Common Folk Using Common Sense

From a little-read article on USAToday: A judge in Ohio says the state’s method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain. Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said Tuesday the state’s lethal injection procedure doesn’t provide the quick and painless [...]

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From the USAToday: That’s the headline from the Toronto Star which is reporting that Marnina Norys, a 39-year-old Ph.D. student in Canada, was stopped by security and prohibited from wearing her necklace into the terminal. Last week, security officials at Kelowna International Airport in British Columbia forced Norys to remove a silver necklace with a [...]

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From the Washington Post: After Linda Davies reported to police that her 15-year-old daughter had been raped, it took three months — plus two dozen phone calls and a threat of legal action — before police questioned the suspect, a 28-year-old neighbor. “I gave police his name, address, mobile phone number, car registration — everything [...]

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From The Earth Times: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Israel would “be soon swept away” from the Palestinian Territories by the Palestinians. It is the second time within less than three years that the Iranian president predicted the eradication of the Jewish state. The first time was in 2005 when Ahmadinejad hoped that [...]

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Hat tip to Little Green Footballs: STEP 1: As of April 23 there was a web page at the official Obama campaign site. It featured Hatem El-Hady as a “friend” (read: fundraiser) for Obama. Also on that page was a notation that one of El-Hady’s friends is none other than Michelle Obama. STEP 2: As [...]

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Raila Odinga is married to Ida Odinga (born Ida Anyango Oyoo). They have four children – two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is named after Fidel Castro. Their youngest child, Winnie, is named after Winnie Mandela. Raila lives in Nairobi but has a second home in Bondo District. Odinga claims to be [...]

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From FOX News: Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium. Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George‘s homily, yelling “Even the Pope calls for peace” as they were removed from the Mass by security [...]

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From the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which, by the way, should be a daily read for most of you: Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr. Walid Al-Rashudi, head of the Department of Islamic Studies at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 29, 2008. Walid [...]

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Until 1949, Tibet was an independent Buddhist nation in the Himalayas which had little contact with the rest of the world. It existed as a rich cultural storehouse of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism. Religion was a unifying theme among the Tibetans — as was their own language, literature, art, and world view [...]

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From Agence France-Presse via Breitbart: French actress Marion Cotillard, who picked up an Oscar for best actress in Hollywood last week, has admitted to having doubts about the official version of the September 11 attacks in the US. “I think we’re lied to about a lot of things,” she said during a television programme first [...]

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Hat tip to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: From Arab News: Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah [Saudi Arabia] were left reeling yesterday, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store’s fruit and vegetable section. In a brutal [...]

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Barack “He Who Walks On Water” Obama has some interesting tidbits from his life’s experience. See if you can follow along: STEP 1: The Weather Underground Organization was a violent U.S. Radical Left group consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society which formed on the campus on the University [...]

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From Breitbart.com: Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives—and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers—brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. The coordinated blasts—coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city—appeared to reinforce U.S. [...]

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From news.au.com: A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say. It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting [...]

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From Islam Online via Americans Against Hate via FrontPageMagazine via blonde sagacity: Of all the crimes committed by extremist Muslims, the one that is arguably the most horrifying is the act of beheading. This month, Islam Online (IOL), a website that has mass popularity throughout the Muslim world, published a gruesome poem detailing how to [...]

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