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A SUPRISE Halloween treat for NY23. At the UCONN game but wanted to bring your attention to Dede Scozzafava dropping out of the race in New York’s 23rd District. The RINO’s withdrawal might leave room for Doug Hoffman to step in as the conservative independent who will no longer be branded a third party spoiler destroying chances for Republicans. Hat tip to Gateway Pundit, but many other bloggers are now up and tracking including Jim Geraghty, Pamela Gellar, Power Line, Sweetness & Light, Hot Air and Michelle Malkin. Hot Air was speculating 18 hours ago. As the folks at Red...

'We'll evacuate 23 outposts very soon'

/begin my translationN. Korea: A Seismic Event Detected Yesterday Afternoon(2.3 in Richter Scale) Yesterday at 4:50 pm, there was a seismic event in N. Korea, registering 2.3 in Richter Scale, which prompted authorities to figure out its nature.According to Korean Meteorological Administration, its source was found to be to the north north west of Yeonchon, Kyunggi Province, and 49km away(approx. 30 miles.) It is at the border area between Hwang-hae Province and Kangwon Province.After analyzing the seismic wave of the event,  Korean Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources reached the conclusion that it could be the result of  routine demolition...

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Time to dust off the whoopee cushions and hand buzzers. April Fools' Day is here and there's no better place for wisecracks and shenanigans than at work. In its annual April Fools' Day survey, CareerBuilder.com found 33 percent of workers have played a practical joke on a co-worker and 17 percent are planning office tricks for this year's holiday. Although it might be thrilling to finally one-up the office funnyman, pranks also help beat something that's no laughing matter: workplace stress. More than half of workers reported working under stress in another CareerBuilder.com survey. Stress and worry on the job...

Liberals and criminals alike are anxiously awaiting the verdict on Illinois’ newest gun ban, HB 2414. Honestly, it’s hard to tell who’s more excited. I guess liberals figure if they can’t keep Americans from buying guns, they’ll try putting people in prison for owning them. Meanwhile, thousands of law-abiding citizens in Illinois are forced to imagine being incarcerated for legally purchasing and owning a gun. That’s the idea behind The People’s Republic of Illinois House Bill 2414, in which gun owners would have 90 days to surrender their legally purchased semi-automatic firearms to the police, or face felony prosecution and...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Former swift boat officer, William Rood, has broke 35 years of silence about the Feb. 28, 1969 mission that he, as skipper of the PCF-23, had participated alongside Sen. Kerry's swift boat (PCF-94) that had lead to Kerry receiving a Silver Star by killing an enemy soldier while preparing to fire a B-40 rocket at their beached swift boat. The reason Rood, 61, has broken his 35 years of silence is because Kerry had personally contacted him and other crew members in recent days asking that they go public with their accounts of what happened on that day he...

The Bronx Bombers and their big spending boss, George Steinbrenner, are closin in on a deal with city and state officials to build a gleaming new Yankee Stadium in a park next to the House that Ruth Built. The team is in the final sages of planning for a new $700 million "state of the art" stadium, a source close to the Yankees said yesterday. But the team denied a story in Crain's New york Business that an announcement can be expected in the next two weeks.

23 Killed in Northern Iran Earthquake 46 minutes ago By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran - A strong earthquake shook central and northern Iran on Friday, killing at least 23 people — some buried by landslides on a mountain road — and seriously damaging more than 80 villages, the Interior Ministry and state-run media said. More than 100 others were reported injured by the 6.2 magnitude earthquake, which struck at 5:08 p.m. and was centered about 45 miles north of Tehran, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Eight provinces in central and northern Iran were affected by the...

US and Iran hold secret talks after 23 years of hostility By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 13 May 2003 The United States and Iran have held secret talks that could have an important bearing on the interlocking problems of Afghanistan, the future government of Iraq and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Though Bush administration officials denied yesterday the dialogue could lead to a normalisation of relations, senior representatives of the two countries have had three rounds of talks this year. The next session is due next week in Geneva – technically under the auspices of the United Nations, but in practice they...

Items in {} were deleted. Items in [] were added. FAMILY LAW. Provides for the continuation of child support for educational purposes in certain cases. 1 AN ACT (SB 324) 2 To amend and reenact Civil Code Art. 230(B)(1) and R.S. 9:315.22(C), 3 relative to child support; to provide for continued support for a child 4 until his twenty-third birthday for educational purposes; and to provide 5 for related matters. 6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana: 7 Section 1. Civil Code Art. 230(B)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted 8 to read as follows: 9 Art. 230. Scope...

Feds Say 23 People in U.S. Have 'Terrorism Ties' Tue Jun 4, 7:02 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department has identified 23 people in the United States who have various levels of "terrorist ties" and at least one with links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. "The (Foreign) Terrorist Tracking Task Force has identified, acknowledged and handled 23 individuals in this country that have different levels of terrorist ties," a Justice Department official said. At least one has ties to al Qaeda, the organization linked to the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on...