On the plus side, there’s no more roaches. An 8- and 10-year old were having a sleepover at their Grandparent’s home in Florida. In what probably seemed like a good idea at the time, they started pouring rubbing alcohol on roaches and then setting them on fire. When one of the beds caught on fire, [...]

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“September 11, 2001, was a defining moment in American history. On that terrible day, our Nation saw the face of evil as 19 men barbarously attacked us and wantonly murdered people of many races, nationalities, and creeds. On Patriot Day, we remember the innocent victims, and we pay tribute to the valiant firefighters, police officers, [...]

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It is reported that  speaking on an International Conference on Cyber Crimes organized by ASSOCHAM in Delhi, the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Sriprakash Jaiswal, announced that the  parliamentary standing committee has informed the Home Affairs Ministry that it had cleared the new cyber crime Bill. (This presumably Refers to the ITA 2000 amendment [...]

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Neoconservatives like General Petraeus continue to insist with enough charts, graphs and military semantics victory in Iraq is just a couple years away. The General shares the same mindset that kept us in Vietnam for years after rational individuals concluded the cause should not have been ours to begin with and was lost the day it began. [...]

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Deve Gowda a former Prime Minister of India is the head of a political party called JD (Secular) which shares power in the State of karnataka with the Bharatiya Jajata Party (BJP). In the previous state elections, BJP emerged as the largest party in the stte assembly followed by Congress and JD (S). For some [...]

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  It is reported that Indian Police in Mumbai is insisting on Cyber Cafes install a monitoring software that contains a key logger. While this move is being defended as a measure to monitor terrorist activities, the move is fraught with danger. Apart from being a privacy nightmare, it can lead to stealing of passwords [...]

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For those viewers who, like yours truly, have never seen an episode of Avatar the Last Airbender, and moreso for those, again like yours truly, who have in fact never watched a full episode of anime, this second collection of Nickelodeon’s hit anime show takes the screen with surprising wit, action, beautiful animations, and a downright intriguing plotline. The [...]

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Who is John Twelve Hawks? No one seems to know. John Twelve Hawks’s first novel was published in July, 2005. The Traveler met with good reviews and generally positive press, but it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster. The book is to be the first volume in a series called The Fourth Realm Trilogy. Twelve Hawks’s second [...]

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Here we are starting another week in the soap world with today’s updates. Days of Our Lives Phillip gets the Tulsa PD to help him find Lauren and his son. The detective isn’t too happy about being called in as a special favour but after Phillip and Belle explain to the man the situation he [...]

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“What opponents of the second amendment have never understood is that the prime benefit of the right to bear arms is now and always has been reaped without a shot being fired. The main benefit does not lie in the occasional person who shoots an attacker in self-defense. It doesn’t lie in the many attacks [...]

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The Carnegie Learning Center is in a tough spot during the current strike of Canadian Union of Public Employees in Vancouver. It is on the third floor of the Carnegie Center, a building operated by CUPE members who have been on strike for the past two months. But the two teachers in the Learning Center aren’t [...]

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This week’s Rasmussen Reports poll update finds Sen. Hillary Clinton continuing to expand her lead over both of her top rivals, Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards.

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Today on The Lunch, Rob and Will take a look at debate fatigue, financial turmoil and the political repercussions, Joe Biden’s stand on Iraq War funding, and the GOP advantage in the primary shuffle. Watch now at PoliticalLunch.com!

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From The Gathering Storm Blog At the sixth anniversary of 9/11 and the awareness of the subtle and not-so-subtle attempts by individuals, organizations, groups and institutions to impose a 7th century ideology on the world, isn’t it time we codify what we are defending and what we believe is worth protecting in our culture? We [...]

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You can only urge a return to what used to be traditional gender roles in Germany for just so long, and only go just so far, of course. Now news-reader-talk-show-host-pro-motherhood-book-author lady Eva Herman has done both and got canned accordingly. She is no longer suitable for public viewing consumption on Germany’s NDR, in other words (although she [...]

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Culturism by John Kenneth Press There was some worry on the BNN list that his book might be racist of some sort and I can report that there is not a hint of racism anywhere in this book. In fact it goes to great length to decry racism in all its forms. Which as one [...]

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Not long ago, I got the chance to review a book which turned out to be one of my favorites of this entire reviewing gig thus far, Operation Supergoose.  The review can be seen here. Well, I got in contact with the author to arrange an interview and this is what happened.  (My questions are [...]

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From DonkeyDigest  “I haven’t been actively engaged before because there hasn’t been anything to be actively engaged in. But I am engaged now to make Barack Obama the next president of the United States,” Winfrey told the crowd as she introduced Barack Obama, setting the stage for perhaps the most insulting and meaningless endorsement for [...]

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The London Times headline says “Violence Looms as Zimbabwe runs out of food – except for the elite”, but I doubt there’ll be much violence.  Unless there is a successful military coup, any attempt to overthrow Mugabe’s Marxist dictatorship will be as ruthlessly crushed as others were in the past. But there is no question [...]

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[A large percentage of Iraqis indicate that the surge has failed in providing security for them, want the U.S. out of there, and 60% support shooting at Americans to achieve that end. Whatever happy news our generals plan to bring us from Iraq, the extremely negative views of us by the Iraqis tell an entirely [...]

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Usama bin Laden must be following the U.S. presidential campaign so closely that he has begun channeling the talking points of several candidates, as evidenced by this transcript of his latest video: UBL: “[D]espite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal as well; and despite it spending [...]

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Candidate Fred Thompson is the butt of media jokes, once again. This time it is due to the reporting by the New York Daily News of Thompson’s comments in Sioux City, Iowa over the weekend. Thompson’s claim that an al Qaeda enforced smoking ban in Iraq led to many Iraqi citizens joining the U.S. side [...]

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Well, since the Fox News story that covered my G.I. Joe report on how Paramount studios is eviscerating the iconic American character G.I. Joe, turning him into some neutered international U.N-like operative, I thought I’d follow up a bit with an effort by a Mr. Michael Carvajal who has created an effort to petition Hasbro [...]

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It looks like I poked a beehive when I criticized the anti-aspartame campaign yesterday. I got several accusatory emails, including one from the chief anti-aspartame evangelist herself, Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. I have never heard of a D.Hum before. Maybe you get them out of cornflakes packets. I reproduce below part of my correspondence with [...]

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I have for some time been pointing out the very strong evidence that a Leftist or conservative orientation is largely hereditary. So politics do clearly have a physical basis. They do not materialize out of thin air. Just exactly what is inherited, however, no-one has so far conclusively shown. I myself would expect that conservatives [...]

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