Warming Atlantic worsens hurricanes

By Seth Borenstein

WASHINGTON — When the water in the hurricane breeding grounds of the Atlantic warms one degree in the dead of summer, overall hurricane activity jumps by half, according to a new study. The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature, found that changes in wind patterns caused a bigger shift in hurricane activity, but he concentrated his analysis on what sea temperature did to storms. Saunders didn't look at what caused the temperature fluctuations, although he believes that climate change is a contributing factor.

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Don't say mum and dad...

By LAURA CLARK

Teachers should not assume that their pupils have a "mum and dad" under guidance aimed at tackling anti-gay bullying in schools.
It says primary pupils as young as four should be familiarised with the idea of same-sex couples to help combat homophobic attitudes.
Teachers should attempt to avoid assumptions that pupils will have a conventional family background, it urges.

"When schools discuss marriage, they may also discuss civil partnership and adoption rights for gay people."

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A pogrom in Venezuela?

By Mona Charen

On Dec.1, two dozen heavily armed police raided a Jewish community center in Caracas where hundreds were celebrating a wedding. The police, the Venezuelan equivalent of the FBI, claimed to be seeking weapons and evidence of "subversive activity." This bit of harassment theater was only the latest in a series of worrying moves by the Chavez government against its Jewish citizens.

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Super Tuesday (2008)

February 5, 2008, the day on which the largest-ever simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections will be held.[8] Twenty-four states are scheduled to hold either caucuses or primary elections for one or both parties on this date.[9]
The large number of states holding elections on February 5 could shorten the period between the first caucus in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, and the de facto selection of a party's nominee to just a few weeks

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Romney Expects to Pull Conservative Support in A Two-Man Race

By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - It's now a two-person race, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney told Fox News Wednesday morning, after Sen. John McCain won Tuesday's Republican primary in Florida. "In a two-person race, I like my chances."Romney said from this point forward, people will have to decide if they want to John McCain to be the party's nominee -- "or do they want to vote for me, who does his best to bring together the Republican coalition that Ronald Reagan built."

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Could the Republicans Win This One?

By William Murchison

The impression takes root and grows. Say! The Democrats could lose this one. Could lose big, in fact.
On which premise no one should stake even his subprime mortgage. But boy, oh, boy, this Clinton-Obama thing, expanded now to compass the Kennedys and their mystique, must strike Republicans as the work of Providence.
Our long, long, long presidential campaign is producing clarifications. Extended exposure to the candidates and their campaigns shows us things not generally in view before, say, Bill Clinton jumped in swinging at Barack Obama and slugged his wife -- purely an accident! -- on the chin.

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Dad Killed Baby Over Broken Xbox

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

PHILADELPHIA — A man who spent long hours each day playing video games was convicted Tuesday of killing his 17-month-old daughter when she pulled down his Xbox console.
Prosecutors believe Tyrone Spellman pummeled Alayiah Turman, cracking her skull several times, while her pregnant mother napped in another room in September 2006.
Jurors rejected arguments that Spellman confessed to protect the mother and convicted him of third-degree murder and child endangerment. He was acquitted of first-degree murder. He could be sentenced to about 23 to 47 years in prison.

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China Snow Crisis Shows Vulnerability

By Elaine Kurtenbach

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- China's financial capital saw fresh snowfall Wednesday as the impact of unusually wintry weather deepened, highlighting the vulnerabilities of the country's booming economy.
Heavy snows in recent days have stalled shipments of food and fuel, complicating authorities' efforts to combat a spike in inflation.

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A Clarion Call To Conservatives

It is over. The conservative "movement" within the GOP is kaput. Why? Because, my dear conservative friends, regardless of former Gov. Romney's money, charm, youth and great looks, he has the GOP insiders against him. He "made war" against the Establishment, and they knocked him down. Do you honestly think they're gonna let him bounce back and whip Johnny Mac? McLame has the big endorsements with many more to come. Now he'll get the free press and money. THAT'S why it's over.

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Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory

By Jeremy Laurance

Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works.
The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man's appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation.

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European Press and the Presidential Election

By Soeren Kern

The outcome of the US presidential election affects the lives of millions of people around the world. So it's probably not surprising that many Europeans are resentful that only Americans will have a say in it. European media are saturated with election coverage that is heavily biased in favor of the Democrats. And, as in past elections, European elites are also demanding the right to help choose the next occupant of the White House.

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Romney depicts loose cannon McCain

Less than 48 hours after proclaiming he would never get personal with another Republican, Mitt Romney’s latest campaign missive focuses on the temper of Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The Romney camp frames the memo as a top-10 list of McCain’s “attacks” on Republicans. It could also be called “10 instances over the last eight years when McCain got angry or lost his cool.”
Oh, and the missive pays special attention to McCain’s use of four-letter words that are not H-E-double-hockey-sticks.

