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As far as diet goes, I believe you should adhere to the old adage “everything in moderation” and avoid extreme regimens of all kinds. I don’t know what you think of this counsel, but North Carolina’s position seems to be the following: I just broke the law. Blogger Steven Cooksey found this out the hard way — when the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition ordered him to take down part of his diet-advice website. The 51-year-old resident of Stanley, North Carolina, became passionate about nutrition after a 2009 hospitalization during which he learned he had Type II diabetes and was...

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to "spread the wealth," Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty. Have you ever heard anyone as incoherent as the people staging protests across the country? Taxpayers ought to be protesting against having their money spent to educate people who end up unable to say anything beyond repeating political catch phrases.

. . . . . Check out my weekly column at World Net Daily WikiLeaks data now on 1800 sites Posted: December 14, 2010 1:58 am Eastern © 2010 In last week's Surfin' Safari, I reported that the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks could be transformed from a handful of volunteers to a global movement. One week later, there are more than 1,800 websites now hosting WikiLeaks in different languages and locales. And while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in a British jail, some of his former staffers led by Daniel Domscheit-Berg have launched a competing site for whistleblowers called OpenLeaks. Domscheit-Berg, Assange's former right-hand man, left last...

Opponents of immigration enforcement are calling the temporary injunction against parts of Arizona's anti-illegal-immigration law a death blow to state enforcement. The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund called it a “warning to other states” that want to enact similar legislation. As the author of the new law, SB 1070, I can honestly say that July 29, when the pared-down law went into effect, was a victory. Many key provisions are still in effect. Local police have more power to enforce immigration laws. Sanctuary cities are outlawed. Illegal day laborers are likely to be arrested and the employers' trucks that pick

TAKE and hold the high ground. That’s imperative for victory in a military battle, as any good commander can tell you. President John F. Kennedy seized the high ground of outer space for the United States 49 years ago, during the Cold War, by initiating the Apollo moon rocket program. Other presidents since Kennedy have bolstered the nation’s manned space presence. They have kept our astronauts firmly in charge of the high ground over a hostile world, until now.

(IsraelNN.com) The number of Arab party Members of Knesset will decline from nine to four following the February 10 elections, according to a new poll carried out by Geocartographia for Globes. The survey reflects a growing trend among Israeli Arabs to boycott the Israeli democratic process and ally with radical anti-Israel groups, most notably the Islamic Movement headed by Sheikh Raad Salah. Known Arab terrorist organizations also are getting openly involved in Israel. Police on Friday shut down the Maidan Theatre in Haifa, where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group was planning a rally for...

"Nazis." Lord, can we just give this one a rest? So help me, if there's a term that's been overworked and overused in public debate of late, that's it. Worn out is what it is. The most recent example was a July 15 guest commentary in this newspaper written by Mr. Marc Brenman. Mr. Brenman is the executive director of the Washington State Human Rights Commission and he held forth for 700 or so words on how truly bad he thinks a group called The Minutemen are. Fine. That's an opinion. He's entitled to it and, most certainly, is entitled...

Roman-style column bolsters Han Dynasty tomb Archeologists excavate near a Roman-style column in a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto) Nearby villagers look on at the stone entrance of a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto) An archeologists cleans carved stones in a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto)

Decatur Herald said they are dropping her column, so liberals believe in censorship when it's convenient to them. http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/03/12/columnists/gary_sawyer/doc45f06c1878b6c494036355.txt

I don't recall even being in a situation where the closer Election Day gets, the less likely I am to vote for the GOP nominee. Yet, that is where I find myself vis-a-vis Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm one of many conservatives who voted for Arnold in the recall, despite my preference for Tom McClintock. I found the prospect of Cruz Bustamante in the governor's office horrifying and wasn't convinced McClintock could win. The stakes so too high I though it prudent to back the Republican with the best chance of winning, and so I cast my vote for Arnold. Like...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2006 -- Servicemembers and their family members with financial questions need look no further for the answers than a new column on the CinCHouse Web site, www.cinchouse.com. CinCHouse and the Military Officers Association of America recently launched a new advice column for young military families addressing questions about pay and benefits, Meredith Leyva, CinCHouse founder, said. “This is a terrific opportunity for our (Web site) visitors, who represent the youngest and newest members of the military community, to get solid advice from a trusted source,” she said. “It’s wonderful to have experts from (the association) to...

..... Honor our fallen heroes ------------------------------- Posted: May 26, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Today, millions of families across America will begin packing their bags and getting ready for the Memorial Day weekend. I wonder how many people will take the time to actually pay tribute to the true intention of the holiday: to honor those who have given their lives for the cause of American freedom. The barbecues, swim parties and discount sales at the shopping malls continue unabated, but the holiday's true significance seems to have faded for some in this nation. It's sad to see some...

