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Let me be blunt about what amazes me when it comes to global warming. In the U.S., it's largely an issue for Democrats, "progressives," liberals, the left, and I simply don't get that. Never have. If the word "conservative" means anything, the key to it must be that word at its heart, "conserve"; that is, the keeping or not squandering of what already is, especially what's most valuable.

OPEN LETTER to

The Most Rev. and the Rt. Hon. the Archbishop of Canterbury

Spiritual leader of the Anglican Church

President Barack Obama carefully avoided describing his decision to dispatch 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as an "escalation," but that is what he announced.

A WOMAN suffers from a mysterious disorder which turns her into a sex addict - when she is asleep.

Belle Floor is a Sexsomniac - meaning she engages in sexual acts while she is sleeping - and cannot remember anything the next day.
Her condition means she is too afraid to let boyfriends stay over in case she embarrasses herself at night.

A PORTLY pig with flatulence triggered a minor emergency near Bendigo this week when smells wafting from the 120kg porker sparked fears of a potentially dangerous gas leak.

ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for €15,000 ($24,343) on online auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller.

The incident at Ft. Hood was a genuine tragedy. I'm only surprised it didn't happen sooner, there or somewhere else. It is going to take time for the details to be sorted out. Generalizing from a single incident is always dangerous, no matter how compelling it seems. Sometimes an isolated tragedy is just that, an outpouring of individual dementia rather than a wide-ranging political statement.

As one of the world's most distinguished jazz singers and pianists, Harry Connick Jr has won Grammy Awards, written a Broadway musical and held his own playing alongside such virtuosos as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his sax-playing brother Branford. In a parallel career as a Hollywood star, he has also appeared with Renée Zellweger and John Travolta, and had a long-running role in hit U.S. sitcom Will And Grace