Think I'll go to Canberra and rob me a bank:
ARCHITECT-DESIGNED self-contained cottages with roomy kitchens, lounge rooms complete with flat-screen LCD televisions and mountain views through floor to ceiling windows.
Welcome to the Alexander Maconochie Centre, the ACT's first prison, where the cost of a room is your liberty and more.
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Quick, Give me Hillary Clinton's full name, including the middle one. Bet you anything your first answer was wrong.
(Twenty times. That number is important later on, so remember it.)
Granted, the quality of the product and the service may have deteriorated at Starbucks. It can happen to any company. But their solution is to promise perfection?
A day after shutting down most of its U.S. shops for three hours to retrain baristas on espresso basics, Starbucks is welcoming customers back Wednesday with a new promise posted in stores: "Your drink should be perfect, every time. If not, let us know and we'll make it right."
Before a Democrat gets in the White House and destroys our economy with protectionist nonsense, more people should stand up and defend NAFTA:
His campaign claims a million jobs have vanished because of the deal. That sounds devastating, but over the last 14 years, the American economy has added a net total of 25 million jobs—some of them, incidentally, attributable to expanded trade with Mexico. When NAFTA took effect in 1994, the unemployment rate was 6.7 percent. Today it's 4.9 percent.
One of the good guys is gone:
William F. Buckley Jr., a conservative icon and public intellectual, died today at the age of 82, The New York Times and Associated Press report.
The New York Philharmonic's unprecedented concert could herald warmer ties between North Korea and the United States. After three encores, some musicians left the stage in tears as the audience waved fondly.
Never thought I'd see an editorial with this much common sense in USA Today:
To listen to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign in Ohio and Texas is to hear pledges on health care, middle-class tax cuts, mortgage assistance, tuition help, energy initiatives and more.
It's all very appealing. It's also almost certainly too good to be true.
If I'm somebody's guest, my first rule is not to insult them with scurrilous lies. Apparenly the United Nations does not feel that way about its host country:
GENEVA - U.N. human rights experts told the United States on Thursday to step up efforts to combat racial discrimination in the detention of African-Americans and Hispanics and questioned the treatment of illegal immigrants.
I know how some of you have been criticizing me. As an editorial writer and blogger, I merely deal in rhetoric. All I do is insult people and ideas -- just words. To do any real damage, I would need to be an elected official or robber-baron businessman with real power. Those who really want to create havoc in the world need to support those who can act, not just those who can spout angry words.
