Hey all…
Had a chance to listen to a sampler of L.P.’s still untitled album that’s due in early 2009. Though I’d never heard of L.P. before, when I took a listen to the first song on the preview - “Good With You” on the web (check it out here), I had to hear more.
L.P. hails […]

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It starts, as many in this long running series do, with the discovery of a body. This time, the body is a dead woman posed on the banks of the Mississippi facing the lights of St. Paul. She is on display for all to see but for reasons Lucas Davenport and others do not yet […]

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I was born a little too late to be a part of the Care Bears mania.  I missed out on a lot of the eighties, being born in 85.  I missed Transformers, the Rubix cube, Cabbage Patch Kids, Garbage Pail Kids, He-Man.  All of the above are not parts of my childhood because I am […]

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Having read countless “self help” books over the years the one key ingredient that I often find missing is the “been there, done that, got the tee shirt” element.
I mean who doesn’t find it easy to coach from the sidelines – we all know how simple it is to look at anyone else’s life and […]

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“I couldn’t believe that our son has to pay child support to his abuser.”
I’ve previously discussed cases where boys who have been statutorily raped by older women are forced to pay child support to their rapists. Here’s a new one, from Ohio. From Boy’s parents sue to get his baby from mom, 21 (Columbus Dispatch, […]

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The bulk of this book is an assembly of three hand-written volumes of existing diaries kept by Mrs. Cornelia Henry during the period in question, adorned and expanded by the addition of a number of family letters, documents relevant to her family, newspaper clippings, scenic prints, a selection of family pictures, with maps and […]

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Earlier today the secular press reported that Pope Benedict XVI exhorted faithful Catholics to actively work against the enduring plague of racism throughout the world. The elimination of cultural, ethnic, racial and social racism is perhaps the most difficult eradication to achieve in our multicultural and multiethnic global community. Perhaps the best manner to begin […]

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A woman whose husband died after developing asbestos related cancer following exposure to the deadly substance in his work has won a six figure sum by way of compensation. Mr Rumney, from the UK , worked for BNFL in Sellafield, where it was alleged he was exposed to asbestos, which eventually led to his […]

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Some would argue that journalism died in 2007 when “fake news” anchor Jon Stewart was ranked among the most trusted TV news anchors in the U.S. - along with that other fake news purveyor, Dan Rather (second item) in a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. But “citizen journalist” Rick […]

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One Track Mind of Bush and Co. Does It Again
The Bush administration’s obsession with Iraq and its oil has done it again. See Latin America, much of Africa, and now Russia and its border states — all of which we have essentially left out of our strategic planning. Ed Kent
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Pledging to […]

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I salute Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC Opposition Party; they are holding out against tremendous pressure in their refusal to grant Mugabe’s Zanu-PF legitimacy by joining Zimbabwe’s Marxist, Zanu-PF Government in a so-called Government of National Unity. 
Mugabe and his friend, South Africa’s President Mbeki, want Tsvangirai to agree to serve as (a token) Prime Minister […]

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Three Different Press Releases
An Orchestra of Remarkable, Similarly-Worded Statements
* John Edwards * Elizabeth Edwards * Fred Baron

What Was Discussed When?
DBKP took a look at the statements released by John and Elizabeth Edwards, and Edwards’ money man, Fred Baron. Their three statements never mention Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter. Instead, all three refer to her and her […]

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