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December 11, 2009 05:13 AM EST
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Just to set the record straight, and to ease the conscience of Canadians, (And even the world in general) we here at the "Perspective Research Department" did a survey about torture in Afghanistan . . .
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December 11, 2009 04:46 AM EST
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Now this word from the Daily Global and then a few thoughts about the article.
Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis “in . . .
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December 11, 2009 01:03 AM EST
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Senate Democrats are attempting to use the end of the year omnibus funding bill to "smuggle" in the removal of three longstanding bans on government-funded abortion. Democrats are considering . . .
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December 11, 2009 12:48 AM EST
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But I’m posting this less for the story about the teachers (though the number of sex scandals involving educators over recent years is more than a little troubling) than the students who were interviewed . . .
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December 11, 2009 12:48 AM EST
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Whoa :
Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they’d rather . . .
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December 10, 2009 08:36 PM EST
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Not a surprise given the oil and coal that’s in the west:
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) Job Service North Dakota says the best-paid workers in the state live in Williston.
Oil industry wages pushed . . .
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December 10, 2009 07:53 PM EST
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They took my brother away, Just the other day! He was a raving lunatic! But, they'll never come to take me away....... I'm normal!
Yesterday we learned how you can shoot an enemy combatant . . .
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December 10, 2009 04:24 PM EST
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So says The New Republic pointing out that this commission isn’t likely to get much done.
In fact, it’s almost like it’s designed to not get anything done.
Let me get this . . .
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December 10, 2009 04:24 PM EST
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Republicans are now within 1 point in the poll, a statistical tie :
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday, 40 percent of people questioned say the U.S. would be better . . .
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December 10, 2009 04:24 PM EST
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Sigh…
GRAND FORKS — An Edinburg, N.D., man is charged with animal abuse for allegedly kicking a chinchilla's cage during a domestic dispute, injuring its paw and bloodying its nose . . .
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December 10, 2009 04:24 PM EST
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Last week I posted about state Senators Tim Mathern and Tracy Potter threatening Blue Cross Blue Shield with regulatory retaliation for sending out a letter to policyholders advocating against Democrat . . .
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December 10, 2009 04:24 PM EST
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And they’re going to get it done this year instead of next year. Because they want you voters to forget about it in time for the elections .
In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats . . .
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December 10, 2009 03:32 PM EST
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(I just received this email from my congressman. While the democrats are saying the Republicans are the party of no, looks as if the democrats are the party of spending. Time for these people to stop . . .
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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And yet, we’re supposed think that the Medicare expansion “compromise” on the Senate health care bill is, in fact, a “compromise.”
The irony of this late-breaking . . .
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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Picture shamelessly stolen from Blonde Sagacity , headline by proof Cross Posted at Proof Positive
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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In North Carolina the NAACP is trying to keep an atheist who won his election from taking office based on the state’s constitution :
"I'm not saying that Cecil Bothwell is not a good man, but . . .
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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Per this posting on his website, Earl Pomeroy would like you to know that he’s outrageously outraged at the EPA’s (absurd) decision to regulate CO2 (among other gases):
"When the House . . .
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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Another victory for government health care :
British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.
A survey published . . .
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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After Obama’s much-hyped Afghanistan speech Defense Secretary Gates was asked by Congress whether or not there was a deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan. Gates said a withdrawal deadline . . .
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December 10, 2009 12:12 PM EST
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You’re all eco-criminals. Did you know that? Well, at least those of you who wash on a regular basis or drink coffee or wear clean clothes, anyway.
Someone turned the crank on the box inhabited . . .
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