On Thursday afternoon, Romney said, “One thing I’m also gonna point out is, particularly in a Republican campaign, I’m not going to talk about the character of the people I’m running against.” He also cited Ronald Reagan’s so-called 11th commandment, something along the lines of, “though shalt not attack fellow RepublicansLINK

Romney 34%, McCain 32%, Giuliani 13%, Huckabee 10%

EAST LANSING, Mich.— U.S. Sen. John McCain, who had a 2% lead after polling Sunday night, now finds himself trailing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 34%-32% according to results of a telephone poll conducted Sunday and Monday nights January 27-28, 2008. Rudy Giuliani, who was tied with Mike Huckabee at 12%, has now taken a 3% lead over Huckabee (13%-10%). Ron Paul has 3%, and 7% are undecided..
The telephone poll of likely voters in the Florida Republican Primary Election was conducted by Mitchell Interactive, an East Lansing, Michigan and Washington, DC based national political polling and market research company. The survey of 964 likely Republican Presidential Primary voters has a margin of error of +-3.16% at the 95% level of confidence

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Sex With Daughters-in-Law: Divinely Ordained in Islam

by Ayesha Ahmed

Sex with daughters in law is a very pious and sacred relationship which is promoted by Quran and was practiced by 'insan-e-kamil,'” our prophet, the perfect man.

Our prophet had a beautiful daughter in law Zainab, wife of his adopted son known as Zaid Bin Mohammed. One morning he walked into her room looking for his son and ran into her while she was just waking up and was still in her birthday suit. He liked what he saw. To make a long story short , she was in his bed within a few days.

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Prophet: “To me the only noble and honorable act is to follow Allah’s orders . And Allah was the one who ordered me to acquire Zainab. Here is the aya”:
33.37 “We gave her ( Zaid’s wife ) in marriage to thee, so that there should not be any fault in the believers, touching wives of their adopted sons”.

Church Harbors Woman Facing Deportation

By MICHAEL TARM

CHICAGO (AP) — A Mexican woman says she is "picking up the torch" from another illegal resident who became a symbol for immigration reform when she took shelter in a Chicago church for a year before being deported.
Flor Crisostomo, 28, who paid a smuggler to drive her across the U.S. border in 2000, spurned a deportation order Monday and moved into Adalberto United Methodist Church.
Crisostomo hopes her actions send a message similar to Elvira Arellano, who became a beacon of hope for millions of illegal immigrants and a lightning rod for those who saw her brazen refusal to leave the U.S. as proof of lax enforcement.

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Half of gold in central banks gone?

By Jerome R. Corsi

U.S. central banks may have less than half the gold they claim to possess in their vaults, charges a watchdog group in an ad scheduled for publication in the Wall Street Journal this week.

"Most observers calculate central bank reserves are supposed to have about 30,000 tons of gold worldwide in their vaults, but we believe the amount of gold actually there may be more like 15,000 tons," Murphy said. "The rest of the gold is gone."

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Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP

By Bob Cusack

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist.

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GRADING TEACHERS

By ADAM BRODSKY

January 28, 2008 -- IF you want good teachers in the schools, the first step is obvious: Figure out who they are.
And not by relying solely on water-cooler chat and subjective judgments but by also looking at rock-hard data on teacher performance.
Such common-sense thinking has led Chancellor Joel Klein & Co. to undertake a pilot project to measure and track teachers' results - based on their students' test scores.
The idea is revolutionary for city schools, but even baby steps in this direction could do a world of good for kids.

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Obama takes big risk on driver's license issue

by: Carolyn Lochhead

(01-28) 04:00 PST Washington -- Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
It's a huge issue for Latinos, who want them. It's also a huge issue for the general electorate, which most vehemently does not. Obama's stand could come back to haunt him not only in a general election, but with other voters in California, where driver's licenses for illegal immigrants helped undo former Gov. Gray Davis.
Clinton stumbled into that minefield in a debate last fall and quickly backed off. First she suggested a New York proposal for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants might be reasonable. Then she denied endorsing the idea, and later came out against them.

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Christian Woman Burned For Seeking Baptism

By BosNewsLife News Center

DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BosNewsLife)-- A 70-year old woman remained in critical condition Sunday, January 27, in Bangladesh after suspected Muslim extremists reportedly tried to burn her alive to prevent her from being baptized as a Christian.

