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The best unplugged set of the year was The End playing Steel City. On December 29, 2009, The End played to the roar of a capacity crowd. Starting with the seasonal song 6 B.C., the 5-piece’s sound was crystal clean and buoyant. The audience fed off the energy and radiated it back [...]
Call To Action While the Senate has all but passed the health care takeover bill, do not despair for we have additional opportunities to stop the progression.Remember that the House and the Senate need to come to terms on a compromise bill, but the rhetoric coming from the Senate is rather…
Dear Friends: It’s that time of year again– time to make your New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t know about you, but my first Resolution for 2010 is to Dump Dodd! For too long Chris Dodd has orchestrated million dollar deals for himself and billion dollar bailout packages for his pals on…
Dear Friend of Liberty,You and I have stood together in our battles for Liberty and the Constitution before. Now, even larger threats - and greater opportunities - are in front of us.Our constitutional principles and freedom-centered values are being assaulted at every turn. More bailouts,…
Posted By Danny Brant I think when growing up, I received a lot of harassment which was beyond my control, for being androgynous. Since first grade, kids would ask me in the school yard if I was a boy or a girl. At that time I had short hair and obviously my mother dressed [...]
Free-to-view television programing could vanish. For over 60 years, network broadcasters have supported programming through commercial advertisements; however, several factors could be combining that make free TV a thing of the past.Cable, satellite and the Internet have fractured the networks’…
Zoonoses are diseases passed from animals to humans. The most recent high-profile example is swine flu. There are several dozen such diseases that affect humans. The Centers For Disease Control says:AbstractMicrobiologic infections acquired from animals, known as zoonoses, pose a risk to public…
Dr. Gerard Fleming is the lead researcher on a new study of the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Dr. Fleming works from the National University of Ireland in Galway in the department of microbiology.The research suggests that some bacteria eat disinfectants. The study looked at Pseudomonas…
Switchfoot will be touring Canada with one of our favorite bands, The Paper Tongues.The band said, “He’s done it again. The perfect set-up for the perfect Canada tour in January with Switchfoot! Soaking up the relative warmth while we can. Picking up Spaceman tonight from the airport, our phenom…
by The Beatless Sense MongersLYRICSOut of theCorner of myEyeI glimpse myselfAnd, wonder why…Excuse me,Are you Alice?Immersed in nonsenseDoes your logicHave a flawBreaking everyPhysics law?In the wayWe view dismayOur souls are revealedLike an onionMany layersAre to be unpeeledAll our hopesAll our…
Keep your eye out for The Paper Tongues. They are an up-and-coming band with an energetic stage presence. They will be on tour soon. In the mean time, they say, “A couple of us are headed out to the country to see our guitar guru, Andy Elliot. He makes THE perfect guitar and [...]
One of the best concert moments of 2009 was Jason Mraz with G-Love and K-naan. When Jason Mraz came to the Festival Pier in Philadelphia, it was a sold out show. The place was packed. As a special surprise for his fans, he performed a set on a special stage set-up in [...]
Texas Straight Talk - A weekly column Rep. Ron Paul (R) - TX 14 Last week on Christmas Eve, after many backroom deals were made, the Senate passed the healthcare reform bill with a strictly partisan vote. I was pleased that my colleagues in the GOP are on the right side of this bill. Although [...]
For hundreds of years, Native American tribes have been trying to deal with U.S. government treaties. Time after time, they have received the short end of the stick. Instead, they have started buying back thousands of acres of land that use to be theirs.The Winnebago put more than 700 acres in…
The first case of contagious, aggressive, especially drug-resistant form of tuberculosis was fond in the United States. It is called “extremely drug-resistant (XXDR) TB”.“Drug resistance is starting to be a very big problem. In the past, people stopped worrying about TB and it came roaring…
Fraudulent emails referencing Centers For Disease Control (CDC) sponsored State Vaccination ProgramCDC has received reports of fraudulent emails (phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program.The messages request that users must create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination…
One the best new bands to come out of Philadelphia in 2009 was Valencia. Not only did they obtain substantial radio play (on stations like 104.5), they also toured with Blink 182. Here they are in North Carolina: More Valencia
Environmental Protection Agency — Agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability and weather extremes, such as droughts, floods and severe storms. The forces that shape our climate are also critical to farm productivity. Human activity has already changed atmospheric characteristics such…
The moral here, is don’t go out on Halloween, in Downtown Philly, with a giant chicken head on, in this city, they will beat you down. I know of what I speak, this happened with a friend, talk of a disadvantage, he just couldn’t get that damn head off, those Philly boys were out for [...]
In 1776, George Washington made a famous journey across the Delaware River on Christmas Day. Boats ferried 2,400 soldiers, 200 horses and 18 cannons across the river. Then, they marched 8 miles downriver and attacked Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, NJ. Thirty Hessians were killed and two Continental…