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MickC @ June 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died at 86 years of age.
On the morning of Feb. 23, 1945, Lindberg, a flame-thrower joined five other Marines fighting their way to the top of Mount Suribachi. “Two of our men [...]
MickC @ June 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
ABC News: Does Death Penalty Achieve Desired Effect?
The steady drumbeat of DNA exonerations pointing out flaws in the justice system has weighed against capital punishment. The moral opposition is loud, too, echoed in Europe and the rest of the industrialized world, where all but a few countries banned executions years ago.
What gets little notice, however, [...]
MickC @ June 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
It looks like the Georgia Supreme Court has tossed a challenge to Voter ID.
Good for them.
I blogged about this a couple of years ago. My thoughts haven’t changed much, especially now that we are pretty sure that illegal aliens have actually voted in Texas elections.
My biggest sorrow in all of this is that a [...]
MickC @ June 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Democrats Push Veto Fight on Stem Cells
Congressional Democrats are spoiling for their second veto fight of the spring with President Bush, this one centered on embryonic stem cell research and its disease-fighting potential.
Because the first veto fight went so well for them. You know, the one where they put on their Commanders-in-Chief hats and [...]
MickC @ June 5, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Back in March of this year, an email went out proclaiming that Southwest Airlines is giving away flights to people with sexually transmitted diseases.
I understand from someone else who received a copy that this is actually an email that came from e360Insight’s servers, and is not a hoax so much as it was evidence of [...]
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