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Friday, January 20 2012
Paying Zero Taxes
Several conservative websites are carrying sponsored advertisements for a book called “How To Pay Zero Taxes”. It was written by Jeff A. Schnepper, a tax advisor at Haran, Watson & Company with offices in Columbus, Ohio and Chester, New Jersey. The book is designed for those making $250,000 (or m…
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Tuesday, January 17 2012
Ron Paul: Ignored No More
Largely ignored by his GOP rivals thus far in the campaign, Ron Paul was gang-banged in front of a raucous crowd in last night’s GOP debate in South Carolina over some of his foreign policy positions, particularly whether the U.S. had the right to kill Osama bin Laden.

Paul was booed, and his …
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Thursday, January 12 2012
Friday Funnies
“My dog has no nose.”
“How does it smell?”
“Awful!”

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Two Lawyers & Ethics

Two lawyers had been stranded on a desert island for several months. The only thing on the island were lots of tall coconut palms that provided them their only food and liquid…
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Sunday, January 08 2012
Deal With The Devil
One of my favorite websites, one I visit every day, is Cinema Retro (cinemaretro.com). The site is devoted to the films of the 1960’s and 1970’s and I’ve been corresponding with one of its two managing editors, Lee Pfeiffer, for some time on a variety of different films, actors and other subjects…
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Friday, January 06 2012
Romney Unstoppable?
After his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses (only eight votes behind Mitt Romney), Rick Santorum acknowledged that Romney probably had an insurmountable lead in New Hampshire (41%) and all but conceded there.

But Santorum felt he could win in South Carolina, which has the highest percentage …
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Thursday, December 15 2011
Cold Case Reopened
NBC’s Dateline took another look…
I posted this three weeks ago.

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In a strange sidebar to the revelations of alleged child sexual abuse by former Penn State assistant football coach Gerald “Jerry” Sandusky is renewed interest in the mystery surrounding a …
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Thursday, December 08 2011
Air Force Dumped Remains of U.S. Troops
The story got little national attention when first reported last month in the Washington Post. It was treated as a local D.C.-Virginia issue that it seems Dover (Delaware) Air Force Base, the main port of entry for America’s war dead, tried to treat as “old news” and sweep under the rug.

But n…
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Tuesday, November 15 2011
Cold Case Reopened
In a strange sidebar to the revelations of alleged child sexual abuse by former Penn State assistant football coach Gerald “Jerry” Sandusky is renewed interest in the mystery surrounding a cold case from 2005.

Last week, Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly indicted Sandusky on forty coun…
Posted at 06:49 PM (View Post) 10 Comments

Monday, November 07 2011
"Personhood" in Mississippi
If tomorrow (Tuesday) voters in Mississippi pass an unprecedented initiative that would declare a fertilized egg a “legal person” under the state Constitution, nobody (including the authors of the initiative) knows exactly how that law would be interpreted and enforced.

But legal and medical e…
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Tuesday, November 01 2011
Climate Skeptic Reversal
(Associated Press 11-1-11)

A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

The study of the world’s surface temperatures by …
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