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To my Conservative Friends: We all saw my article, The Obama Voter - Stupid is as Stupid does about the incredible lack of any knowledge among the average Obama voter.... And, as many of you know, a large chunk of the Obama voter was the youth vote. So the questions is this: Has the youth of American been Dumbed-Down??? We all hear that the dumbification (there's your toilet paper word-of-the-day...) of our young people has reached all time highs with the Ipods, cell phones (and now Iphones which combine the two..), video games, texting non-stop, etc..... If a kid comes...

Trying to raise a real man in today’s world may be harder than splitting an atom. Everyday our kids are bombarded with images and messages of the most unmanly things imaginable. Magazines are full of sexually ambiguous models dressed in feminine clothes in homo-erotic poses. There’s a new book out every month about how you don’t need a man in the house to raise a man. TV shows typically are full of metro-sexual, gay, and otherwise wimpy male characters, and nearly every Hollywood movie that comes out has at least one homosexual character. Almost every dad in the movies or...

Surveillance Seized in Hacking Probe 14 minutes ago By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - Police have seized surveillance equipment from the psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly and the convenience store where he was seen twice the night his wife, Lori, presumably died. Hacking, 28, is accused of killing Lori Hacking, 27, while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin. Authorities believe the bin is at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, Hacking's former employer. The equipment taken from the hospital was a digital recorder for surveillance cameras, according...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For 10 years, Bryan Nadeu strutted in the Gay Pride parade as part of a marching band, hammering out a beat on a drum while wearing a rainbow-plumed hat. But that was B.F. - Before Fatherhood. Now, with a 14-month-old toddler in tow, he has other things to worry about while preparing for Sunday's San Francisco parade: Baby backpack or stroller? Will there be diaper-changing stations? And how to retreat if his kid melts at the loud music and crowds? "It's like I'm figuring out how I can be a father and still be gay," Nadeu...