Arizona Representative J.D. Hayworth -R- is expressing hope a statistical miracle will yet return him to congress even as the apparent winner begins assembling a staff and transition advisor for the move to Washington. While it is with in the purely abstract statistical realm of possibility that Representative Hayworth could still win the election and [...]

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By A Staff Writer Banjul,The Gambia: A local magistrate in Banjul has condemned the re- arrest of Abdou Jobe, the sacked Managing Director of the National Water and Electricity company NAWEC. Magistrate Mboto ruled that the action of the Gambian police was a “total breach of the rule of law and an affront to the [...]

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Gas prices have begun slowly creeping up in some parts of the country, but reports now say that they may come back down once the Democratic-controlled Congress takes over. According to the report on CNN.com, corn-based fuel expected next year should increase supply causing a decrease in gas prices. Some areas, like California, saw another [...]

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And the bickering in Congress continues. A Republican Mississippi legislator wants one of his colleagues from New York to apologize to the state of Mississippi. According to reports, Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel was quoted in the New York Times as saying, “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the [...]

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The inability to have children can be heartbreaking. Dr. Giuseppe Del Priore is preparing to give one woman the chance to have a child by performing the country’s first womb (uterine) transplant, and the first successful womb transplant in the world. The transplant would be temporary, only lasting long enough for the recipient to become [...]

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Daily News: The speaker praised the outcome of Tuesday’s elections in which Democrats swept to power in the House and Senate, in large part due to U.S. voter dissatisfaction over the handling of the war in Iraq. Describing President Bush as “the most stupid president” in U.S. history, the speaker went on to say that [...]

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Many of us buy store brand generic versions of common medications for such maladies as colds, coughs, and headaches in order to save money. But it could come at a higher cost to our health today, as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a recall of 11 million bottles of store-brand acetaminophen. The [...]

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Most folks have the mistaken idea that The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane. It’s not. It has no eye-wall, no relative high winds, indeed no eye. My personal belief is that The Spot is a huge ulcer from a moon of Jupiter long ago plummeting to it’s death. These things take a [...]

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As I write this, 1:13 am CST Wed Nov 8 (timestamping this for the benefit of Malibudude and Magnusdopus) … CNN is declaring that 2 states remain to be called in the Senate Race: Virginia and Montana. The numbers look to probably swing the Democrats way. If those 2 go to Dems, they will control [...]

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Ed “Big Daddy” Bradley has left this mortal coil. His ’60 Minutes’ was up. Leukemia claimed him and the world will mourn this magnificent journalist. A lover of jazz, a journalist with a sublime ability to get the story effortlessly. A patient questioner. Mr. Bradley’s list of accomplishments while among us are stellar. One should [...]

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By David Schussler The struggle the United States and coalition forces are having in Iraq and Afghanistan with the war on terror is mainly due to military history. Our generals and war strategists base our military efforts on experience and historical results of past wars. This war is very different. Although the sorties and individual [...]

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A report on the Jewish Week Web site quotes Louis Sheldon, the founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, as saying that Ted Haggard’s homosexuality was well-known within conservative evangelical circles. Then, as if things could not get worse, there was the disgrace of Sheldon’s own friend and colleague, Rev. Ted Haggard, the Colorado [...]

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Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse (Time) In a release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, the group has announced that they plan to file a lawsuit in Germany where the courts have ‘international jurisdiction’ against now former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld on charges of war crimes. The group will be filing [...]

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By Shaun Moore Washington’s 8th District remains one of a little more than a handful of House seats still up in the air, following Tuesday’s election. Incumbent (R) Dave Reichert still holds a slim lead on Democratic newcomer Darcy Burner with more than 60 percent of the ballots counted. As the ballot counting continues, Burner [...]

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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 [...]

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Two Chinese families sue a hospital that mixed-up their babies after birth 15 years ago according to government-run media Tuesday. A couple surnamed Lu, who gave birth at a hospital in Nanning in the southern province of Guangxi in 1991, raised a son by a woman surnamed Liu and a man surnamed Yao. Their son [...]

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Hong Kong Food Studio, opened in June pegged at a cost of $2 million, was built entirely to come up with menus such as burgers and sandwiches that would cater to 50 million McDonald’s Corp. customers from Japan to South Africa. The McDonald’s cooking space is found in a modest metro station in Hong Kong’s [...]

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A man found guilty of putting his wife’s puppy in a 200-degree oven, crippling it, was sentenced Monday to six months in jail. Third District Judge William Barrett meted Marc Christopher Vincent, 36, a punishment of six months in jail without the chance of early release. He is required to pay a $500 fine and [...]

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I always manage to hold back my tears each time I ponder on the lives of millions of people who live in abject poverty. Poverty remains a harsh reality for millions of people in the world today. In the 18th century, economist Adam smith commented that “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of [...]

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One of the most touching events of World War One, written by a soldier in a letter home to his “dear mater,” will be auctioned Tuesday. The rare letter, which describes Christmas Day truce in 1914, is one of the few uncensored accounts of life in the trenches. he identity of the writer is virtually [...]

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A group of giant, hungry snails that were first found in Barbados five years ago has lived on the tropical island and destroyed their crops forcing the government to eliminate the slimy pests. A “snail hunt” conducted at night last weekend reported locating hundreds of thousands of giant African snails teeming around the central parish [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer Conflicting reports about the proposed new Secretary of Defense must have many wondering about what is really going on in the White House and, in particular, in President Bush’s head. On the surface, Robert Gates certainly has the credentials for the position: He was Deputy National Security Adviser [...]

