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On a recent Saturday afternoon, a 10-year old Maryland boy named Rafi and his 6-year old sister, Dvora, walked home by themselves from a playground about a mile away from their suburban house. They made it about halfway home when the police picked them up. You’ve heard these stories before, about what happens when kids in paranoid, hyperprotective America go to and from playgrounds alone. I bet you can guess the sequence of events preceding and after: Someone saw the kids walking without an adult and called the police. The police tracked down the kids and drove them home. The...

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Hello Freepers, I am seeking some insight from any electricians out there before I proceed. I have a house at the beach in Long Island, NY which was hit with 5 feet of water under the house. The electrical panel was under water, but is fairly new (maybe 6 years.) The question I have is, does the entire panel box have to be replaced, or would it just be the individual breakers? LI Power will require signoff from a licensed electrician before they restore power. Also, if you could provide some rough estimates of what it should cost out there...

Hi FReepers, Anyone have any titles on Economics at the macro level which are easy to understand? I have a relative in need. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams?

Live: Palin speaks at Greenville rally Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin makes her first appearance in N.C. at a rally on the East Carolina campus

Daughter: Rev. Wright NOT publishing book in October A New York magazine cover story last week reignited the debate over Rev. Jeremiah Wright when it stated - without attribution - that the former pastor of Sen. Barack Obama was releasing a new book. But his daughter, Jeri, told me today that the story is absolutely false. "The only book we're working on is the history of Trinity (United Church of Christ) and I haven't even started editing that," Wright told Essence.com. After I reached out to her, she called her father, who is teaching and ministering in Ghana (I ran...

Didn't see this posted. By GINGER ADAMS OTIS Click To EnlargeVisit Greenberg's Blog Here Last updated: 5:49 am September 14, 2008 Posted: 4:31 am September 14, 2008 Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed "hard-core Dem," deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog.... http://www.nypost.com/seven/09142008/news/politics/mac_hater_has_a_lousy_image_129007.htm

DNC: Racist GOP Elects Jindal Token Governor (2007-10-21) — Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-LA, the 36 year-old son of Indian immigrants, won the gubernatorial election in Louisiana yesterday as “part of a Republican strategy to keep a few token non-whites in high-profile posts to deflect attention from the party’s inherent racism and anti-immigrant platform,” according to a news release from the Democrat National Committee (DNC). Mr. Jindal’s election is also more evidence that voters hold the Bush administration responsible for the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, the DNC release said. “Voter rage against Republicans over Katrina reached its zenith this week,”...

Students Know Less After 4 College Years Harvard Gets D+ on Civics Quiz By ANNIE KARNI Staff Reporter of the Sun September 19, 2007 Students at many of the country's most prestigious colleges and universities are graduating with less knowledge of American history, government, and economics than they had as incoming freshmen, with Harvard University seniors scoring a "D+" average on a 60-question multiple-choice exam about civic literacy. According to a report released yesterday by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the average college senior at the 50 colleges and universities polled did not earn a passing grade. "At the most expensive...

AP Groups Call for Foreclosure Halt Wednesday April 4, 4:31 pm ET By Alan Zibel, AP Business Writer Civil Rights Groups Call for 6-Month Halt to Foreclosures NEW YORK (AP) -- Civil rights groups called Wednesday for a six-month moratorium on foreclosures resulting from high-risk loans given to people with shaky credit, arguing that lenders should help borrowers refinance their mortgages or face lawsuits. A coalition of advocacy groups said mortgage lenders should immediately halt foreclosures on so-called subprime mortgage loans made at high interest rates to people with weak credit histories. The groups, at a news conference in Washington,...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., center, share a light moment as Worcester Mayor Tim Murray, right, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick's running mate and the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, looks on at a Democratic fund-raiser, in Boston, Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Former President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle laugh at a speech by George McGovern at the dedication of the George and Eleanor McGovern Library Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006 at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, S.D. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer)

Senator Hillary Clinton stands between New York Democratic candidate for attorney general Andrew Cuomo (R) and New York Democratic gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer during the Columbus Day parade in New York October 9, 2006. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES)

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., serves Bernice Charko lunch at the Pelham Senior Center in Pelham, N.H., Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006. The 2004 presidential Democratic nominee was helping Beth Roth's state Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., visits with tailgaters before Iowa's colllege football game against Iowa State, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006, in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Email Photo Print Photo

Senate Armed Services Committee members, from left, Sen. John McCain, Ariz., Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. leave a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006 to discuss detainee legislation. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove (C) talks to Rev. Al Sharpton (R) and Rev. Jesse Jackson at a signing ceremony for H.R. 9, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, July 27, 2006. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) (L) and Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-MA) listen during Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's address of a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES)

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) John Bolton (L) shares a laugh with Chinese Ambassador to the U.N. Guangya Wang, shortly before the U.N. Security Council voted to unanimously approve a resolution to impose weapons-related sanctions on North Korea in response to its flurry of missile tests earlier this month, in New York, July 15, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES)

Sen. Hillary Clinton, right, D-N.Y., right, hugs Maria Polanco, of New York, Monday, July 10, 2006, at Ohio State University as she was introduced to the people gathered for a national convention for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)