Articles of Interest

The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

What a Difference a Century Makes!

Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1905, just over one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1905:

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
Only 14% of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8% of the homes had a telephone.

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It’s Memorial Day

Commentary by Dennis Grover, American

Yes, I am a Veteran,.

Yes, I believed I served in Vietnam to protect Freedom in America. (3rd TFW, PACAF, Bien Hoa RVN)

Yes, I have a son who was born deaf as a result of my exposure to Agent Orange. (3rd TFW, PACAF, Bien Hoa RVN - Ranch Hands Squadron)

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Thai government declares protest violence mostly quelled!

BANGKOK, Thailand - May 21, 2010 - The Thai government declared Thursday it had mostly quelled ten weeks of violent protests in the capital while buildings smoldered, troops rooted out small pockets of resistance and residents attempted a return to normal life.

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DNA testing could be used to solve doggie-doo caper!

Baltimore condo may use DNA tests to identify guilty pooch

BALTIMORE, Maryland - May 18, 2010 - A swanky Baltimore condominium is considering using technology - usually reserved for cold case murders and revealing paternity - in a case of whodunit.

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The Strange Disappearance of Assemblyman Schwartz

Fiction by B. Franklin Quill ©1994

THE NEWS:

Saturday, April 30, 1994
Headline - The Sacramento Sentinel

Assemblyman Delayed in Arriving Home

The wife of California State Assemblyman Sheldon Schwartz reported that he had not returned home in La Putah by Friday, April 29, following the weekly session of the State Legislature. Asse

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U.S. orders media blackout of North Korean torpedoing of oilrig!

WASHINGTON - May 6, 2010 - A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hy

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U.S. court defends right to tell mother-in-law jokes!

TRENTON, New Jersey - May 5, 2010 - A standup comedian who was sued for making mother-in-law jokes had the last laugh after a U.S. federal judge threw the case out of court.

Sunda Croonquist, whose act for years has been to describe her life as a half-black, half-Swedish woman who marries into a Jewish family, was sued two years ago after her mother-in-law, sister-in-law and brothe