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It has been two months since we began operations with Operation Waltzing Matilda. Two months ago, we began with three vessels. We now have two, having lost the Ady Gil when the Japanese whaler Shonan Maru No. 2 cut it in half and sank it on January 6th, 2010. During the last two months, the Steve Irwin has engaged the Shonan Maru No. 2 in numerous skirmishes and the Sea Shepherd ships Bob Barker and the Ady Gil engaged the main body of the whaling fleet, a day that disrupted the whaling activities and ended with the destruction of our...

RACINE, W.Va. - (KRT) - Seizing on a common campaign sign that features President Bush's middle initial, Sen. John Kerry on Monday declared that "W stands for wrong," shifting his focus from the rhetorical quagmires of Iraq and Vietnam to pocketbook issues. Kerry spent Labor Day in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina blaming Bush for economic problems that he said were the worst since the Great Depression. He also retooled his campaign team on the fly. "As the president likes to say, there's nothing complicated about it," Kerry said, speaking to a crowd of...

Whenever someone like me complains about the assault on freedoms launched by current Attorney General John Ashcroft, someone will rise up and scream that all of Ashcroft?s extremism is justified by the war on terrorism. ?We have to take these steps to prevent another September 11,? some flag-waving, Johnny-come-lately patriot will proclaim. ?I?m willing to make the sacrifice to keep America safe.?Well I hate to break it to all you duct-tape hoarding, canned food stockpiling sheep who don?t mind following somebody into oblivion as long as he waves the American flag, but surrendering your freedoms to Uncle Sam ain?t gonna save...