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FORT WORTH — This story may sound fishy to you, but the Smith family of Joshua has a photo to prove it. Four-year-old Caden Smith, who weighs 40 pounds, hauled in a 45-pound flathead catfish Saturday while fishing from the banks of the Trinity River near downtown. "He battled for his life," his uncle Dan Smith of Hurst said Wednesday.

Synopsis: 27 Labor Unions oppose Senate Finance Committee health insurance reform plan passed yesterday (Oct 12).

While we all have been following the Obama Administration's hasty legislative attempt to have the Federal Government socialize the US healthcare system, another catastrophe has been developing on the world scene upon which our Citizen of the World-Nobel Peace Prize winning President has yet to move in the defense of liberty. The United Nations has been quietly moving in multiple bodies to eventually prosecute Israeli Military Officials singularly and the State of Israel at large for defending herself in the 22-day military defensive response to Hamas, Operation Cast Lead. To sum up briefly, Judge Richard Goldstone presented his report to...

Pattern of Threats and Intimidation Escalates Into an Assault on a Pro-Life Volunteer at a Prayer Vigil FRESNO, CA – Right to Life of Central California (RLCC), one of the largest pro-life organizations west of the Mississippi, today condemned the pattern of threats and intimidation targeted at pro-life volunteers, that escalated into an assault Thursday afternoon. On October 15th, Day 23 of our 40 Days for Life campaign, a pro-choice woman shouted obscenities at 40 Days volunteers, before attempting to break the event security camera and assaulting Victor Fierro, director of Latinos4Life. The attacker cut Fierro’s arm with an unknown...

"I am not the only one who sees a strange anomaly in the Oslo committee awarding Mr. Obama the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Considering that his actual nomination had to have taken place before February 1st when he was not even two weeks in office, he could not have possibly done anything to merit this award and he certainly hasn't done anything since! In fact, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize is the shameless leader of the war against unborn children around the world; his alliance with Planned Parenthood testifies vocally to his pro-death agenda, not to...

News that Air Force Generals were sacked by the President for recent mishaps, incidents and failures in exercises at nuclear missile batteries hidden across the Western United States has been widely questioned by the Airmen and Airwomen based at these facilities. It's time that somebody brought out the truth that the politicians in Washington DC seem desperate to hide' one NCO reported in a blog sent out yesterday NCO's at Minot ND's Air Base are quick to point out that nothing abnormal, or unexpected has occurred over the past year that could possibly have warranted the removal of these Air...

MetroSource News 10/16/2009 00:33:29 TX - Obama Bush Forum >> Obama, George H.W. Bush Hold Texas Community Service Event (College Station, TX) -- President Obama heads to Central Texas today to join former President George H.W. Bush at an event to promote community service. The presidential forum is being held at the George Bush Presidential Library Center on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. It is meant to be a non-partisan event to celebrate the importance of community service. However, that doesn't mean Obama's visit to the largely conservative college town will necessarily go off without a...

The government is very touchy about its nuclear weapons, apparently because it's only the nukes that can dissuade a foreign nation threatening invasion. The Russian armed forces can do it, as it has shrunk 80 percent since the end of the Cold War in 1991, and fallen apart as well. Lack of money means that Russian military technology has not kept up. This includes the nuclear weapons. While Russia got the new Topol M ICBM into service since 1991, this was a Cold War era project, meant to replace the older, and much less effective and reliable ICBMs. But while...

London (dpa) -- A woman has been injured in an apparent murder attempt when a bomb exploded under the car she was driving in the Northern Irish capital Belfast, police said Friday. No group made any immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Northern Ireland has seen an upsurge in activity by dissident Catholic republicans who are opposed to the province's ten-year-old peace process. Northern Ireland witnessed 30 years of civil strife and violence between mainly Catholics opposed to British rule in the province and the majority protestant population, until a peace agreement was signed in 1998. Over 3,000...

"Some arrive at Veterans Memorial two hours early" Sometimes Ernest Hayden Jr. forgets he's part of a global recession that has cost millions of workers their jobs. "You compartmentalize and think it's just you," said the 44-year-old Reynoldsburg resident, who was laid off by Limited Stores in May after 23 years with the company. Hayden was reminded yesterday at the Project Hire job fair that he's not alone, as he took his place at the end of a slow-moving line. "It's overwhelming," he said as he stood with about 500 other job seekers. "You get self-absorbed and then you come...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider throwing out the convictions of former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling for his role in one of the largest scandals in U.S. business history. The court said Tuesday it will hear Skilling's appeal of lower court rulings that upheld all 19 of his 2006 convictions of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors involving the 2001 collapse of the one-time energy giant. Skilling, serving a 24-year prison term, is asking the court to consider whether the federal "honest services" fraud statute was applied correctly.

