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Yes, you. You know who you are. You’re liberal; an academic, perhaps, or a writer/journalist/opinion-shaper of some sort. You spout the liberal line (I’m not really sure whether you really believe it, or just realize that it’s a good gig that pays well) to your adoring audience, who gobble it up and regurgitate it to others ad nauseum. This I can deal with. What I cannot deal with, what I cannot comprehend, is the dangerous mentality that sometimes accompanies basic liberal elite thinking. The mentality that actively wishes harm on our country and its citizens–all in the name of progress,...

NORTH ROSE – Border patrol officers can’t break the law to enforce it, the Wayne County Farm Bureau is asserting. Farm Bureau is in the process of gathering information for a formal complaint to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo, asking for an investigation into the circumstances of the stop of four migrant farm workers on Route 414 in front of Barbara Jean’s Furniture Store Aug. 17. Also, U.S. Sen. Kristen Gillibrand was made aware of the incident last week and indicated she will write a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napalitano regarding border patrol activity in...

NORTH ROSE – A Wolcott fruit grower is accusing the U.S. Border Patrol of racially profiling four of his workers who were stopped on Route 414 Aug. 17 as they were returning to his farm from a trip to purchase clothing. The men were all detained and taken for processing; Border Patrol Officer E. Rodriguez, who was in charge of the scene, told fruit grower Brian Doyle the men volunteered they were in the U.S. illegally. Doyle said Rodriguez then accused him of being a “federal criminal” because he employed the men. He said Rodriguez continually referred to the men...

Confessions of a Blogger… I have to confess that I have been chosen to deliver an address at the upcoming convention for center-right Bloggers, Blogging Man 2007. The news of this gathering has come out too early. The Internet holds no secret for long, obviously. Within a week or so of the organizer's efforts to begin to line up speakers for their convention, the news began to spread like wildfire and the organizers were deluged with emails asking about the event and Blogs began rumor-mongering about it. So, the event advertising on the Net was launched months too early. And,...

FBI agents have raided the home of a Waterbury Islamic leader as part of an investigation into a charity accused of financing Osama bin Laden and other terrorists. Majeed Sharif, president of the United Muslim Mosque, won't say what investigators took from his Wolcott home yesterday. But he tells The Associated Press that he did volunteer work for the Islamic African Relief Agency, a charity the Bush administration recently accused of funneling money to terrorists. The 57-year-old Sharif referred all questions to his attorney, who says Sharif did nothing wrong. His attorney wouldn't discuss the search but says Sharif is...

KERRY SUPPORTER CATHERINE WOLCOTT: "'Fifteen minutes into the speech I was thinking I need to get in there and do some heavy editing,' says Catherine Wolcott, a [Kerry] supporter in the audience. 'He just keeps repeating that stuff about the past and he needs to get to the future.' 'I'm, like, panicking,' Wolcott adds. 'I look at the poll numbers and think where are we and where is Bush? We got to get higher up.'" (Hanna Rosin, "The Kerry Camp, Cautiously Giddy," The Washington Post, 9/22/04)  

WOLCOTT — Weather got in the way of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Jan. 15 visit here, but the former first lady made it to Wolcott yesterday for the dedication of the addition at Electromark. Alongside owner Blair Brewster and vice president and co-founder Harold Rickles, Clinton cut the ribbon on the 28,000-square-foot expansion that is expected to more than double the company’s 120-person workforce to about 300 within the next five years. Clinton’s visit to Electromark wasn’t her first brush with screen printing. Rickles said that he read in her book, “Living History,” that Clinton’s father had opened a screen...