With the demise of the somewhat intellectually challenged Rev. Falwell, the wrath of the MSM has now focused on the offshoots of the radio program Focus on the Family: it’s founder James Dobson and the Family Research Council. Unlike Falwell, I’ve listened to Dobson’s show because it included many helpful topics for my patients to [...]

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Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) in India has been under a review process since January 2005. Initially an expert committee constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology submitted a report which was largely “Intermediary Protection Oriented”. When this was heavily criticized for its bias to protect portals such as baazee.com at the expense of [...]

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With the popularity of comic book super heroes abundantly evident in the box office grosses and DVD sales of recent years, there’s no end to some people’s interest in the fabled crusaders for good. Consequently, there’s no end to the marketing possibilities, either. The Marvel Super Hero Fact Book, a tough board book designed for ages 9-12, [...]

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Riding on the coat tales of The Police reunion tour, Stewart Copeland releases an anthology (Koch Records) of his work from his long illustrious solo career. “Roughly chronological, ‘The Anthology’ starts with the callow charm of Klark Kent, and ends up with some of the slicker things that I have figured out after four decades [...]

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I have read many articles about the sinful world of illegal music downloading! I have to wonder why people bother when there is so much great music to be had for free, and it is legal. You just have to know where to look. So to help the internet challenged I have decided to start [...]

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At a time when stand-up comedy is beginning to flounder - Dane Cook’s losing his edge and making movies with Jessicas (Alba and Simpson), Larry the Cable Guy is a household name, and Bill Engvall has his own show - an unlikely hero has stepped forward: Demetri Martin. Person. And as unlikely as he may look, Martin, an NYU law [...]

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Despite the stunning loss of both chambers in last Novembers midterm election, The republican party demonstrates on a daily basis it retains a mastery of manipulating procedural tactics to out flank the democrats. While I may regret the inability of my party to move the political football, The G.O.P is out playing Speaker Pelosi according to the rules of the game [...]

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The Karnataka Government has released a series of news paper ads recently highlightng the recent changes to the Motor Vehicle Act which makes use of Mobile Phones while driving an offense. While there is an accepted need to ban two wheeler raiders holding the mobiles between their neck and shoulders and talking while driving, the [...]

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Today’s today’s headline in the Nat’l Geographic site is: Belching British Bogs Fueled Ancient Global Warming Yup…bogs are full of rotting vegetation, and rotting vegetation produces (TA DAAAH!) METHANE….a greenhouse gas worse than Carbon dioxide. Huge belches of methane from bogs in what is now Britain likely contributed to global warming some 55 million years [...]

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On Thursday, Senate Republicans successfully staged a filibuster against legislation sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). The Feingold-Reid amendment would have required President Bush to begin redeploying the troops out of Iraq within 90 days of its passage. It would have also required that a complete withdrawal of forces out of Iraq be finished by June 30, 2008.

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Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless Days of Our Lives Chelsea meets Billie for lunch and they agree that things between them are ok now, but Chelsea admits she has a reason for meeting with her, she needs her help. Billie says [...]

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I had been neutral on the “ethanol thing” until I ran into the following headline in a trade publication: “Efforts to repeal 54 cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol to ease fuel costs being opposed by most farm state legislators.” Hoard’s Dairyman, May 25, 2006, page 353 “Washington Dairygrams” section, last paragraph, last sentence (emphasis added). [...]

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A young lady by the name of Rea who attends Magnolia Middle School in Joppa, Maryland has been suspended from school for displaying a picture of her favorite Punk band All Time Low. The picture in question shows the intrepid foursome wearing their very best Fruit of the Loom’s and is a promo for their [...]

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Goodness gracious, Michael Kinsley, vaunted leftist, upright “journalist,” salt of the earth, is supporting a group that would rather call names and stir hatred for our troops than support a general that the entire U.S. Senate voted unanimously for only a few months ago. The founding editor of Slate online magazine, Microsoft’s “serious” news and [...]

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BJP announced on Thursday that party stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee will not be attending the meeting of its national executive beginning in Bhopal on Friday. The former prime minister will skip the meeting as doctors have advised him rest because of his health problems. The Times News Network reports that with Vajpayee’s continued participation in [...]

