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Premiers Thursday, September 17 @ 8PM EDT/PDT on SeeBS 20 new contestants will compete for the $1 million prize on the islands of Samoa Who will be the sole Survivor?

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Two female firefighters who found hateful messages written on the wall of their fire station are speaking out. They say they're scared and they want answers. A lot of raw emotions were on display Wednesday evening. Both of the firefighters have more than eight years experience with the department. They said they are living in fear and begging for some action.

I'm a big fan of Jeopardy, but lately (lately as in 'under the Obama regime') the show's liberal bias has gone from mild and tolerable to in-your-face and highly irritating. The latest stunt was having uber-leftist witch Maureen Dowd read a clue that bashed Ken Starr. I wonder if this is Jeopardy's future. * * * "I'll take 'Politicians' for $200, Alex." "This vice-presidential candidate claimed that she could see Russia from her house." "Who is Sarah Palin?" "Correct for $200. Aren't we self-proclaimed intellectuals so much smarter than her?" * * * "I'll take 'Religion' for $400, Alex." "The...

Premiers Thursday, February 12 @ 8 PM EST/PST on SeeBS 16 new contestants will compete for the $1 million prize in the highlands of Brazil. Who will be the Sole Survivor?

I received this in my email. "An African-American man moves from his private residence into a much larger and infinitely more expensive one owned not by him but by the taxpayers. A vast lawn, a perimeter fence and many well trained security specialists will insulate him from the rest of us but the mere fact that this man will be residing in this house should make us all stop and count our blessings - because it proves that we live in a nation where anything is possible. Many believed this day would never come. Most of us hoped and prayed...

Premiers Thur. Sept. 25 @ 8PM ET/PT

Premiers Thur. Sept. 25 @ 8PM ET/PT 18 new contestants will compete for the $1 million prize in the jungles of the equatorial African nation of Gabon. Who will be the sole Survivor?

Anyone been watching Jeopardy! recently? The current champion, Larissa Kelly, has won 5 games in a row with a total of $179,797 (averaging almost $36,000 a game). Will she be the next Ken Jennings? Her 5-day total is a new Jeopardy! record for most cash won in a contestant's first 5 games (although it is not a record when adjusted for the increase in clue values). For comparison, Ken won $156,000 in his first 5 games.

Frank Piasecki, a pioneer helicopter designer and AOPA charter member (AOPA 60631), died Feb. 11 at his home in Havertown, Pa. He was 89. Piasecki joined AOPA in May 1939, just as the association was signing up its first members. He went on to form his own company and develop the tandem-rotor helicopter configuration in 1945. The twin-rotor design—with one rotor in front and one in back—could carry three times the weight of a conventional helicopter. The technologies from his tandem-rotor work later were incorporated in the Army’s CH-47 Chinook and Navy’s CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters. According to The Washington...

Lately, there has been a growing movement on Free Republic to support the Presidential candidacy of Ron Paul. His supporters claim that he is the only true conservative candidate, and that Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Fred Thompson, etc. are not conservatives. While Paul may have some good ideas regarding domestic issues, his foreign policy ideas are downright dangerous. Here are ten questions for him that I would like to see answered. 1. AFGHANISTAN We all know your position on Iraq. But what is your position on the war in Afghanistan? Do you demand an immediate withdrawal of all troops there?...

First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year. "I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last name not be used). "I've spoken to the principal about it, and he said that teachers are instructed to present it as a debate. But every time we've seen it, well, one...

Fascinating read. (Read the whole thing before commenting). On the three-year anniversary of the "official" end of major combat operations in the war, it is time to look back and declare the war and its resulting experiments in democracy and nation-building as a miserable failure. So many things have gone wrong, and yet those who disagree with us continue to stubbornly insist that there is hope. First of all, it should be noted that a large percentage of Americans opposed the war in the first place. Congress ignored these voices and gave the go-ahead for the war anyway. In addition,...