“Politics is an animal that’s either ‘tamed” or “wild”,depending on how one interprets things. One can either be subjective or objective when it comes to passing judgments along a partisan line. However, when it comes to basic national challenges and interests every citizen has the right to go through the layers of checks and balances [...]

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Education and women’s empowerment also on agenda By Lea Terhune USINFO Staff Writer Laura Bush spoke of Africa’s malaria crisis during a February roundtable discussion in Washington. (White House photo) Washington — First lady Laura Bush embarks on her third Africa tour June 25, during which she will visit U.S.-funded HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention and [...]

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Here in the Catholic Philippines, after one politician gave a speech about “family values”, a local wag wrote: Yes, we Filipinos espouse family values. We take care of all our families. The joke was that this politician, like most politicians and rich businessmen in the Philippines, have at least one mistress and family on the [...]

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In the Democratic radio response to President Bush’s weekly radio address Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX) spoke about the House of Representatives recent passage of the largest increase in spending on veterans’ health care in US history.

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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. —     Pratibha Patil yesterday filed her nomination papers for the Presidential election. Accompanied by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, [...]

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This week President Bush used his weekly radio address to make one last push in support of the immigration reform bill which will be debated again in the Senate early next week. The president spent much of his address highlighting the enforcement portions of the bill.

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By 1957 Ray Bradbury had established himself as a premier science-fiction writer.  The success of The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953) had seemingly launched his career in that direction.  But in 1957 Bradbury released the novel Dandelion Wine, an homage to youth, innocence, and belief, whose only fantastical elements are strictly in the minds [...]

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From: Celestial Junk Blog Who needs to go to Latin America to find tin-pot dictators … try visiting some of Canada’s reserves instead, or pay attention to how the aboriginal elite in Canada conduct business. The hallmark of Latin American dictatorships has been the ruling family … entrenched in power either through military bullying or through [...]

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GPU USA should be investigated! Joe Sambou, Jow and others should tell us how much money they collected in the name of the union? Thanks Coach Jow for speaking your mind. We respect your views and we expect you to reciprocate our stance. We have set the pace for sound, sincere and honest debate about [...]

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William “Bill” Simpson, a homeless man who was barred from Carnegie Centre for allegedly blogging and was elected to the Board of Directors this month by low income members of the Centre, has now been barred again. This time because his site “links” to a blog which criticizes Carnegie. The barring was executed on the [...]

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Kylie Minogue is throwing a star-studded, £500,000 bash in London this summer to celebrate her 20 years in the music industry. The ‘Red blooded woman’ singer, 39, launched her pop career two decades ago with a cover hit ‘Loco-motion’ in Australia on 3 August 1987. According to a source, “In some ways it’s a celebration [...]

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It’s indisputable. We now have it from the highest authorities that watching TV can undermine character, sexual morality, and respect for the Almighty. That information comes from Brian Fitzpatrick, writing in Human Events. But it is also backed up by Al Gore in his recent book, The Assault on Reason. Fitzpatrick’s source is a fresh [...]

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Although I wouldn’t start selling off my stocks just yet, new technology applications might add some third-party competition to the retail book business.As reported in the Wired Blog Network, The Espresso Book Printer has the capability to literally *chuckle* print your book selection while you wait. The New York Public Library is field testing a [...]

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Finally, a Super-8 film about Germany for the hohl (clueless) family that has everything you don’t particularly need right at this moment. Damn. And I thought Ostalgie was bad (and it is). Most of this stuff comes from “The West”. Director Robert van Ackeren has made good on his threat and put together a collection of [...]

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Success never comes easy but with only a few films down Priyanka Chopra has found her place among the A- listers in Bollywood. Her movies ‘Don’ and ‘Krissh’ have done incredibly well and the young actress is all set to be the ‘New Powergirl’ of the film industry. Priyanka Chopra recently received quite a lot [...]

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The subject of telemarketers and unwanted sales calls ebbs and flows, but the basic premise is that professional marketing companies are hired to call your house in the attempt to sell you something. Although variations exist, that’s the scenario that plays out a million or so times a day at my palatial compound. It used [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Three recent articles caught my attention today on Muslims and Islam which shows the disconnect between reality and those that live in a fantasy land. First, from Todd’s Hammer. Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-Egyptian muslim, recently denied a visa to live in the United States while he was a visiting professor, [...]

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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. —    Congress Loudmouth Jayanthi Natarajan claims that Pratibha Patil was in no way connected with the loan secured by the co-operative but some [...]

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Ever get the idea that the credit bureaus enable a lot of problems, we now face with data-breaches, identity theft and the ever increasing loss of our personal privacy? One of the main ways they make money is by selling your personal and financial information. Read a good one on Pogo was Right (WE HAVE [...]

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On Thursday, a 10 foot wide steel cabinet sold for 9.65 million pounds, or 19.2 million dollars at the Southeby’s Contemporary Art sale in London, making it the most expensive piece of artwork sold at auction by a living artist. The cabinet, titled “Lullaby Spring” was produce by artist Damien Hirst in 2002 and contained [...]

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The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh will get its turn to host a traveling exhibit called “Bodies.” The exhibit features 15 full body human corpses from China which have been preserved by a process called “plastination.” There are also 200 other body parts and speciments on display including plasticized human embryos from 9 to 32 [...]

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The Poczatek family of Long Island have a few less Christmas cards to send out this year after their neighbors sought out a summons for unwanted backyard noise while their kids played in their pool. Ashley, 11 and Chloe, 5 are the Poczatek’s daughters who are said to make a lot of noise when they [...]

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Periodically General David Petraeus, our surge general, notes that it ordinarily takes up to 10 years to subdue insurgencies. Pretty obviously he and the neocons have no intention to depart Iraq. We are at the moment laying out half a billion dollars to build a colossus embassy in the middle of Baghdad with 21 buildings [...]

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Author Laura Albert is shelling out $116,500 to Antidote International Films thanks to a New York court that has found Albert guilty of defrauding the film company.  Antidote sued the author after finding out she was the writer of an autobiography featuring the story of an underage male prostitute, a story for which they had recently bought the film rights.  [...]

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A new Hollywood comedy by Judd Apatow called “Knocked Up” is taking heat for its perceived stance on abortion from an unlikely source; the left. The movie is a comedy bordering on raunchiness that is proving a popular diversion this Summer with strong box office takes. It’s about a slobish sort of slacker (actor Seth [...]

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   Bin Laden Crowned in response to British Knighthood By Amin George Forji   The dust over the controversy surrounding the British decision to knight Indian born writer, Salman Rushdie is yet to settle. The 60-years old Rushdie’s 1984 book, The Satanic Verses, seriously outraged Muslims the world-over who considered the publication to be blasphemous. [...]

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