Tom Purcell is a columnist for Mens News Daily, Jewish World Review, and others... ENJOY! On Playboy & Indonesia Playboy sure is causing a stir in Indonesia. Last week, the company published its first Indonesian edition – one that features no nudity – and possibly its last. That's because Indonesia's population, mostly Muslim, went nuts. Some folks whipped rocks at the Playboy building. Indonesians fear that American values are being imported to their culture, and that their young woman may one day strut around in pumps and street-walker clothes, just as many of our young women are doing. What's worse,...

Is there any crime that is rewarded more richly by the United States, than illegal immigration? Is there any crime more easily and thoughtlessly excused and forgiven?

Using the words of the Nineteenth Century American poet Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty proclaims: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. What’s so bad about the flood of illegal immigrants crossing our borders? Is America not a sanctuary for the “huddled masses”?

I am a BIG fan of Tom's. My heart breaks for him and his family right now. Feel Free to email Tom and wish him peace, I am sure he would love to hear from us. It's an old saying that's right on the money: count your blessings. I've been realizing my blessings with renewed intensity this week. Everyone in my family has. My cousin Sean, only 33, was in a terrible accident that he did not survive. We were stunned when we got the news, and we have been reeling at the loss. We can't imagine the pain my...

DEAR ABBY: Several of my friends and I were bemoaning our status as single women in our late 20s/early 30s, and discussing an article we had read in The New York Times about how smart women are less likely to get married. We'd all like to find Mr. Wonderful and be married. But if we have to curtail our professional success, financial wherewithal and IQ to do it, how can a person even begin to do such a thing? I have a feeling you'll say to be ourselves and it will all work out, but thus far it has NOT...

As governor from 1959 to 1967, Pat Brown presided over the most breathtaking period of public works construction in California’s history. During those years, California built the finest highway system in the world, one of the largest water projects in history, and the foremost university system in the country. At a time when the population grew twice as fast as today, the state kept pace with the demand for schools, ports, prisons, libraries, parks and power plants. Today, Californians are locked in perpetual gridlock, schools are bursting at the seams and potential shortages of everything from electricity to water are...

DEAR ABBY: When I was 4, my two older siblings and I were taken from our mother and her live-in boyfriend by Social Services. All three of us had been victims of molestation. We had also been exposed to illicit drugs. If that wasn't enough, I later learned that our grandfather was also our father. I spent half my childhood in three different foster homes until, finally, at the age of 8, I was adopted by a caring family. Eleven years went by, and I never heard from any of them. Then one day, my father received a call from...

DEAR ABBY: While vacationing at a resort last month, I ran into the brother of a girl I went to school with. I hadn't seen "Sean" or his sister "Meghan" for several years, so I asked how he was doing, and then proceeded to ask about Meghan. His face turned pale and he said, "She's dead." I had never heard that Meghan has passed away. I was mortified. I had no idea what to do next. I mumbled a clumsy "I'm sorry," and he continued to give me a withering stare. I have since learned that his sister died of...

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 10:17 a.m. EST Questions Raised about Tim Russert's Story NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert told Leakgate probers that he had no idea Joe Wilson's wife Valerie Plame was a CIA employee before her name surfaced in Robert Novak's fateful July 14, 2003 column, and that he was stunned upon learning that Lewis "Scooter" Libby claimed he got that information from him. But an account by senior NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell raises questions about whether Mr. Russert may have known about Plame's employment well before the Novak column. On Oct. 3, 2003, Mitchell was a guest...

The bombing in London by terrorists and the continuation of the war in Iraq were of secondary importance to official Washington and the mainstream media this week. Even the prospect of the president having to replace two vacancies upon the Supreme Court received short shrift. Instead, the continuing saga of Karl Rove, Joe Wilson, and Valerie Plame and who-outed-who electrified the media in what has to be one the biggest non-stories in politics to date. While the country has been deluged with Rove's supposed dark and "traitorous" vendetta against former CIA agent, sometime Vanity Fair cover girl Valerie Plame, I...

|| The blogosphere is after him. Conservative talkers are after him. Republican leadership is after him. Some in his own party are even after him. During a speech about two weeks back, Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois read an FBI agent's report which discussed the alleged mistreatment of detainees at the Naval base in Guantanamo Bay. He proceeded to quip, 'If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis,...

