Ah, a British paper just pooh poohed the British victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying that Prince Hal was not outnumbered 4 to 1, merely outnumbered 2 to 1.
Actually, the author misses the point, which is that the elite knights of France got slowed down by the mud and were massacred by ordinary British […]

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If you are wondering about Puffball Palin’s comments about the so called “death” panels, you should be aware that there have been calculations proposed by many “bioethicists” to limit care according to one’s quality of life.
Here is how the UK does it:

The basic idea of a QALY is straightforward. It takes one year of perfect […]

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Imagine the scandal.
A well known war leader’s body was taken from a cemetery on Federal land, and his skull used as an object of ridicule by the enemy. The family is requesting their return, but the bones are owned by a group that includes some of the most influential people in the land, so their […]

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All Indian Nations have a story of the conquest. For many Western Tribes, like the Apache and the Sioux, the story includes tenacious resistance to European advances and a bitter defeat. For some Eastern tribes, like those historically known, controversially, as the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole - […]

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There are a lot of newspaper articles about the squabbling in the Republican party, with a feud going on between Colin Powell and Rush Limbaugh making headlines.
Hmmm…I don’t remember either of them being on the ballot last November, but since I live in the Philippines, perhaps I’m out of touch.
Personally, I’m a blue dog Democrat, […]

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I’ve been fingerprinted lots of times.
You get fingerprinted to work for the US government, of course. Then I got checked again when I adopted my kids. Then again when I moved to the Philippines and applied for residency.
All of these checks were legitimate checks to see if I had a history of crime, including child […]

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El Reno, Oklahoma-  A woman and her four children were found dead inside their apartment.  The Authorities are looking for her boyfriend as a suspect.  On Monday, a  police officer went to Summer Garas’s apartment to check on the welfare of her and her four small children ranging in ages from 3-7 years of age.  […]

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“An Oklahoma teenager is swept up in laws aimed at protecting kids from child predators. He must register as a sex offender for life, as the worst level offender, after having a sex with his girlfriend, who said she was his age, 16…
“[T]he district attorney charged Ricky as an adult for two counts of felony […]

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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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Once John McCain’s inevitability became manifest, there was no shortage of advice from pundits, wise men and assorted kibitzers about what he needs to say to conservatives at the 35th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to earn their trust and their votes. Perhaps he needed the coaching, considering that the other Republican presidential hopefuls […]

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In Oklahoma, the joke was that you could tell an Okie because he was the one standing outside during the thunderstorm…yes, I know about storm radio, and our town had a siren, but unless you wanted to spend half your time in the shelter, you watched the sky, especially when the clouds were dark, and […]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether.
Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. Gov. […]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama.
Since none of the […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Mitt Romney has a message for evangelicals: Your choice is between the Mormon and the “liberal” McCain. Reports the Los Angeles Times:
Evangelicals can “vote for Mike Huckabee and feel good about their vote,” the former governor of Massachusetts told a Missouri TV station. “But they’re basically saying, ‘We’re going to give the conservative vote - […]

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Cowboys are not big fans of political correctness. Oklahoma is still a land where cowboys ply their trade. Some of them reside in the state legislature. Some non-PC legislators look a gift horse in the mouth.
From NewsOK :
A handful of lawmakers have asked not to receive a Quran being given to legislators at the Capitol […]

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Having the courage of your convictions can exact a heavy price.
A man in North Korea faces execution for trying to convert fellow countrymen to Christianity, according to a U.S.-based human rights group, “Voice of the Martyrs” (http://www.prisoneralert.com/). VOM states that Son Jong Nam defected from his native North Korea to China after his wife’s miscarriage – […]

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Of all of the child abduction cases being reported, there is one that sticks out above the rest. Two sisters, ages 10 and 12 from Enid, Oklahoma are accused of kidnapping their neighbor’s one-year-old son from his home this week. Sheila Wells was asleep at 5:30 a.m. when at least one of the unidentified girls […]

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On Tuesday, three men on death row were executed in Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. These cold-blooded killers each had three very different stories. None of them are likely to be remembered as famous killers.
The most public of the three was the execution of Patrick Knight. He and his friend Robert Bradfield were convicted of killing […]

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Here is another example of why our Universities are so antithetical to American values that they are dangerous to society…
Apparently, the University of Oklahoma is putting up a memorial to a fool who blew himself up when a homemade bomb he assembled went off while he held it as he attended a football game in […]

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The Oklahoma city Bombing was the worst terrorist incident in the US before 9-11, so it has naturally spawned all sorts of conspiracy theories.
But even those in Oklahoma wondered about John Doe number , a man that 24 different witnesses claim to have seen with McVeigh, and about the white Supremicist commune in Elohim City […]

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By Honey Gillard 
FORMER US vice-president, and star of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Al Gore has made his way to Oklahoma, to spread the word of ‘Global Warming’; in hope of a better, healthier world. 
Last Thursday, Gore spoke to Oklahomans. Telling them of the dire environmental consequences that will eventuate, if changes to decrease the amount of […]

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All the politicians get the headlines.
They pander to the anti war pacifists, you know, those pacifists who claim they never would hurt a flea, and if we just sang Kumbaya things would be peace and love?
Right. That’s why “insurgents” shot 30 plus of my fellow doctors/nurses/ teachers/ nuns/priests/pastors and an elderly bishop in just the […]

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The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands.
In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases are […]

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First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.”
Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement:
In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after verification of […]

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I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now - I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.”
I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were selling […]

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