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n communicating with Hassan Shibly, it’s hard to see why this frequent guest speaker at schools in New York would be embroiled in a controversy. He’s easy to converse with and kind. He passionately condemns terrorism (including the 9/11 attacks) and sings the praises of America. But shortly after January 10, when he gave nine presentations during his fourth visit to Clarence High School, he became part of a controversy when a mother of a student that listened to Shibly reported that he blamed the 9/11 attacks on U.S. foreign policy, specifically support for Israel. The mother later found out...

Rationed health care is already hereBy Clarence Page Published online 8/7/2009 10:15 PM "Rationing" is one of the scariest words in the current health care debate. It conjures up apocalyptic nightmare images from "Soylent Green," the sci-fi thriller about a future in which the old and weak are quietly lured into early extinction for the sake of future generations. What the scaremongers don't like to talk about is how much our private insurers ration now - mostly for the sake of their own profits. They're clever enough to avoid using the R-word. They use other words, like "Read the fine...

Apparently being dirt poor is only a virtue if you are a Democrat!Shortly after President Obama announced his nomination of Sonia Sotomayer to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by retiring Justice Souter the "news" media chirped in cheerful chorus the line about Sotomayor's "compelling life story." With all the gushing going on in the liberal media over Sotomayor's modest upbringing it's no wonder they didn't find the time to explore her background and inform readers and viewers about Sotomayor's controversial views and decisions. Conservatives may recall how the "news" media ignored the dirt poor story of Clarence Thomas or...

New York state police say a 50-passenger commuter plane has crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo. State Trooper John Manthey says the plane hit a house in Clarence around 10:10 p.m. Thursday. The house is engulfed in flames.

An American Odyssey In his autobiography, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas shares about being forced to work every day after elementary school in the fields of his grandfather's farm. His grandfather, who raised him had a strict work ethic. Thomas' memoir is titled, “My Grandfather's Son”. Imagine it's early 1950s. You're driving down the highway on a hot summer day. In the corner of your eye as part of the landscape, you see a dirty, sweaty and barefooted little black boy picking cotton. In your wildest dreams, could you anticipate that this kid would become one of the most...

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas delivered remarks in Omaha on Friday night that barely touched on the political and constitutional issues of the day, but instead focused on character and the lessons a person can learn from setbacks. Thomas' speech was brief — about five minutes. He spent most of his time fielding questions from the audience of more than 500 people at the Hilton Omaha, 1001 Cass St. Thomas was in town to discuss his recently released memoir, "My Grandfather's Son." The book details his life with his mother's father, Myers Anderson, whom he went to live...

Event details Friday, October 19, 2007 6:30 p.m. Reception 7:00 p.m. Remarks Hilton Omaha 1001 Cass Street Omaha, NE 68102 Contact Emily Davis at The Heritage Foundation: Phone: (202) 608-1524 E-mail: specialevents@heritage.org

"I wept beyond tears, slipping into the barren, rhythmic heaves of a body seeking something more." The poetic words of inconsolable grief were penned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his newly released memoir, My Grandfather's Son. In this moving passage, he describes his agony in the days following the death of the man that came to be "Daddy". The book is filled with magnificent prose in which one of the most powerful men in America repeatedly dares to bare his soul - dares to make himself vulnerable to the cold, hard world of cynics in which we live....

Awaiting INFAMOUS Interview on LRushbo's Radio Show ...... Monday, Oct. 1st, 2007. Quote from King LRushbo, "He's going to be in the second and third hour. It's going to be the first 90-minute interview we've ever done with anybody. I taped it after the program yesterday because the first day of the new term of the Supreme Court is on Monday, and he couldn't make it live".

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Show White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday. According to the poll by Zogby International, commissioned by the makers of a new game show on pop culture called "Gold Rush," 57 percent of Americans could identify J.K. Rowling's fictional boy wizard as Harry Potter, while only 50 percent could name the British prime minister, Tony Blair. The pollsters spoke to 1,213 people across the United States. The results had a margin...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Jan. 25, 2006) -- There they were, moving into an area known to be a hot spot for insurgent activity when it happened Oct. 2, 2005. Gunfire, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades began flying around them as they took cover and started their assault on the enemy’s position in Karmah, Iraq. Lance Cpl. Michael A. McGraw, a 20-year-old automatic rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, stood up early on in the attack to begin the movement on the enemy when he was struck in the lower leg by heavy machine gun fire. McGraw was...

It started back at 8pm. Right now is playing the scene where Clarence grants George's wish that he was never born. His mouth stopped bleeding. Clothes dry. "I cant fly! I dont have my wings!" "Wheres my car?" Pottersville? You mean Bedford Falls! Pottersville! You think I dont know where I live?"

In the true spirit of America’s Independence Day, the 4th of July saw battle joined as homeowners, concerned citizens and upholders of the American constitution from all sides of the political spectrum joined forces to defend the now threatened 5th amendment and to protect hard-earned property from municipal governments recently accorded sweeping new powers of eminent domain. ... For many Americans, the damage done and threatened by the decision is as much symbolic as anything else. The decision violates the spirit of the constitution, designed to protects the rights and freedoms (including the right to property) of Americans, effectively nullifying...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the high court, including $1,200 worth of tires, valuable historical items and a $5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses. The gifts also included a Bible once owned by the 19th century author and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass, which Thomas valued at $19,000, and a bust of President Lincoln valued at $15,000. He also took a free trip aboard a private jet to the exclusive Bohemian Grove club in Northern California — arranged by a wealthy Texas real...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts since joining the Supreme Court, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is set to report in Friday editions. The items range from $1,200 worth of tires to valuable historical items, even a $5,000 personal check to help pay a relative's education expenses, according to TIMES scribes Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage. Developing...

I've heard liberals express their dismay at all the fuss conservatives make over judicial activism. Some even claim to be unclear about the meaning of the term. Perhaps a recent remark of Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the incoming Senate minority leader, will serve as an illustration. Appearing Dec. 6 on Meet the Press, Reid was asked to comment on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a possible replacement for ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. "I think that he (Thomas) has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written," said Reid.

The Bombshell in the Clarence Thomas Biography Jonathan Ringel Fulton County Daily Report A bombshell is buried deep within "Judging Thomas," Ken Foskett's engaging biography of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It has nothing to do with Anita Hill's sexual harassment claims that nearly sank Thomas' 1991 nomination, although Foskett's conclusions about that episode are bound to spark arguments. Nor does it deal with the affirmative action policies Thomas detests, even though Foskett shows how the justice was a beneficiary of them in high school, college, law school and – reluctantly -- early in his career. It's a comment...

<p>DALLAS -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under fire this week from liberals who quibble with his take on affirmative action.</p> <p>Here's the interesting part: It's not just that Thomas disputes the benefit of race-conscious admissions at the University of Michigan. It is that he reached this conclusion by drawing on the benefit of his own life experience with racism and discrimination.</p>

<p>Versailles Fire Chief Dave Obley was shocked Wednesday when he peered over the Boston Bridge and saw the man who had jumped from the span a few minutes earlier flailing about some 75 feet below on the ice on the Youghiogheny River.</p>