Last week, you probably heard all about Newsweek’s inadvertent little faux pas regarding Gitmo, the Noble Qur’an, and a popular porcelain fixture. The story wasn’t true, although the lib/dem/soc/commie media are playing the “let’s pretend it really is true anyway” game. Oddly enough, they didn’t learn their lesson from the last time they tried that (see also: CBS, 60 Minutes, document forgery, etc.) so they trotted it out for another go. Folks are lamenting the 15 to 18 people who apparently died in the ensuing riots. Nobody knows the names of these people so far, or exactly where and how...

So the Guardian claims that that the final sentence of Charlie Brooker's "Assassination Column" was an "ironic joke". What. Absolute. ROT. Irony isn't irony when there is no counterpoint; there isn't any counterpoint even remotely made in this spittle-flecked screed. It's all rant and wretch: the words are not so much typed as vomited. To review: The Guardian UK: Charlie Brooker Saturday October 23, 2004 "On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four...

Just saw a crawl on the Fox News channel that says Dave Berry is taking some time off from his Pullitzer prize winning column. He is expecting to return to it in 2006. Bummer. His is truly great stuff. Time to break out the early columns for our weekly Berry fix, I guess.God bless our troops wherever they may be.

Fellow conservative in need of your help ... I have started an online political column. Check it out every week, I love to get your feedback. Cheers everyone!

In the cool early light of the morning after, there's a question American voters must ask themselves, a question more important than any posed last night to George W. Bush and John F. Kerry. Who are we? Who have we become? What kind of people do we want to be?

There ought to be a special word -- something German -- to describe the feeling of revulsion normal people experience when reading lines like these from a single article on John Kerry by Laura Blumenfeld in The Washington Post: -- "Kerry's complexity has been an issue since his national debut in 1971." -- "Kerry likes to quote the French writer Andre Gide: 'Don't try to understand me too quickly.'" -- "His friend Dan Barbiero said it comes down to Kerry's complexity ..." (Apparently, Kerry's answers on the LSAT were too nuanced and complex for the Harvard Law School admissions committee:...

What the column that Rush was reading from at the bottom of the hour? It was a liberal slamming the Democrats for their elitism. Any ideas?

Have you all read Ann Coulter's latest column?: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20040219.shtml In a previous column, she stated a fact that is beyond dispute - that former Sen. Max Cleland was wounded during a freak accident when he attempted to pick up a grenade while in Vietnam, and not while in actual battle with the VietCong. For stating that obvious fact, which even Cleland admits to, Ann Coulter was called a liar by several pundits in the liberal media. Even some Freepers were angry at Ms. Coulter. In her latest column, she lays the issue to rest, providing news sources to prove the...

In his classic Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville warned about the "tyranny of the majority." The French political scholar, who toured the United States in 1831, observed that few precautions had been taken to control the unlimited power of direct democracy. "If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed," de Tocqueville wrote, "that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation." This is what is happening in California. The recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis is an assault on democratic institutions. Led by right-wing...

INDIANA — A high school senior was suspended and prohibited from participating in his graduation ceremony for hiding a vulgar word in a student newspaper article. Lawrence Central High School administrators handed down the punishment to Drew LaMar after he used the first letter of every paragraph in his May 20 column in the Cub Reporter to spell out a message directed at the newspaper adviser, Elizabeth Granger. School officials said the message, "F**k Granger," was not protected speech. According to Dennis LaMar, Drew's father, school administrators said they did not notice the message until they overheard a conversation between...

Dear Dr. Laxlaw: I don't know what the problem is with my daughter. She is not as popular as I would like. I have given her a hefty allowance so she can buy clothes in the latest, midriff-exposure styles. I've encouraged her to make a statement with cosmetics, nose rings, tattoos and piercings. I've offered to pay for silicone implants. I've given her access to my cigarettes, eliminated her curfew and provided diet, birth control and anti-depressant pills. She refuses to dye her hair green, though I have insisted. We gave her a new car at 14, but she will...

Posted Mar. 06, 2003 Eric Klister column: Look for musicians to turn up volume on anti-war stanceThe bombs are about to fall, troops are set to be deployed and tanks are ready to roll, or so it appears. I wonder what Bruce Springsteen and Madonna are thinking. As sure as it appears that a war with Iraq is imminent, you also can bet that musicians are ready to launch their own attack in the form of protest songs, speeches and advertisements. Curiously, the music industry so far has turned down the volume on anti-war sentiments. At this year’s Grammys, hardly...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 6, 2003 Contact: Christopher Mays 530-902-4444 Fired Conservative Columnist Wins Lawsuit; Editor-in-Chief Admits Guilt Davis — Fired conservative columnist, Igor Birman, was awarded $583.33 in lost wages by the Yolo County Small Claims Court, after Fitzgerald Vo, his former employer and editor-in-chief of The California Aggie admitted breaching Birman's contract. After a Court-requested mediation session, Vo acknowledged that Birman's dismissal on New Year's Day of 2003 was in violation of the terms of the employment contract that both sides signed in October 2002. Birman was then awarded the full amount of damages sought from the Aggie....

