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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade we didn't buy a ruby. Instead, the Center for Reproductive Rights asked Mehcad Brooks of the USA Network's "Necessary Roughness" and HBO's "True Blood" to prepare a special video message just for you. To learn more and to sign the Bill of Reproductive Rights visit DrawTheLine.org.

 Obama's Fortieth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 10/30/2009 The White House finally releases a list of visitors to the White House.  The list includes Bill Ayers 2x, George Soros 4x, Michael Moore 8X, the head of the ACORN affiliated Union the SEIU Andrew Stern 20x,Jeremiah Wright, GE/NBC head Jeff Immelt 5x, Jesse Jackson 6x,  John Edwards2x, and Al Sharpton 2x.Former actor and present White House associate director of public engagement Kalpen Modi was directly involved in planning the controversial conference call hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create...

On Tuesday, 100 soldiers of Bravo Company, 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion got into a civilian airliner and headed for Kuwait for additional training before they cross into Iraq. In a short ceremony in one of the hangars at Libby Army Airfield, the soldiers heard Brig. Gen. Susan Lawrence tell them to take care of each other in the combat zone. “Take care of yourself, take care of your battle buddy,” said Lawrence, who commands the Network Enterprise Technology Command, the higher headquarters of the Signal Corps unit. The general said many of them will be traveling on the dangerous roads...

BASRAH, Iraq, Oct. 3, 2006 — A group of California National Guardsmen from the 40th Engineer Brigade are making a difference in Iraq serving with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Basrah Area Office of the Gulf Region South District. “There are three of us serving down here in Basrah,” said Maj. Zac Delwiche, a liaison officer with the Oil Area Office. “We all have different jobs, but the Corps is making good use of all of our skills.” Delwiche is joined in Basrah by fellow 40th Engineer Brigade soldiers: Master Sgt. Bob Lamoureux and Sgt 1st Class...

AL ASAD, Iraq (July 12, 2006) -- From navigating the jungles of Vietnam to surviving the deserts of Iraq, one warrior has been a part of almost every major campaign that the Marine Corps has had in the past four decades. Marines with Task Force Military Police, 1st Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, honored Chief Warrant Officer 4 Wayne H. Silva for his 40th anniversary in the Marine Corps while in Al Asad July 8. "June 28, 1966, was the day that I stepped onto the yellow footprints," stated Silva, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense officer, Task Force Military Police....

FORT HUACHUCA - "That's what I signed up for," said Sgt. Charles Odom as he prepared to join the rest of the 40th Signal Battalion in a ceremony at Libby Army Airfield Sunday afternoon, prior to its deployment to Iraq. About 130 members of the communications battalion are in the air today enroute to Kuwait, after stops in Indianapolis, Newfoundland, Ireland and Hungary. This will be Odom's second tour in Iraq and, although he exchanged fire with insurgents during the year he spent around Fallujah previously, he was calm about going again. "I heard it's more secure now," the 101/2-year...

A new year and another new Beatles release. This time it's a DVD documentary celebrating the 40th anniversary of the quartet's first American tour. Released early next month, The Beatles First US Visit promises "exceptionally candid footage" of a legendary event. It follows hard on the heels of last year's Let It Be ... Naked CD, which in turn followed the five-DVD Anthology box set, the Anthology book, the 1 CD compilation of "greatest hits" and the remastered Yellow Submarine DVD and "songtrack" CD. In fact, there has been a steady stream of Beatles product since 1994, when the Beatles'...

Almost Blowing Up The WorldA Child's Memoir Of The Cuban Missile Crisis — Or, How I Escaped The ApocalypseBy Jerry Cimisi Forty years ago in late October, I came in from a lovely autumn day and sat down to dinner, surprised to see President Kennedy on the gray-blue cast of our black and white television, pre-empting reruns of the Three Stooges to announce that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. Thus began a vivid fearful week in the life of an eleven year-old boy who lived in Rosedale, Queens. The fear was not irrational. The memories are...