by Craig Dimitri The recount in the most bizarre post-Election Night 2006 congressional campaign came to an end on Friday – and in a rare genuine display of bipartisanship, the House permitted both Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings to appear in the official photos, for their respective parties’ freshmen – and both are attending [...]

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by Craig Dimitri U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes (R) has apparently eked out a victory in his bid for a fifth term, in the N.C./8th CD, by a mere 339 votes, over challenger Larry Kissell (D) – in a district in which over 121,000 ballots were cast. The district, which sprawls across southern North Carolina near the [...]

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by Ted Lipien FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, Dublin, CA — On November 14, 2006, Russia Today TV Channel announced it went on air on the largest European English-language platform, SKY. [

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Serial shooter’ suspects charged with more crimes Phoenix Sentinel reported November 18, 2006 that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced 35 new counts against Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman, the men police believe are tied to a 14-month spree of random attacks that left seven people dead and 17 more wounded. Hausner is being charged [...]

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In April, two respected climatologists at Colorado State University, Philip Klotzbach and William Gray, released their 2006 hurricane forecast in which they called for “another very active Atlantic basin tropical cyclone season in 2006. Landfall probabilities for the 2006 hurricane season are well above their long-period averages.” What actually happened? As reported in this Bloomberg [...]

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By TOWNCRIER Ding, ding, dong,dong. Here I come again with my talking drum. Ready to listen? Go ahead. Running a state is quite different from running a family house. It is rather unfortunate that my commrade in arms boy Jola Yahya Jammeh, Our Gambia’s Cow Boy President or should I say Accident cannot differentiate between the two. This man thinks that Gambia [...]

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I wondered who in the world would publish a book from O.J. about that horrible day Nicole and Ronald were murdered.  The book’s title is If I Did It. Judith Regan says she didn’t pay him for the rights to publish the book and she says that his children will receive the proceeds from it.  She [...]

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You can watch the video on YouTube.  It is almost seven minutes long, but it doesn’t seem that long.  There isn’t a lot to see, and not a lot to hear.  But, I do have some questions. Why did the police show up in such force to arrest this UCLA student?  Why did the student [...]

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Last week 60 year old Barbara Joan March of Connecticut was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to 14 counts of mailing injurious articles. The charges stem from her 2005 attempt at killing all the members of the US Supreme Court by sending them poisoned baked goods in the mail. In April [...]

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It’s a big day for Michigan and Ohio State fans as they get ready for what is said to be the biggest game in college football. Thousands of fans head to Ohio stadium waiting to see the number one ranked Ohio State battle the number two ranked Michigan. This is a legendary football rivalry. They [...]

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No “submission” for the Dutch.

The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds.

Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk will now draw up legislation which will result in the Netherlands, once one of Europe’s most easy-going nations, imposing some of the continent’s toughest laws against concealing the face.

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By Marvin Ostrega First it was Cholesterol. Scientists said we must get rid of it in all store bought foods or at least cut down on it. So if you go into a store today, you will notice, on nutritional labels cholesterol is found mostly in poultry, meats and eggs. A lot of potato chips [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer (Disclaimer: If this post offends anyone, it has done it’s job!) When the San Francisco Board of Education passed a resolution last week to phase out the school system’s 90-year old Junior ROTC program over the next two years. The resolution indicated that the reason for the ban [...]

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The lawyer for a man, Bryan James Hathaway, 20, in Wisconsin is trying to get his client off the hook by citing a technicality in the state’s animal cruelty and bestiality laws. The man was arrested on “a misdemeanor charge of sexual gratification with an animal” after he was caught having sex with a dead [...]

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A quiet revolution is silently taking place with tight-lipped retailers in buttoned up Berlin. Well, sort of. Up until now, powerful unions and other sinister forces in Germany, living in some bizarre, Rhinelandish time warp, have been able to hold the lid on liberalizing the ridiculously restrictive opening hours in this ridiculously restrictive country. But [...]

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  By David Schussler If you look up courses on Middle East and Islamic Studies at most major universities you will find a plethora of offerings from language to culture and religion. Just who is teaching these courses, and what are they teaching? Our nation with its liberties allow for a free thinking society with [...]

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I’ll try not to get too immature about this story (bouncebouncebounce), but I sincerely think it’s great. The FDA is allowing silicone gel implants in addition to the saline ones already available. Libertarians and other individualists have long argued that (A) silicone gel breast implants are not unsafe; the arguments against them stem from the [...]

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I’ve gone on the record opposing filesharing, and I’ve also been harshly critical of MySpace’s policy of letting minors post information in the Internet. So a lawsuit accusing MySpace of filesharing is a slam-dunk right? Universal just filed such a complaint, alleging that the site encourages people to upload copyrighted material. The problem lies in [...]

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News Item: FDA lifts ban on silicone implants In just one day, over 600 articles were printed on this subject. It must be a really ‘big’ story…     Full Story: Google News Cartoon from Sid in the City

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Leaders from 21 countries of the Pacific Rim are meeting in Viet Nam to discuss trade and security problems. It is the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. All the big shots are there: Putin, Bush, Howard, Hu Jintao of China, Shinto Abe of Japan, and our own Gloria (President Arroyo of the Philippines), who will [...]

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President Bush, speaking Friday in Vietnam at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, urged other nations to take a tough line on enforcing U.N. sanctions against North Korea, adopted after the communist nation’s Oct. 9 test that may have only partially detonated.

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