By Marvin Ostrega There are many people prospecting for the future presidential post in 2008. A lot of famous political people have been concidering it or have already formed Presidential exploritory committees. There is former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani. There is now Arizona Senator John MCcain. And, I bet in the future there could be [...]

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 — The publisher of a book by OJ Simpson in which he hypothesizes about how he could have committed the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend, said on Thursday that she believed Mr. Simpson’s statements were, in fact, a confession. “The book is his confession,” the publisher, Judith Regan, [...]

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by Craig Dimitri Freshman Rep. John Barrow (D) has escaped the possibility of being the only Democratic House or Senate incumbent to be defeated, in the watershed Democratic year of 2006.  On Wednesday, November 15, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office certified him as the winner over the Republican he unseated two years ago, former Rep. Max [...]

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My original thoughts on this YouTube clip were ones of amusement, but after re-watching the video and reading up on Tasers, I think the officers could have handled the situation a little differently. UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad refused to stand up for the officers escorting him out of the school library, swore at the cops [...]

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It seems the Artists Against 419 are planning a offensive against Internet scammers this weekend. They are inviting people to see what this is all about and participate if they wish. In their own words: Welcome to the Fifteenth Flash Mob! Three years doesn’t seem like a long time in the grand scheme of things. [...]

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Unleashing a new kind of DNA analyzer on a 38,000-year-old fragment of fossilized Neanderthal bone, scientists have reconstructed a portion of that creature’s genetic code — a technological tour de force that has researchers convinced they will soon know the entire DNA sequence of the closest cousin humans ever had. Such a feat, deemed impossible [...]

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Where is the follow up on the Ko oloko Dam Collapse ?   The heat needs to remain on those who share the responsibility for the loss of life in this tragedy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11826667/  The landowner has pointed fingers at the State, the State has pointed fingers at the Landowner, none of this nonsense has helped the families [...]

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Listening to the 24-7 gloat-fest on NPR certainly put me in need of heartening, even though my mother, a conservative of such die-hard conviction that she has always insisted that Richard Nixon was done in by his enemies, was relatively chipper last week. She insisted that Nancy Pelosi was not such a partisan idiot as [...]

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One of the hottest Yuletide gifts this year? The Wii. (Rhymes with key) You know, I’m just a lowly clerical worker, but whoever came up with this product’s name should be stuffed into a cannon and shot into a brick wall. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. I don’t know who’s more dumb - the brain trust that thought up the [...]

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman — one of the most influential figures in modern conservatism, a free market advocate and a major influence of mine — has passed away. As much as any other economist, this man applied free market theory toward practical solutions. He spearheaded the school voucher movement, arguing the government should give [...]

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The back room talks are over, as the Democrats announce today the selection of Rep. Steny Hoyer  over John Murtha to be House Majority Leader. A brave face was put on by Democratic Committee members yesterday, as they hoped General John Abazaid would agree with their Withdrawal plans. The Generals testimony yesterday, as was suggested in a prior post ( [...]

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News Item: Iranian Paper:  Great war to wipe out Israel coming. Does this sound like a country that is preparing to negotiate?  On anything? Granted, the source for this may be a bit biased, but it does purport to be a direct translation from two Iranian newspapers.  The articles basically say that fully half of [...]

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I am a little skeptical of this report, which contends a declining federal Housing and Urban Development budget has caused an increase in homelessness. It has a lot of important information in it, though. First of all, it’s not at all clear that the HUD budget is a good indicator of how much government money [...]

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Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman died on November 16, 2006 at the age of 94, according to media reports. Friedman was a leading light in libertarian economic theory, and advocated removing government control over private economic choice. He was best known for the “Free to Choose” TV series and book which he co-authored with his [...]

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A lawyer is arguing that a law banning sex with animals does not preclude sex with dead animals (in this case a deer). There’s this slippery slope, you see — if you extend the definition of “animal” past death, he says, pretty soon you’ve outlawed sex with frozen meat. And that’s just intrusive. Legally and [...]

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by Craig Dimitri The nation’s closest House race (of the 435 at stake on November 7) has finally been concluded.  On Wednesday, Nov. 15, three-term Rep. Rob Simmons (R) formally – and with great dignity and class – conceded defeat to Rep.-Elect Joe Courtney (D).  The Democratic challenger has been certified by the state of [...]

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Environmental gadfly and presidential loser, Al Gore, is nothing if not persistent. Well, okay, insufferable as well. But he was recently in Australia promoting his celluloid warning to Planet Earth, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and he couldn’t resist jabbing his down under hosts. He described Australia, along with the United States, as the “Bonnie and Clyde” of [...]

