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With the holiday season over, most Americans are dieting. Unfortunately, our politicians continue to consume excessive amounts of citizens' money in myriad massive expenditures. More and more must be taken from prudent, hardworking Americans. It is tantamount to robbery and is nothing less than socialist . When the government fights in international markets for its exporting industries, all Americans benefit. But when the government turns inward on its own citizens, it destroys free enterprise, eradicates much of domestic industry and creates massive unemployment.
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MONTMORENCI, Ind. (AP) -- As more states move to ban restrictive livestock cages, the campaign to free egg-laying hens from cramped cages and shift them to pens animal rights advocates call more humane could be poised to unintentionally boost deaths among those birds. Researchers say decades of breeding to make the white leghorn hens that lay most of the nation's eggs more productive have also boosted the birds' territorial instincts, making them prone to pecking attacks so fierce they're often called "cannibalism.
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This week's elections, particularly the contest in Lauderhill, convinced me that there ought to be a changing of the guard. Two Lauderhill veterans, both of whom I admire, ripped into each other to the point that only their political carcasses were left for a white candidate to feast on in the majority-black city. The race between Heywood Benson and Tyson Jones, both of them approaching their 70s, was a sad blueprint of black political cannibalism that could very well become the local norm if the baton is not passed.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand's leader apologized Thursday for joking that he would have been part of the meal had he attended a dinner with a Maori tribe whose history includes cannibalism. Prime Minister John Key's quip further soured relations with the Tuhoe people that are already strained over their bid to win back ownership of tribal lands confiscated by a settler government 150 years ago.
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One of many good reasons to oppose the misnamed "Employee Free Choice Act," otherwise known as the "card check" bill, is because it would further empower union bosses not just against employers but at the expense of union members themselves. Anybody who doubts that labor chieftains often work against the interests of the rank and file need only consider recently ousted "general president" of the UNITE-HERE union, Bruce Raynor. In his nearly 30 years in various union leadership positions, Mr. Raynor helped forge mergers of a number of smaller unions into the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), and in 2004 UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE). While Mr. Raynor led UNITE, its leadership was sued at various times by its own membe...
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In 'Carnivore's Inquiry,' love is all-consuming
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WASHINGTON Video games glamorizing guns and violence have long drawn the ire of media watchdog groups. This holiday season, they say they have found a bloody new wrinkle to hate: cannibalism. Games featuring graphic scenes of cannibalism, "F.E.A.R." and "Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse," were among the 12 "games to avoid" listed Tuesday by the National Institute on Media and the Family.
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Corsets and Clockwork: 13 Steampunk Romances," edited by Trisha Telep, Running Press Teens, $9.95, 437 pages (ages 14 and up) In this collection of speculative fiction, Trisha Telep has included not only a variety of plot elements (animatronic attractions, dirigibles, vampires, hidden magic, supernatural rituals and cannibalism) but also a diversity of writing styles typical of each established author. All 13 stories in "Corsets and Clockwork" are original to this anthology but common among them are cliff-hangers or twist of events that leave the plots in limbo.
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Get ready for a string of movies about child abuse, murder and cannibalism. They're also known as fairy tales.
