die-hard Obama supporter trying to avoid the news, Scott Brown, the Republican, won the special election to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.
Yes, that Ted Kennedy.
Was this simply a local election, judged solely on local issues? I don’t think […]
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Posted in January 19th, 2010
…one Earthquake all too physically destructive, the other a virtual earthquake - shaking our political fabric to its very core, and with it, destruction of the hopes and dreams of the far left.
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Posted in January 15th, 2010
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There are a lot of Democrats like myself who will wonder why the Democratic party is using what they know is an obscene word, instead of bringing up the very real issues of the election.If you who aren’t familiar with the gay community, the word “teabagging” is a euphemism for a practice that normal Grandmoms […]
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Posted in January 12th, 2010
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The Massachusetts Senate race is getting the headlines on Drudge. Hmm…makes me wonder what’s going on, when a state most famous for it’s welfare and compassion might vote for a Republican. Yes, I’m old enough to remember Romney and Senator Brooke, but they are the exception to the rule.
The funniest line in the race this […]
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Posted in December 28th, 2009
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Americans have been vilified and conditioned to believe that they are the worst polluters on the planet. The USA has the assignment; worlds whipping boy for any and all environmental abuse on the earth. Somehow it’s all our fault that 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted cities are in China. None of the top […]
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Posted in July 27th, 2009
Walking out the door, my to-be husband whispered to me that she wouldn’t have done that if he hadn’t been standing behind me. He truly believed that the only reason she asked for my ID was because I was with a minority. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
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Posted in July 26th, 2009
Now, I understand that Professor Gates had just returned from a long trip. I know that when I come home from a long trip, I am tired and crabby. It had to further aggravate him that when trying to get into his home to finally kick his shoes off and rest, the door was jammed. Topping off a long and tiring day, the police showed up and began questioning him. All he wanted to do was take a hot shower and go to bed, right? That’s all understandable. But none of it was Crowley’s fault and there is no indication that racial profiling occurred.
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Posted in July 24th, 2009
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I once was wending my way home after a midnight flight when I saw the blue lights of a cop car telling me to pull over.
Now, I was tired (coming back from a weekend ER shift in another state) and cranky. And, I was alone on a stretch of lonely rural road where two women […]
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Posted in May 29th, 2009
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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it.
Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the mainstream […]
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Posted in March 13th, 2009
A few days ago, a sister forwarded a plea that I join thousands of Mormons like us in protesting this Sunday’s segment of Big Love, which will include a portrayal of the temple rites practiced and held sacred by faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Instead of training my keyboard […]
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Posted in December 10th, 2008
“That we allow defense attorneys to obfuscate and eroticize rape trials as a way of distorting the truth to produce an unfair result only adds insult to injury.” I guess the accuser’s story is always “the truth” and giving consideration to the accused’s explanations–”the sex was consensual,” etc.–is just “indulging male entitlement over women’s freedom.”
From […]
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Posted in October 31st, 2008
Isn’t this rich? At a rally in Sarasota, FL, yesterday Barack Obama said:
The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich. I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the American […]
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Posted in October 5th, 2008
Caylee Anthony has been missing since mid June and now everyone except for the Anthony’s are saying the little girl is dead. Her mother, Casey Anthony has been named as a suspect now in Caylee’s disappearance. Casey refuses to talk to authorities and won’t tell anyone the truth about what happened to her daughter which […]
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Posted in September 28th, 2008
Giovanni Gonzalez’s mother Daisy Colon of East Boston dropped him off to spend the weekend with his father, Ernesto L. Gonzalez on the weekend of August 15. When she returned to get him that Sunday night the child was not there.
The father of the boy insisted that he didn’t have the boy that weekend but […]
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Posted in September 6th, 2008
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By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog
Wow … flying to St. Paul, MN, for the Republican National Convention. I still feel like I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole in “Alice in Wonderland” and the world is upside down.
