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Rats in the Ruins My Two Cents on Cable TV By David J. Aland 5 May 2006 Do you remember when HBO first aired on the local cable television network? What an idea – to get recent boxoffice films by television, relatively soon after their release. This was genuine out-of-the-boxoffice thinking, and it caught on fast. But somewhere along the line, it looks like either Hollywood couldn’t produce enough movies, or the cable channels couldn’t afford to buy enough Hollywood distribution rights. HBO gave way to CINEMAX, and STARZ, and other movie channels, and splintered into more than a few...

Growing up Bi-racial Joshua Brown (Joshua Brown is a cadet at Millersburg Military Institute in Kentucky. He is studying Journalism and Creative Writing.) Their hair may be black or golden brown. Their eyes may vary from cat green to bark brown. Skin tone may be light with freckles or a Hawaiian sun tan brown. These are some of the physical features of bi-racial persons. Bi-racial persons are faced with tough decisions when it comes to their families. White parents-in-law may not accept white daughters-in-law, or vice versa. The children of bi-racial marriages are often caught in the middle, having to...

<p>President Bush is being tried for "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners" at Parsippany High School, with students arguing both sides before a five-teacher "international court of justice." The panel's verdict could come as soon as Friday.</p>

Hello - this is my first post so I apologize if the formatting is wrong. I've been a Republican for over 20 years and listen to Limbaugh and Hannity, and I've read your site before. I want to alert you to something that is happening at Wikipedia and ask for your help because I've been overrun by leftists! There's this radical liberal nutcase named Chip Berlet who is a pundit on the far far far left wing that some of you may know of. If you don't know him here is conservative author David Horowitz's profile on who he is...

With the recent news of six major US ports soon to be under Arab management, I am somewhat amazed at the uproar. Senators on BOTH sides of the isle are uniting against the White House in an effort to stop this impending tragedy. On the other hand the White House has quite insanely vowed a fight to the death to keep the deal on track. Why my surprise at these unfolding events, you ask yourself? Well, for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that any Senator on either side of the isle actually gives a crap about the...

" Some believe the typical Iranian loves the US" Whether love for America exists inside Iran or not becomes an almost weightless premise to consider, not because the average Iranian likes or dislikes the USA but because today, the typical Iranian, who might play a part in a regime change has nothing left with which to love - or time and energy to translate growing hate into effective action. "They will hate us, afterward, if we bomb them" warn diplomats, a comment equally without merit , since post event emotions will depend on who the USA and the West bring...

Voltaire's stirring words seem so quaint now. "I may disagree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." These words summarized what our freedom was about. But the vast majority of the American press no longer believes this. For the defense of the freedom to critize radical Islam has come entirely from the blogosphere. The major television networks have only spoken in the most reverential tones of the offense to Islam from Danish newspapers. Why has our press abandoned the principal of freedom? Why do they not take offense at the death threats? Threats...

George Washington used warrantless interception of mail between the British and Americans. In fact, Washington contrived a means of opening British letters without breaking the seals, take copies of the contents, and then let them go on. That fascist Washington, reading mail without a warrant! Abraham Lincoln used warrantless telegraph wiretapping. Lincoln even arrested newspaper publishers. That fascist Lincoln reading every American's telegraph messages and arresting newspaper men without a warrant! President Wilson ordered the warrantless interception of all cable communications between the United States and Europe. That fascist Wilson reading every American's cable wires without a warrant! President Roosevelt...

Steelers crowds overwhelm trolleys, buses Wednesday, February 08, 2006 By Samantha Bennett and Joe Grata, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette John Beale, Post-Gazette The North Allegheny High School marching band -- one of seven to perform in the parade -- makes its way down Fifth Avenue. Click photo for larger image. The Bus made it Downtown just fine. But many parade-goers and commuters who tried to get there on Port Authority buses and trolleys hit a Steel Curtain. At the Dormont Light Rail Transit station at 9:47 a.m., a man complained that three inbound trains had passed him by, full of people dressed...

Editor: Democrats Prevailing I see that our Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck is getting fed up with our Bush-like Haley Barbour because of differences in their views on how to spend our taxes. First, she should have known that being a lobbyist for the big tobacco companies, that Barbour would do anything he can that would be beneficial to them, but Amy Tuck, being peeved off at Barbour, said she is going back to the Democratic Party which made me very angry. I wonder where she gets the audacity to think the Democratic Party would even want to have her back....

Commentary, “No one’s life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session,” stated wise man, Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House of Representatives, marginally carried the day in the House to criminalize a large portion of the country’s population for going about their everyday activities of working and hiring others to work. The Sensenbrenner bill instantly turns millions of people into felons. There’s the estimated 11 or more million mostly Mexican illegal aliens in the country plus the people who know and or employ them, as well. It builds a wall on...

Top 30 facts about everyone's favorite hero. See here: http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php?topthirty

Bin Laden Offers Truce in Purported Tape Terrorist Leader Threatens New Attacks Against U.S. By Yara Bayoumy, Reuters DUBAI (Jan. 19) -- Osama bin Laden warned that al-Qaida was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with Americans, according to an audiotape attributed to him on Thursday. Al Jazeera television, which aired the tape, said it was recorded in the Muslim month that corresponded to December. "The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your houses as soon as they are complete, God willing," said the speaker...

I am so tried of these movie stars showing up only at slect death row hearings tokie williams etc. that is fine that they oppose the death penalty but they only show up to further their carreer and at big names in the news small cases they are no where to be found.Sounds like a bunch of phonies to me and what are we to base their opionons on ours for?

Written in the text of “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution” is something I believe with my heart and soul, “Freedom requires us to live as self-reliant individuals, to think for ourselves, to solve our own problems, to cope with uncertainty and change, and to assist and respect others.” Only if those living under the protection of our Constitution understand this, can we maintain our way of life. This requires an educated citizenry that understands the responsibilities inherent in a “Democratic Republic.” The WTP authors make it clear that the Founders believed that good “Citizens are made, not...

Jim Kolbe to retire from Congress Associated Press Nov. 23, 2005 12:35 PM Veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe has decided he won’t seek re-election in 2006, political associates said Wednesday. He will have served 22 years in the U.S. House by the time he steps down next year. The 63-year-old Arizona Republican has served in the House since 1985. He acknowledged in 1996 that is a homosexual. State Sen. Toni Hellon, R-Tucson, said Kolbe told her of his intentions during a telephone call Wednesday. “He wants to do other things,” she said. A second person who is a political associate...

The Democrats are in a very difficult position. Contrary to the mind-numb and mind-numbing defeatist Democrat drumbeat on Capitol Hill, Iraqi troops are already taking the lead in military operations in many areas of their country. Terrorist insurgents are targeting more and more Iraqi civilians, creating a recent upwelling tide of local support for the Coalition troop presence, and increasing hostility in Iraq toward Al Qaida and its dwindling sympathizers. Recent Al Qaida bombings in Saudi Arabia find Saudis marching in the streets chanting for Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi’s head, even as it seems likely that it was recently blown off...

Per FR guidelines regarding Gannet, link is below. http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051122/NEWS01/511220350/1006

A message to the Venerated Democrat Leadership

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