Rahima Beoa, who was planning to be baptized on February 13 in Muslim-majority Rangpur district, 248 kilometers (154miles) northwest of the capital Dhaka, suffered burns on 70 percent of her body, reported Compass Direct News, a Christian news agency investigating reports of persecution.

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Capitalism Doesn't Work, Mr. Gates?

By Lawrence Kudlow

Bill Gates, bloviating at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is issuing a clarion call for a "kinder capitalism" to aid the world's poor. Gates says he has grown impatient with the shortcomings of capitalism. He thinks it's failing much of the world. This, of course, from a guy who's worth around $35 billion (give or take a billion).

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The reality here is that the rising tide of global capitalism is lifting all boats that employ it.

The Scary Sense of American Entitlement

By Ruben Navarrette

SAN DIEGO -- Worried that Americans are on the brink of a recession -- or perhaps already in the middle of one -- the Bush administration and the House of Representatives have reached tentative agreement on an economic stimulus package.
Glad to hear it. A stimulus may not work exactly as expected, but it's worth a try. Americans are overtaxed as it is, and anything that gets more of their tax dollars back into their hands is a good thing. And if they spend what they get, it'll be good for the economy.

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" let's not get so caught up in asking what government can do for us that we forget what we can do for ourselves."

The Human Slingshot

Girl gets an amazing slingshot !

Playground drug scenes raise alarm

Caroline Marcus

DRUG counsellors were called to a Sydney primary school because a year 5 boy was daring students to lick ground-up chalk off his palm.
The incident occurred at a public school in the eastern suburbs in term four last year.
It followed another episode at the same school involving three other students who turned in creative writing assignments featuring a fictional "drug island" and football stars Ben Cousins and Andrew Johns, who were involved in public drug battles.

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101 zip codes with the largest charity contributions

1.
23219 (Richmond, VA), pop. 2,410: 20.4%
2.
83346 (Oakley, ID), pop. 1,312: 13.8%
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93272 (Tipton, CA), pop. 2,931: 12.8%
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95962 (CA), pop. 1,512: 11.7%
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10952 (Monsey, NY), pop. 31,947: 11.2%
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44115 (Cleveland, OH), pop. 8,186: 10.8%
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83355 (Wendell, ID), pop. 4,907: 10.0%
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84604 (Provo, UT), pop. 48,492: 9.5%
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11219 (NY), pop. 85,987: 9.3%
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84004 (Alpine, UT), pop. 7,576: 9.2%

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Homosexuals Squelch Facts About MRSA Outbreak, Conservatives Say

By Pete Winn

(CNSNews.com) - Conservative groups say the truth about a new "multi-drug resistant microbe" prevalent among homosexual men is not being presented to the public because of political correctness.Almost two weeks ago, researchers announced they have isolated a new form of MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an infection that is spreading through San Francisco's homosexual community and could spread to the general community. "These multi-drug resistant infections often affect gay men at body sites in which skin-to-skin contact occurs during sexual activities," said Binh Diep, the University of California-San Francisco scientist who led the team that made the finding.

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Bay Buchanan Talks Romney and McCain

by: Matt Lewis

Yesterday, I caught up with Mitt Romney supporter Bay Buchanan. Buchanan talked with me via phone from Florida, where she had just attended a John McCain rally (she gets a better feel for the race when she sees what the enemy is up to). As you might imagine, this outspoken conservative had a lot to say about Sen. McCain:
"We can't trust who he's going to put on the court," she says of McCain. When I ask Buchanan if McCain is a real conservative, she replies with the words one conservative reserves for another when talking about a 'squishy' Republican: "He's not one of us."

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Hillary and Bill Use Alinsky Tactics To Bring Down Obama

By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Obama was up; now he's down. Even though Obama seems to be harnessing the South Carolina black vote that will give him that state's delegates, he has been feeling the brunt of the Clintons' mastery of the tactic of polarization, taught decades ago to Hillary by Saul Alinsky.
Obama is being forced into the position of being the black candidate.

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Lawmakers, LDS Church brainstorm

By Bob Bernick Jr. and Deborah Bulkeley

LDS Church leaders have told legislative bosses that the "element of humanity" should be re-introduced to the state's immigration debates.
Before each general session, GOP and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate sit down separately with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints special affairs committee, a group made up of church general authorities, church public relations officials and their lobbyists, to discuss any items on the minds of both legislators and church leaders.
House Minority Whip David Litvack, D-Salt Lake, said the Democrats' meeting with church officials brought up several issues, but the immigration discussion was the most touching for him personally.

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The worldwide church has many Hispanic and Latino members, and the church's missionaries in Latin America are some of the most successful in getting new converts to the church.

