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Supreme Court decision said to 'awaken sleeping giant'

I Dare Call It Treason

Ann Coulter reveals that Democrats smeared Senator Joe McCarthy to save their sorry hides.

Motorist given 60 year-sentence in windshield murder trial

The defendant swigged booze, smoked pot, and took the drug Ecstasy. Then, while driving home, she hit a man. His body lodged in the windshield of her car, but he was still alive. Instead of taking him to a hospital, she drove her car into her garage and let him die there.

I took my Mother to a regularly scheduled appointment with her primary care physician yesterday. Her appointment was for 8:45, so I took the morning off from my job.

Yesterday, my Mom and I went to the cemetery and put new foliage on the graves of my Father and my sister. Next Sunday, if the weather is nice, we plan to go out there again, so I can clean the grave markers. While we were out there, we also located my maternal Grandparents' graves and those of some other family members.

After doing all that they could to obstruct the United States from deposing Saddam Hussein and freeing the people of Iraq from his cruel oppression, the French now want to suspend the sanctions that were imposed against his regime. Why? You can bet that it is not out of the goodness of their hearts. "Follow the money," is a phrase that probably applies here.

This is the fourth full day of military action by the United States of America, and others, most notably Britain, to liberate the people of Iraq from the regime of the sadistic, murderous dictator Saddam Hussein and to enforce United Nations Security Council resolution 1441.

War is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and, yet, some fairly certain information is coming out of Iraq, even as military action continues. Several thousand Iraqi troops have either capitulated or surrendered; many times that number are thought to have simply left their posts and returned to their homes. A smaller number are resisting, some fiercely. There have been some coalition casualties; some coalition troops have been captured by the enemy.

The regime of Saddam Hussein has already violated the Geneva Conventions, according to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield.

So-called "anti-war" protests continue throughout the world, although to a lesser degree in the United States since the actual onset of hostilities, but the protests are increasingly seen as "anti-American" or "anti-Bush," rather than actually "anti-war."

In the middle of the afternoon, I was sitting at my computer, when, suddenly--crash, bang, crack-em-up! The computer monitor flickered and died. I looked outside and saw a candy apple red Chrysler PT Cruiser sitting in the front yard.

The utility pole was cracked. I telephoned to the electric company, to report the outage. Soon, there was a crowd of people in the front yard, some of them erstwhile passengers in the PT Cruiser, some merely onlookers. The other car involved in the accident, a black Pontiac Grand Am, was across the street, in the parking lot of the convenience store. Presently, there were three police cars, an ambulance, a fire truck, and two wreckers on the scene. I went across to the convenience store, ostensibly to get a soda pop, but, in reality, to talk to the clerk and to look at the other car to see what kind of condition it was in. The front of it was messed up pretty badly.

The emergency medical technicians put the driver of the Pontiac on a stretcher and took him away in the ambulance. I don't know how badly he was injured. Someone from the electric company came in a truck that had one of those devices consisting of a bucket on the end of an arm, designed to lift a person up to the power lines. He surveyed the situation, told me that some of the wires were shorted out, and that a crew would have to come to restore the power. Then he left.

One of the wreckers backed up to the curb, in front of the house, and removed the car from the front yard. I had been concerned that the car might have damaged the house, but it didn't touch it. Now, the lights are back on, and the only evidence of a wreck, other than the cracked utility pole, are a few shallow ruts in the front lawn, which I will fill with dirt in a day or two.

I have been sick since this past Thursday, when I went home from work an hour early. I called in sick on Friday. I don't know exactly what I've got--haven't been to the doctor. I ache, have a cough, and my head is stuffy. I'm taking liquid cold medicine. I hope that I'll be well enough to go to work, tomorrow!