Emilio Gonzalez, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is proposing an increase in the fees people pay to apply for citizenship and the fees paid for applicants for legal permanent residency. If the new fee schedule is approved the application for citizenship will go from $330 to $595 (an increase of just [...]

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 By Honey Gillard  The March 2007 issue of Harper’s Bazaar is out Feb. 20th -with Mrs Katie Holmes charming her way onto their cover. Katie talked with HB about life, love and all that’s in between. Read on for the full story. On how great life is: “I feel very lucky. I have a husband [...]

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 By Honey Gillard   Delta Goodrem’s mother says that her daughter has just been released from an Irish hospital where she was taken with suspected appendicitis. Late Sunday, Goodrem’s long-term partner and former Westlife member, Brian McFadden, rushed Delta to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, after she complained of stomach pains, an Irish Independent website reports. Delta stayed [...]

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By Honey Gillard  Mandy Moore recently gave alledged boyfriend DJ AM a big smooch on the streets of L.A., after the two ate breakfast together yesterday morning. Below is Mandy’s latest blog entry, and when we say latest we mean latest! It seems this was supposed to be posted yesterday as Moore speaks about the ‘Because I Said So’ premiere, which [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —      With just weeks to go for the cricket World Cup, the government on Thursday approved promulgation of an ordinance, making it mandatory [...]

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On this blog, I’ve pretty consistently made the point that small doses of second-hand smoke are basically harmless. The studies that claim otherwise — particularly of the “city bans public smoking, sees death drop precipitously in six months” variety — have been pretty ridiculous. However, I’d always had the impression that the research said something. [...]

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I have a friend named Jim, who many people would think of as gay, or at least bisexual. However, he doesn’t see himself that way. He is married but has been attracted to men for as long as he can remember. His wife is the only girl he has ever been with and he says, [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” That’s a popular quote of Lewis Carroll and is a handy thought to keep in mind with our struggle with Islamism. Jeffrey Imm at the Counter Terrorism blog said, “The American government has failed to collectively [...]

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… is getting beat-up over his remark that Barack Obama’s appeal is that “you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” because he’s got it exactly right. So far as is known — which is hardly at all — Obama’s political views are waaaay left-of-center, and [...]

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Arie Haan quits as Cameroon’s coach   Amin George Forji     The bilingual daily, Cameroon Tribune (http://www.cameroon-tribune.net/article.php?lang=Fr&oled=j01022007&idart=91&olarch=  ) on Thursday announced that national trainer, Dutchman, Arie Haan has quitted his post,  six months after taking the job, citing irreconcilable differences with the country’s football federation, FECAFOOT.  He is said to have submitted his resignation [...]

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I polled the students in my Global Internet Marketing Class the other day as to what search engine they most used. Eighty percent of them raised their hand at the mention of Baidu. Google was an also-ran. Their chief criticism of Google was that they wearied of the many “The connection was reset. The connection [...]

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This is amusing for it’s total ridiculousness. In the AP story about upcoming Senate campaign of Al Franken, the soon to be ex-Air America ranter and supposed comedian, AP seems to have forgotten to mention he is a liberal. The short AP blurb doesn’t mention it at all: Short AP Version. And the long piece [...]

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[One of our concerned residents sends along this report from Harvard which suggests how yet another Ivy university is working WITH its community rather than trying to steam roller its neighbors with eminent domain as disclosed by the Spectator's recent report.  Will Columbia's administration never learn?  And note Columbia Spectator's editorial appended.  Ed Kent] …………………………. [...]

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“Chancellor Merkel cannot hide behind the Americans” says German Green Party leader Fritz Kuhn. “If Germany and the EU blindly follow America’s lead, we will have no capacity to de-escalate the situation.” Yup, it’s the same old same old all over again. Concerned Germans everywhere are concerned once again that their chancellor is not concerned [...]

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Cable Crawl is a feature written by…me. The fancy description says it studies the various headline “teaser” graphics found on cable news outlets, reports on them and analyzes them for bias or note-worthy content.   But really, I just want to look at what they’re putting on the screen and see what’s good and what’s [...]

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