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Five of the top ten Hard cover fiction books for the week ended March 13th were by Dr. Seuss

Has anybody stopped watching Jeopardy since they started using guest hosts? Currently Katie (Colonic) Couric is hosting.

DE PERE (WLUK) -- With the NFL releasing its schedule for the upcoming season, we now know when the Packers are supposed to be playing, but an official go ahead on fans at the games is probably still a ways off. Still, knowing what we know right now, would fans show up at Lambeau if it is allowed?

Washington (AFP) - Just steps from the US Capitol, the Newseum's gleaming glass-and-steel structure has for over a decade been a shining symbol for the press and free expression. But in a reflection of the woes facing the US media industry -- which is itself struggling financially while also facing repeated attacks from political leaders -- the Newseum will be closing its doors on December 31.

Complaints from media critics of the Trump administration prompted a leading hostage rights group to withdraw its historic “Freedom Award” to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his, and President Trump’s, successful efforts to free political prisoners around the world. The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, named for the journalist beheaded in 2014 by ISIS forces, had announced that at its dinner Tuesday night at the National Press Club Pompeo would receive the “2019 Foley American Hostage Freedom Award.” The award was to recognize Pompeo and the administration’s focus on freeing Americans held prisoners around the world, a campaign that...

Please help get this poll turned around WI leftists are overwhelming it

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Heubeck, 48, represents the many quiet leaders that the USA TODAY Network will profile throughout 2017 in the wake of the divisive presidential election. She's an American taking real strides to make civic conversation comfortable again

I thought our members would be interested in letting the Tournament of Roses know your opinions about the gay marriage that will be preformed on one of the floats in the parade. Here is the website url in case you wanted to tell them how you feel. http://www.tournamentofroses.com/RoseParade.aspx

<p>MT. PROSPECT -- A Mt. Prospect man died Tuesday after he fell from a second-story balcony during a spitting contest, police said.</p> <p>Bartosz Drobek, 23, of the 1700 block of West Palm Drive was on the balcony of his apartment smoking cigarettes with his brother and a friend about 12:30 a.m. Monday. As Drobek was getting ready to spit, he lost his balance and fell about 20 feet, hitting his head on the pavement, said Mt. Prospect Police Officer Dirk Ollech.</p>

Despite this overwhelming evidence, Washington, DC, Democrats apparently have not gotten the message that their current definition of "centrism" is actually pulling the party further and further out of the mainstream. Looking out over Washington, DC, from his plush office, Al From is once again foaming at the mouth. The CEO of the corporate-sponsored Democratic Leadership Council and his wealthy cronies are in their regular post-election attack mode. Despite wins by economic populists in red states like Colorado and Montana this year, the DLC is claiming like a broken record that progressive policies are hurting the Democratic Party. From's group...

Mr. Dick Parsons has referred to FOX News as crazy people exchanging views. Let's Freep his company with some e-mails to investor relations. Send Freep-mail to www.ir@timewarner.com

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR For Conservatives, Mission Accomplished By JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE Published: May 18, 2004 Last week Washington was the site of the biggest birthday party you never heard of. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of the American Conservative Union, and the guest list included all the grandees of right-wing America, from Senator Mitch McConnell to Phyllis Schlafly to Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association to, of course, President Bush. In his speech, the President promised that "for our blessed land the best days lie ahead," and was greeted with several foot-stomping ovations and cries of "Four...

<p>Waukegan's tough car-seizure law has netted $2 million and improved safety in its first year, city officials say, but some Hispanics complain it disproportionately affects them.</p> <p>The ordinance allows police to seize the car of a person accused of drunken driving or committing a felony such as selling drugs or prostitution. But it also allows seizure for what some activists say are relatively common offenses such as driving without a license or without insurance.</p>

Investigative magistrates are threatening to stage a direct confrontation between two of the alleged masterminds behind the Parmalat scandal this week in an attempt to trace €10bn ($12.6bn) estimated to have disappeared from the bankrupt dairy group. Investigators in Parma on Monday subjected Fausto Tonna, Parmalat's veteran chief financial officer, to a day-long grilling. They are expected on Tuesday to turn to Gian Paolo Zini, Parmalat's chief legal counsel who helped set up many of the foreign and offshore companies now under scrutiny. If there are discrepancies between their testimonies, investigative magistrates are expected to organise a direct confrontation between...

<p>The Illinois Board of Higher Education has launched a controversial examination of faculty productivity, a move that has riled professors at public universities throughout the state.</p> <p>Having challenged university administrators to pare costs and increase their own productivity, board Chairman James Kaplan wants to take the same look at college faculty.</p>

This Spanish language website is attempting to embarass President Bush. It needs some serious Freeping. You can change the text from Spanish to English in the left side of the home page by clicking on cambio a English. Today's Poll Which do you think should be Argentinean judge Luis Moreno Ocampo's first trial at the International Criminal Court? 26.6% Augusto Pinochet's 9.4% Ricardo Miguel Cavallo's 22.7% Saddam Hussein's 41.4% George W. Bush

When a firearm is discharged, the ammunition picks up assorted scratches and dings that can help criminal investigators match the bullet to the weapon from which it was fired. This is all well and good—if you have the candidate weapon and can do a test firing. But most people who shoot with criminal intent don’t leave their guns behind, and the telltale marks can change with time or type of ammunition. NanoVia has devised a sure-fire way not only to connect a gun with a recovered bullet, but also to trace the weapon’s ownership history. With the NanoTag technique, an...

I've been trying to figure out Chicago's outrage over what Mayor Richard Daley did to Meigs Field, after he sent bulldozers at night to ruin the nice little lakefront airport. And I started out to joke about how the savaging of a tiny airport upset so many. But then I realized that Mayor Little Big Man's destruction of Meigs isn't funny. Yet his carving of the large ugly X's into the landing strip, his arrogance in brushing off questions, has accomplished something remarkable. He crystallized things for Chicago. This is not a complicated story of insider deals, of contracts, connections,...

Unless a political upset occurs, the only real question is how long the ban will be extended. It might be permanent. Anti-tax advocates sympathetic to the interests--and pocketbooks--of Internet service providers went head to head with tax administrators at a congressional hearing Tuesday over legislation that would permanently ban local and state governments from taxing Internet access. Congress has already enacted the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act, which was reauthorized for two years in 2001 and renamed the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act. The goal each time was to shelter a budding industry from local and regional taxes. Former Virginia Gov....