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Two Belgian university professors recently decided to submit the 10 most borrowed books at the Antwerp library to bacteriology and toxicology tests. Traces of cocaine were found on all 10 books...the scientists discovered traces of the herpes virus in the pages of the erotic tale Fifty Shades of Grey.

This is completely insane. Europe is backing away from big government, socialist policies while the US just keeps spending and digging us deeper into a hole. European countries aren’t looking for free market solutions to their problems because their governments did a fine job at centralized control of health care and the economy. They’re looking for free market solutions because their policies have failed. They’ve run out of other people’s money! Take the United Kingdom. Obama just appointed, without any Senate hearings, a man who praised the British health care system as a model for the rest of us to...

I just heard Rush talking about how Bill O’Reilly owns the rights to the term “the folks”. He gave me a nice laugh because it always bothers me when O’Reilly says that. That along with another term media pundits like to use “everyday people” seem so condescending. Who do these people think they are? I'm embarassed for them when they use such platitudes. Because they sit in front of a camera and scream at each other they think they are the “elite” and the rest are just the lowly “folks” and “everyday people”. Such subtle terms really reveal the delusions...

NEW YORK – "Going Rogue" has sold a million copies. HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Tuesday that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin's memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for "Going Rogue" has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to 2.5 million.

The latest hysteria alleging American human rights abuses of suspected terrorists comes from Amnesty International, which apparently hopes to turn even the slightest supposed mistreatment of prisoners into a full-scale Abu Ghraib-type scandal. According to the Washington Times, Amnesty International "last week called on foreign governments 'to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating U.S. officials implicated in the development or implementation of interrogation techniques that constitute torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment' at the U.S. military base known as Gitmo." Furthermore, in a report titled "The State of the World's Human Rights," the organization charged that "the...

On behalf of our membership the Texas Democratic Veterans Executive Committee is proud to announce that we hereby endorse David Van Os for Texas Supreme Court Place 9. In this endorsement we are proud to join with: Texas AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Communications Workers of America, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, State Association of Electrical Workers, United Auto Workers, American Federation of Government Employees, Texas Carpenters & Millwrights Regional Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Texas Working Families Political Action Committee, Rio Grande Valley Teachers Association, Austin Black Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association of...

Clinton book mania explodes on the Web By John Borland CNET News.com June 22, 2004, 3:13 PM PT Just hours after former U.S. president Bill Clinton finished a first round of book-signings for his new memoir, published Tuesday, autographed copies were selling on eBay for $250 and more. Some of those copies hadn't even been signed yet. One St. Paul, Minn., seller named Jason Gabbert, an eBay regular and longtime Clinton fan, promised that his family and he had tickets to next week's Los Angeles book signing and were guaranteed a few autographed copies to sell. "It's amazing the effect...

It would be extremely beneficial at this point if we could simply produce the original autographs for examination. This would greatly simplify the operation of establishing correctly the New Testament Text. But this simply cannot happen. It has long been acknowledged by scholars that we no longer have the "originals." They have long since passed from the scene. This is due to the fact that scribes were known to destroy worn out MSS after they had copied them. Apparently the church valued the WORDS of the original more than the original itself. Therefore, the readings of the originals must be...