i was happy to learn that the guy arrested on halloween dressed as osama bin laden and waving a gun around was an attorney which brings this story within my jurisdiction. apparently a number of drivers called police in south portland maine to tell them that a man in middle eastern garb and a bin laden mask was standing along the interstate highway carrying what looked like dynamite and waving a......
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let me get this straight if you dont support the war on iraq you have forgotten 911. so what does it mean when you leave victims remains laying at ground zero for five years from reuters new york more than 200 pieces of human remains have been found at the world trade center site since the discovery of bones by workers clearing rubble from manholes sparked a new search a week ago an officia......
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20061023 with polls showing republicans could lose control of congress after the november elections capitol hill physicians have been swamped with democrats reporting symptoms of optimism a condition almost unknown among their people. eli lilly the maker of the antidepressant drug prozac annouced today that sales in the washington d.c. region have plunged in the weeks since former rep. mark fole......
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anyone disagree with this analysis by the former soviet leader seems dead on to me. u.s. wasted chance to improve the world gorbachev oct 13 1207 pm et berlin reuters former soviet president mikhail gorbachev who played a key role in ending the cold war said the united states had squandered an opportunity to improve global politics after the cold war a paper said on......
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muhammad yunus and the grameen bank he founded have won the nobel peace prize. if you havent read banker to the poor microlending and the battle against world poverty then you may want to give it a shotits a very worthwhile read. heres a quote from an article about the prize the secretive fivemember norwegian nobel committee said the elimination of poverty was a path to peace and democ......
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in the wake of reports that the north korean regime has conducted a nuclear test the ford campaign issued a statement this morning via the ford report criticizing president bush and bob corker for the failed policy on north korea. at a time when the international community is coming together to address this threat the liberal congressman from memphis is playing politics in a transparent attempt to......
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the soldiers shouted lets fight at the cost of our lives for the respected supreme commander comrade kim jongil. not that i give myway news too much thought but i saw an interesting article linked from the drudge report that talks about an upcomming nuclear test that north korea plans to carry out on sunday. evelyn leopold seems to think this is going to be the one that breaks the cammels back b......
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well its painfully obvious that the world didnt change much while we were on vacation. i was planning on some happy snappy commentary about the performance of the americans phil mickelson in particular at the ryder cup but then i found myself barraged by drudge with various stories of madness and mayhem from around the world. look i know the glass is never as full or as empty as it appears to be a......
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if eric schmidts vision ever comes to pass itd be kind of funny to have a buzzer blurt a loud bzzzzzzzzzzzt everytime a politician is caught lying in a debate or a television appearance. anyway schmidt believes politicians dont yet understand the power of the internet politicians have yet to appreciate the impact of the online world which will also affect the outcome of elections schmidt said in......
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google warns the politicians with its newfangled truth telling machinepoliticians have yet to appreciate the impact of the online world which will also affect the outcome of elections schmidt said in an interview with the financial times published on wednesday. he predicted that truth predictor software would within five years .........
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by dave trotter most readers of this site will agree that no libertarian worldview can be complete without including these two foundational premises one that power corrupts and two that government which always attempts to consolidate power motivated by selfinterest and selfpreservation will certainly abuse whatever power it is allowed. these are laws of nature as theyre derived from observation......
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the dems have launched into a feeding frenzy fueled by half truths and sound bites. they think that the american public puts much credence in leaks and yellow journalism from the new york times and bob woodward.hat tip to don suber i think that most of the voters out there are smarter than that and have grown tired of the antiamerican rhetoric thrown out by the left. they seem to think that the ......
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law student by day cat burglar by night. a judge in australia has sentenced phillip ryan see 27 to over four years in jail for robbing 43 homes in the suburbs of sydney where he was also studying for a masters degree in law. see who had previously worked as a legal assistant in a government law office and didnt learn not to steal there either would rob the houses and then call a taxi to carry the ......
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probably not. but some pretty interesting gossip nonethelessa leaked french intelligence document indicates that bin laden may have died of typhoid but no french or us officials have been able to confirm the report. check out the story here here and here. the saudis are apparently now denying that theres any truth to the report. also blogging blogs for bush blue crab boulevard basils blog ......
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i dont like much of what nancy pelosi does or says on the best of days but i have to give her credit for this hugo chavez fancies himself a modern day simon bolivar but all he is an everyday thug house democratic leader nancy pelosi said at a news conference referring to chavez comments in a u.n. general assembly speech on wednesday. hugo chavez abused the privilege that he had speaking at the u......
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as the midterm elections that will determine control of the house and senate quickly approach president bush and republican candidates continue to rise in the polls. over the past two weeks president bush has effectively communicated the vital nature of the war on terror to the american people. bushs clarity on the war on terror coupled with falling gas prices has lead to a significant rebound in ......
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2996 the number of people murdered by terrorists on september 11 2001. we remember the horror of that terrible day. we pray for the families of the victims. we pray for this nation in a time of war. the horrid events of september 11 2001 changed all of us. each of us has had to try and make sense and meaning of our lives since then. but when we watch baseball tonight we will be ......
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20060908 top senate democrats outraged over inaccuracies in the upcoming abc miniseries the path to 911 today said that in addition to yanking the networks broadcast license if the show airs democrats might also withhold from abc news the daily distribution of democrat talking points.......
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by now almost everyone knows that bill clinton and members of his admnistration have succeeded in altering to some undetermined extent abcs the path to 911 miniseries that will air on september 10 and 11. people connected with the project who spoke with hugh hewitt could not specifically say because i believe they did not know what the abc suits had decided to alter. the chicago tribune link requi......
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democrats urge abc to spike 911 docudrama. frankly i dont care about the miniseries itself. as i said in the previous post i place blame equally. however i do find it interesting given the lefts propensity to whine about the supposed stifling of dissent that the members of the party are openly pressuring a network to stop a broadcast. would they be in the same uproar say if abc decided to sh......
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that was quick tehran reuters iran has completed a new phase in its arak heavywater reactor plant a presidential official said on saturday referring to part of irans atomic program which the west fears is aimed at producing bombs. the official said president mahmoud ahmadinejad would give a speech later in the day announcing that the heavywater project has become operational. iran is building......
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of course russia is rejecting any sanctions against iran afterall they are building irans first nuclear power plant. moscow reuters russia on friday rejected any talk for now of sanctions against iran and france warned against conflict with tehran raising doubt whether it will face swift penalties for not halting nuclear work by an august 31 deadline. responding to an offer of econom......
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links to news stories i found informative interesting or irritating. paris hilton praises her debut album what a helluva surprise whoa stop the presses paris praises her own album wow let us face facts folks whether you lover her or despise her humility has never been one of ms. hiltons better known traits neither has compassion civility loyalty or trust but let us not be too judgmental. o......
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very scary times for tom glavine. new york daily news wilt chamberlain would have been 70 years old today. nba.com neither bill simmons nor anna benson are in this poker tournament. reuters this laarea columnist appears to be doing ok for himself. the big lead inside the 1986 mets reunion day. high and inside......
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apparently god really does work in mysterious ways. an israeli womans breast implants saved her life when she was wounded in a hizbollah rocket attack during israels war with the lebanese group a hospital spokesman said tuesday. doctors found shrapnel embedded in the silicone implants just inches from the 24yearolds heart. she was saved from death said a spokesman for nahariya hospital in n......
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