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NASA has released a vivid and heartbreaking account of the Columbia astronauts’ final moments aboard their doomed craft. Moving faster than MACH 20 and flying above 200,000 feet, Columbia disintegrated as super-heated air poured into the damaged left wing. Insulating foam had broken loose from the external fuel tank on lift-off some 81 seconds into the flight, punching a 10-inch hole in the wing’s leading [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Government Blunders, Government Waste, Video at 3:15 PM UTC
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Here is a collection of the best letters and statements I’ve discovered from the minds of fellow average Americans, and an occasional exceptional American. Enjoy…
The following is attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but I can’t be sure of its origin. However, I agree wholeheartedly with the thoughts regardless of the author’s name:
“You cannot help the poor by destroying [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Wish I'd Said That at 11:43 AM UTC
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So much for Al Gore’s consensus on Global Warming…
Christopher Booker shares his joy in the demise, we hope, of global warming hysteria. Mr. Booker writes for the Daily Telegraph and the following piece was found at Telegraph.co.uk. Happy reading:
Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Global Warming, Video at 4:03 PM UTC
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Saddam Hussein’s ouster as Iraqi’s President left an enormous power void. The rush to fill the vacuum caught American war-planners by surprise as multiplied thousands of domestic insurgents, foreign terrorists, and opportunists of all sorts saw a golden opportunity to control Iraq’s oil and the power it generates, while handing America a humiliating defeat in the bargain. The five-plus years of fighting [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics, War in Iraq at 1:42 PM UTC
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California is losing residents faster than any other state in the Union, according to The Associated Press. “From 2007 to 2008,” writes AP correspondent Stephen Ohlemacher, “California had the biggest net loss of people moving to other states — more than 144,000 people, according to population estimates released Monday by the Census Bureau.” The focus [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Current Affairs, Taxation at 6:16 PM UTC
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Amid all the recent crazy political maneuvers, perhaps the craziest is Caroline Kennedy’s efforts to become a U.S. Senator without bothering to qualify or run for the job. Charles Krauthammer hit the nail on the head with his “The U.S. House of Lords?” first published on December 19, 2008. But, the way things are [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Politics at 1:53 PM UTC
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America is one giant deep freeze and winter hasn’t even begun. Enormous sections of the country are experiencing conditions similar to those that defeated Hilter’s forces in Russia. Freezing rain, heavy snow, and record low temperatures are the order of the day — get this — in the Northwest, as far south as Arizona and New [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Global Warming at 4:07 PM UTC
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Retired pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright recently returned to the pulpit of President-elect Barack Obama’s former church, Trinity United Church of Christ. Marking the church’s 47th anniversary, Rev. Wright “preached three worship services” on December 7, according to the Chicago Tribune. Noting the historical significance of the date, pastor Wright couldn’t pass up one more opportunity [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Education, Media at 2:32 PM UTC
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Thirty-four years ago Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace as President of the United States. Regardless of who ordered the break-in of the Democratic campaign headquarters at Washington’s Watergate Hotel, it was the following cover-up that did Nixon in. Once the burglary was tied to the White House, the President stonewalled, told lie upon lie, and abused his power in a futile effort [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 5:34 PM UTC
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Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards are being tried for manslaughter and other crimes as a result of a firefight on September 16, 2007 in the middle of a busy Baghdad intersection. 17 Iraqis died and a few dozen were wounded in the melee, about the only facts everyone involved agrees on. Blackwater says its employees were being [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as War in Iraq at 5:25 PM UTC
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