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Mar 30 2011, Incognito

Just when I thought I couldn’t be any more shocked by some random news article, something comes along that horrifies me to the depths of my being. Something so disturbing that I wonder if there is any hope for humanity when so many of our children...

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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Revolutionary results of an eight decade study “The Longevity Project” are presented by scientists working at La Sierra University, California.
made popular Mar 16 2011
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Andrew, Tempe
(CNN) — Three boys were reunited with their mothers Wednesday in California, more than two years after they were allegedly kidnapped by their fathers and taken...
made popular Nov 12 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
We’ve feared the worst, some of us said ‘no it could never happen’, we prayed for a happy outcome, but now we must face facts: legal marijuana has...
made popular Nov 4 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Economist has an interesting and frightening story about how geologists predict a massive earthquake for California a lot sooner than expected. California is the...
made popular Oct 29 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The California gubenatorial race is in its last weeks and former eBay CEO and Republican candidate Meg Whitman is trailing former governor and Democrat candidate Jerry...
made popular Oct 27 2010
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Elizabeth, Denver
“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” actor Shelley Malil said he stabbed his girlfriend more than 20 times after mistaking her for an attacker in the dark, according to a...
made popular Sep 14 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
It sometimes seems that California is sharing a border with Iraq or Afghanistan instead of Mexico. Read more:...
made popular Sep 2 2010
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Korey, Houston
An appeals court ruling temporarily blocking same-sex marriages from resuming in California drew strong reactions from opponents and supporters of the state’s...
made popular Aug 17 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
One of the most violent criminal organizations in Mexico has established itself in Los Angeles.
made popular Aug 13 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
A routine traffic stop of a cargo van in Buena Park, CA led to the rescue of a dozen pit bulls that were headed to Mexico for dog fighting, police reported. Officers...
made popular Aug 11 2010
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Erick, Los Angeles
Almost 300 firefighters battled nine wild fires in Lassen County in northeast California, late Saturday night after storms and lightning came through the area,...
made popular Jul 26 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports that President Obama has ordered an additional 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border states of Arizona,...
made popular Jul 26 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
SAN DIEGO—A teenager has been arrested after agents at a San Diego border checkpoint found a cache of machine guns and other weapons and ammunition inside his car.
made popular Jul 26 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
So where are those poorly educated hicks?!!! Jokes on you California! People on the West Coast often like to sneer at Southerners as a bunch of ignorant hicks unlike...
made popular Jul 23 2010
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Zuliya, Washington
Parents have been warned to keep an eye on their children and take extra safety precautions after a 17-year-old Southern California girl was apparently abducted about a...
made popular Jul 22 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
So where are those poorly educated hicks?!!! Jokes on you California! People on the West Coast often like to sneer at Southerners as a bunch of ignorant hicks unlike...
made popular Jul 22 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Ronald Reagan, far-right. It is well-known that Sarah Palin offers no knowledge on any issue beyond polemicist crap. Even in areas where one would assume that she has...
made popular Jul 7 2010
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Marcus Brooks, des moines
(San Bernardino, Calif.) The patrons at Del Taco got a horrific treat with their dinner late yesterday. Apparently a 56 year-old man walked into the restaurant. He...
made popular Jun 21 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is condemning the killing of an illegal immigrant by U.S. Border Patrol agents as a “truly unacceptable violation” that...
made popular Jun 11 2010
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Erick, Los Angeles
A record number of U.S. homes were lost to foreclosure in the first three months of this year, a sign banks are starting to wade through the backlog of troubled home...
made popular Apr 15 2010
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CJ, San Francisco
Police in southern California have fatally shot a man they say threatened an officer with an ax during a confrontation with police at a grocery store. Witnesses told...
made popular Mar 29 2010
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Rebecca, Ca
Hollywood actor Robert Culp, who paired with Bill Cosby in the comedy-adventure TV series I Spy in the 1960s, has died at the age of 79. Police said he accidentally...
made popular Mar 25 2010
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Rajni, Shimla
Obama was to announce that housing finance agencies in the five hardest-hit states in the housing crisis will receive $1.5 billion to help spur local solutions to the...
made popular Feb 20 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Economist has an incredibly intriguing essay on the corruption of American ballot initiatives. During the so-called ‘Progressive Era’ American liberals...
made popular Feb 11 2010
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Leslie Yoelson, Bangalore
There’s been an unusual spate of tragic birth defects over the last year in the central California town of Kettleman City. Five out of the twenty children born in...
made popular Feb 10 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Schwarzeneggers’s daily stunts to keep his state afloat are getting more ridiculous. The governor probably wasn’t joking yesterday, when he suggested...
made popular Jan 30 2010
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
When the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage in the summer of 2008, proponents were ecstatic. Although California would not be the first state to...
made popular Jan 16 2010
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Yoann, Minneapolis
California’s death row has swollen to 697 inmates, with 29 new death sentences in the state this year, despite a nationwide trend that in 2009 saw the fewest...
made popular Dec 21 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
If your one of those people who have long been keen on buying a Bel-Air mansion but only after it was tastefully refurbished by an always classy Saudi royal, then here...
made popular Nov 30 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
A while back I wrote about the ambitious of San Francisco’s mayor to become governor of California: The young mayor captured national attention in early 2004...
made popular Nov 2 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - I think he was an actor once - is known for his blunt speaking. He previously referred to opposition Democratic state...
made popular Oct 29 2009
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Jamie, Manchester
California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of...
made popular Oct 5 2009
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Immigrants try to climb over it, narcos tunnel under it, but nobody has ever tried lobbing off chunks of it to sell as scrap, until now. On August 24, 2009, just over...
made popular Sep 8 2009
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Yoann, Minneapolis
till, as diverse as this group is, one word seems to sum up the effect of the recession on their businesses: brutal. The reason is simple. Wine is a cash-flow...
made popular Jul 30 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
California Democrat Jane Harman is one of those incredibly zealously hawkish pro-Israel members of Congress in a chamber full of pro-Israel hawks. Naturally, Ms....
made popular Jul 25 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Such is the sad fate of America’s once Golden State. Years of expansion of left-wing entitlement programs and dogmatically partisan politics brought...
made popular Jul 22 2009
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Alex, Portland
Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City...
made popular Jul 3 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
California, one of the world’s largest economies, has reached the brink. It is a sad day for America for California always promised the “Golden Road”...
made popular Jul 3 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The state of California is headed toward bankruptcy. The state has the dubious honor of having the lowest bond rating of any state, worse than even corrupt Louisiana,...
made popular Jun 25 2009