Archive for April, 2006

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2006-04-27
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STRANGE NEW IQ STUDY We read: “Girls have big advantage over boys on timed tests “Vanderbilt University researchers Stephen Camarata and Richard Woodcock discovered that females have a significant advantage over males on timed tests and tasks. Camarata and Woodcock found the differences were particularly significant among pre-teens and teens…. Though males and females...

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Counterproductivity at Work: Government Bashes, Takes Stock In, Big Oil

2006-04-27
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Here’s an interesting, but typical, government tidbit. In my state, Michigan, there’s a petition on the government website that citizens can sign to “lower gas prices!” Keep that in mind, and now read this little bit of research from Mark Hornbeck of the Detroit News: While Gov. Jennifer Granholm pushes for a federal cap...

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A Specter of Things to Come?

2006-04-27
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By Edward L. Daley So I’m sitting at my computer this morning scanning the internet news websites like I do every day, when I happen upon an article in the ‘Frankfort Times’ titled “Sen. Targets Oil Cos. Over Rising Prices”. (1) The Sen. in question, it turns out, is Senator Arlen Specter (2), one...

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Creation Ex Nihilo Part 2

2006-04-27
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The philosophical arguments for and against creation ex nihilo are often very complex and confusing. They range from logical arguments that seem supported from a realists perspective to metaphysical arguments that seem to support and anti-realists perspective. Many of these arguments seem to cross over between these viewpoints making the arguments difficult to categorize...

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The Carter Doctrine Comes Calling

2006-04-27
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By Bob Newman I began studying Iran in 1979 as a 21-year-old Marine sergeant and Recon (Recon is the Corps’ version of Navy SEALs and Army Rangers and Green Berets) team leader with “A” Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion. My studies began because terrorists in Iran had just overthrown Shah Reza Mohammed Pahlavi, sacked the...

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2006-04-26
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PATHETIC: THE BRITISH NANNY STATE STRIKES AGAIN To the patriots of Bromham, a hearty English breakfast seemed the perfect way to celebrate St George’s Day. Some 300 villagers were planning to tuck in to the fry-up in their community centre. But yesterday’s charity event was cancelled at the last minute – because of a...

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US Military Not Getting More Bang for the Buck

2006-04-26
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by Jim Kouri, CPP In the past five years, the US Department of Defense has doubled its planned investments in weapons systems, but this huge increase has not been accompanied by more stability, better outcomes, or more buying power for the acquisition dollar, according to a bi-partisan congressional study by the Government Accounting Office....

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$100 Laptops For The Third World?

2006-04-26
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By Robert Paul Reyes If you don’t have Internet access, you are not hooked up to the vital flow of information, commerce and entertainment that comprises 21st century life. If you don’t have a computer, it’s like being deprived of the nutrients that your body needs to thrive. Google is helping develop a $100...

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Tom Delay Born Again As An Evangelical Power Player

2006-04-26
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By Robert Paul Reyes Disgraced Rep.Tom DeLay’s decision to resign from Congress is good news for citizens who value clean government. The “Peanuts” character “Pigpen” was constantly enveloped in a cloud of dust, the ethically-challenged Republican leader is perpetually covered in a cloud of corruption. Anyone with a shred of decency would have responded...

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Retired Generals Agree: Donald Rumsfeld Should Resign

2006-04-26
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By Robert Paul Reyes Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is caustic, abrasive and abrupt, and that’s when he’s playing with his great-grandchildren. When he is dealing with the media he is an ogre, chomping at the bit to tear any reporter’s head off. Donald Rumsfeld has as many friends in the media as Jerry...

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Desolate Housewife

2006-04-26
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By Erik Rush Last week in my column “Race, Race, and more Race”, I elucidated on the (perhaps obvious) phenomenon of an inordinate percentage of our high-profile news stories inappropriately leaning toward the issue of race. I’m not going to subject the reader to a review of Desperate Housewives, the ABC primetime soap opera,...

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Porn Star Planned to Launch Rocket Near Bill Clinton – Usually It’s The Other Way Around

2006-04-26
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Bill Clinton, a female porn star, rockets, and golf. In other words, “business as usual” for Bubba. Some days the material writes itself. This from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: President Clinton’s round of golf had a porn star connection the other day. Clinton was preparing to hit his second shot on the fifth hole...

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Send the ‘Guest-Workers’ Home

2006-04-26
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By Jeff Adams Well, the U.S. Congress has been given plenty of time to work on addressing our illegal immigration problem. Commentators across the country have provided lots of thoughts on the issue, including lots of ideas on how to address the problem. You would think that our elected representatives would listen to the...

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Jim Kouri

2006-04-26
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Charlie Sheen v. Denise Richards: Hollywood Morality on Display _________________________________ US Military Not Getting More Bang for the Buck

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Charlie Sheen v. Denise Richards: Hollywood Morality on Display

2006-04-26
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Former “Wild Thing” star Denise Richards says that her estranged husband, actor Charlie Sheen, may have been involved in the death of a porn-movie star. Richards claims that Sheen did not deny it when she asked him if he had a part in the death of sex star Chloe Jones, according to UPI. “He said that...

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2006-04-26
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ANGER AT BRITAIN’S WARPED WELFARE STATE From an article by a Labour party member of the British pariament: This is not about race. Immigration and bogus asylum seekers act like the barium meal of an X-ray, showing up the weakness of the body politic. Yet the revolt of working-class voters is not limited to...

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2006-04-26
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ANGER AT BRITAIN’S WARPED WELFARE STATE From an article by a Labour party member of the British pariament: This is not about race. Immigration and bogus asylum seekers act like the barium meal of an X-ray, showing up the weakness of the body politic. Yet the revolt of working-class voters is not limited to...

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The “Well, duh” News Headline of the Week

2006-04-26
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“Meth abusers face short life” Okay. We’ll file that one with “Michael Moore may be overweight”, “Drunk drivers are more accident prone”, and “Obvious headlines a certainty”. By the way, kids, that says “meth”, not “math”. Sorry.

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Men's Lack of Choices and the Pay Gap

2006-04-26
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Martha Burk has written, “women working full time, year round, still make only 76 cents for ever dollar that a man makes.” Then she attacks “naysayers” who claim that the difference is due to a tendency for women to choose jobs that have less risk and says “Tell that to the women cleaning toilets...

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Men’s Lack of Choices and the Pay Gap

2006-04-26
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Martha Burk has written, “women working full time, year round, still make only 76 cents for ever dollar that a man makes.” Then she attacks “naysayers” who claim that the difference is due to a tendency for women to choose jobs that have less risk and says “Tell that to the women cleaning toilets...

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