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The Miami blue butterfly hovers near extinction, a victim of hurricanes, mosquitoes, and troglodyte developers. Environmentalists weep and liberals blame the Bush administrations, presidential and gubernatorial. These same butterfly mourners form a blockade against the teaching of Creationism because evolution is the origin of species. The liberal mind has tangled ganglia and mitochondria that prevent short-circuits for philosophical inconsistencies. They will not acknowledge that evolution, by its very definition, demands extinction. Liberal brains are hotwired so that laws and order don't interfere with desires. With the Lott expulsion, conservatives use megawatt capacity trying to glean the liberal rules of play....

Judge orders Potter books back in Arkansas school libraries By CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (April 22, 8:59 p.m. PDT) - A federal judge ordered Harry Potter books back onto an Arkansas school district's library shelves Tuesday, rejecting a school board's claim that tales of wizards and spells could harm school children. Ruling in favor of a fourth-grader's parents, U.S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren ordered the Cedarville School District to put the four books in J.K. Rowling's popular series back in general circulation. The district's board drew wrath from national free-speech groups for its June decision to...

NEW YORK (AP) - The new ``Harry Potter'' book, still five months from publication, has apparently already set a record: The highest priced new children's novel in history. Scholastic Children's Books, the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling's ``Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,'' announced Thursday a suggested retail price of $29.99. ``That's definitely the highest price for a children's novel we've ever seen,'' said Diane Mangan, director of children's merchandising at the superstore chain Borders Group Inc. ``That does seem to be the highest,'' said Carolyn Brown, a spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble. The previous Potter book, ``Harry...

Harry Potter & Putin

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" led the nation's box office as it edged James Bond's "Die Another Day" over the post-Thanksgiving weekend with an estimated $32.2 million at 3,682 theaters during the Friday-Sunday period, studio sources said Sunday. MGM's "Die Another Day" finished a close second with $31 million but it eked out a victory over the five-day Wednesday-Sunday period with $46.3 million, about $500,000 ahead of Warner Bros.' "The Chamber of Secrets" over the same five days. Both holdover hits dominated Thanksgiving holiday movie going, as expected. "Harry Potter and the Chamber...

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In early December the official exorcist of the Rome diocese, Father Gabriele Amorth, warned parents against the Harry Potter book series. The priest, who is also the president of the International Association of Exorcists, said Satan is behind the works. In an interview with the Italian ANSA news agency, Father Amorth said, “Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of darkness, the devil.” The exorcist, drawing on his decades of experience in directly combating evil, observed that young people could become involved in Satanic practices because they see the invocation of supernatural powers as a simple and attractive...