Once the United States and its coalition eliminate the threat to peace and instability coming from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, it will be up to the Allies to rebuild Iraq in the democratic and capitalistic way of governance. The first and foremost area of action will be the immediate liberation of the Iraqi people from the chains of repression, dictatorship, and torture which for so long they have been subjected to by Saddam Hussein. Food will be distributed, hospitals will be restocked, and life in the Iraqi republic will drastically improve. The Allies will be HELPING the civilians. Within days you...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 21, 2003 Contact: Christopher Mays 530-757-2371 Fired Conservative Columnist Sues Campus Newspaper Davis — Fired conservative columnist Igor Birman filed a small claims case today with the Yolo County Superior Court against his former employer, The California Aggie and its editor-in-chief, Fitzgerald Vo, alleging breach of contract and wrongful termination. Birman was dismissed from his position as the sole conservative columnist at the Aggie on January 1, 2003, by Fitzgerald Vo, despite a contract lasting until the end of June 2003. In his termination notice, Vo cited Birman’s “tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes”...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: IGOR BIRMAN JANUARY 1, 2003 Campus Newspaper Fires Sole Conservative Columnist DAVIS – In yet another attack on freedom of thought on college campuses, The California Aggie – a campus newspaper at the University of California, Davis has fired Igor Birman – its only conservative columnist, despite a contract lasting until the end of June 2003. In his email announcing Birman’s dismissal, Fitzgerald Vo, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief cited “a tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes” as the reason for the columnist’s firing. Birman’s column, The Right Stuff, provided the campus community with conservative commentary,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: IGOR BIRMAN JANUARY 1, 2003 Campus Newspaper Fires Sole Conservative Columnist DAVIS – In yet another attack on freedom of thought on college campuses, The California Aggie – a campus newspaper at the University of California, Davis has fired Igor Birman – its only conservative columnist, despite a contract lasting until the end of June 2003. In his email announcing Birman’s dismissal, Fitzgerald Vo, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief cited “a tendency to enrage members of the opposing causes” as the reason for the columnist’s firing. Birman’s column, The Right Stuff, provided the campus community with conservative commentary,...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT NOV 23, 2002 10:59:47 ET XXXXX DOWD DECLARES EMINEM IS 'THE BOOMER CROONER' She's back from her Sheltering Sky-like odyssey to Saudi Arabia. Not quite Debra Winger roaming aimlessly on back of camel looking for a mid-life reset, but NY TIMES queen columnist Maureen Dowd appears to have found rejuvenation; back in Washington, fresh and fun in tomorrow's filing. "My girlfriends are surreptitiously smitten with Eminem," Dowd declares, according to newsroom sources. "They buy his posters on eBay. They play him on their Walkmen at the gym. They sing along lustily to "Cleanin' Out...

(Editor Statement leaked to Talking Points Memo to run in Hitchens final next week column)We note with keen regret that this week marks the final appearance of Chistopher Hitchens column. We have been publishing Christopher for more than twenty years, and the relationship with him has been a rewarding one for this magazine and our readers.That is testimony to the fact that Christopher has always been completely free to express his views, and differences he has had with the editors he has honorably ventilated.We will miss his eloquent and passionate voice and his eloquently crafted prose.

Editor's File | A letter to Coulter Dear Ann Coulter: You're fired. It's not that extreme viewpoints are unwelcome on the opinion pages of the Centre Daily Times. All political viewpoints, from Cal Thomas on the right to Molly Ivins on the left, are welcome here. But, we don't welcome haters, Ann, and that's what you are. Well, you are either a hater or a hypocrite who calls names and spews enmity because you believe it will get your pretty face on television more or sell more copies of your best-selling books. In either case, we won't be publishing...

Federal Agents Raid Herndon Businesses By Christopher L. Moore Observer Staff Writer A U.S. Customs Service counter-terrorism task force raided four businesses on Grove Street in Herndon Wednesday afternoon, executing search warrants and carting away boxes of documents and material. Agents entered the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a Muslim think tank located on the second floor of 500 Grove St., that shares space with the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. Jemel R. Buck, director of operations for ADAMS, said IIIT rents space to ADAMS, but maintains separate offices. ADAMS uses the space to operate a school and worship...