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by Craig Dimitri The election in the Conn./2nd CD is still unresolved, with Joe Courtney (D) holding a 167-vote advantage over Rep. Rob Simmons (R).  But 2006 is a relative landslide, compared to 1994.  That year, Ed Munster (R) failed to unseat Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D) – by 21 votes. In 2000, the political fates [...]

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I was a member of the NRA for about three years (just expired a few months ago), and I’ve written about gun issues from a very pro-rights perspective. I still hold those views. But I was quite angry — indeed,  it cinched my decision not to re-join — when I learned they strongly endorsed  George [...]

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Man, these statistics just won’t stop coming in, folks. Remember the crisis in the German health system? Well it can’t be all that critical if Germans still lead the world in visits to the Doctor (they like to call him Onkel Doktor here). Despite the recent introduction of a Praxisgebühr (doctor’s office charge) to discourage [...]

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Government officials in Australia have told a water summit of national and state political leaders that the drought gripping the country, could be the worst in 1,000 years. Authorities have started to draw up emergency plans to secure long-term water supplies to towns and cities, following the five-year long drought, which has already affected more [...]

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This story is really, really scary. NASA can put a man on the moon and send space vehicles to the outer reaches of the solar system, but making computers that can go from December 31 to January 1 is just too much to ask. They’re rushing the Discovery’s launch so that it will be home [...]

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Democrats will lead us “forward” into a better future, says Nancy Pelosi and her band of revelers in the aftermath of their takeover of Congress? Democrats have “new” ideas, they claim?

Not if this report is any indication of that “forward” looking…

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News Item: Time for Rumsfeld to go No, I haven’t been living in a cave, and yes, dumping Rummy has been a campaign chorus, so why did this headline surprise me?  It’s from an editorial in The Army Times.  Here’s an excerpt – For two years, American sergeants, captains and majors training the Iraqis have [...]

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A retired pastor and his son uncovered the remains of skull and lower jaw of a sea reptile believed to be around 70 million years old, according to Montana State University. The find represents the first complete skull of a long-necked plesiosaur discovered in Montana, and one of the best specimens of its kind in [...]

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Thirteen (13) fossilized footprints found in a valley in a desert in northern Mexico are considered among the oldest in the Americas, Mexican archeologists observed. The footprints were believed to be from hunter gatherers who are thought to have resided in the Coahuila valley of Cuatro Cienegas, 190 miles (306 kms) south of Eagle Pass, [...]

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Death count in Iraq has reached a staggering number. Iraq’s Health minister pegged the estimate at 150,000 civilian casualties in the war. Moderate Sunni Muslims, meanwhile, threatened to stay away from politics and use guns, while the Shiite-dominated government exerted pressure on the United States to unleash the Iraqi army and asserted it could stop [...]

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A 27-million-year-old fossil uncovered recently could be the “missing link” between modern elephants and their ancestors, scientists have stated.  Researchers led by Jeheskel Shoshani of the University of Amara in Eritrea recently unearthed the lower part of a mandible in the northeast African country of Eritrea. The unearthed tooth had a structure transitional in shape [...]

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[Note that Israel crippled that Iraqi nuclear plant 25 years ago with an attack (over the weekend) that cost no lives.  Iran is a country with a population roughly 3 times that of Iraq and a critical location that could cripple the world's supply of oil, if attacked.  It would be virtually impossible to destroy [...]

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Britain and Germany leaders vowed Friday they would work to put global warming at the top of the international agenda and would try to get U.S. participation in addressing the problem. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the statements following talks about Berlin’s 2007 presidencies of the European Union and [...]

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A man in El Cerrito, CA was arrested last week on charges of possible parole violations, indecent exposure and carrying a concealed weapon. The man, John Sheehan, 33, was found by police laying naked on a stump masturbating and was originally only going to be charged with indecent exposure until police asked him if he [...]

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Normally when you hear about alien invaders or an alien race visiting the planet for one reason or another, you dismiss the claims as those from someone who hasn’t been in the sun recently or you give it idle thought and then move on with your life. But what if those claims were coming from [...]

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Australia’s Natural Fuel make history Wednesday by creating a biodiesel plant in Singapore that would become the world’s biggest biodiesel facility. The firm invests $130 million in the project according to Richard Selwood, managing director and chief executive officer of Natural Fuel. The first phase of the plant will be functional by the end of [...]

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A young woman’s who stood in the rooftop in an apparent bid for suicide in Germany caused a mass brawl between spectators with one side asking the 21-year-old to jump and the other, a group of homeless people trying to protect her, authorities declared Tuesday. The homeless people got mad when some teenagers in the [...]

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A German man went to the police station carrying his dead father’s decaying corpse Monday. He confessed that he had kept the body hidden in a rubbish bin for months due to financial reasons, police said. The 45-year-old man (name withheld to protect his identity) arrived at a police station in the western town of [...]

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A Toronto man who is currently serving a four year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder on his wife is trying to use his incarceration as an excuse to get out of child support payments. Ironically enough, that’s actually the very same reason why he attempted to kill his wife in the first place after [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer The U.S. Supreme Court is in the process of deciding the constitutionality of a 2003 Federal Law that controls one of the circumstances under which a woman can legally have an abortion — the particular procedure under scrutiny by the court is known medically as “intact dilation and [...]

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This is one of those “you can’t make this stuff up” stories Britain celebrated Bonfire Night, traditionally marked with fireworks to celebrate the Guy Fawkes’ gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament in the 17th century on Sunday. On Sunday, a 22-year-old British soldier recently returned from Iraq suffered internal injuries after lighting a small firecracker [...]

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