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Yesterday I published an article noting the problem with last October’s Lancet article that stated the Iraqi deaths from the UN invasion and war was 650,000 people, not 50,000 as others had reported. Last night when I arrived home from a trip, I googled to see how many news outlets had picked up the Lancet […]
By Honey Gillard Blonde-haired beauty Scarlett Johansson has provided Parade Magazine with the latest news on the actress. Scarlett is featured in this coming Sunday’s issue of the magazine. The elegant-looking issue has an interview by James Kaplan and photographs by Andrew Eccles intertwined in it’s pages. Here’s some of what Scarlett had to say: On […]
The Secret has hit the Philippines. Not only did it get a big blurb in the NYTimes supplement carried by the largest Manila paper, but all the movie star types are breathless over it. You can’t get away from it. It’s on Oprah, it’s on Tech websites. It’s on my Podcast of the day recommendation. […]
I must admit that the name Alan Siegel did not register in my brain when I first read the title. However it did not take much reading to realize who Alan Siegel is. Even if you do not recognize his name, I will bet everything in my wallet (all $5 of it), that you have […]
US State Department Laments About Gambia’s Human Rights Crisis State Department Expresses Concern Over Gov’t’s move To Block Freedom Newspaper IP Address in The Gambia and the torture of its subscribers!!! 2006 Rights Reports On Gambia Hint About Tales of Murder, Extra-judicial Killings, torture,disappearances, gross rights violations and an unceased attacks against the private press. […]
Breaking News:State Departmet Laments About Gambia’s Human Rights Crisis-GG bannedFreedom Newspaper-Report reveals! US State Departmet Laments About Gambia’s Human Rights Crisis State Department Expresses Concern Over Gov’t’s move To Block Freedom Newspaper IP Address in The Gambia and the torture of its subscribers!!! 2006 Rights Reports On Gambia Hint About Tales of Murder, Extra-judicial Killings, […]
US State Departmet Laments About Gambia’s Human Rights Crisis State Department Expresses Concern Over Gov’t’s move To Block Freedom Newspaper IP Address in The Gambia and the torture of its subscribers!!! 2006 Rights Reports On Gambia Hint About Tales of Murder, Extra-judicial Killings, torutre,disappearances, gross rights violations and an unceased attacks against the private press. […]
Breaking News:Lawyer Darboe Tells Police To Do Their Home Work Right! Lawyer Darboe Tells Police To Do Their Home Work Right! Charge Sheet Against my Client UDP Campaign Manager Is “Defective.”Says Darboe. By Our National Correspondent Landing Badjie UDP Campaign Manager’s Trial Stalled The trial of the UDP Campaign Manager for Serekunda Central over allegation […]
Gambia’s Daily Express Likely To Be Closed By The Gambian Gov’t! Gambia’s Daily Express Likely To Be Closed By The Gambian Gov’t-A Concerned Gambian Tells Freedom Newspaper! “Observer MD Saja Taal “Inciting” Gov’t To Close Daily Express.” If the information we received from the said concerned Gambian is to go by then the Banjul based […]
Banjul-So much to say everyday. Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS Bank account-Fraudulent Intensions. By Hamadi Maasina-Security and political affairs correspondent. Sometimes when one looks at our country and its people it seems as if choices are no longer out there. Our case is beyond hopelessness or despair. Our’s is a loud volume of crying mouths. There is an old […]
— 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. —  After decades of distrust and blaming each other for fueling militancy, Indian and Pakistani officials began their Joint Terrorism Institutional Mechanism for […]
In what had be the most unsurprising legal verdict in a long time, the former chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, “Scooter†Libby was found guilty of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that reached into the highest levels of the White House.
Posted by Charles   The term National Health Care has been used quite often thus far by candidates vying for a party nomination. It generally makes people feel good inside to say things like “health care for allâ€; and yes it is a very noble idea and one which I do believe in. I do not […]
Illegal Business Practices or “Forgetfullness?” Picture this: you go web shopping and find a stereo system you want to buy which is currently on sale for $400. The retailer’s ad indicates that prices are good in the store or on the web. So, because you don’t want to wait for shipping, you go to the […]
Your Tax Dollars At Work? In a time when the President of the United States is asking us to find alternative fuels to end or lessen our dependence on foreign oil, an elderly Illinois couple are being punished and threatened by the state for their contribution to the cause. It all started when David Wetzel […]
What is it about the New York Times where they can’t stay above their talking points even when trying to interest the people in a higher level of political discussion and debate? The Times was bemoaning the current sad state of political discourse amongst political candidates today (and rightfully so, I might add) in a […]
For the Democrats to win in 2008, we must shed our weakness. Our handicap. Our tendency to vote with our hearts and not our heads. We must choose candidates who bring credibility to the party, a ticket with the experience in all facets of government, experience this country needs to correct the rocky course set […]
The following is an editorial from The Roswell Beacon, in my hometown of Roswell, GA, about Government Housing and poverty. Heeding the words of President Bush, who spoke from New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina struck, we have a duty to confront poverty with bold action. There is a connection between poverty and government housing, […]
Have a discussion with anyone in the leftmost regions of the Democratic party and eventually they will invoke “the base,” a mythological group of liberals who are the “true Democrats” and of which he or she is “obviously” a part of. The “I’m a real Democrat and everyone else is a heretic” mentality exhibited by […]
From The Gathering Storm And while our attention is diverted by our clueless leaders and the apologists and appeasers of Islamism, this is what’s happening behind our backs. Issa Smith writes in the American Muslim that Native American courts can be used as a precedent for Islamic courts in the US. Although the Muslim community […]
The following is an editorial from The Roswell Beacon in my hometown of Roswell, GA. Bob Chase, President of the NEA, once said the nation’s public schools are the backbone of our democratic system, weaving our diverse society into a nation and helping young people grow into responsible citizens. Most would agree it is in […]
Climate change (hysteria) has gotten so out of hand in Germany these days that strong traces of the dangerous long-lost-delusions-of-grandeur gas are suddenly being detected all over the atmosphere. Fear, loathing and anxiety attacks have affected German political judgment to such a degree that even “the last taboo†has now been broken: German vacationers are […]
The notorious “e-mail forward” has become a staple in the rightwing’s arsenal of weapons deployed in political warfare. No longer is it necessary to spend millions of dollars investigating a president for imagined and invented charges or sending out party soldiers to Sunday talk shows to repeat exaggerated and usually false offenses by Democrats. Republicans […]
News Item: Ann Coulter, John Edwards, and the other F word Full Story: Washington Post Another Opinion : Time Cartoon from Sid in the City
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