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100 kids saved by quick thinking day care workers By Sean Tobin FOX 31 reporter WINDSOR (MyFOXColorado.com) - It was a moment Richard Dykstra will never forget. When a tornado destroyed the windmill day care building.Teachers and kids were inside at the time the tornado approached. "One of them is my grandson," said Dykstra. As the tornado bore down, a bank across the street huddled the kids into the bank's vault for safety. "We brought them from the day care over to the bank, and there wasn't one kid who had a scratch on them," said bank manager Harry Souvall.It's...

Boulder police are investigating an assault that may have been triggered because the victim stated she was gay. Police spokeswoman Julie Brooks said the assault took place just before 3 a.m. in the vicinity of 13th Street and Canyon Boulevard. She said a 21-year-old woman met two men on the Pearl Street Mall and they made sexual comments to her after she offered them a place to stay for the night. The woman rejected them, saying she was gay, and one of the men punched her and began kicking her. She told police both the suspects were white males between...

Feb 2, 2006 My fellow Americans, I am evil. I'm corrupt, incompetent and racist.I'm pretty stupid. Martin Sheen, the man who played a real president on "West Wing," got it right -- I am a "moron." Aaron McGruder, who illustrates the comic strip "The Boondocks," also got it right when he called me "functionally illiterate." Maybe someday I'll wake up from this dream in which I make an SAT verbal score higher than Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley, get better college grades than Al Gore, graduate from Yale, and get an MBA from Harvard. Sen. Ted Kennedy is right. I lied...

ACLU files suit over ouster from Bush town hall meeting FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2005 White House event staffers unlawfully removed two Denver residents from a town hall discussion with President Bush because of an anti-war bumper sticker on their car, charged the American Civil Liberties Union in a federal lawsuit filed today. “The government should not be in the business of silencing Americans who are perceived to be critical of certain policy decisions,” said ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Chris Hansen, who is the lead counsel in this case. “The president should be willing to be in the same...

The European ruling elite is having a collective nervous breakdown for fear the French will vote on May 29 and to reject the European Union constitution. Eleven opinion polls indicate it is likely that democracy could upset the power-seeking politicians' undemocratic plans. Politicians and bureaucrats who dream of world government - or at least continental government to be run by a commission of technocrats who think they are wiser than ordinary people - have progressed a long way toward their goal, starting with the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952, then the European Economic Community in 1958 and then...

WASHINGTON - Coming soon to dozens of military bases around the country: radio signals strong enough to jam nearby garage-door openers. Between now and 2008, the military is supplying a new radio system to roughly 125 bases that uses the same frequency as the one relied upon by more than 90 percent of the remotely operated openers, Pentagon and industry officials say. The military radio signal is sometimes so strong that it overpowers the opener's signal, preventing the door from opening. Or it can also vastly reduce the opener's range, forcing the user to walk close to the garage before...

"The Family," Kitty Kelley's Bush-bashing book published on Sept. 14, seems on its way to best-sellerdom despite some of the most implausible accusations since CBS thought a poor forgery of a National Guard record was the real thing. Here's a typical KK implausibility: W did cocaine at Yale in the mid-'60s. Hey, I studied (more or less) there in the late '60s, and pot was the thing among folks Bush didn't like. Liquor was quicker among those he hung with. Cocaine didn't come in for another decade. So let's forget Kelley's gossipy book and turn to Kerry's floundering campaign. Why...

Pop star Madonna drew massive applause from a sold-out crowd in Paris when she dedicated her version of John Lennon’s peace ode Imagine to the Russian hostage crisis. Addressing the audience midway through her show last night, Madonna spoke briefly about the tragedy at a Russian school that left at least 350 dead, including pupils, teachers and mothers. As video images of war and children were broadcast behind her on giant screens, the pop diva urged her fans at Paris’ Bercy stadium to think about what happened in Russia and to think about Lennon’s lyrics.

Who Will Answer Bill Maher's Good Question? Jay Bryant August 30, 2004 Friday night, Bill Maher had John O'Neill on his HBO television program. O'Neill, of course, is the principal author of Unfit for Command, the book version of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign to challenge John Kerry's military record. The interview itself was almost unbearably anger-provoking, as Maher snidely attempted to skewer O'Neill over and over again, while a studio audience laughed and applauded the host's every word. At least, unlike Chris "Motormouth" Matthews, he didn't interrupt O'Neill's every sentence. In the face of this hostility, O'Neill...

Xmas Present From Progressives: Starvation David Horowitz December 25, 2003 How many poor people have progressives starved since 1917? It's a good question and somebody should do the research and publish it. Russia was the breadbasket of Europe until progressives seized power in that year and started instituting policies to "share the wealth." For the next 70 years until socialism collapsed, Russia was a net importer of food always on the brink of famine. In the 1930s, Stalin instigated a calculated famine in the Ukraine to rid himself of approximately 10 million political enemies. His crime was protected by the...

BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030415 - 04/15/2003 Standing on Dangerous Ground The Courts and Democracy Sixteen-year-old Shaun Gerena's body was found outside a grocery store in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Neither his murderer nor the gun that killed him were found. Still, Shaun's mother, Gladys, can identify at least one party who should be held accountable for Shaun's death: gun manufacturers. That's why she is a participant in a lawsuit whose potential impact goes far beyond the gun debate. The lawsuit was filed by the NAACP against 165 gun manufacturers and distributors on behalf of "those whose interests the...

BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030312 - 03/12/2003 Offending Human Dignity The Partial-Birth Horror The leaked memo was not meant to be seen outside of a small group of pro-abortion congressmen. It was advice from a pollster on how to spin voter concerns about partial-birth abortion—advice that told them, in effect, to lie. "Voters believe that this procedure … kills an infant," the memo warned. But to get around this difficulty, congressmen should use the language of "severely deformed fetuses." Second, congressmen should describe partial-birth abortion as "medically necessary," performed only in the most "dire" medical circumstances. They should say,...

FRANCE: FROM GREAT TO INGRATE By Dick Morris (On Friday, March 7, I addressed the French Council on Foreign Relations. Here is a partial text of my remarks) France is suffering from a collective, national amnesia. You have allied yourselves with a nation that invaded you twice and another that threatened you for half a century against the two countries that saved you. What are we asking of you? Not your troops, not your children, not your money, not your bases, not even for overflight of your territory. We are asking only for you to get out of the way...