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The plight of the “uninsured” has made the news yet again. According to recent reports from the Census Bureau, the number of uninsured increased 2.2 million in 2006 over 2005 to 47 million or 15.8% of the population. Part of this increase was due to a decline in insurance provided by employers. This decline in [...]

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Twelve years after International Talk Like a Pirate Day pioneers Mark Summers and John Baur created the now-popular holiday, author Billy MacDougall has answered with a pirate holiday of his own. September 20, 2007 marks the first annual Walk Like a Pirate Day, which celebrates the pirate lifestyle by encouraging participants to creatively emulate pirate [...]

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They may seem like unlikely heroes, but in The Legend of Limpy and Lumpy a limp French fry and a lump of chunky mashed potato invite children to question standards of beauty. In an age when skinny, air-brushed celebrities are models of perfection, children face mounting challenges of identity and self-esteem. Enter two imperfect potatoes [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog “Ladies and gentlemen, we have been informed that there is “a credible security risk with this aircraft” and we are returning to the terminal.” That’s what passengers aboard Delta Airlines Flight 1824 flying out of Orlando International Airport last Thursday at 7:15 a.m. heard over the intercom as they were [...]

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This afternoon in the Senate, a resolution condemning the hateful MoveOn.org ad was passed with overwhelming support. With a vote of 72 to condemn the obscene Move-On Petraus attack ad and 25 voting not to condemn the ad, a closely split Senate showed that it can act commandingly on a controversial issue without being so [...]

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In fact it’s dangerous being homeless anywhere! The Calgary Drop-In And Rehab Centre recently commissioned a survey of its clients to try and understand the situation. In the past few months there have been stabbings and beatings of homeless people, some of which were actually captured by surveillance cameras. One usually associates this kind of [...]

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What is The Naked Brothers Band?  It is a wildly popular television show from Nickelodeon which has been around for a couple of years.  During the course of it’s time on television, it has garnered somewhat of a cult following.  Most importantly, The Naked Brothers Band stands at the forefront of much pre-teen programming going on [...]

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After a dozen film festival showings and a good year and a half delay following its premiere during the Berlinale 2006, the Mecca of politically correct film culture, an obscure film distributor called Farbfilm Verleih has finally shown enough courage to bring out “Hamburger Lektionen” (The Hamburg Lessons), a reconstruction of video recordings taken in [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Multifunction business machines – the ones that print/ fax/ scan/ and copy – could be a big security threat for terrorists plotting against the West according to Dr. Elva Jones, a Winston-Salem State University professor and chair of WSSU’s computer science department. Says Dr. Elva Jones, a Winston-Salem State University [...]

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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 war of words on the Ram setu issue heated up today with BJP leader asking Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to withdraw [...]

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By all accounts, September 19’s much ballyhooed Talk Like a Pirate Day was an overwhelming success! Humans the world over adopted the attire and argot of murderous marauding malcontents for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than that someone somewhere – Hollywood publicists? – thought it a capital idea. Always one for a party, I submit that [...]

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Who is right? Thompson or the Washington Post? On September 7th, Fred Thompson made what the Washington Post unpatriotically reported was a “grandiose claim.” Thompson told Iowans that when you look back over our history “our people have shed more blood for other people’s liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of [...]

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I then came upon a story that explains one of the reasons why communications companies might be in such a hurry to bundle communications services. Frequently, we see articles about the NSA violating people’s privacy. Recently, there was quite a stir about certain communications companies, who were providing them with a lot of personal information. [...]

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I gather that Columbia left the drug clinic types paid to demonstrate support for Columbia at public meetings home at last night’s well-attended meeting with community residents held by Manhattan Boro President Scott Stringer to determine how he should respond to Columbia’s take over plan for Manhattanville.  Columbia President Lee Bollnger had proudly announced Stringer’s [...]

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Karunanidhi the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has been challenging the Indian Law enforcement and daring them to take action against him for his communal remarks regarding Rama.   Karunanidhi though born in the Hindu Community and sports a Hindu name, is a self admitted atheist. He therefore is not a Hindu. A non Hindu [...]

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All speculations of months were over with the 50 basis point cut in Federal benchmark interest rate. Now is the time for analysis of the decision, and expectedly opinions differ when it comes to grading the prudence of this decision.   Those who called the decision right (and part of it is true) and bold [...]

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