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Amateur on-site video. Not news footage. This man has it right as he is the first responder when a man tries to carjack him. Great onsite video. Not a news feed story.

America’s Strategic Fix and Our New Decision PointsAugust 25th, 2006 America’s national leadership since 9-11 has said that we are in a “Global War on Terror.” More recently, they describe it as a “Long War.” Putting it together then we are in a “global-long war on terror” against jihadists, Islamic fascists, or however you want to describe that enemy, and implicitly any other people or nation that advocates and is pursuing the wherewithal and means to destroy this Country—after all that is the definition of a threat. The moniker suggests this war is something different, above and beyond even the...

With Iran and North Korea becoming nuclear powers. We are running out of time. It is decision time very soon. this is my opinion of what needs to happen. Correct me where I am ignorant. it is time to 1. Reinstate a large scale draft 2. Re position troops in Iraq and issue "fallout warnings". 3. I know the President likely has an updated siop plan in his desk or on it. I personally believe that there are plans for some type of Nuclear strike. 4. Do the plan. Nuke the government out..disconnect Teran from the rest of the country....

WASHINGTON -- In most movies made to convey dread, the tension flows from uncertainty about what will happen. In ``United 93,'' terror comes from knowing exactly what will happen. People who associate cinematic menace with maniacs wielding chain saws will find that there can be an almost unbearable menace in the quotidian -- in the small talk of passengers waiting in the boarding area with those who will murder them, in the routine shutting of the plane's door prior to push-back from the gate at Newark Airport on Sept. 11. But two uncertainties surrounded ``United 93'': Would it find an...

Yesterday my wife and I attended a community awareness meeting called at our church to talk about the growing methamphetamine and illegal drug problem in our little Idaho community. The County Attorney and a Captain with the Idaho State Troopers made the presentation, with the local Police Chief and Sheriff also in attendance. About 300 people attended. Idaho is an increasing target for the Mexico Drug Cartels for developing and deciminating drugs. The officials clearly showed and demonstrated how these drugs are being funneled, using illegal aliens as carriers, from Mexico, across the remote sections of the US border and...

Jail term won't alter juror's defiant attitude Friday, April 25, 2003By Barton Deiters and Doug GuthrieThe Grand Rapids Press Every day, defendants leave the downtown court building to head to jail, but Thursday, it was a juror who went to the county lockup. Brian Scott Lett, a 23-year-old Alto resident who failed to show up for jury duty earlier this month, was hauled before Kent County Circuit Judge Donald Johnston Thursday and found in contempt of court. Lett was handcuffed and taken to Kent County Jail, where he remains today. Lett failed to show up for three consecutive days of...

Judge has an answer for jury prospect's invoice Computer consultant tried to bill federal court $16,800 to keep August open for duty 08/15/2002 Associated Press SAN ANTONIO - When computer consultant David Williamson was summoned for federal jury duty and told that he should keep August free of commitments, he replied he was ready to serve at his normal rate of $100 an hour. He prepared an invoice, charging the government for "court-ordered professional services for the entire month of August 2002." His bill came to $16,800 $100 an hour, eight hours a day, 21 days during the month...

usa today 7-16Reporters, do your civic duty By Philip MeyerAt a seminar some years ago, a newspaper editor declared that if he walked out of his office building and saw a purse-snatcher robbing an unaccompanied woman, he would take notes for a news story, but neither go to her aid nor call the police. Why not? Because a journalist is a creature of professional detachment who must report events without participating. Calling the cops would be an unacceptable form of participation, in the mind of this and many other editors. Classroom hypotheticals, no matter how weird, have a way of...