Oct 27, 2009 -
He's bigger than Ben-Hur at the moment, if you believe all the hype. Yet to come face-to-face with Robert Pattinson is to meet a serious artist, a multi-talented individual who could as easily have been a classical or funky musician as a movie star.
The Twilight juggernaut is propelling the 23-year-old British actor to the heights of mega stardom and, having previously only played minor roles, most notably as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he is making the most of it.
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Oct 15, 2009 -
by Troy Senik
http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california
My apologies for having nothing originally in this post. The text was here but didn't show up.
Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages. It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your mind up what to believe before reading.
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Oct 05, 2009 -
Commentary
By Erin Chapman | IDS | October 05, 2009
The newest ad out of a Toronto-based charity would make any marketing director salivate.
It features scantily-clad women, an MTV DJ and a final frame that looks like something from a “Girls Gone Wild” video. What were they advertising?
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Oct 05, 2009 -
Straight from the odd news...
LONDON (Reuters) – A British government minister asked California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday to shut down a U.S. website that allows men to rate prostitutes, including many working in London.
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Aug 31, 2009 -
Men Arrested in Cambodia Are the First Prosecuted Under Trafficking Initiative
By Ashley Surdin
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 1, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 -- Three Americans accused of traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children are expected to be charged in federal court here, officials said Monday, marking the first prosecutions under a new international initiative intended to combat child-sex tourism.
The initiative, Operation Twisted Traveler, targets Americans who exploit children for sex in Cambodia, which experts describe as a top destination for child predators.
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Sep 15, 2009 -
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/
Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes
By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM
Tom Brokaw.
With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.
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Aug 27, 2009 -
'John schools' try to change attitudes about paid sex
By Stephanie Chen
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- The accused came from all walks of life: Retirees, dads and twentysomethings. An engineer, a business owner and an auto worker. A man in a wheelchair.
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Sep 04, 2009 -
A Dangerous Delusion
We go to war to defend our interests, not to encourage democracy.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Right after 9/11, Pres.
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Aug 23, 2009 -
Spurned wife sells cheating husband's Porsche for a song
A wife who caught her husband cheating on her with a teenage babysitter in his Porsche is taking revenge by selling the car online for a fraction of its value.
By Murray WardropPublished: 8:00AM BST 22 Aug 2009
The woman was so angry when she caught her husband having sex with the 17-year-old girl in the Porsche 911 that she put the car up for sale on Gumtree, the classified advert site.
The car cost around £70,000 new but was up for sale on Friday priced just £2,000.
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Aug 20, 2009 -
BY CLIFF KINCAID
AUGUST 18, 2009
What drives President Barack Obama to want to seize control of the health care and energy sectors of the U.S. economy? Obama was trained as a Marxist from his days as a young boy in Hawaii when his grandfather picked Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis as his mentor.
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