By Honey Gillard. During the eventful season of Oprah’s Oscar Special, Hollywood star ‘Julia Roberts’ visits the home of the one and only MR. George Clooney, in Hollywood Hills. The two interviewed one another as a part of the celebrity special. The interview also featured a SURPRISE phone call from the pair’s friend and fellow [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect More than 40 percent of women in India have not heard of AIDS, according to a government survey that has alarmed activists.   India has 5.7 million people living with HIV/AIDS, according to the United Nations, which is the world’s highest caseload. But [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Every few years, the 100,000-odd ethnic Nepali refugees who have been stranded in refugee camps near the Bhutan border since 1990 make it into the headlines. Most of the time, this seems to coincide with the failure of another attempt to repatriate them, [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  Sahanaya, a non-governmental organization that provide services in Sri Lanka’s mental health sector says that annually 200,000 to 300,000 of Sri Lanka’s population are suffering from some form of mental disorder or disease. The organization further points out that 3,000 to 4,000 among [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Bangladesh’s Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus on Thursday formally launched his “Citizens’ Power” party, confirming his plans to join active politics.  “Today I formally announce my party Nagarik Shakti (citizens’ power),” Yunus told reporters before leaving for Abu Dhabi on a four-day [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  The bodies of Samjhota Express firebombing victims that remain unidentified by Saturday afternoon will be sent to Mehrana village for a mass burial the same afternoon. The Indian External Affairs Ministry approved the burial for today after giving people arriving from Pakistan a [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  A Wal-Mart executive met with top Indian government officials Friday as the U.S. retail giant moved closer to entering the country’s booming, but much protected, retail business, through a joint venture with a local company.  Wal-Mart’s Vice Chairman Michael Duke, whose visit has [...]

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I decided to run for the Champaign Unit #4 school board because I was tired of complaining in my columns and to others of my dissatisfaction with Unit 4. I ran to try to be part of the solution, not to be another pundit engaging in a blog B&W session. For this, I have been [...]

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Public comments such as the ones Obama made would have been unthinkable from the time after 9/11 through the 2004 election. The Iraq war has had the unintended consequence of emboldening and empowering the Democratic Party.

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So we whiled away an overcast Friday afternoon by going to the movies. There were three reasons for this: I feel I am duty bound to boost the first-weekend attendance of any intelligent and interesting-looking bit of historical film going, Blondie will watch Ioan Gruffudd in anything; double points and drooling slightly especially if he [...]

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Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth has posted an article today simply named, “Success in the war against sharia.” It is an interesting article citing the small successes we have had against Islamic oppression and obsession within our country and how we are combating it. However, what troubled me was what Debbie had written about at [...]

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John McCain who is posturing himself for the 2008 presidential bid stooped so low over this past weekend – though he never had a chance to get my vote to begin with – he solidified why that is set in stone for me. McCain, though he may be the most qualified contender has absolutely no [...]

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In a report from The Media Line the Syrian army has strengthened its capabilities in a way unprecedented in recent memory, aided by Iranian funding, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. The Syrians are putting an emphasis on long-range missiles able to reach most of Israel’s large cities, the report indicated. Damascus is also close to [...]

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The amount of counterfeit checks (cheques) being circulated via various Internet scams, and even the classifieds (paper media) is on the rise. A new trend is also being seen, where people are getting these counterfeits items in the mail (unsolicited). Some of us, who watch this closely, suspect they are data mining information off job [...]

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   REXANO.org Editorial by Zuzana Kukol  2/23/2007 The world must be a very safe, sterile and boring place lately, since just getting busted for illegal drugs and possessing child pornography alone will not make headlines anymore. On February 2nd, while drinking my black coffee, I stumbled upon Ohio news headline: “Alligator Seized During Cleveland Drug [...]

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In news that was only surprising because of its timing, former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack has dropped out of the 2008 Democratic presidential race.

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I have a number of friends who consider themselves Republicans. But I didn’t in college. I only ran into the Young Republicans at a few social functions, seeing as I was a history major whose main extra-curricular activity was bringing theater to sick and underprivileged children. Apparently, though, I was missing out on some intellectually [...]

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Talk about a blatant attempt to mislead with a headline! We have no better example of such an effort than one by the AP today. It is a textbook case of a headline that does not fit the facts of the story. Here is the headline: R.I. to recognize gay unions performed in Mass. Wow! [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog NewsMax did a recent story on what was being taught at West Point. Jarret Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, recently told a class of West Point cadets to “know thy enemy”. The article goes on discussing that enemy as terrorism – [...]

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[It is no secret that the 'insurgents' in Iraq are testing various new tactics for killing Americans and others there: shooting down planes and helicopters, new types of destructive bombs, chemical weapons attacks such as that posted at the end of this blog. Bush insists that our war on Iraq is tying up the terrorists [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  The Indian Express reports that Mulayam Singh Yadav, addressing an election rally has claimed that he would not beg for power but actually snatch it. With this statement having been made and recorded, all pretence that politics is matter of” serving” people has [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect  At least 25 people killed in the Indian train bombing may have to be buried on Saturday without being identified, officials say.  The unclaimed bodies will have to be removed because they are beginning to decompose, the officials say.  But relatives will have [...]

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Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect Keep it short, and don’t mention sex or drunkenness — those are the new rules for eulogies at funeral masses in Australia’s Catholic church.  An increase in the number of inappropriate comments at funeral masses has prompted Australia’s most senior Catholic, Cardinal George [...]

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 Attention – Due To Allegations of Plagiarism, This Article Is Highly Suspect On the occasion of Ash Wednesday, which in Brazil marks the beginning of the Campaign of Fraternity – dedicated this year to the defense of Amazonian inhabitants – Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter expressing his admiration for the heroic missionaries who preach [...]

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  The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the Anglican Church may split over the acceptance of gay priests. Last night, Dr. Rowan Williams revealed that the liberal and conservative branches of the church may not be able to reach agreement over gay and lesbian Christians, which could lead to the fragmentation of the Anglican [...]

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ISBN:  0595360874 Skip O’Neil is dying, he knows it, his doctor knows it, and his pretty young nurse Nancy knows it. Skip has leukemia, and he does not have much time left. As he lays in his New York hospital bed he drifts in and out of a morphine induced stupor reflecting on his life in the Air [...]

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[Jean came by again yesterday and raged on our intercom to the effect that we had deceived her "in 1953 when we first met," that we were really secret powerful Klan operatives based in Louisiana. Having delivered her message she went on her way again -- happily the weather not being as frigid as it [...]

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Would you buy a car whose prototype once turned soggy when left out in the rain? Yeah, I agree. I would, too. But unfortunately you can’t buy the East German Trabant (Satellite) anymore. Not new, anyway. They haven’t been built since 1991 for some strange reason. Und das ist gut so (and that’s a good thing). [...]

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The heading above is the title of a recently-released book that I have just been reading — a title that rather obviously mocks Leftist talk about revolutions but which is pretty accurate nonetheless. One of the authors is an economist so he brings to the subject the sort of cool rationality that is sadly missing [...]

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