On Tuesday, a catastrophic earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed, but the death toll — already in the thousands — is climbing fast.
This is the worst earthquake to hit the area in more than 200 years. Entire communities have been ripped apart and as many...
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My baby is a confident 10 year old girl who loves Christmas. Last season, around New Year’s, we had a honest discussion about the season and, as her Dad, there’s a certain amount of grieving over another passage of childhood. I can’t read the final pages of The Polar Express to her without my voice breaking and...
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Tags: Christmas, New York Sun, Polar Express, Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, Sinterklass
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"This is about centralizing power into the hands of global government, that’s what Kyoto and Copenhagen are all about, that’s what the globalist alliance is all about;" said Rohrabacher
"We must fight the globalist clique that is trying to shackle generations of Americans."
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Tags: Climate Change Deniers, Climate Summit, Climate-Gate, Copenhagen, Crazy Dana, Dana Rohrabacher, Journal Nature, wing-nuts
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"I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility," he said. "It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations -- that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
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I can hear them now; it's a marriage between a man and a woman so it must be OK. But according to this story, a man in Japan has married a female video game avatar.
The bride didn't wear white; she arrived in a red plastic game case. God save their virtual half breed...
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Tags: Marriage Equality, Proposition 8
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“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more...
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WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama described the progress made during his trip to Asia, and detailed steps the administration is taking to spur job creation. The President explained how increasing exports to Asia Pacific nations can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America and described the upcoming jobs forum...
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Tags: Asia, Asia Pacific, China, exports, India, Jobs, Korea, President Barack Obama, trade
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