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Saturday morning was frigid. From Boston to Washington, the mercury plunged into the single digits. These readings have not been seen in 3 years, thanks to the past 2 relatively docile winters. If that was not cold enough, residents of Saranac Lake, N.Y., awoke to a low of 34 below zero.

Democrats To Vote for Klansman as President! January 3, 2003 My friends, I want you to hand out, read over the phone and e-mail this article across the fruited plain, because something big is going to happen next week when the Senate elects a president pro tempore - the man three heartbeats away from the presidency! The vice president is first in line and the speaker of the House is second under the 1947 Presidential Succession Act. The Democrats will nominate for this position, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), who just six months ago used the N-word multiple times on...

"Sperm Stops Here!" by Martha Burk Nov/Dec 1997 issue Let’s stop the abortion debate right now. Both sides can agree that eliminating the need for abortion would solve the problem. If all babies were planned, wanted and could be cared for, women wouldn’t seek abortions. A modest proposal: control men’s fertility. The facts of men’s fertility are that men can cause hundreds (even thousands in the case of certain athletes who shall remain nameless) more unwanted pregnancies than can women. In the most extreme case, consider a woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth every year of her fertile life....

 To be a Democrat, you have to believe that …. The AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.Trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid.Global temperatures are affected more by a suburban soccer mom driving an SUV than by documented, cyclical variations in the brightness and intensity of the sun.Guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein.Businesses create oppression and government creates prosperity.Self-esteem is more important than doing anything to earn it.There was no art before federal funding.The NRA...

As grieving New Yorkers marked the anniversary of the World Trade Center's destruction, the folks at Rockefeller Center got in your face to commemorate the terror attacks. A violently disturbing sculpture popped up last week in the middle of Rock Center's busy underground concourse - right in front of the ice-skating rink. It depicts a naked woman, limbs flailing, face contorted, at the exact moment her head smacks pavement following her leap from the flaming World Trade Center. The rest of the story

North Augusta police say it took five officers to restrain a shoplifting suspect who stole a patrol car early Tuesday and wrecked it into two Palmetto trees on Georgia Avenue. Even the blows of a metal baton on his legs had no effect, said Detective Tim Thornton of the North Augusta Department of Public Safety. Pepper spray eventually subdued the man, who admitted later that he had been smoking crack cocaine before an officer tried to arrest him, police said. Gerald Eugene Ford, 36, of the 1000 block of Greene Street, Augusta, was charged with two felonies and five misdemeanors...

Joy Batchelor is standing in her 11-year-old son Drew's room Tuesday, describing him as only a mother can. She tells of his fondness for race car driving and science. He wanted to cure cancer when he grew up. One door down, she walks into his 13-year-old brother Brandon's room. She holds the last bath towel he used to her face and breathes him in. In the room of her oldest son, 15-year-old Raymond Ashton Groomes, she gazes at the wall quilt she made for him depicting a school of fish. Catching fish was one of Raymond's favorite hobbies. Her...

               IN PRISON AT WORK You spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell. You spend most of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.   IN PRISON AT WORK You get three meals a day (free). You only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it yourself.   IN PRISON AT WORK You get time off for good behavior. You get rewarded for good behavior with more WORK.   IN PRISON AT WORK A guard locks and unlocks the doors for you. You must carry around a security...

Sporting News Radio has learned that Tony Dungy is expected to be named the next head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. On Tuesday, Dungy’s agent, Ray Anderson, told The Associated Press there were "informal indications" that could lead to an interview with the team next week. The Indianapolis job opened last week when the Colts fired Jim Mora after he went 32-34 in four seasons. Dungy became available Monday night when he was fired after going 54-42 and making four playoff appearances in six seasons with Tampa Bay. Colts president Bill Polian said after announcing Mora's dismissal that he ...

ENRON – WHAT’S GOING ON? Do you want an 60-second rendition of just what all this Enron stuff is all about? OK .. here you go. Enron was the nation’s seventh largest corporation in terms of revenue.  Enron would buy natural gas and electrical energy from producers and re-sell those commodities to distributors and consumers.  Enron was apparently cooking the book.  Enron was heavily in debt, but the debt was hidden in various partnerships.  Eventually the house of cards caved in and Enron tanked.  Many Enron employees and investors literally lost most of their life savings. Enron’s connection to President ...