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The Pope`s Nose For News And The Ascension of Charlie (Rose)

While the voices in South Africa paying homage to Nelson Mandela had scarcely fallen silent, while Edward Snowden was still trying to figure out Moscow's transit system, and while the Nobel Committee in Oslo was called into emergency session, the word went forth...

(DAYTONA BEACH) - Two days ago, a puff of white smoke emerged from the top of the Time Life building on the Avenue of The Americas in Manhattan, and the world went delirious with joy.

Time's managing editor, became the world's most famous media midwife with the coronation of the most humble Pope in 1700 years as the Magazine's Parson (make that Person) Of The Year.

The Islamists` Hijacking of Arab Hope

It was this tunnel vision which was responsible for turning the Libyan revolution into an anarchic forest of guns threatening the nation’s stability and the future of the Arab Maghreb.

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - Long before the self-righteous Islamists turned genuine street grievances into violent movements, Egypt was the crown of the Arab Spring and Syria was the second best hope to reap the flowers of the spring.

Today, however, hope and optimism have been hijacked by pretentious religious demagogues and tunnel-visioned ideologues with a pedantic monopoly on God.

More Time, More Options for First Cover Oregon Applicants and State High Risk Pool

People who met Dec. 4 deadline have until Dec. 27 to pick a plan and enroll. Also, new safety net program for state’s high risk pool.

(DURHAM, OR) - The first Oregonians to complete applications have a little more time to enroll in a private health plan through Cover Oregon effective Jan. 1, 2014.

These consumers now have until Dec. 27 at 5:00 p.m. to choose a health plan and notify Cover Oregon of their selections, under an agreement reached late today with insurance carriers.

ISRAEL: Jewish Mom Makes Case for Intactivism

What kind of a state is this?! What is this? Where do we live? Could the Religious Court force upon me anything during the divorce? In particular, religious oppression, unnecessary cutting of the penis of a helpless baby?

(TEL AVIV) - “Help! I’m asking for the help of the public! I am a mother to a baby. The Rabbinical Court is forcing me to cut my year old son against my will (circumcise him) while subjecting me to heavy financial sanctions daily!

After my exposure to the information regarding circumcision, I refuse to mutilate my baby. I don’t have the right and I do not agree! He was born whole and he will stay whole! His integrity is his full right!

A Jew Argues for Child Rights Over Religious Circumcision

Censuring circumcision in Europe is about child protection, not anti-Semitism.

(TEL AVIV) - Circumcision without consent violates a person’s right to bodily integrity, a cornerstone of post-Holocaust human rights law.

Two years ago, in response to an article I wrote questioning circumcision, the British historian Geoffrey Alderman dedicated his column to my character assassination, describing me as “a leading anti-Jewish Jew of the younger generation.”

Does the FDA Have a `Rapport` With Yet Another Pharmaceutical Company by Unleashing a Killer Drug on Us?

Zohydro ER will come in doses close to 10 times more heroin-like narcotic than other hydrocodone painkillers.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - A lethal painkiller named Zohydro ER will be available to be prescribed in 2014 after the FDA's reckless approval of it.

If you think OxyContin crippled the country in deaths and addictions, be ready for further devastation of families when Zohydro ER hits your pharmacies and finds it way onto the streets by over-production of the drug.

Two Men Indicted for Murder

Silverton Police Department Responded to a Report of a Deceased Male, The Death Was Ruled Suspicious

(SALEM OR) - Today a Marion County Grand Jury issued indictments charging Uriah Michael Dean McKinley, 22, and Andrew James Slover, 23, with the death of Jeffrey Edward Lamoreaux, 30.

On December 2, 2013, at 1704, the Silverton Police Department responded to a report of a deceased male inside the home at 218 Olson Road, Silverton, Oregon. Upon further investigation, the death was ruled suspicious.

Marijuana for Epilepsy: Best Therapy

Recent television stories confirm this.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Epilepsy, in its worst form; Dravet Syndrome, is certainly the worst disease a child and its parents can have with hundreds of severe grand mal seizures a day which occur frequently and without warning. Simple epilepsy is bad enough, afflicting about one or two percent of the population.

Dravet Syndrome is totally worse and has been considered untreatable until now with the discovery of the phenomenal effectiveness of marijuana and especially one of the chemical components of marijuana...

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How Suite It Is: The Little Airplane That could

(DAYTONA BEACH) - It was January, 1989. I was sitting at a table in Vancouver's Hot Jazz Society, nursing a pint of Finian's Red, listening to Jimmy Armstrong render "Si Tu Vois Ma Mere," while Gerry Green supplied the clarinet wall paper.

Minding my own business, you might say. And I was approached by a dishy femme du monde with a request for a light. Rather pushy, I thought, since I was sitting under a No Smoking sign. She was wearing a skunk-dyed sable and she had a sable-dyed skunk on a leash.

Archeology and the Atom

There are other ways to make electricity, namely solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro dams, and there is always conservation.

(ASHLAND, WI) - We have all heard of the city of Idu. Right? Thousands of families living there, carrying out their normal lives, government housed in lavish buildings, written documents, trade, religion, etc.

Well, it was lost. A whole city lost. Idu flourished in the 13th century B.C. We knew it had existed from some ancient Assyrian records, but had no idea where it was. Archeologists finally found it last year, buried in northern Iraq.