Not being a football fan, the name OJ Simpson meant little to me in June of 1994, sure I heard the name mentioned on the news in connection with a horrific double killing in Los Angeles, but living in Southern California, such activities seem almost a way of life in parts of LA. My first [...]

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Ever since the days of Noah man has been concerned with the weather. Looking up into the clear blue sky Noah mumbled a silent prayer.  Skeptical but obedient he bent and picked up the saw and began to cut the timber that would be the back bone of the great ark.  Noah had been instructed [...]

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I think that America’s current WAR ON TERROR is the perfect example of a delicious irony.  America, she loses her war in Vietnam and decides to defeat the Soviets in an arms race and become the most powerful and technologically advanced army in the world.  And now we are fighting against people who live in [...]

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A Powerful Story of One Man’s Courage and Sacrifice It was an act of incredible courage and sacrifice; one of heroic proportions.  But Timothy Wrenn was not a heroic figure; far from it.  Yet, during a moment of divine inspiration he stepped outside the fabric of his everyday, humdrum existence and did the unthinkable; he [...]

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Rob Costelloe is an intriguing author, he has a penchant for love stories, yet they are not love stories in the traditional sense of the word, they are more stories that explore the complex concepts of love and loss. When you mention books and love stories in the same sentence most people will have automatic [...]

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Opening this week is the “Tale of Despereaux” is the latest computer animated film from Universal Sutidos.  Adapted from the Newberry Award winning book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, Despreaux is a fairy tale in the classic sense; done in a very modern way. Fans of the book, children specifically, may be confused [...]

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A Powerful Story of One Man’s Courage and Sacrifice It was an act of incredible courage and sacrifice; one of heroic proportions.  But Timothy Wrenn was not a heroic figure; far from it.  Yet, during a moment of divine inspiration he stepped outside the fabric of his everyday, humdrum existence and did the unthinkable; he [...]

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Little Caylee Anthony, the 2 year old child that went missing in mid June but not reported gone until her grandmother out of a fit of anger with Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony, made that infamous 911 call reporting her missing and also telling the 911 operator that Casey’s car smelled like a dead body had [...]

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It certainly says something about the power of an icon and the glitter of a golden age in movie-making that “Sunset Boulevard” stands up so amazingly well as a bit of storytelling, in spite of it’s deranged silent-movie star character being parodied mercilessly by everyone from Carol Burnett on down. And curious it appears that [...]

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Chi-Rho…puts Christ back into the season! ChiRho from the Irish Book of Kells The perennial debate again rages around the secularization of Christmas by retailers and merchants that use the Christian holiday as a sales resource rather than the theological recollection of Jesus Christ’s birth. Watching the nightly news, there are multiple examples of controversies [...]

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Quick, Keira Knightly is wearing period clothing and is a star-crossed lover.  What movie am I referring to?  It’s actually a trick question, because that describes every major motion picture she’s been in other than three films.  She fought with pirates three times, drowned in a bomb shelter, shot arrows alongside the man who carried [...]

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John Edwards Affair/Scandal: Rielle Hunter Back in New Jersey John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter and daughter, Frances Quinn, are back on the East coast. After money man, Fred Baron, passed away October 30, Hunter’s hush money payments have stopped and she was forced to trade ritzy Santa Barbara for a more pedestrian setting: New Jersey. [...]

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According to recent reports a clean up has been scheduled to remove asbestos from piping at a former Air Force base. The clean up is to take place at the former East-Central Illinois Air Force Base, in the village of Rantoul, Illinois. The Public Works Director said that he was pleased that the work was [...]

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A R Antulay who is a minsiter in UPA Government caused an uproar in the Parliament by suggesting that Mr Karkare and his team were sent to confront terrorists at Cama Hospital instead of Taj purposely and killed. Such a preposterous statement coming from Mr Antulay is a reflection of what the Congress Government has [...]

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