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MARYSVILLE, Wash. — A student recently crowned freshman class homecoming prince walked into his Seattle-area high school cafeteria Friday and opened fire, killing one person and shooting four others — including two of his cousins — before turning the gun on himself, officials and witnesses said. Students said the gunman was staring at his victims as he shot them inside the cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. The shootings set off a chaotic scene as students ran from the cafeteria and building in a frantic dash to safety, while others were told to stay put inside classrooms at the school 30...

In the wake of the scandalous reaction of the welfare underclass in New Orleans to the Katrina hurricane, a recent column by David Brooks in the NY Times was refreshing to read, but it probably bored most of its readers. Brooks pointed out that many good things have been happening in this country for the last few years, and they have spanned both Democrat and Republican administrations. He points out that: “The rate of family violence in this country has dropped by more than half since 1993. The decline in domestic violence is of a piece with the decline in...

Adolf Hilter was terrorized by a tyrannical father and became a teenage bully who beat his baby sister regularly, according to newly discovered diaries. "Once again I feel my brother's loose hand across my face," Paula Hitler reportedly wrote in a journal uncovered by American historian Timothy Ryback and German researcher Florian Beierl. Another memoir, this one purportedly written by Hitler's half-brother Alois and half-sister Angela, recounted a scene where Hitler's mother, Klara, threw herself over her son's body to protect him. "Without a sound she absorbs it," the memoir states. "This is a picture of a completely dysfunctional family...

Men Should Join Attorney General Ashcroft and Pledge to Defeat Domestic Violence By Kevin Fobbs July 15, 2004 "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke. On June 9, 2004, Paulette Litzan of Sterling Heights, Michigan, had all of her dreams, all of her expectations of life, all of the abuse she had endured from her ex-boyfriend Harry D. Stanley come to an end with a single shot to her head. What news accounts don't record is the terror Paulette and thousands of women like her in Metro Detroit endure as...