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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
CREDIT: Copyright Jerry Moran 2010 www.nativeorleanian.com and www.OnWingsOfCare.org
Pilot Bonny Schumaker of the California non-profit OnWingsofCare and New Orleans photographer Jerry Moran flew over the Mariner platform fire today and got these photos.
The Coast Guard update reports that 13 people were…
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Forget about the new oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. The big breaking news is BP’s attempt to leverage its promised $20 billion Gulf Restoration Fund to get the US government to let it keep drilling…
>> reading "Did BP Just Blow up the Obama Presidency"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
My family and I vacationed in Arizona a few years back. We had a great time hanging around a beautiful resort in Scottsdale, hiking in some gorgeous mountains, attending a Phoenix Suns game, and even dining at…
>> reading "The Immigrant Song A Playlist For Arizona Governor Jan Brewer"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Wanna honor Labor Day but not work at it? Check out any of these pop culture expressions from the last year. Just in time for your nod to Labor Day, lets give props to those who…
>> reading "2010 Workers Voice Awards Worker Worthy Pop Culture Standouts"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Editor’s Note: Huffington Post Religion has launched a scripture commentary/reflection series, which brings together leading voices from different religious traditions to offer their wisdom on selected religious texts. We are pleased to announce…
>> reading "Rosh Hashanah 2010 Liberate Yourself Renew Your Life and Help Others Do the Same"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
“Why don’t you talk much about happiness, as most Tibetan teachers do?”
Why, indeed? Doesn’t everyone, in the end, seek happiness?
Perhaps. Perhaps it depends on what happiness means to you.
Happiness, I think, is usually associated with a feeling of…
>> reading "Is Happiness the Goal of Religion or of Life"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
What do Saint Francis of Assisi and the New Orleans Saints have in common? Goggle the term “saints” to find out.
An online search for “saints” first reveals the official site of the football team that won this year’s Super Bowl and…
>> reading "Top 10 Religious Environmental Saints"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
As students head back to school this fall, I traveled over the last two weeks on an eight-state bus tour to highlight “Courage in the Classroom.” The mission of the tour was simple: to honor our nation’s unsung heroes — our…
>> reading "Theres Courage in Our Countrys Classrooms"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
European High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy Baroness Catherine Ashton decided to head to China instead of participating in the Middle East stakeholders dinner hosted by President Obama in the Old Family Dining Room this week.
Former…
>> reading "The French Connection Middle East Talks"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Notice to celebrities — the time for drugging, and partying it up beyond the max, is OVER!
Take a look around you, check out who’s landing TV shows, movie…
>> reading "Why Squeaky Clean Stars Like Kim Kardashian Are in and Troubled Bad Girls Like Paris and Lindsay Are Out"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
In the late 19th century, the forces of religious division in America targeted Catholics. Josiah Strong’s book Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis, referred to Catholics as “the alien Romanist” who swore allegiance to the pope instead…
>> reading "Americas Crucial Choice Religious Division Or Unity"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
For days and days — since, precisely, Aug. 15, the day we launched our petition — we, like all newspapers worldwide, have tried to contact Sajjad, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s son.
He is the only one who can provide exact news of…
>> reading "Interview Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianis Son Sajjad Speaks"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
HuffPost editor Roy Sekoff joined Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s “Countdown” Thursday night to assess the electoral prospects of the candidates who seem to be vying even now for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
That group includes…
>> reading "Roy Sekoff On Olbermann 2012 GOP Hopefuls Are A Freak Show"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
This blog was inspired by a friend who asked me to help him to purchase a suit. Clothes, fabric, style and design are attached to my DNA, so to speak. The kind of DNA I’m referring to is Design, Nuance and Attractiveness. These…
>> reading "The Intuitive Tailor"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Mr Netanyahu said “a genuine peace must take into account the security needs of Israel”. He also repeated the demand that the
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>> reading "US hails constructive direct Middle East peace talks"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
For most people, Labor Day marks the end of summer or back to school and for many an election season. For me, Labor Day has always been what it was originally intended to be: A day to celebrate the contributions…
>> reading "Fighting for Workers This Labor Day"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
. . . .[W]ith liberty and justice for all.
The Pledge of Allegiance
Opinions from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are of interest to a variety of people. Lawyers read them in order to learn what the law is with respect to issues…
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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At a camp for flood victims in Rhojan, Pakistan, we meet a man named Humayan who is standing beneath his USAID-issued plastic tarpaulin with 16 family members on a 100-plus degree morning. He tells us he is a tractor driver and earned…
>> reading "Dispatches From Pakistan"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
HuffPost editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” Thursday night to weigh in on the “my demo is bigger than your demo” war of words between host Ed Schultz and Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Sekoff dismissed…
>> reading "Roy Sekoff On Glenn Becks Phony Gospel Of Unity"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
This is the quote on a decorative towel that hangs in my home (see image below). After calling off my wedding about five years ago, I bought this towel on a shopping trip with a…
>> reading "Why do I Have to Get Married I Didnt do Anything Wrong"
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The Pentagon’s public relations machine is working overtime these days trying to sell a theme of “progress” in Afghanistan to push back against calls to end the war. The message machine behind this push is gargantuan, costing $547…
>> reading "547 Million Cant Paper Over Failure of Afghanistan War"
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Book Review– The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politicsin the Age of Obama by Will Bunch
It would be easy to write an Obama-backlash book using buzzwords with clich’ ridden accounts of the right-wing talk show blather-babblers….
>> reading "The Obama Backlash Taking on the Radicals"
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Shane West is animated when he talks about his role as Michael, the agent in charge of recruitment who is tasked with bringing in the rogue lead character in the CW’s Nikita which premieres on September 9. “Michael is a tortured soul,…
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Back when I was a kid, first lady Ladybird Johnson announced the “See America First” Campaign. Travel America before going to Europe or the Middle East. There’s a lot to see in the US of A, and almost all of them…
>> reading "Essential Tourist Traps Part One Introduction"
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
I was vacationing in Prince Edward Island, Canada this summer when I came across this article in The Globe and Mail: “The World Would Love to Be Canadian.” The writer, Joe Friesen, cites this startling statistic: “Given the choice, 53…
>> reading "Is the Grass Greener in Canada"
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