Friars Club | Patty Hearst | John Lennon | Kurt Vonnegut Friars Raunchy Roast Sends Trump and Blondie Running The annual Friars Club dinner in the main banquet hall of the New York Hilton is a raunchy exercise. No holds barred. So, imagine that some of the guests on the …
Read More »Palestinian Officials Quash Pictures of Arab Celebrations
The Palestinian Authority has warned journalists they might be in danger if they continue touse imagesof Arabs celebrating Tuesday’s terrorist attacks. PA officials allegedly have threatened journalists who continue toshow Palestinians rejoicing and dancingatthenews of the devastation caused by hijacked jets in New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania. The Foreign …
Read More »All Carrot — No Stick
Talk about rewarding awful behavior. Richard McGinn is dumped at Lucent Technologies. The stock tumbling, the business crumbling and wouldn’t you know, Mr. McGinn, profiting — big time. It turns out that as he was shown the door, he was shown a huge severance package totaling more than $12 million. …
Read More »Future Military Draft Could Include Women
WASHINGTON – Uniformed women have yet to make it onto the battlefield, but that doesn’t mean the armed services wouldn’t swoop up a few good females if the war on terror took a turn for the worse and the government pulled out the draft. Re-instituting the draft is unlikely, government …
Read More »Rings Fans Are the Toughest Critics
NEW YORK – In Middle Earth, there’s only one ring to bind them all. On modern Earth, however, the long-awaited Lord of the Rings movie — which opens in theaters Wednesday morning — is doing anything but unifying the fantasy epic’s army of fans. For the last 50 or so …
Read More »Fox 411: Oscarama: Studios Lose Tickets for Show
Oscarama: Studios Lose Tickets for Show | London’s Sun Newspaper Caught Stealing | Rock Hall Blues: ‘La Bamba,’ Other Classics Wait 40 Years Oscarama: Studios Lose Tickets for Show There’s going to be a little more room in the Shrine Auditorium come Sunday night. That’s because several movie studios have …
Read More »Taliban Chalk Up Rare Victory in War on Drugs
Partfour of a five-part series. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — With annual production of an estimated 4,500 tons of opium, some 70 percent of the world’s total supply, Afghanistan was the undisputed leader when it came to the raw material usedfor heroin. Until, that is, the Taliban government stepped in. Declaring opium …
Read More »Talking Points: Up, Up and Away!
Energy prices and government spending continue to rise and guess who’s paying the price? You and me. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. On the left, we have the liberals who don’t care if government programs work, they just want to continue to spend billions of dollars …
Read More »Astronomers Overwhelmed by Flood of New Planets
Alien worlds, once hidden from knowledge, are now being discovered in droves, stunning astronomers with their unique features and sheer numbers. The discoveries are so common that more and more don’t even get reported outside scientific circles. Take the announcement at the end of May of a massive planet, dubbed …
Read More »Deciding How, Where to Give Birth
Once the decision to start or expand a family is made, parents-to-be face a sequence of additional decisions. Expectant mothers may be confused by the many options available. And frequently, they don’t fully consider what their wishes are for the birth. But they should. Women today can choose to personalize …
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