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U.S. News
With Eye On U.S. Audience, Obama Speaks In Berlin
[24 Jul 2008 at 4:22pm]
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's speech in Berlin Thursday dealt with road foreign policy issues. But the address was more to convince American voters of his foreign policy credentials than to impress foreign leaders.
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Boomers Find Way To Make Social Impact, Money
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:47pm]
Grappling with a shaky economy, baby boomers are looking for new ways to make money. A new survey estimates that a chunk of these Americans are launching "encore careers" — positions that combine income and personal meaning with social impact.
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Retail Health Clinics: Convenience With Caveats
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:46pm]
Retail-based health clinics are expanding rapidly across the country. Most are located near the prescription counter inside large groceries. There are reports that two large Massachusetts health insurance companies will soon be paying for visits to these clinics.
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Girls' Math Skills Equal To Boys', Study Finds
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:43pm]
A new study in the journal Science shows that girls no longer lag behind boys in math. Average standardized tests scores reveals no gender differences in grades two through 11.
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Scientist: Cell Phone Use May Increase Cancer Risk
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:41pm]
The head of a cancer research center in Pittsburgh is urging his faculty and staff to limit their use of cell phones. Another scientist, Daniel Wartenberg, a professor at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, says it may be better to be safe than sorry.
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Online Plea Spurs Gardeners To Aid Texas Woman
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:36pm]
In East Texas, a divorced mother can't pay the higher rent her landlord wants, so she's moving out. Scores of gardeners from across the state are helping her move her lush garden of shrubs, trees and beloved day lilies to her new home, one plant at a time.
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Fuel Oil Spill Halts Some Traffic On Mississippi River
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:27pm]
A river barge collided with an oil tanker, sending more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the Mississippi River and halting some river traffic. Mark Schleifstein, of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, says the spill is costing the Port of New Orleans $100,000 per day.
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NASCAR Feels Pinch Of High Gas Prices
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:24pm]
Gas prices have spiked over the past year and the rise is really hammering NASCAR. Not only is attendance at stock-car races starting to decline, but the teams are being squeezed, too. And even NASCAR's sponsors are feeling the pinch.
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Texas' Bid For Ethanol Waiver Spurs Debate
[24 Jul 2008 at 3:23pm]
The Environmental Protection Agency wants more time to decide whether to grant Texas a waiver from the federal mandate for ethanol in gasoline. Margaret Kriz, an energy and environmental correspondent for National Journal, says the debate could be a political hot potato.
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Ford Shifts Production Focus To Smaller Cars
[24 Jul 2008 at 12:50pm]
After posting an $8.7 billion loss for the second quarter on Thursday, Ford announces plans to switch manufacturing operations at three North American plants from trucks to small cars. The auto industry has seen a dramatic decline in truck and SUV sales in recent months as consumers react to high gas prices.
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FBI Takes Counterterrorism Classes
[23 Jul 2008 at 11:29pm]
The Origins of Sunni Islam. Lebanese Hezbollah. Arabic Language. Sound like college courses? They're topics in an FBI training program conducted by West Point's Combating Terrorism Center geared to help agents better understand the enemy in the war on terror.
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Obama In Berlin: No 'Walls' Should Divide Us
[24 Jul 2008 at 1:37pm]
The presidential hopeful addressed an expansive crowd Thursday near the site where the Berlin Wall once stood, calling on the U.S. and Europe to build new bridges of partnership. "The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand," Obama said, alluding to often strained relations between Europe and the U.S. under President Bush.
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Afghanistan 'Surge' Can't Happen Anytime Soon
[24 Jul 2008 at 1:30pm]
Leaders from across the political spectrum agree: There are too few troops in Afghanistan. White House contenders John McCain and Barack Obama want to boost brigades there, but without an immediate troop reduction in Iraq, an Afghanistan surge must wait.
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Obama Moves From Mideast To Europe
[24 Jul 2008 at 10:47am]
Barack Obama is in Germany, where he will meet German leader Angela Merkel. The likely Democratic presidential nominee will also give the only public speech of his weeklong foreign tour, at a Berlin park. On Friday, he'll visit France. Journalists Stefan Kornelius in Germany and Jean Lesieur in France talk about Obama's expected reception in Europe.
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Mortgage Market Working For Many Americans
[24 Jul 2008 at 10:45am]
Even in the midst of the worst housing slump in decades, some people are out there getting mortgages and buying homes. But they're paying more for mortgages these days, and borrowers with shaky credit won't find it easy to get a loan.
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Tumble Bugs Invade Canada
by Bob Miller
[24 Jul 2008 at 8:26am]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday he had rejected a request from lawmakers that an outside special counsel investigate the case of a Canadian taken off a plane in New York and sent to Syria, where he says he was tortured.
Like well-trained whores, Canadian, British and Australian politicians line up [...]
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Ugly Woman Contest Winner
by Bob Miller
[23 Jul 2008 at 6:04am]
I think all the males in the U.S. should get together and have an Academy Award type event to honor old man Bush for being willing to service Barbara. I have only met her once, but once was enough. I owned a bookstore in Houston, Texas and to my surprise, she walked in one day [...]
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Can?t Lead for Falling Behind
by Bob Miller
[22 Jul 2008 at 2:20pm]
The Obama Camp need not worry about McCain. Just put the old guy in front of a microphone, and out of his mouth will come a statement that’ll cause people to pity him. That’ll get some votes, but it is one hell of a weak strategy for the long haul.
“Make it a hundred years.”
No [...]
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Women Want Equality. Just Keep Wanting
by Bob Miller
[22 Jul 2008 at 7:49am]
BOSTON - An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition barring women from the priesthood says it ordained three women on Sunday.
