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Entries from March 2011

Wisconsin Protests Result of Political Incest

March 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition, defines “incest” as, “The crime of cohabitation between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.” However, it took an ugly confrontation between Wisconsin’s unionized public employees and their employer, the State of Wisconsin, to redefine the term and to finally [...]

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NFL on Verge of Losing Lukewarm Fan

March 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Major League Baseball lost me as a “rabid” fan after a 1981 strike caused the cancellation of 713 games.  I simply could not rationalize how players could complain about the compensation they were receiving when they were earning six-, seven- and eight-figure salaries — not to mention product endorsements and other perks — for playing [...]

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Japan on Edge After Explosion at Nuclear Plant (Update)

March 12th, 2011 · No Comments

An explosion at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant approximately 160 miles north of Tokyo has the world on edge this morning. News reports range from fears of a meltdown to fears of another Chernobyl being expressed as a possible “worst-case scenario.” An expert appearing on Fox News Channel this morning said the earthquake in [...]

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Tsunami Info Center Web Site Fails on Day of Big Quake Despite Tens of Millions in Federal Funds

March 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Like millions of people around the world, I awoke hungry for details of the 8.9 megaquake that struck Japan just after 2:30 p.m. local time Friday.  When I landed at the web site for the International Tsunami Information Center, a center in Honolulu that was allocated $28 million for fiscal year 2011 and $29 million [...]

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Author: ‘Third Terrorist’ Arrested in Quincy, Mass.

March 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments

An article published Thursday evening in the Patriot-Ledger newspaper in Quincy, Mass., is incredible in that it casts the spotlight anew on a man Jayna Davis believes made the title of her New York Times best-selling book, The Third Terrorist:  The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing — Hussain Al-Hussani. According to Davis, [...]

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Mega-Quake Strikes Off Coast of Japan! (Update)

March 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments

An earthquake registering at 8.8 magnitude struck approximately 80 miles east of the island of Honshu, Japan, at 2:46 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Japan’s NHK television network is reporting that the national meteorological agency has issued a major tsunami warning to coastal areas in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. Based [...]

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Heads Roll as James O’Keefe Exposes NPR (Update)

March 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments

In his latest investigative masterpiece, James O’Keefe exposes National Public Radio for the cesspool of liberalism it is by luring them with big money — $5 million — from a Muslim organization that doesn’t exist. Soon after the first installment went viral, heads rolled and NPR executives Vivian Schiller and Ronald J. Schiller were gone.  [...]

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