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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 [...]

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Forget Lapel Pins, Obama Disrespects U.S. Flag!

October 22nd, 2007 · 32 Comments

So much for not wearing American flag lapel pins. If the Time Magazine photo above is any indication, it appears Sen. Barack Hussein Obama disrespects the American flag in all shapes and sizes. Obama appeared on stage along with two other Democrat presidential candidates — Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Hillary Clinton — and Ruth [...]

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NowPublic Growing Fast, Receives $10.6M in Financing

July 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Recently, I began contributing on a more-frequent basis to NowPublic and, apparently as a result of my recent contributions, the citizen journalism site is beginning to grow exponentially as described in this article on Breitbart today: NowPublic announced Monday that the fast-growing citizen journalism website has scored 10.6 million dollars (US) in financing to fuel [...]

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Mystery Envelops Blogger’s Coverage of Terror ‘Dry Runs’

July 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Folks, this is difficult for me to write, so bear with me as I outline a series of seemingly-inexplicable events related to my recent coverage of terrorists suspected of conducting “dry runs” at the nation’s airports. On Wednesday, I wrote an investigative piece, Terrorists Recognize ‘Power of Cheese’, that sought answers to under-reported details of [...]

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‘Power of Cheese’ Article Vaults to Top at NowPublic.com

July 25th, 2007 · No Comments

How’s this for cool! At around 2 p.m. Central, I posted a slightly-modified version of my post, Terrorists Recognize ‘Power of Cheese’, over at NowPublic.com. Soon thereafter, it was featured as the top article on the site’s front page (See graphic below). In case you’re not familiar with it, NowPublic.com is the citizen journalism site [...]

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Will Russians be Involved in U.S. Exit from Iraq?

July 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Hat tip to BlackFive.net for publishing a tip from one of his readers that leads me to one of two conclusions about the artwork (shown at right) that accompanies a recent TIME magazine article on the subject of a U.S. withdrawal of troops from Iraq: 1) Either TIME screwed up royally in publishing artwork depicting [...]

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Spam ‘Victim’ Held Liable for $2.5 M in Damages

June 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

As an expatriate Oklahoman, I try to keep up with news in the state where I spent most of my first 23 years. As an active member of the blogosphere, I get more than my share of unsolicited e-mails. That in mind, I wanted to share the text of a PRWeb news release issued by [...]

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