"MUNCIE, Indiana (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. "I am extremely sorry for what I did," Danield J. Collins said during...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSome will say, Mentally Retarded people are classed as Mentally Challenged. I disagree, there is a BIG DIFFERENCE, because even the Mentally Challenged to their...
"Night of the Living Fed
Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...
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"Battleground Texas in the Democratic presidential primary is firming up, with Hillary Rodham Clinton in control of South Texas and Barack Obama apparently owning Houston and Dallas, a new tracking poll shows.
And in the one-time bastion of the Texas Democratic Party — East...
This is an interesting article for anyone involved with the Web and news. We are all still getting our heads around the notion of providing and getting the news for free. "From World War I to the end of the Cold...
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"Sports and media group ENIC International has made an offer to take 100% control of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
ENIC already holds 66% of Tottenham shares having last month snapped up Sir Alan Sugar's stake for £25m ($49.8m).
City rules required ENIC to make the new...
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"Scientists claimed on Monday that owning a dog is good for your mental and physical health, more so even than cats.
Writing in the British Journal of Health Psychology, Dr. Deborah Wells, a senior lecturer at the Canine Behaviour Centre of Queens University, Belfast, found...
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"I get an awful lot of e-mail. Sometimes, people are looking for help with their computers. Some of it is fan mail.
Other folks are mad about something I said or wrote. Add to this the barrage of press releases and an occasional blast from the past when a former classmate or...
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"If you're cut out for it, life as a landlord can be quite profitable. But success isn't assured. Here's what you need to know before diving in.
The idea of owning rental real estate seems to be gaining popularity as investors tire of the swoops and swoons of the stock...
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