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They're Not Burning Down the Gas Stations Yet

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reporter Derrick Nunnally says 29 YEARS AGO service station owner Steven Lankin watched as a summer-night Levittown crowd seething over GAS RATIONING, TWO-HOUR LINES at the PUMPS, and a THEN STUNNING HIKE TO $1 a GALLON turned violent....

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May 30, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Pam Anderson's 'BS-O-Meter Didn't Flicker Once Around Harry Reid'

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid doesn't get much love from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell or any other Republican for that matter. But according to Paul Kane and Ben Pershing of the WASHINGTON POST column IN THE LOOP, he has...

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May 29, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

'Don't Come Near -- Poisonous Gas'

That was the warning that a 31 year old man in Japan taped to his car windshield before he committed suicide by inhaling hydrogen sulfide. According to an article by Blaine Harden in this morning's WASHINGTON POST the latest FAD...

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May 28, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

EXXON MAKES BILLIONS, SQUEEZES ITS STATIONS, AND IS A CONTROL FREAK!

According to WASHINGTON POST reporter Steven Mufson, EXXON which is making $3.3 BILLION A MONTH, is raising the rent on the LAND on which Sohaila Rezazadeh's EXXON station sits by 30% over the next three years. According to the article...

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May 27, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (6)

What the Democrats Say Flight Delays Really Cost In 2007

WHAT THE DEMOCRATS SAY FLIGHT DELAYS REALLY COST IN 2007: 740 MILLION additional gallons of JET FUEL totaling $1.6 BILLION EXTRA IN FUEL BILLS. TOTAL cost of domestic air traffic delays to the U.S. economy was as much as $41...

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May 22, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

DHS Wants to Bring Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research To The U.S. Mainland

DHS WANTS TO BRING FOOT-and-MOUTH DISEASE RESEARCH TO THE U.S. MAINLAND. And the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says DHS "HAS NEITHER CONDUCTED nor COMMISSIONED ANY STUDY to determine whether WORK on FOOT-and-MOUTH DISEASE (FMD) can be DONE SAFELY ON THE...

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May 22, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

"Please Make Sure That Others Don't Have To Experience A 'Drive-Through' Mastectomy"

Breast cancer survivor and singer Sheryl Crow is the celebrity witness at today's hearing. But for sheer impact it will be hard to beat the story of Alva Williams from Jacksonville, North Carolina. "About two years ago I had a...

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May 21, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (17)

ICE is Watching Their Children

Members of the CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS have sent a letter to Julie Myers and Michael Chertoff at the Department of Homeland Security, expressing their concerns about reports that IMMIGRATION and CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) AGENTS are spying on HEAD START programs...

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May 19, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Americans Throw Away About 30 Million Tons Of Food Each Year

Deep inside Sunday's NEW YORK TIMES was an article by Andrew Martin entitled "ONE COUNTRY'S TABLE SCRAPS, ANOTHER COUNTRY'S MEAL." According to Martin, a recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that "AMERICANS GENERATE 30 MILLION TONS of FOOD...

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May 19, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Will 9-Year-Old Jacob See Big Brown Win It All?

USA TODAY reporter Tom Pedulla starts his article about BIG BROWN, the horse favored to win Saturday's PREAKNESS by describing the sights and sounds those who go to the race, and the millions more who will watch it on tv,...

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May 16, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)