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Five-Year-Old Arkansas Boy Shoots, Kills Bear

December 11th, 2007 · 36 Comments

Tre Merrit, a 5-year-old Arkansas boy, gained 15 minutes of fame recently after being credited with shooting and killing a 440-pound Black Bear while on a hunting trip with his grandfather.
As soon as they catch wind of the boy’s exploits, animal rights activists will likely come out of the woodwork and cause a stir by [...]

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‘Mohammed the Bear’ Ranks High at Answers.com

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

People who visit Answers.com and type “Mohammed the Bear” into the search box will find a link to the headline of my Nov. 29 post, ‘MY NAME IS MOHAMMED THE BEAR’ on Sale Now!, near the top of about 269,000 search results, proving that this plush teddy bear remains popular almost two weeks after [...]

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British Man’s Memory-Loss Scheme Unraveling

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

TIME magazine jumped on the opportunity to write the dramatic headline, The Man Who Returned From the Sea, which appeared above a grainy photo of John Darwin, the 57-year-old man who surfaced at a British police station yesterday five years after being declared dead, the apparent victim of a canoeing accident.
Today, it appears articles like [...]

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‘Teddy Bear Teacher’ Pardoned

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

According to an Agence France Press report, the British school teacher whose plight inspired the creation of MY NAME IS MOHAMMED THE BEAR plush teddy bear has been released:
KHARTOUM (AFP) — A British woman jailed in Sudan for insulting religion was released on Monday after being granted a presidential pardon for insulting religion by giving [...]

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Can Islam’s Skin Get Any Thinner?

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

With the Islamic furor in Sudan over the so-called “Teddy Bear Teacher” continuing to get attention in the world’s press, I found an editorial published at Investor’s Business Daily especially noteworthy. It begins this way:
Islamofascism: Just when you thought Islam’s skin couldn’t get any thinner, angry Muslims from Khartoum to London want to execute [...]

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