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<p>Europe's most poverty stricken residents, from the corners of countries like Belarus and the Ukraine,are being lured by easy money and empty promises to donate vital organs to smugglers.</p> <p>Bloomberg reports the practice is becoming a near epidemic in Israel where religious practices keep the organ donor pool at one of the lowest level in developed countries.</p>

Senior NAACP official Hilary Shelton said blacks would get angry if they felt disenfranchised because of voting irregularities. "On Election Day," she said, "you may have some tempers flare."

Stop The Apologizing Already Apologies must be in this year, Danes sorry for looting and pillaging MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to celebrate the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship but we are not proud of the damage to the people of Ireland that followed in the...

President Bush’s advisers insist that he’s not abandoning conservatism in his commitment to rebuild the Gulf Coast. But a mark of conservative thinking is properly identifying problems before dedicating billions to solving them. The president hasn’t done that in New Orleans. Instead, in his September 15 speech from Jackson Square, Bush vowed to combat “poverty”—a foe that cities and the feds have never conquered in their long war against urban decay. In the language of Lyndon Johnson, Bush ascribed the violence and desperation Americans saw in New Orleans in the days after Hurricane Katrina to “deep, persistent poverty in this...

With all due deference to my colleague, Donnel Jones, it is not “over for the Bush Administration.” Maybe it is natural during a national crisis for emotions to run so high, but this blame-game has gotten out of hand. Granted, Donnel is not blaming Hurricane Katrina on Bush as so many wacky leftists are, but to conclude that this is the conclusion of Bush’s efficacy, or that this spells a certain change in who holds the House and Senate; this is just over the top. Katrina is the “worst natural disaster in modern American history”. Could anyone have been fully...

Supreme Tyranny  Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Homes (posted 6/24/05)4/23/05 Associated Press One of the worst days in the history of the United States. I am not exaggerating. This decision is antithetical to everything this country stands and stood for. Cities, states, counties, and the Federal Government can already, with impunity, seize private homes and businesses for the 'public use'. Yesterday the liberals on the Supreme Court took tyranny to the next level. Now, our government officials can seize private property and give it to other private citizens! How is this any different than what Huego Chavez is doing down...

Liking Viking: subliminal confession by simile   by Mia T, 6.9.03 The June 8 infomercial in the guise of a news show opened with Walters and Hillary Clinton on Washington's Mall with Walters pressing her about a presidential run. The show then moved to a segment taped in Hillary's hometown of Park Ridge, Illinois where she shared how a bearded Bill Clinton at Yale "looked like a Viking" and she was attracted to his "beautiful hands" and "very long fingers." Walters Delivers Hillary Book Infomercial, Paints Her as VictimMRC ^ | Monday June 9, 2003 | BrentBaker Every woman...