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The family of a 25-year-old quadriplegic Marine is pressing a Michigan amusement park to change its admission policies after the park denied a request to grant the man free entry even though he isn’t physically able to ride on any rides. Michigan’s Adventure, an amusement park located in Muskegon, has …

A poor, agrarian, landlocked country in South America with a nearly 100 percent Christian population is hardly the place one would expect to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism in the Western Hemisphere. But a recent report by the Open Source Center (OSC) of the Office of the Director of …

Space shuttle Atlantis headed home Monday morning, riding piggyback atop a Boeing 747 for the trip from Edwards Air Force Base in Californina to the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA had earlier postponed the journey due to bad weather. Thunderstorms and high winds prevented plans to begin …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Home Team Disadvantage New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer is asking the Obama administration to block millions of dollars in stimulus aid from going to a clean energy wind farm in Texas, because all of the turbines would be made overseas. Schumer …

So apparently Sarah Palin sold over 300,000 copies of her book in one day and, as you can guess, they were all bought by racist bigots who are bigoted racists. At least, that’s what the sociology professors over at MSNBC Community College believe. Check out “Hardball” guest Norah O’Donnell impersonating …

The U.S. government’s bailout of the American International Group is helping promote Shariah law, a lawsuit filed in federal court in Michigan alleges. The suit — brought with the support of the Thomas More Law Center, a non-profit law firm that promotes conservative Christian values — claims that making U.S. …

The friendship between Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad has stood many tests. It’s survived Audrina’s friendship with Heidi Montag, her rift with Lo Bosworth, Lauren’s hatred for basically everything Audrina likes (including JustinBobby) and, after this week’s episode, even the world’s craziest rumor. But can they survive Audrina’s latest blog …

And now the most absorbing two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: U.S.-Issued Warning to Arafat Just hours before Thursday’s deadly suicide murder, which killed 17 Israelis, CIA Director George Tenet reportedly warned Yasser Arafat that if there were any more such attacks, the U.S. would not …

Eminem|Roman Polanski|Pentagon Papers|Freddie Roman|Oscars|Time Out Eminem’s New Album Halfa Million Strong Eminem‘s soundtrack album to his movie, 8 Mile, will hit the charts at No. 1 this week. But more importantly, it will do so with at least 500,000 copies sold. And there’s a chance that number will be up …

I am burning mad over a quoteI saw ina localnewspaper last week. The words werespoken bythe mother of a5-year-old boy who tragically choked to death on a piece of a rubber glove. She told reporters that herchild was blowing up a latex rubber glove like a balloon — and said …