Honestly, when 2008 started, I had a whole set of New Year’s resolutions just like everyone […]
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Posted in August 26th, 2008
(Since some other BNN writers have offered their opinion on Caylee Anthony and Giovanni Gonzalez I thought I would offer mine as well)
There’s been a story in the news lately, you may have hard about it. A small child is missing. The child’s parent is in jail on child endangerment charges and refuses to give […]
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Posted in August 26th, 2008
On August 17 a 5 year old boy, Giovanni Gonzalez was reported missing after his mother, Daisy Colon from East Boston tried to pick him up from a scheduled visit with his father. She became concerned when the father didn’t answer the door. Police were notified and they made their way inside the home and […]
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Posted in August 22nd, 2008
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… But he’s going to make the media and punditocracy wait until he declares his choice via text message on Saturday, after which he plans a joint appearance with his running mate at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, IL, where he announced he would run for president. [Update: It’s Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), according […]
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Posted in August 6th, 2008
The man accused of kidnapping his 7 year daughter, Reigh Rockefeller and led police on a week long manhunt is to be interviewed by Los Angeles police that are investigating the disappearance of a Los Angeles couple more than 20 years ago. The question is that the same man that claims to be Clark Rockefeller seems […]
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Posted in August 3rd, 2008
Finally after searching for 7 year old Reigh Rockefeller for six days, she has been found. Her father, Clark Rockefeller has been arrested after police busted him in Baltimore. He now faces charges of felony kidnapping, assault and battery and battery with a dangerous weapon according to baltimoresun.com.
Rockefeller, 48 was arrested at 3:25 pm Saturday […]
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Posted in July 30th, 2008
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For the second time in four days in Massachusetts an Amber alert has been issued by the police. Ryan, 3, Lyndsey, 2, Lauren, 22 months, and Roddick, 11 months, have allegedly been kidnapped along with their mother by their father, Rodlyn Petitbois.
The children were last seen at 1 am at the scene of a […]
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Posted in July 26th, 2008
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Robert Novak touched off a frenzy of speculation with his scoop that “[s]ources close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.” Some of the chatter naturally focused on the identity […]
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Posted in July 13th, 2008
After trailing by a season-high five games, the Boston Red Sox reclaimed their top spot after beating the Orioles 2-1 today.
And the best news of all for the team and for Red Sox Nation? David Ortiz will be back on the field after spending 39 games as a spectator after he suffered a wrist injury.
“I’m […]
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Posted in June 19th, 2008
I once was asked by a friend to clean up his computer.
He had antiviral software, but never bothered to update it, or run scans. As a result, whenever he would open his browser, he found the homepage had been reset to a pornography site.
No big deal. I updated his viruses, ran the scans, removed the […]
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Posted in June 4th, 2008
You may have heard this tear-jerker on this morning’s news or read about it:
Dateline, Andover, Massachusetts: Sarah Pearson is two credits short of the requirements for graduating with the rest of her Andover High School senior class — she knows this and doesn’t debate that fact. The reason she is short on her credits is […]
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Posted in May 6th, 2008
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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]
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Posted in April 30th, 2008
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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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Posted in April 3rd, 2008
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In Colombia, the narco “insurgent” group FARC is being decimated by a “carrot-stick” approach by the Colombian President Uribe.
After years of a “talk nice and let’s negotiate” President, where FARC used truces and safe zones to regroup and fight again rather than to negotiate, the present government is hitting hard, but offering amnesty to those […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2008
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When Hillary lies, does she know she is lying? Is she a reflexive liar, a compulsive liar, or a pathological liar? Does the staggering number of lies she has told during this campaign make her morally unfit for the office she seeks? Do the things about which she lied make her psychologically unfit?
Consider these questions […]
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Posted in March 27th, 2008
Gary Zerola, Professional Victim
Boston attorney Gary Zerola was acquitted today in his 2nd rape charge trial in a Boston courtroom of multiple charges of rape and supplying alcohol to a minor, the second such trial this year with almost the exact same charges and counter charges, that it was the 30-something Zerola who was the […]
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