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Date: December 28th, 2008

Returning home

28 December, 2008 (23:20) | Blogging, Human Interest | By: ricjames

Back on the road in the morning returning home. Been a great visit, far “busier” than I thought it’d be.

Iran executes 10 on Christmas Eve. And unless you don’t depend on our media for your news, you’d never know.

28 December, 2008 (20:22) | GWOT, Human Interest, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Fascinating that they’ll cover Ahmadinejad’s Christmas rebuttal speech but our major media outlets refuse to run the story of how he acted when he returned home. Iran executed 10 people on Christmas Eve. Read Ed Morrisey’s take on it.

Pajamas Media on alternative energy vehicles

28 December, 2008 (10:31) | Environment, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

Brian Douglas over at Pajamas Media: The truth is that there are a number of new technologies on the horizon that will help reduce emissions and dramatically lower our dependence on oil. Of course picking a single winner in the propulsion derby would be a lot like picking just the right vehicle for everyone to [...]

NJ Judge rules birth certificate of adopted kid can be allowed to contain false data

28 December, 2008 (09:22) | Genealogy, Human Interest, Law, Politics | By: ricjames

Here we go again. Last time this happened it was a lesbian couple in NJ. Now, a New Orleans judge has ruled in favor of a gay (male) couple in requiring that the LA Office of Vital Records list the names of the 2 men who adopted a boy on the boy’s birth certificate as [...]