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Everything Americans know about the end of the Vietnam War is wrong, contends Richard Botkin, author of “Ride the Thunder” and former Marine infantry officer. He reveals the heroic, untold story of how Vietnamese Marines and their U.S. advisers fought valiantly, turning the tide of an unpopular war and actually winning while Americans 8,000 [...]

Despite city regulations prohibiting it, hundreds of New Yorkers have kept beehives on rooftops and backyard gardens for years, defying the law in their efforts to create something sustainable in the urban environment.
They’re people like 61-year-old Deborah Romano, a gardener and first-time beekeeper in Brooklyn. She had hopes of selling honey at the city’s various [...]

3rd Infantrys 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping people at home may become a permanent part of the active Army….
They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, [...]

Convicts do not have a right under the Constitution to obtain DNA testing to try to prove their innocence after being found guilty, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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Technical analyst Robert Prechter on Monday said he sees the United States losing its top AAA credit rating by the end of 2010, as he stuck by a deeply bearish outlook on the U.S. economy and stock market.Prechter, known for predicting the 1987 stock market crash, joins a growing coterie of market heavyweights in forecasting [...]

Michigan unemployment reaches 12.9 percent in April
Government was the only broad employment category to add jobs in Michigan last month, with a net increase of about 2,000 jobs.
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the campaign was born of frustration with timid elected officials in Washington, corrupt judges around the country and a news media that show a stunning lack of curiosity about the most basic facts of Obama’s background – especially how it relates to constitutional eligibility for the highest office in the land.

Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad.
But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after [...]

This questioned has been asked to me more than a few times. You be the judge of the “authoritative source.”
“For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it as the ‘tell-all, final word’ on any comment, claim and e-mail. But for several years people tried to [...]

Very dangerous forum IMHO. A social networking environment is usually too wide open to abuse. Then a news service opens a link for easy migration?

9-12 is coming sooner than we think. Now is the time for all of us to stand up for OUR country!

Thanks, Jim…..I ‘ll show you hwo to do this tonight!

Same-Sex Marriage: Opening The Door To Polygamy
Marriage has been defined in this country up until now as a union between a man and woman. The argument given to allow same sex marriage is that it is a civil right based on the wishes of two adults. Using that logic why should we not allow any [...]

New York Democrat made case in 2004 in favor of harsh interrogation

All I can say is what I kept hearing on Newsvine, “SHUT UP!” You know how I am about giving orders :0

WORDS GET IN THE WAY! So what will they come up with next?
Reference book equates terms without comment
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Sen. Arlen Spector has changed to the Democratic Party. He says it was a painful decision. I think it was just self preservation as he was losing terribly in the polls an was about to get kicked out of Congress in 2010. This move looks purely like selfishness to me. He should fit right in [...]

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