Archive for June, 2005
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
“Sometimes when cultures clash the consequences are devastating or even deadly!”
We live in a society of pluralism and tolerance. We reject the idea of universal right and wrong. With a diminishing list of objective standards, our legislative system is having a harder time defining the laws, and our court system is having a harder time […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Manhunt Under Way for Girl’s Killer
Investigators Searching for Suspect
GAINESVILLE — Police asked for the public’s help on Monday in finding a suspect who is wanted in the kidnapping, molestation and murder of a 4-year-old Hall County girl.
The body of Esmerelda Nava was found Sunday morning, seven hours after she was reported missing […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
New Blogging Site Launched that Reveals Naked Truth about the Travel Industry
PR Travel.com is an original new blogging site that was created with the intent of acting as a communication medium to connect all those individuals around the country and the world that are in some way involved in the travel industry. From the general […]
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
The Lost Liberty Hotel
“Make them livid by making them live it.”
- Pajamahadin
Weare, New Hampshire - PRWEB, Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
- John Adams
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that putting framed copies of the Ten Commandments in county courthouses violated church-state separation, but it allowed a commandments monument in a […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2005
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights conducted a hearing on “The Consequences of Roe V. Wade and Doe V. Bolton” Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Senator Brownback presided.
An excerpt from Brownback’s opening statement:
In the […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2005
“There is rising concern that everything seems to be going the wrong way,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in an interview. “Support is dropping drastically.” Bush, she said, “has got to give regular progress reports” to Congress and the public on topics such as the training of Iraqi troops and police to take over their […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
WASHINGTON A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights.
Though citizens are safe from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are not.
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
WASHINGTON - Under fire from Republicans and some fellow Democrats, Sen. Dick Durbin apologized Tuesday for comparing American interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to Nazis and other historically infamous figures.
Tom McGuire comments on factors that lead up to Durbin’s apology for his remarks on Guantanamo Bay and how the New York Times failed […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
First Blogger, now all TypeAd blogs have been banned in China as confirmed and reported by Rebecca McKinnon at RConversation.
The Chinese government is obviously to blame and Cisco Systems provided the technology. Programming of the surveillance infrastructure was assisted by Cisco engineers. Cisco denies direct complicity, declaring that the products it sells in […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
(AP) - Dumping the bodies of dead dogs and cats in the garbage is wrong, but the president of Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Friday that animal cruelty charges against two employees won’t stick.
“It’s hideous,” Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animal rights group, said of the dumping. “I think this is […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
Last week, U.S. Rep. David Obey (D-Wisc.) inserted an amendment to the spending bill criticizing “coercive and abusive religious proselytizing” at the Academy and requiring the Air Force to submit a plan to Congress to correct the problems.
While the House was debating this amendment, “business on the floor of the House halted for 45 minutes […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
LONDON - Former President Bill Clinton has said the United States should either “close down or clean up” the Guantanamo Bay prison for foreign terrorism suspects.
“If we get a reputation for abusing people, it puts our own soldiers much more at risk,” Clinton said.
Former detainees have alleged they were abused or tortured at the prison. […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2005
Terri Schiavo’s autopsy has been released.
John Hawkins over at RightWingNews writes:
Many people in the mainstream media are drawing wild conclusions (Ex: Schiavo autopsy sides with her husband. No treatment could have helped her, doctors conclude) from Terri Schiavo’s autopsy that are not supported by the facts in evidence.
I agree with Hawkins. The crux of […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
That’s what I was taught in JROTC. I’m sure you’ve heard it before. President Bush gave the same advice to the Democrats.
‘If leaders of the other party have innovative ideas, let’s hear them. But if they have no ideas or policies except obstruction, they should step aside and let others lead,’ Mr. Bush […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Good news that should merit its own article is served up with a good dose of bad news.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops found and freed an Australian held hostage in Baghdad on Wednesday, the latest of several recent successes in recovering foreign captives.
BUT two bomb attacks on Iraqi troops and police, including one in which […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Political Columnist Robert J. Samuelson argues that Europe as we know it is slowly going out of business. He writes, “Unless Europe reverses two trends — low birthrates and meager economic growth — it faces a bleak future of rising domestic discontent and falling global power. Actually, that future has already arrived.”
Consequently, it is […]
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA — Four men were ordered to stand trial in the theft and butchering of a pet pygmy goat, allegedly so its meat could be traded for crack cocaine or money.
KEENE, N.H. — A door-to-door meat salesman from Maine is accused of assaulting a potential customer after she turned down his offer of chicken […]
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
Microsoft is cooperating with the Chinese government to censor forbidden language.
Microsoft Corp. is cooperating with China’s government to censor the company’s newly launched Chinese-language Web portal, a spokesman for the tech giant said.
The policy affects Web logs, or blogs, created through the MSN Spaces service, said Adam Sohn, a global sales and marketing director at […]
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
Michelle Malkin’s blog turned one year old last week. I would have thought her blog was much older as much as she has accomplished with it and given the high ranking it enjoys in the blogoshpere. Just look at some of the stats for her blog.
Total visits as of today, 12:30pm: 6,341,092
Average Per […]
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