The team met, and the team talked! The team is Simon and Jan Barrett, Legal Eagle Mannie Barling, Crime Writer Denny Griffin, Journalist Dave Knechel, and Bail Bondsman William Cobra Staubs. We started off the discussion taking a peek at the developments in the Casey Anthony saga. One thing is very clear, her future is [...]

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I don’t tend to mess in the ‘manure lagoons’ of politics, it is a pointless, smelly, and destructive subject. There are few ‘roses’ to be sniffed. Politics used to be easy. You voted for the guy that was least likely to create havoc. That notion has worked for many decades. It is not a question [...]

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Historical Fiction is a hard taskmaster. The author must weave the fiction elements into the harsh reality of the facts. When done well (a rare occurrence) you have a book where fact and fiction blend so well that the reader does not know where one ends, and the other begins. These are lofty goals. But [...]

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Despite having a small apartment patio which limited my gardening area, I used to grow quite a few things that later wound up boiling, simmering and on occasion, burning, on the stove. These days I can’t do either, but I still review the books for my monthly column in the newspaper SENIOR NEWS.    Thanks [...]

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This is a guest article by author John Cherry. Since Paul McCartney is my favorite musical artist, I sometimes encounter a bit of mixed feelings upon his release of new material. This is due to the fact that I retain such high expectations for his work that I set myself up for a disappointment. When [...]

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This won’t detain us long. It’s an abstract of an article by former Yugoslav psychologist Lazar Stankov. Considering its poor quality and dogmatic conclusion, it is rather a surprise that it got published in Intelligence (37, 2009, 294–304), which is a respectable academic journal. Conservatism and cognitive ability Abstract Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively [...]

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FreeMediaOnline.org San Francisco, CA, USA, July 24, 2011 — Leaders of the Ethiopian American community joined by free media advocates are planning a protest rally on Monday, July 25, in front of the Voice of America (VOA) building in Washington, DC amid charges of censorship of VOA news programs to Ethiopia by the Broadcasting Board [...]

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