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Archive for March, 2008



More Floridians becoming single mothers by choice

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 12:18 pm

Lisa Bell spent years looking for Mr. Right. At 36, she stopped pining, and soon found the love of her life: Her daughter, Emily.


Comments (0)  | Posted in Fathers, Marriage    


Bush administration proposes largest financial overhaul since Great Depression

Monday 31 March 2008 @ 10:23 am

The plan would change how the government regulates thousands of businesses from the nation’s biggest banks and investment houses down to the local insurance agent and mortgage broker.


Comments (0)  | Posted in economics    


Weddings are off: marriage rate falls to lowest level for 144 years

Friday 28 March 2008 @ 11:47 am

The proportion of Britons choosing to marry is at the lowest level since the figure was first calculated in 1862.


Comments (0)  | Posted in Marriage    


Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP’s Fleet of No-Show Green Cars

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:59 am

Zap promised all-electric environmentally-friendly automobiles for Joe consumer. Unfortunately, they lied.


Comments (0)  | Posted in Environment, economics, technology    


Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:45 am

“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.”

Wright continued, “From the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. …


Comments (0)  | Posted in 2008, bias, outrage    


France’s naked first lady

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:11 am

Mrs Nicolas Sarkozy - former model Carla Bruni - is understandably furious that a nude photo of her went on sale on the eve of her State visit to Britain with her husband.


Comments (0)  | Posted in interesting    


Daily Mail cracks Obama mystique

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:09 am

Yet an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed that, for all Mr Obama’s reputation for straight talking and the compelling narrative of his recollections, they are largely myth.


Comments (0)  | Posted in 2008, Politics    


Rush Limbaugh reviews Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Tuesday 25 March 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Ben Stein’s new movie is going to open to a thousand screens pretty soon, it’s not out there yet. It’s called Expelled. But the point of it is that these people on the left are just scared to death of God. It threatens everything. We, on the other hand, recognize that our greatness, who we are, our potential, our ambition, our desire, comes from God, and as part of our Creation, this natural yearning to be free and to practice liberty. That is how we think this country came to be great. It is how we think this country will continue to be great and to grow.

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Comments (0)  | Posted in Intelligent Design    


EXPELLED Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere

Tuesday 25 March 2008 @ 4:22 pm

SANTA FE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Something amazing happened yesterday. The controversy around Premise Media’s upcoming movie Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed became the hottest topic in the blogosphere. According to BlogPulse, a service of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, the issue held the number one slot throughout the day on Monday, March 24th (http://www.blogpulse.com). There were also over 800 results on Technorati (www.technorati.com).


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Huge Iceberg Breaks Away, Antarctic Ice Shelf ‘Hangs By A Thread’

Tuesday 25 March 2008 @ 2:11 pm

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2008) — British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is now supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands. It is another identifiable impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment.


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