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Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, graduates with honors from East Los Angeles Community College this week, but just don't call him a genius. 11-Year-Old Graduates From LA College Watch Video Moshe Kai Cavalin, 11, is graduating with honors from East Los Angeles Community College this week. "I consider myself a regular kid who works hard and does his best," says this only child of a Taiwanese mother and an Israeli father. When Cavalin started college at the age of 8, he may have been the youngest person in class, but he ended up tutoring some of his 19- and 20-year-old classmates...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House pushed through a $410 billion measure Wednesday that boosted domestic programs, bristled with earmarks and chipped away at policies left behind by the Bush administration. The vote was 245-178, largely along party lines. Among the earmarks was one sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., who secured $200,000 for a "tattoo removal violence outreach program" in Los Angeles.

Wall Street helped produce the global financial and economic crisis. Now, as the Obama administration prepares to unveil a revised bailout plan for the banking system, policy makers hope Wall Street can be part of the solution. Administration officials said the plan, to be announced Tuesday, was likely to depend in part on the willingness of private investors other than banks — like hedge funds, private equity funds and perhaps even insurance companies — to buy the contaminating assets that wiped out the capital of many banks.

There were many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. Each one intertwined with the next. Many even blame the introduction of Christianity for the decline. Christianity made many Roman citizens into pacifists, making it more difficult to defend against the barbarian attackers. Also money used to build churches could have been used to maintain the empire. Although some argue that Christianity may have provided some morals and values for a declining civilization and therefore may have actually prolonged the imperial era. Decline in Morals and Values Those morals and values that kept together the Roman legions and thus...

Figured most of this was not real appropriate. Colorful. I like to think I just said what many of us want to but don't. News today is not news, it is psychobabble. New York Times, thousands of words of coverage, and they cannot seem to mention that it was the work of Islamic Psychopaths that killed all of those people in India. Those Islamic (Militants) Read: Terrorists, targeted Jews, Americans and Brits. They also forgot to mention that many of the bodies showed signs of torture, and the worst of those were inflicted on Israelies. ...

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The constant bad news from the liberal media corporations is very dangerous! I've been finding communist/Stalinist propaganda like this all over the net: Frankly the people ranting against "community" don't realize how they've benefited from it - it was non-profit inventions like the internet, computers, modern electricity, phones, x-rays, penicillin, radio waves, and lightbulbs (Göbel), that make life better today. (*Also* state funding of science, medicine, & university research!) "Conservatives" like to rant about how everything good came from greed, but it's just a huge lie: 1. The computer - “This came from pure scientific thought, and not at all...

FCC to go after Talk Radio Dear Talk Radio Hosts, guests and listeners: Even though they virtually dominate the media on television and in print, liberals are now poised to go after the top prize: talk radio. Despite the fact that there is no market for their radical ideas, they are building the case to use the FCC to censor free speech by resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine -- a blatant form of government control of ideas that could banish the conservative voice from the airwaves! Right now, a bill is being prevented from getting to the floor for a vote...

Just wishing all my fellow Freepers (and non-Freepers alike) a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Todd and I would like to introduce you to a very special project we will be involved with over the next year, and why it is so important to us. As many of you know, my son, Capt. Derek Argel was deployed to heaven on Memorial Day, 2005. He was a commando with AF Special Operations, and aboard a small Iraqi aircraft on a special mission with three other US Commandos, and one Iraqi. Derek's son Logan, was only eight months old. At that time, we were introduced to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. HISTORY: Special Operations Warriors are referred...

And the Android will lie down with the Lamb by JohnHuang2 It’s so wonderful Al Gore shattered the glass ceiling for Androids to win the Nobel Peace Prize! For a cool million-dollar prize, now the Middle East is filled with peace. Muslim fanatics no longer kill. Al-Qaeda now loves America. Iran adores Israel. The Turks are wild about the Kurds! (Even Democrats are now full of love for NASCAR, no longer thinking you catch hepatitis by watching cars racing.) If you look at the history of this award, Willy Brandt got the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The fate of what some scientists dub "the people's telescope" is again up in the air as NASA decides soon whether to squeeze in a last astronaut repair mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. On Friday, NASA engineers will debate the safety of sending a fifth and final manned space shuttle flight to the 16-year-old telescope, probably in 2008. Soon afterward, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will make the final call.

Turn on the TV, open the newspaper, log on to the internet, and you'll see them: Muslim extremists, responding to the latest "outrage against Islam" like teenyboppers freaking out over the latest TV heartthrob. (Hot: Pope Benedict XVI. Not: Danish cartoons). They rant, they rage, they riot, they rape, all in the name of Allah. Tiredly, we change the channel to ESPN, flip to the horoscope, or click over to shavedasians.com. Of course the bastards are freaking out, we think. They're Muslims. Nothing new there. But they're all overseas. The ones we have here at home are all okay, right?...

Sean Hannity visited Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Hannity's lecture included the time he tricked Paul Begala with the quotes John Kerry made supporting invading Iraq. He also spoke about facing the evil of our time in the same way we had to face Hitler. Hannity did many impersonations of Bill Clinton and talked about how the democrats had lost the South. He briefly talked about his disagreements with Repubicans on the issues of over-spending and illegal immigration. His ending statement was that in times of war, we need the right people in power. During Q/A session, most of the...

This was the day five years ago that war began between the US and Jihad, an unincorporated combine of Islamic nations, gangs, sects and tribes united in a campaign to harm, disable, defeat, and exterminate "infidel" Christians and Jews. There are various explanations for why this started. I have my own.       It's essentially an ecological crisis, conveniently pegged on an old religious beef. The population of many Islamic nations, fed by oil wealth, has reached critical overshoot. In particular, there are too many young men with no positions, no incomes, no prospects, and no hopes. Their glandular energies have...

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July 28 — Dear Diary: Not a great night for this Braveheart of Malibu. I was at Moonshadows, drinking and chatting with fans about Apocalypto. This film is going to be big. I can feel it in my soul. Anyway, I'm walking to the men's room when this guy says, "Mel? You know who created all the problems with the Mayans?" I'm like, "Who, friend?" "The Jews." Read rest of the article......

What ELSE did God Tell Pat Robertson Every year Pat Robertson goes on a prayer retreat kind of like his "quality time" with God. This is when the Lord gives Pat those personal tidbits about what's going to happen in the world. This year's tidbit was: "If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. On Wednesday, he added, "There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest." Reading this quote got me thinking why God would pick Pat Robertson to talk to....