You’re going down the street, and suddenly the urge hits you… Maybe you hear a siren, and want to say a quick “Hail Mary” for those in danger. Or maybe you start thinking of a sick friend and want the Almighty to do something. Or maybe you want to nudge the guardian angel of your [...]

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The lilly smelling three foot long lilly white spitting earthworm is going extinct, and it’s Bush’s fault. Well, actually, the Palouse earthworm had been thought to be extinct already, since the last one was sighted in 1988, but now that an Idaho scientist found one in 2006. So now conservationists are suing the administration to [...]

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Only two days after endorsing him, President Bush is about to put Republican nominee John McCain in a very awkward position on Saturday, when he vetoes a bill that would ban the use of waterboarding by the CIA.

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Nikki goes to Restless Style and Nick and Phyllis show her around. They tell her that they have hired Daniel and Amber. Nikki says she will go to dinner with them tonight and she says David will be joining them too. She says it will be the first time the family gets together since the [...]

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Margo lectures Casey about assaulting a Federal officer. She tells him he is crazy, but then she tells him she isn’t going to lecture him. Casey tells her he can’t go back to jail. Just then Tom walks in and says he doesn’t have to worry about that because all the charges have been dropped. [...]

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Rolf is playing butler for John telling him he has stocked the kitchen for the little one, meaning Claire with juice. John says she is the only one that doesn’t ask him lots of stupid questions. He has the family dinner moved to the mansion instead and thanks everyone for agreeing to it. Belle tells [...]

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The skyrocketing cost of continuing to do a full-length animated feature with the classic hand-inked cells and the need for another Disney blockbuster handed Walt Disney with a basket of lemons; which he then turned into lemonade when his studio adapted Dodie Smith’s modern-day doggie adventure story. With the usual Disney changes, of course – [...]

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By Jefferson Flanders Who is Barack Obama? It seems that America’s mainstream news organizations have spent much of the first two months of 2008 trying to answer that question about the junior Senator from Illinois, now the Democratic presidential frontrunner. Obama’s intriguing life story has produced countless stories to date, and now reporters and commentators [...]

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In a video posted on his website yesterday, Republican Rep. Ron Paul hinted at the obvious. With John McCain clinching the GOP nomination, his presidential campaign is over. The Ron Paul phenomenon of 2008 is interesting because it revealed a great deal about where the Republican Party has been, and quite possibly where it is going.

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Before her performance in Chicago last night at Park West, I had a chance to talk to the quickly rising star about her music, her inspirations and the way mass media spoonfeeds flavor-of-the-minute pop bands to the public. But she can say it better than I can. A transcript of the interview is below, and my [...]

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As Rahul Gandhi attempts his version of Bharat Ek Khoj 4 years after his Parliamentary debut it is clear that his record of the last 4 years has little to show by way of imagination, conviction or real accomplishment. As the poor Adivasis of Orissa dance to his tunes, they may as well realise that this Bharat ek Khoj could end up just being a case of “dhoondte rahe jaooge”.

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From The Gathering Storm Blog There are still small lamps of freedom burning in Europe – the Veiling of Sculptures in a Europe is one such campaign. Throughout the night on 6th of March they have successfully continued their statue veiling campaign hoping to inspire the public to discussion concerning Islamisation and associated taboo subjects. [...]

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You may recall the report last October of the story of reporter Rebecca Aguilar of Fox 4 in Dallas, Texas who confronted and badgered an elderly victim of several robberies who responded to his attackers with deadly force. Aguilar was seen in her interview keeping the poor fellow from shutting his car door as she [...]

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After launching her American tour and releasing On a Clear Night, her second album, in the U.S. last week, Australian singer/songwriter Missy Higgins has now “dedicated this year to America and to becoming a superstar,” she declares jokingly. “Hopefully it won’t take that long, though because I’ve got other things to do.” To Chicago fans [...]

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Those skits on “Saturday Night Live” depicting debate moderators swooning over Barack Obama and snarling at Hillary Clinton finally shamed the MSM into taking a harder line at the putative Dem frontrunner.  In an article carrying the snarkilicious headline “Ask Tough Questions? Yes, They Can!,” Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank describes a press conference Obama [...]

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Or at least it seems to me like they have to start up one of these ridiculous German army “issues” every week around here these days. As if German soldiers didn’t have enough to worry about already; weight problems from not doing any combat, psychological problems from not doing any combat. Now these soldiers are [...]

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There is a new presence on the web among composers in the World of Jazz-rock Fusion that has been quietly going about doing his work. Uniquely gifted, Dan Pinto has made a concentrated effort to bring to light a music style in a different way that of which has not yet been widely heard. With [...]

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