Anti-Bush Campaign Planned

(AP) A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to make sure President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.Americans United for Change plans to undertake a yearlong campaign, spending the bulk of the money on advertising, to keep public attention on what the group says are the failures of the Bush administration, including the war in Iraq, the response to Hurricane Katrina, and the current mortgage crisis.In selling the plan to fundraisers, the group has argued that support for President Reagan was at a low of 42 percent in 1987 but climbed to 63 percent before he left office. "All of a sudden he became a rallying cry for conservatives and their ideology," said Brad Woodhouse, president of the group. "Progressives are still living with that."

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Earth could soon face new Ice Age

by Khabibullo Abdusamatov

ST. PETERSBURG, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - Temperatures on Earth have stabilized in the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice Age rather than global warming, a Russian scientist said in an interview with RIA Novosti Tuesday.
"Russian and foreign research data confirm that global temperatures in 2007 were practically similar to those in 2006, and, in general, identical to 1998-2006 temperatures, which, basically, means that the Earth passed the peak of global warming in 1998-2005,"

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High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders

By Geoffrey Gagnon

Because new territory could mean new natural resources, CCOM researchers, tapped by the US government and led by Gardner, have been silently scanning for six years now — mapping the frozen north as well as the Bering Sea, the gulfs of Alaska and Mexico, the Atlantic Margin off the East Coast, and the Marianas in the Pacific. They're racing to prove the US controls more territory than anyone thought. Alaska, for example, could extend 150 miles farther into the Arctic Ocean than today's maps show. And the country's sovereignty may not end off the shore of the Gulf Coast; it's really more like the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Obama's Clinton Education

One of our favorite Bill Clinton anecdotes involves a confrontation he had with Bob Dole in the Oval Office after the 1996 election. Mr. Dole protested Mr. Clinton's attack ads claiming the Republican wanted to harm Medicare, but the President merely smiled that Bubba grin and said, "You gotta do what you gotta do."
We're reminded of that story listening to Barack Obama protest his treatment by the now ex-President Clinton on behalf of his wanna-be-President wife. "You know the former President, who I think all of us have a lot of regard for, has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling," Mr. Obama told a TV interviewer.

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McCain Hasn't Learned Lesson on Immigration

By Michelle Malkin

Not all of us have forgotten how the short-fused Arizona senator cursed good-faith opponents in his own party ("F**k you!" and "Chickensh*t" were the choice words he had for Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn during a spat over enforcement provisions). Not all of us have forgotten that he voted against barring felons from receiving amnesty benefits under his plan. Not all of us have forgotten the underhanded, debate-sabotaging manner in which McCain/Kennedy/Lindsey Graham/Harry Reid conspired to ram their package down voters' throats.

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Where They Stand

A look at the presidential candidates' positions on the five biggest challenges facing America.

By PETE DU PONT

In the beginning Mrs. Clinton was the Democratic establishment's winning candidate. But with her loss in Iowa and her position as underdog in the New Hampshire pre-election polls, the more liberal Mr. Obama was assumed to be the likely Democrat nominee. He still may get the nomination, but a massive national Clinton effort led by Bill and his presidential contacts may get her to the top.
On the Republican side, the ultimate outcome is far from clear. Messrs. McCain, Romney and Giuliani are still serious candidates, and while Mr. Huckabee would like to be, his lack of a national organization and his policy beliefs (a national sales tax, limiting free trade) and his history of raising taxes as governor of Arkansas are unlikely to appeal to most Americans.

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Global Warming > Fewer Hurricanes

By SETH BORENSTEIN

Researchers link warming waters, especially in the Indian and Pacific oceans, to increased vertical wind shear in the Atlantic Ocean near the United States. Wind shear, a change in wind speed or direction, makes it hard for hurricanes to form, strengthen and stay alive.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said "more likely than not," manmade global warming has increased the frequency of the most intense storms.

Blood bank bias alleged against gay, bisexual men

By AMBREEN ALI

Would-be donors in the Seattle area are accusing blood banks of discriminatory policies banning most gay and bisexual men from giving blood.
When the Puget Sound Blood Center announced last week that Western Washington's blood supply was at emergency levels, some people responded with frustration at the stringent requirements that deny about 6 percent of those who try to donate blood.

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About 24,000 people have been placed on the Western Washington permanent deferral list in the past decade

Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

By Sean Coughlan

A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned down by a government agency's awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims.
The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues".

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I'D RATHER BE FAT AND RICH

By RITA DELFINER

January 21, 2008 -- If American women could choose between having Jennifer Aniston's bikini body or a million dollars, three out of four would take the money and run.

