Estelle Getty, the feisty mother hen to the famous Golden Girls series that ran throughout the 80's (and continues in reruns today) died today at the age of 84. Getty was long a supporter of gay rights and had a...
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An interesting response to Barack Obama's well-scripted speech on patriotism:"Listening to Barack Obama’s speech on patriotism filled me with many emotions. All of them negative. Obama opened his speech with a very brief jaunt into history, going back to the origins of this...
In case you're stuck for a Father's Day gift, here's an idea for you:"With Father's Day almost upon us, conscientious sons and daughters are likely scrambling for creative ways to express paternal affection.Golf and...
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"Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, a pugnacious, ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party, will officially end Thursday at a rally outside the Texas GOP's...
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Vancouver is the 8th most 'liveable' city in the world, according to international rankings put out by London-based Monocle magazine. Montreal was the only other Canadian city to make the cut, coming in at 16....
" A MAJOR Iranian state-owned company has told its single employees to get married by September or face losing their jobs, the press reported today."One of the economic entities in the south of the country has asked its single employees to start creating a family," the...
"Mr. Gary Stern, the last pinball machine magnate, is a wise-cracking, fast-talking 62-year-old with a shock of white hair, matching white frame glasses and a deep tan who eats jelly beans at his desk and recently...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNoted Authour Michael Coren states (in Italics):"Authentic censorship is a problem in Canada" To that I say to Michael, I do not know if we have a censorship problem...
"The beginning of the end for ChampCar World Series in the streets of Long Beach. The fans are feeling locked out of unity information from the IRL official website about Long Beach. The PANOZ DP01 makes its final...
Until recently, it would have been impossible to use the words 'hero' and 'german officer' in the same sentence, especially in Germany.However, with the passage of time and a better perspective (90 years will do...
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"BEIJING — New violence has broken out in a volatile Tibetan region of western China, leaving eight people dead, an overseas Tibet activist group said Friday. China's official Xinhua News Agency said a...
New violence is being reported in a Tibetan region of western China, leaving at least 8 people dead. Apparently police opened fire on hundreds of buddhist monks and people who had marched on government offices to...
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"Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation.Except for an...
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Holland? Flowers!
by Guy La Roche
I am loathe to add to the Wilders-hype, created both by him and the Dutch government, but the following video by Thomas Erdbrink is simply too amazing to let slip by AFOE’s international radar.
Thomas Erdbrink is a...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorLP's (Long Playing Records) have been around for a Hundred years, and only remembered by us who are older than dirt. So it's nice to know LP's are now making a slow...