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John McCain is depending on Palin power to generate the kind of grass roots swell that delivers an upset November 4Th. Even GOP insiders admitted prior to Palins selection, the party strategy was to sandbag downstream and retain as many house and senate seats as possible in the face of an inevitable Obama landslide. What […]
Yesterday morning, a Fort Hood soldier (22) shot and killed his commanding officer (a 24 year-old Lieutenant) and himself in front of dozens of witnesses and police officers. Â Both soldiers were assigned to 1st Cavalry Division, a division that had just finished a fifteen month tour in Iraq last December and is currently preparing […]
I love winter. Driving in it is a complete pain, but that’s mainly because my car is always so terribly cold and I never drive far enough for it to warm up satisfactorily. Also, you can’t bike in the snow. Fact. But snowshoeing and skiing and sledding are loads of fun and it’s cool to […]
It’s always exciting to find a good story given new life, and that is true for Laura Parker’s Rose of the Mists that was first published in 1985 by Warner Books as part of a trilogy. This historical romance has just been re-released by Questmark Romances in a unique marketing program with CVS Pharmacy. It […]
I read a couple of R.L. Stein’s books when I was younger. I must have found them in the lost and found bin somewhere, because I wasn’t allowed to check them out at the library and my school was too Christian Fundamentalist to allow evil books like that into their own library. I don’t remember […]
I completely enjoyed watching this television show back when I was younger. It would be on sometime Saturday morning on Fox Kids (Fox Kids Rox Kids!). My mom never let me watch the show, so I would have to sneak it and then flip over to some Jack Hanna whenever she came downstairs. Some of […]
I could not believe it when this DVD showed up on my doorstep. I had no clue it was coming and it was such a rush of nostalgia and early mornings eating dry cereal on the flowered couch downstairs in front of the television. Now there is a chance for you to wallow in your […]
According to a recent report one of the largest unions in Australia is joining a battle aimed at getting the New South Wales government to clean up an abandoned mine that has allegedly led to a number of people contracting asbestos related health problems. The union, The Australia Manufacturers Workers Union, is joining forces with […]
According to the candidates and the pundits, if you have it, you’re eligible to serve in the White House. If you don’t, you are unqualified for the world’s most important and second-most important jobs. We refer, of course, to “executive experience,†even if it’s been obtained on the local level or by influencing some consequential […]
I’ve never had a hallucination before. I’ve been delirious from fevers before and that’s certainly a trip, thinking that I’m somewhere else, doing something else. My personal favorite is the one where I’m really thirsty and so I get up and get a drink, only it’s my mind that thinks I’m doing it, so then […]
Regional anthologies, as opposed to ones on a certain literary them or device, seem to be very popular these days. Usually it is a state or a region of the country but in this case it is a city. One would think it would be published by a publisher there. Instead, and what pulled my […]
Wow. If this is the EU’s tough stand on Russia concerning the Georgian conflict, I wonder what would have happened if Russia had gotten off easily. The stormy, four-hour talks with French President and current EU boss Nicolas Sarkozy near Moscow Monday may have yielded an agreement, but it is hard to see how anyone […]
Yes, the latest victims of political correctness are those lovable kids from South Park. After insulting everyone from Mohamed to Jesus to Steve Erwin to Brittany Spears, someone in Russia noticed that those lovable tykes have been insulting Christians. And Russian Christians are not amused… According to the South Park website: We are not sure […]
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