“They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” Isaiah 2:4 The verse is well known and quoted by Jews and Christians alike; a maxim that is the hope of all humankind that we eventually have world peace and live in harmony. The message is very indicative of the ideal the world strives for and what reality would be, if, and only if, the world can afford to beat the swords into plowshares--into prosperity instead bloodshed. But reality, since it is cruel and unjust, requires us sometimes to reverse that verse and turn our plowshares into some fantastic and uncompromising...

Come view Media Malpractice, and discuss this film with it's maker, John Ziegler. He will take questions and comments after the showing of his movie, in addition to personally signing copies of the DVD. Mr. Ziegler has appeared numerous times on both FOX News and MSNBC. He was also listed number 54 on Talker Magazine's Heavy Hundred list of the most important U.S. radio talk show hosts in 2007. This event is FREE and everyone is welcome to attend. It will take place on Friday, October 23rd, at 6 PM, at UC Merced in COB 105. More information is available...

Pfuffnick's Nobel Economics Prize triumph hailed by many! LONDON — The surprise choice of first-year graduate student Quintus Pfuffnick for the Nobel Prize in Economics drew praise from much of the world Friday even as many pointed out the youthful economist has not yet published anything in scholarly journals. The new PhD candidate was hailed for his willingness to tackle difficult problems, his commitment to improving the economic system, and his goal of bringing efficiency and equality into harmony.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Notice of Electronic Filing The following transaction was entered by Taitz, Orly on 10/11/2009 at 12:57 PM PDT and filed on 10/11/2009 Come now the Plaintiffs with this Request for Judicial Notice that Individual Damages are not required in public sector mail & wire fraud relating to political corruption under 18 U.S.C. §1346, together with notice of filing expanded report by Susan Daniels. During this Court’s hearing on October 5, 2009, the Court searchingly examined counsel for the Plaintiffs and Defendants regarding the sole threshold question of “standing.” Plaintiffs’ provided arguments of...

Three hostages and four kidnappers were killed in a rescue operation at Pakistan's military headquarters Sunday, an army spokesman said, adding that 25 hostages were freed. "Twenty five hostages have been freed. Three hostages and four terrorists were killed in the rescue operation," military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP. "Mopping up and clearance operations are going on," he said. Earlier Abbas told private TV channel GEO that security forces had entered the building. "There was resistance and an exchange of fire, but most of the hostages were freed and the remaining are safe," he said.

Adapted by Barry Rubin from Jean Hersholt's translation of Hans Christian Andersen's story, "Keiserens nye Klæder" Many years ago there was a man who wanted to be Emperor, for according to the peculiar customs of that country of which I speak, the Emperor was elected. Fortunately for him, and unfortunately for many others, the man met a couple of political consultants who saw him as the ideal client. Together they would ride to the heights of power. To become Emperor, they explained, required a good image, a fine manner of speaking, and a handsome appearance. But in those days before...

Rumors are flying that secret meetings are taking place between Arab states, China, Russia, Japan and France, to dump the dollar and replace the U.S. currency’s role in the pricing of oil. The dollar fell against the euro, yen and Swiss franc, while gold hit new highs of $1,041 an ounce. Is there any truth to the rumors that the dollar is being replaced by a basket of foreign currencies, and what will be the impact your investments and the U.S. economy?

BALTIMORE (SWS) - In a stunning decision, the National Football League has awarded the 2009 AFL Championship, NFL Season Championship and the Vince Lombardi trophy to the 0-4 Cleveland Browns (AFC North) in an apparent reaction to a comment made by former Browns franchise owner Art Modell that the team was "overdue" for a winning season, and that he "hoped that the Browns would do better" this year. Baltimore Ravens fans were immediately outraged that Modell betrayed them by inadvertently helping the Browns over the 3-1 Ravens, which Modell founded after moving the Browns franchise out of Cleveland in 1995....

A suspected “high level” al-Qaeda collaborator who provided data on terrorism targets in France and expressed a “desire to carry out an attack” was on Friday revealed to work at the world’s largest nuclear research facility. Security sources in Paris said the suspect, who was arrested with his brother on Thursday in Vienne near Lyons, worked on projects for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. The 32-year old Frenchman of Algerian origin and his 25-year old brother were being held last night at the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, France’s equivalent to MI5,...