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A software engineer, the owner of a miniature golf course and nine other men, many from Central Florida, traveled to Polk County to have sex with a child, deputies said. Deputies with the Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested the 11 men on charges of soliciting sex from a child through the Internet during Operation Paladin -- a two-week online sex sting in which investigators, posing as a 14-year-old girl, used chat rooms and instant messaging programs to lure the men to a location in Polk County. ... Rick Nieves, 22, of Orlando, Extreme UpholsteryRobert Cirone, 42, of Lakeland, unemployedFarhan Mujahid,...

Welcome to Boston, Sen. McAmnesty. How ’bout them Patriots Er, I mean, never mind. It’s odd that on the eve of Super Tuesday, the 71-year-old Republican front-runner would be here, in his top challenger’s home state, where he’s running a mere 32 points behind. Why isn’t he stumping in California, the nation’s biggest state? Out there he’s running neck and neck, or just a little behind, Mitt Romney ahead. If Mitt somehow pulls out a victory in the Golden State tomorrow, he stays alive. McCain’s already wrapped up the three big winner-take-all states on the East Coast - New York,...

Once again, antiwar protesters rallying in Rowan Park on Saturday will be met by a smaller but fervent group of pickets who support the war. Yet if the pickets had gotten their way, it would be them — not the antiwar crowd — filling the park on the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion. A member of Free Republic, a support-the-war group, reserved Rowan Park for this weekend immediately after last year’s large antiwar rally at the park. The reservation was described as for a two-day picnic and required an $800 check covering fees and a deposit.

April 20, 2005 2:15 pm Re: Woman Found Shot to Death, Composite Sketch of Suspect Released The Los Alamitos Police Department has for release a sketch of a suspect that was reported being seen exiting the rear apartment window of the victim’s apartment. A neighbor/witness reported seeing a male, white, 20 years old wearing black clothing exit the window of the apartment. The witness worked with a police sketch artist to develop the composite drawing. At about 6:35 pm on April 18, 2005, Los Alamitos Police Officers responded to a report of shots heard in the 4300 block of Howard...

It is tough being one of the tallest men on Earth. You cannot get through your own front door, you have to bend over double in the bus, and you have to find shoes so large they could house a small dog. The trouble is, you just can't get shoes that size. That is why Leonid Stadnyk, from Zhytomyr in central Ukraine, spends so much of his time indoors. At 8ft 4in, or just over two-and-a-half metres tall, Leonid would appear to be a contender for the title of world's tallest man. A Tunisian currently recognised by the Guinness Book...

BREAKING: BOSTON GLOBE FABRICATES (as usual, plagiarists attack USA) FReeRepublic Exclusive [Howie Carr, are you listening?] Yesterday, the entire front page top-of-the-fold story in the Boston Globe was a libel on US forces. It was inaccurate and made up by the Boston Globe. The actual pictures was AP and had the headline,"U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces damaged after a bombing, in Baghdad Monday, April 7, 2003.(AP Photo/John Moore)." The proof of this tagline caption...

HISTORY Life during wartime. There’s nothing I can say about the parade of still pictures, the faces on the television – except, perhaps, that they all seemed to share a fierce pride in their eyes, photographed for the first time in their Marine Dress Blues. Surely their families are proud of them. I certainly am, and I never got to know any of them. And now, I never will. Names scroll in little yellow letters across the bottom of our glowing screens: Sergeants, and Captains, and Privates. These men have died for us. More will follow. You may be against...

Disillusioned Human Shields - The Saga Continues By Reed Irvine March 27, 2003 At the Army's daily briefing in Qatar on March 26, a reporter asked Gen. Vincent Brooks what he had to say to the human shields who have gone to Iraq to risk their lives to stop the war. The general missed a great opportunity to tell what two of these "human shields" had recently said about what they learned in Baghdad that caused them to abandon their plans to risk their lives trying to protect innocent Iraqi civilians. In a dispatch from Amman, Jordan distributed by UPI...

Archive >Commentary Archives Commentary ArchivesCredit Bubble BulletinInternational PerspectiveMid-Week AnalysisGuest CommentaryMarket Summary Related LinksStock indices Index returnsMarket actionMarket statsCompany newsEarnings SummaryAnalyst actionsBond ratesBond spreadsCommoditiesEconomy Credit Bubble Bulletin, by Doug Noland Soul Searching September 20, 2002   (My apologies, but a proofreader was not available this evening)  It was a dismal week for global financial markets.  Here at home, the Dow dropped 4% and the S&P500 sank 5%.  The Transports declined 3%, while the Utilities and Morgan Stanley consumer index dropped 4%.  The Morgan Stanley Cyclical index dipped 5%.  The broader market came under heavy selling pressure, with the small cap Russell 2000...