“Catholics who attempt to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the women who attempt to receive a sacred order, are by their own actions separating [...]
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Terrorists Sears Tower & Air Force One
by Bob Miller
[22 Jul 2008 at 5:25am]
McLEAN, Va. - Dogs aren’t the only ones casting a longing eye at fire hydrants these days. Fire departments across the country report that thieves are twisting the brass nuts off the tops and selling them for scrap, raising concerns that the hydrants won’t work when needed most.
Firefighters responding to an April house fire [...]
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Dying In Iraq for Exxon-Mobil
by Bob Miller
[21 Jul 2008 at 6:26pm]
(AP:HOUSTON) As giant oil companies like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will probably be another round of eye-popping quarterly profits, just where is all that money going?
The companies insist they’re trying to find new oil that might help bring down gas prices, but the money they spend on exploration is nothing [...]
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Published Quotes, Author, Activist Bob Miller
by Bob Miller
[21 Jul 2008 at 9:58am]
Political:
“When the Secret Service took me into custody as an alleged threat to George H.W. Bush, I felt more American than at any other time in my life.” ? Bob Miller, bestselling author and political activist
“Yeah, right, if we get anymore benefits from NAFTA, it’ll be impossible for us to be isolationists; we’ll be [...]
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Nazi Mentality Okay, Says U.S.
by Bob Miller
[21 Jul 2008 at 4:42am]
One world leader after another is pointing out that there is a strong resemblance between the Bush Administration and Hitler’s administration. Yet, the working class in the U.S. either doesn?t know enough about these two administrations to understand the similarities or, like the Germany people who supported Hitler, they don’t care.
The total mismanagement and Nazi [...]
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Bush Is A friend? You Bet!
by Bob Miller
[20 Jul 2008 at 6:30am]
I was asked today what I thought about trying to assassinate Bush, Cheney, and their lap dog, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, since it was apparent Congress didn’t have the guts to impeach them.
First of all, you couldn’t get within a mile of Bush or Cheney. They know there are bullets out there with their names [...]
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Unholy Rhetoric
by Bob Miller
[19 Jul 2008 at 8:50am]
SYDNEY, Australia AP ? Pope Benedict XVI said he was “deeply sorry’ for the sexual abuse of children by Australia’s Catholic clergy, delivering a strongly-worded apology Saturday that described their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust. End
Yes, yes we know how sorry you and all the good Cardinals are for [...]
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A Race Hanging By a Thread
by Bob Miller
[17 Jul 2008 at 2:10pm]
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Five militants freed in a prisoner swap with Israel prayed and laid wreaths at the grave of a slain Hezbollah commander Thursday, vowing to fight Israel as supporters showered them with rice.
“We swear by God … to continue on your same path and not to retreat until we achieve the same [...]
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I?m A Dog Chasing My Own Tail
by Bob Miller
[17 Jul 2008 at 6:53am]
When I write about Christians I often think, “I shouldn’t say this. I have at least one or two people like my friend LuisFTS who are Christians.”
But history is on my side. Take the Pope. For over three decades he did nothing about the Church protecting God only knows how many sex offenders and child [...]
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U.S. Christians On The Road
by Bob Miller
[16 Jul 2008 at 8:35am]
Kidnapping teenage girls so truckers can used them as sex slaves while away from their wives and daughters is a big business in the United States. But let a woman’s breast flop out during the Super Bowl and these same truckers will denounce it as vulgar. Short Video “Godless Nation”
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Jobless & Homeless Stories Wanted
by Bob Miller
[15 Jul 2008 at 10:40am]
DETROIT ? AP General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off salaried workers, cut truck production, suspend its dividend and borrow $2 billion to $3 billion to weather a severe downturn in the U.S. market. GM said the moves will raise $15 billion to help cover losses and turn around its North American operations. [...]
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God Bless Bush Voters & Warren Buffett
by Bob Miller
[15 Jul 2008 at 6:44am]
LONDON (AFP) - 07/15//08 The European single currency leapt to a record high above 1.60 dollars here on Tuesday as investor fears grew over the state of the US economy and its financial services sector, dealers said. End
Thanks to Warren Buffett, I traded my dollars for Euros two years ago, and now I hope the [...]
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Not To Be Viewed By Small Minds
by Bob Miller
[15 Jul 2008 at 5:58am]
Okay, so I’m one of those guys who people call a rebel, alarmist, theorist, and no good SOB. Doesn’t anyone but this country boy find it strange that the FBI, Scotland Yard, and every damn rent-a-cop in the world will join forces to catch a guy who steals a damn painting, but do everything possible [...]
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Osama bin Laden?s Plan On Track
by Bob Miller
[15 Jul 2008 at 3:14am]
Which bank could be next? After IndyMac was seized — the seventh bank to fail since the credit crisis began last summer, and the second-largest bank to fail in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s 75-year history — stocks in nearly all the nation’s banks were clobbered Monday as the market bet that there will be [...]
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A Man Starved For Attention
by Bob Miller
[14 Jul 2008 at 11:37am]
WASHINGTON ? AP Barack Obama’s campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is “tasteless and offensive.”
The illustration on the issue that hits newsstands Monday, titled “The Politics of Fear” and drawn by Barry Blitt, depicts Barack Obama wearing traditional [...]
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Is He More British than American?
by Bob Miller
[14 Jul 2008 at 5:45am]
When one sheds a pound of weight, four pounds of weight is taken off of their knees. Likewise, when a religious nut dies or is killed, hypocrisy in the world is reduced by four. While the Christians here in the U.S. are sending mercenaries to bomb, use germ warfare, and promote genocide around the world, [...]
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