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Cut and run

In March 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper affirmed his government's commitment to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan, telling hundreds of soldiers there that Canada won't "cut and run" so long as he's in charge. "You can't lead from the bleachers. I want Canada to be a leader," he told Canadian troops at the Kandahar airfield base the day after he arrived.

Mexican Stupidity Runs Wild at Ball Game!

OK, pretend that you are a vocal and passionate opponent of Arizona’s law SB 1070. In your warped view, it is racist, bigoted, just plain wrong.

The hardest life: surviving Cuban jail

By Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald MADRID -- Boiled plantain-flavored water as soup. A greasy scoop of bland, yellowing beef fat as a side dish. A stew dubbed ``the giraffe'' because ``you had to stretch your neck to find something in it.'' A hairy heap of ground pig eyes, cheek, ears, and other unidentifiable parts served as a main course.

6 new credit scams to watch out for

Mark Riddix, Investopedia.com, Forbes In today's high tech digital age, you have to very careful about protecting your financial information. Criminals will go as far as taking legitimate financial services and turning them into corrupt money making scams. One of the best ways to protect your finances is by being aware of the latest financial schemes being perpetrated by con artists. Here are six new credit scams to be on the lookout for.

Beware the MPs who are cozy with the NCCC!

Recently the National Congress of Chinese Canadians (NCCC) expressed their anxiety about CSIS Fadden's warning of foreign influence in Canada. I can't really blame the NCCC for getting nervous about that. After all, isn't the NCCC just another front organization for Beijing?

Refs Are Biased: Report

By JAVIER ESPINOZA LONDON—It's official: referees are biased.

Calcium Supplements May Raise Risk of Heart Attack

Reuters Report Calcium supplements, which many people consume hoping to ward off osteoporosis, may increase the risk of heart attack by as much as 30 percent, researchers reported Friday.

McGuinty inventing taxes

Here are some examples how taxes affect us. I purchased a monitor for $99.00 then I paid $12.25 ON ENVFEE; then I paid 13% H S T tax which was $13.00 and if the eco tax was not suspended for 90 days, how much tax would I have paid above the $ 25.00 tax I already paid on a $99.00 purchase and I would like people to go to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLHMr-JZJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLHMr-JZJI[/url] to watch Mcguinty say he will not raise taxes.

Long and short term effects of dispersants

I just heard there is an organic solution. There are organisms in the gulf that literally eat oil, in fact they thrive on it and it makes the whole food chain thrive. In warm water the results are even more dramatic.

Helena Guergis

Instead of summoning MP Helena Guergis to his office and confronting her with his suspicions, Stephen Harper cavalierly dismissed her from his cabinet and called on the RCMP to investigate her supposed crimes.

Tom Garcia for Congress

Commander Tom Garcia has won the the endorsement of iCaucus in his bid for the Republican nomination to face U.S. Representative Suzanne Kosmas (D).

Have you no shame?

Mr. Mayer, I could scarecely belive my eyes when I saw the headline: "Fringe Review: ####ing Stephen Harper".

Gel that can help decayed teeth grow back could end fillings

By Pat Hagan, Daily Mail A gel that can help decayed teeth grow back in just weeks may mean an end to fillings.

European Union to run Canada’s municipal water system?

Dear Helena Guergis; I’m writing about the proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA.

Retiring

Tony Hayward is being measured for a golden corporate parachute, worth millions of British pounds. BP's outgoing CEO will get back what he's been yearning for since last April 20, the fateful day BP's ecological nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico began -- his privileged old life. One in which yachting, among other pleasantries, will no doubt figure prominently; without, I dare say, arousing any new controversy.

Texas Border City on Lockdown

Congratulations

Please thank and congratulate KELLY O'CONNELL for her wonderful article about impeaching Obama.

Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits

Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad.

Squeak!

Dear Mr. Harper and every one else in Parliament; I am a white English speaking Canadian of mixed European extract but I do not fit in to any identifiable special interest group. I'm kind of lumped into "main stream" a very bland and suspiciously meaningless category that pays most of the tax, takes most of the blame, and has the government working very hard to erase my history, make me believe I had no culture before 1965, take away my majority status and pay to school new comers to speak my language as a second language like it's not good enough.

TANCREDO: The case for impeachment

Tom Tancredo, Washington Times Eleven years ago, like every citizen elected to serve in Congress or any person appointed to any federal position, I swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic."