Right now, the main news is that Senator Lugar agrees with James Baker and others that we need to see Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia as reasonable partners who can be worked with. This sounds almost identical to what was the elites opinions in the 1960′s, that the US should stop warmongering and see Russia [...]

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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. —    The election commission defines the process for correction of names in electoral rolls in the Electoral Registration Officer Handbook http://www.eci.gov.in/ElectoralLaws/HandBooks/ERO_HANDBOOK.pdf. The process [...]

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The global warming craze is a bonanza for scientists. If you can find some connection to global warming for what you want to research, your chances of getting funding are much increased. The story below is an example of that in action. The justification for the research in terms of global warming is however deeply [...]

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You’ll take note that I have not watched Sicko and that I’m not likely to; until I can download it on Limewire at least. Moore’s style of crusade is well known to me and I refuse to support his fat a$$ at the box office. I was not surprised with the reviews. Lefties say it’s [...]

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In this week’s Democratic response to President Bush’s radio address, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) talked about his party’s successes so far this year and why they haven’t been able to accomplish more.

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This week President Bush used his radio address to talk about the Fourth of July, the sacrifices of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how well things are going in Iraq.

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At roughly 9:50 PM eastern time, the Earth’s moon will rise low on the horizon, making it appear larger and closer than usual. Of course the moon in no larger, but according to Space.com senior science writer, Robert Roy Britt the eye is fooled because of the moon’s proximity to the horizon. Britt’s report also [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders Americans don’t pay much attention to social class. Most of us think of ourselves as middle class, especially the “self-made” with considerable wealth, and we’ve proved relatively resistant to the class envy found in other societies. It’s different for those who remained part of the British Empire for a longer period of [...]

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The U.S. Supreme Court did something immensely important this week, but apparently few people are in agreement as to what it was. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann announced on his blog that the Court had overturned Brown v. Board of Education (!). A near-hysterical report in Harper’s magazine by Scott Horton said Jim Crow had reappeared and [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog With the recent attempted terrorist attacks in London and The Glasgow Airport, we will hear more about “Asian men” who are good boys disconnected from their community and most certainly a debate over true Islamic ideals with surface once again. In January of 2007, such a debate raged over the [...]

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The America’s Cup is the oldest sporting competition in the modern world. With almost 160 years of history behind it, it is the iconoclastic battle of nations for dominance of speed and tactics in sailing. Well it used to be anyway! This battle for no prize money and possibly the worlds ugliest trophy (oh and [...]

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Right on cue, as the illegal immigrant amnesty bill failed to get the required support for passage in the Senate, the MSM is here to tell us mean spirited LEGAL Americans how “hard” it is on all those poor, innocent ILLEGAL migrants who break the law to come here by the millions. Yes, folks, women [...]

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When the Supreme Court, this week, very narrowly ruled that using race as a criterion for assigning children to schools was unconstitutional, they set off attack after attack claiming that the Supremes have negated the “advances” made under the Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling. There were essentially two parts of the 1954 Brown [...]

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This week, Titanic memorabilia was sold at Christie’s auction in Europe. Probably the most talked about item sold at the auction was a handwritten account of a 16-year-old girl who survived the sinking. Laura Marie Cribb, a third-class passenger from Newark, New Jersey scribbled her account on eight handwritten pages of the ocean liner’s last [...]

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Recently, Little League International, which has over 2.3 million baseball players around the world, has instilled a new rule that allows pitchers to throw no more than 75 pitches in one game. This change has come as a result of an increase in arm injuries in the last few years. Doctors are alarmed by the [...]

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When the word “bully” comes to mind, people think of the tough boy or the gossipy girl on the playground. However, with their vast knowledge and use of technology, children are beginning to do more of their bullying online. According to a recent phone study of 886 Internet users age 12 to 17, 32 percent [...]

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[Need it be pointed out that there has been nothing more self-defeating than the erratic firing of rockets into Israel which have given Israel the justification for massive rocketing bomb attacks in return -- both in Gaza and in the recent Lebanese fiasco which virtually destroyed that poor country.  Ed Kent] …………………………….. Qassam hits elderly [...]

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[As today's report (below) in the NY Times indicates, there is a major threat to Pervez Musharraf's control of forces at work in Pakistan.  Assassination attempts on his life have been made and failed in the not distant past.  If he were to be displaced, who knows who would gain control of Pakistan's nuclear weapon [...]

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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. —    The 12-hour bandh called by CPI(M) today against the arrest of its Hooghly district leader in the murder of an anti-displacement protestor [...]

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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. — So what is with the Indian media and this political non entity called A.B. Bardhan. Starting with CNN-IBN which has been giving [...]

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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. —    The case against Pratibha Patil is not one of personal corruption. It is one about moral and ethical standards and the kind [...]

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