...I walked down and returned at 3:55 and was blown away by what I saw. In the space of 20 minutes, the event had gone from 40 people to over 1000! I could barely get through the crowd to the podium. And the people kept pouring in.

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Miss Kelly is a New England Blogger who has a passion for ferreting out the truth about the imans at some mosques and their relationship to the Lashkar e Toiba group which trained and funded the terrorist who commited the Mumbia attack.

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"And from the crew of Apollo 8," Borman finished, "we close with, Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth."

Let us step outside of ourselves and take a look from the outside in.
Merry Christmas to All!

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Years later, we tend to forget all the dimensions of that sinister homicidal bombing of our institutions. Radical Islam brazenly signaled that it need not have missiles or sophisticated bombers to burn 16 acres in the heart of Manhattan and set the Pentagon afire.

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Memorial Day is special. In nearby cemeteries in Metrowest are Medal of Honor recipients, the highest honor bestowed for bravery by the Congress of the United States.
They all chose to stand and fall with those who feel it is an honor to serve their country. Memorial Day reminds me that freedom is not free.

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Michelle, who was born in 1964, says that most Americans' lives have "gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl." Since 1960, real per capita income has increased 143 percent, life expectancy has increased by seven years, infant mortality has declined 74 percent, deaths from heart disease have been halved, childhood leukemia has stopped ( Read more... )

People who do give time and money tend to give a lot of it. According to the Center on Philanthropy, the percentage of givers donating less than $50 to charity in 2000 was the same as the percentage giving more than $5,000. Similarly, the same percentage of people who only volunteered once volunteered on 36 or more occasions in 2000.

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Today at Boston's City Hall Plaza, the Veteran's Day Parade and Salute featured a wonderful group of veterans from every war since WWII. They were joined by hundreds of New England citizen gathered to honor them. And there were at least 200 JROTC participants marching and performing during the parade, shouting their salutes to the veterans who have

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"Islamist scarecrow". The term is meant for the ears of the West as well, and suggests that the autocratic governments play on the fear of the West that an Islamist rule will be the alternative if those regimes fall, so that by waving this "scarecrow" around, and alluding to the ominous repercussions of reform for Western interests....

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Two years after his death in a harrowing firefight on an Afghanistan mountaintop, Lt. Michael Murphy, a Navy SEAL officer from Long Island, N.Y., will be bestowed with the nation
’s highest combat honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor, Navy officials said.

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