Readers likely recall that Detroit Tiger’s pitcher Joel Zumaya had to sit out three games of the American League Championship owing to inflammation in his right (i.e. pitching) arm. At that time the inflammation was attributed to “different weather.” But, Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski let it slip on the radio yesterday that [...]

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In 2001, President Bush gave a ringing endorsement to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straight-forward and trustworthy and we had a very good dialogue,” Bush said. “I was able to get a sense of his soul.”   Whatever “sense” Bush received at that [...]

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The City of San Francisco recently labeled the Catholic Church to be a hateful organization and engaged in a tirade of anti-Catholic rhetoric. It’s not surprising that the City of San Francisco would engage in a childish rant because the Catholic Church reiterated a theological position that has been held for thousands of years, after [...]

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Remember to stay healthy for the Holidays.  Christmas is a time for parties and having fun but we also see a lot of health problems. When there are parties, there is a danger of food poisoning. The first type is the one that sneaks up on you: Staph . The Staph germ causes a nasty [...]

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Someone threatened to steal Christmas from travelers in the Seattle-Tacoma Airport Sunday December 10, but they failed. This was another sad story about removing a traditional Christmas symbol from a public place. Authorities bending to a secular culture fear lawsuits, so they push Christmas in the closet at the least threat. The Port of Seattle [...]

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Phishing is an internet term that refers to the techniques that bad people use to obtain your personal information. The usual reasons for Phishing are financial, or to use your computer without your knowledge to perform something that you would probably not willingly want to be part of. 2007 is rapidly looking like the year [...]

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A Democratic Senator from South Carolina remains in critical condition following brain surgery at George Washington Hospital in Washington D.C. According to CNN.com, Tim Johnson was diagnosed with a congenital arteriovenous malformation – a tangle of arteries and veins – which caused bleeding in his brain. Surgery was necessary to stop the bleeding and fix [...]

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Among many other reasons, some arguably valid and some invalid, perhaps “America” is hated because its citizens and its leaders can’t tear themselves away from gazing into their own navel long enough to acquire some sort of global perspective.

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In school we tell our children that guns are bad. We tell them to be good little children and turn in those bad, evil guns to a parent, a policeman or a teacher. We tell them to do the supposed responsible thing. Be an upstanding citizen and take that evil gun out of circulation so [...]

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A strange phenomenon has killed over 1,000 birds in Idaho. It has only affected mallard ducks in a small town called Oakly, Idaho. Veterinarians have ruled out the avian flu, and believe that the cause is from a bacterial or fungal infection caused by eating grains that had been sprayed by pesticides on cattle farms. [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Last week I had Pastorius from the IBA on my Gathering Storm talk show. We spoke of many things but one bit of conversation clarified something about the myth of multiculturalism. Both of us being recovering Liberals, we spoke about the opinion and beliefs we held back then. One of them [...]

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This morning I awakened to the good news published in the “New York Times” via the article, Circumcision Halves H.I.V. Risk, U.S. Agency Finds, that U.S. Government health officials, specifically, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, have found circumcision “appears to reduce a man’s risk [...]

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Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation say the death of an Egyptian man serving life in prison for his involvement with the first attack on the World Trade Center could mean another terrorist attack. According to reports, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahmanhad a “medical emergency” on Dec. 6 at the federal prison where he is [...]

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It’s not easy being Betroffen (shocked and concerned) all of the time. It is a very stressful state of mind and can (and will) eventually lead to all sorts of other imaginary states of mind and imaginary diseases. Just stop and think about what your average German has to deal with on a daily basis, [...]

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A lot of people have rushed to analyze the political effects of Tim Johnson’s health problems. If he passes away or is otherwise unable to serve (his condition is critical but stable), a Republican governor will appoint his successor. A Republican appointment would return the Senate to a 50-50 party split. Johnson suffered bleeding in [...]

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News Item: Security cameras raise rights concerns in NY The New York Civil Liberties Union [local version of the ACLU] is concerned about all the security cameras going up in New York City.  Their claim is that the cameras have become so pervasive that they threaten rights of privacy, speech, and association.  They also claim [...]

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[Needless to say tit-for-tat merely breeds more tit-for-tat and the killings continue until what sort of grim climax?  There are too many weapons of mass destruction floating around and Israel is a small and, thus, terribly vulnerable country.  Were I an Israeli, I would be lobbying for every sort of external peace-keeping instrumentality to calm [...]

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One side effect of the war on terror is that we all get screened down to our shoes and sock. When I lived in Minnesota, this meant taking off our heavy boots and parkas not once, but twice, since those on commuter flights were rescreened when they hit Minneapolis/StPaul airport. Sigh. In the past, I [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer When you see a headline like the one on FOXNews.com this morning (12/13/06): Virginia Teacher Suspended for Painting With Genitals you just HAVE to read on! ‘They reported and I decided’ . . . I decided that the headline is quite misleading and the teacher in question was [...]

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Do you remember the famine in Ethiopia? It occured under a communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam , who had killed thousands of his opponants in what is called Ethiopia’s “Red Terror “, and then destroyed Ethiopia’s economy by his socialist policies, including forcibly resettling hundreds of thousands, so that when famine struck, a million people [...]

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