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Deborah Kerr, rest in peace...also Joey Bishop...
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Canadian Mark Steyne on the political divide in the US...
A year before this next election in the U.S., the common space required for civil debate and civilized disagreement has shrivelled to a very thin sliver of ground. Politics requires a minimum of shared assumptions...., if you want to discuss the best way forward in the war on terror, you can't do that if the guy you're talking to doesn't believe there is a war on terror, only a racket cooked up by the Bushitler and the rest of the Halliburton stooges as a pretext to tear up the constitution.

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School board okays birth control for Middle School students age 11 to 13...without telling their parents...
the age of consent in Maine is 16... any 13 year old who has had intercourse needs to have someone check what's going on because unless it's by her 15 year old boyfriend, she's probably being abused...

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Bhutto returns to Pakistan, Alqaeda kills over 100 with their bombs trying to kill her...Ralph Peters reminds the West that the reason she was kicked out in the first place was for massive corruption.
Follow up: The Asian Times says that the cooperation of Bhutto and Musharref will allow them to clean up the hinterlands full of Taliban.

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Tornadoes hit the Oktoberfest in Tulsa.. injuring 25 when the tents collapsed..also people in a trailer park were injured...

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A Philly paper gives a good review on Rush? hell must be ordering parkas...

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And Psst...pass it on....Gloria is in trouble again... the government approved a massive broad band deal with China without competitive bidding...
and now "cash gifts" from the government to officials so they'll back her is being scrutinized..
But don't worry...GMA was a classmate of Bill Clinton, and just like him, she'll get off...