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The 2008 presidential election is heating up. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., yesterday announced his intention to form an exploratory committee in the race for the Republican nomination. He’s already launched his exploratory committee’s Web site, which some say is the first official Web site online for the 2008 election. The Web site allows supporters to [...]

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This George Will column (about this story) hits the mark in most ways. A man was sentenced to death after a gruesome crime, but the ultra-leftist Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the case. The Supreme Court then overturned the Ninth. According to the story: “At the [1979] trial, defense witnesses praised his conduct while [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer “With the resignation of Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, President Bush intends to fill the post with Florida’s Mel Martinez, a Hispanic who led the battle in the U.S. Senate for amnesty for illegal aliens.” That quote is the opening salvo in Pat Buchanan’s column this morning [...]

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Sierra Leone Alert: American journalist arrested, released Elligh Mothershed, a visiting American journalist in Freetown was on November 15, 2006 arrested at 6B Jannet Lane Kingtom in Freetown on the orders of Alpha Timbo, minister in charge of labour and industrial relations. The journalist was cautioned, released and asked to report to the minister later [...]

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Like zombies returning from the dead, they rise and walk among us. Just when we thought they were buried and forgotten, they dig their way out of obscurity to invade and devour our minds, offending us with their putrid smell. This is not some Hollywood “B” Monster movie.  This is Sick Celebrities Gone WIld! They [...]

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Hardly a week passes without one public official arrested in the Gambia. This time it’s Lamin Sanneh’s turn. Mr.Sanneh was the erstwhile permanent Secretary at the Department of State for Work. He was arrested shortly after he returns from a trip to Dakar, Senegal, sources hinted. Mr.Sanneh who was on a private visit was immediately [...]

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“The rumour that I travelled with Salif Sadio, to Kanilai and that my government facilitated his travel in order for him to escape justice, is baseless and has no iota of truth. I will never support a rebel or any rebel group, because I want peace to prevail and above all, the answer to Africa’s [...]

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Pakistan’s parliament has voted to amend controversial laws on rape, removing it from the sole jurisdiction of religious Sharia courts and placing it under the civil penal code.

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Pakistan’s parliament has voted to amend controversial laws on rape, removing it from the sole jurisdiction of religious Sharia courts and placing it under the civil penal code.

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Military and defense experts in Afghanistan have severely criticized German police trainers for failing to effectively teach the Afghan police force how to properly provide security for the local population and concentrating on showing them how to set up speed traps instead. “This will never do,” said one fact-finding official in the middle of nowhere [...]

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General Michael Maples, head of US Defence Intelligence Agency, has warned that violence in Afghanistan is likely to rise, with the insurgents expanding their operations and abilities, in spite of suffering huge causalities in the recent past. General Maples told the congress that the insurgents in Afghanistan have strengthened their influence and capabilities with their [...]

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Apparently, New England is not only the land of pretty white churches and gorgeous fall leaves, we’re also the land of cheapskates. In Forbes Magazine’s survey of the habits of individual state’s charitable giving, New England states were in the bottom half of the survey. Oddly, the highest ranking New England state for charitable giving [...]

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Apparently, New England is not only the land of pretty white churches and gorgeous fall leaves, we’re also the land of cheapskates. In Forbes Magazine’s survey of the habits of individual state’s charitable giving, New England states were in the bottom half of the survey. Oddly, the highest ranking New England state for charitable giving [...]

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Now that both FoxNews has shown the film “Obsession” about radical Islam, and CNN has had a special on the same subject (Transcript HERE ) there is the possibility that people will become aware of the rabid anti American propaganda in some of the (often state owned) media in many Arab countries that the US [...]

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Now that both FoxNews has shown the film “Obsession” about radical Islam, and CNN has had a special on the same subject (Transcript HERE ) there is the possibility that people will become aware of the rabid anti American propaganda in some of the (often state owned) media in many Arab countries that the US [...]

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News Item: Neanderthal DNA shows no interbreeding with humans Now that’s a relief. DNA fragments from a 38,000 year old Neanderthal has been successfully extracted and studied by a group of scientists in California.  Their findings do indicate that we shared a common ancester with those ancient tough guys, but since the two species split [...]

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Poverty in Massachusetts isn’t new. But the number of families in distress is spiraling out of control. Much of the increase in the Commonwealth’s poor is blamed on high housing costs. Nobody can deny that the housing costs do dictate the rise in homelessness and increased hunger. In fact, hungry families serviced by food pantries [...]

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