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Fifty-seven percent said they considered themselves overweight, 30 percent admitted feeling "uncomfortable and ashamed" about their bodies, and 37 percent said their fondest wish was "to be thinner."
But gaining a fat bank account trumps all of those weighty feelings, according to the magazine's Feb. 12 issue, which hits newsstands tomorrow.

‘Medieval Environmentalists’

By Dr. Tim Ball & Tom Harris

Attributing global climate change to human CO2 production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel, which would be analogous to total CO2, but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.

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Learning about the 'three sexes'

By Rick Amato

SB 777 as it is known, claims to be about creating safe schools, and prohibiting discrimination against students based upon gender. Instead it is another example of how the influence which special interest groups hold over our lawmakers results in poor legislation that is out of touch and unrepresentative of the values of the American people. The law alters the definition of the word "sex" as being biological in nature and replaces it with the word "gender" in California's Education Code. It further defines "gender" as "sex" based upon a person's gender identity or gender-related appearance and behavior, and not upon their natural sex at birth.

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Charles's letter in support of Islamic 'fundamentalism'

By Tim Walker and Richard Eden

Demonstrating the extent to which he sees himself as "defender of faith", the Prince of Wales wrote to Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia, saying that he was "determined to continue the battle to spread the message that proper fundamentalism is in the best interest of the future of our world."

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Voters Grew Up in a Different America

By David Shribman

Memo to presidential candidates: Spare your allusions to the Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II. Lose the references to the uprising in Hungary and to Sputnik. Drop those John F. Kennedy quotes -- and the ones from Bobby, too. While you're at it, you may as well can the comparisons to the Vietnam War. The median-age voter in 2008 wasn't even born when it started.
This election year brings a major adjustment in the vision of the electorate, from a group of voters who had vivid memories of the first landing on the moon to those whose horizon is far different.
The median age of voters in the 2008 presidential election will be about 44...

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Marines get day in court

Jay Grodner, the Chicago lawyer who keyed a Marine's car in anger because the car had military plates and a Marine insignia, finally got his day in court last week.Grodner pleaded guilty in a Chicago courtroom packed with former Marines. Some had Marine pins on their coats, or baseball jackets with the Marine insignia. They didn't yellor call him names. They came to support Marine Sgt. Michael McNulty, whose car Grodner defaced in December, but who couldn't attend because he's preparing for his second tour in Iraq.

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Barack Obama's Race Problem: White Liberals

By Charles J. Sykes

Barack Obama has a racial problem, but it's not what the media thinks -- it's not rednecks, older voters, or even women offended by attacks on Hillary Clinton. Obama's racial problem is white liberals.

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A central tenet of modern liberalism, after all, is the unshakeable conviction that white American is deeply and irredeemably racist. For three decades, America's white liberals have invested in the belief that American is so incapable of racial fairness that society needs a panoply of laws, preferences, quotas, set-asides, and remedial programs to ensure that black people are treated fairly.

Huckabee: Holy Man and Heretic

by Deroy Murdock

NEW YORK -- The Republican presidential race has devolved into holy war. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney recently told voters he believes “Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of mankind.” Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee subsequently asked a writer, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”

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How this will cut taxes or kill terrorists remains elusive. These theological niceties also distract from the urgent task of examining Huckabee’s Earthly record. His background and positions should scare the hell out of GOP primary voters.

Editorial: Kennedy cozies up to America-hating thug

Kennedy’s biggest friend and benefactor in Venezuela is none other than its would-be president for life, Hugo Chavez, the America-hating thug who has made common-cause with terrorist groups around the world.
It is not terribly hard to figure out why Chavez would donate a few million dollars in heating oil to Kennedy’s Citizens Energy Corp. Just look at the P.R. it is buying him.

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As Chavez argues that most Americans should be paying more for his oil, he doles out a portion at a discount to make himself appear generous to America’s poor.

Drug-resistant staph found to be passed in gay sex

By Amanda Beck

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.

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They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.

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Halal food in US schools

The powerful US Senate is likely to witness a bill from Democrat Senator John Sabini, who is pursuing to ensure 'halal food' for Muslim students in schools of the city and the state as well."The 'Halal Food Bill' will be placed before the State Senate shortly," John said at a fund-raising meeting in the city on Thursday.

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John Sabini has made a success last year, when he put forward a bill in the senate asking government to keep Eid days free from public examinations for Muslims. The bill has been passed to enact a new law.

"Halal Meat" as we know it these days, is a term used more often for commercial profits than religious observance. Those who call their meat Halal, are in some way insinuating that any other meat is not Halal, or specifically the meat in the general grocery stores is not Halal. They make more money on their products by selling it more expensive while deceiving the naive public Moslems into believing that their meat is the only Halal meat for the Muslims.