THE INCORRECTNESS OF SUPERMARKETS The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a Competition Commission inquiry into the UK’s big four supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrison’s. OFT believes there is evidence that these stores have erected barriers to keep out new players and that their move into convenience stores could ‘distort competition...
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From an Associated Press report: “The camera focuses on two gay men kissing in a park. Later, a topless woman emerges from the sea and walks onto a crowded beach. For would-be immigrants to the Netherlands, this film is a test of their readiness for liberal Dutch culture. If they can’t stomach it, no...
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The Big Lie: Illegal Immigration Benefits Americans
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by Jim Kouri, CPP  It’s widely been reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security — claim in several reports that they’ve apprehended over 100,000 criminal aliens...
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by Nicholas Stix There’s a new blog in town, by Matthew A. Roberts: The Politics of Prudence. I hope the title is just for show, since there are already too many “prudent” Republicans writing. Roberts’ first article was originally published at David Horowitz’ Web site, Front Page mag: “The Decline of Mainstream Media.” Roberts...
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Privileged French students demonstrate to preserve their entitlements The French government wants to make all young people more employable by making it easier to fire duds, but ….. The current demonstrations by students of French universities against a proposed liberalization of the labor laws, so that it will be easier for French employers to...
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Privileged French students demonstrate to preserve their entitlements The French government wants to make all young people more employable by making it easier to fire duds, but ….. The current demonstrations by students of French universities against a proposed liberalization of the labor laws, so that it will be easier for French employers to...
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The Glittering Eye writes that the liberals who claim that George Bush is the worst President ever, apparently have forgotten about Jimmy Carter. In a recent post Matthew Yglesias gently chides his fellows for the claim that George W. Bush is “the worst president this country has ever hadâ€ÂÂ. Apparently, the Democratic Party leadership...
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By George Oldroyd It’s been over forty years since the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, where he was persecuted for his nonviolent demand for equality and called out for justice through his correspondence. Writing then, he urged us all to understand that: “An unjust law is a...
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This is one of the things that drives me crazy about White House press Secretary Scott McClellan, and one of the main reasons I think he should be replaced with somebody else. Here a reporter (David Gregory) asks him a completely deranged question, and McClellan basically blows it off, which makes the reporters think...
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Could metabolities of antibiotics in drinking water be causing an increase in antibiotic resistance in various parts of the nation? University at Buffalo chemists have for the first time identified at wastewater treatment plants the metabolites of two antibiotics and a medical imaging agent. The data, which the UB scientists will present tomorrow at...
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By Denise Noe March is Women’s History Month and thus, a good time to reacquaint the public with a great irony of women’s history: the most prominent of the First Wave Feminists opposed abortion. The grandmother of feminism was arguably Mary Wollstonecraft who published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. In...
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By Denise Noe March is Women’s History Month and thus, a good time to reacquaint the public with a great irony of women’s history: the most prominent of the First Wave Feminists opposed abortion. The grandmother of feminism was arguably Mary Wollstonecraft who published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. In...
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