Why do racist belief systems persist? British-born Harvard history Professor Niall Ferguson makes a game attempt to answer the above question here. Some of the factors he mentions are a bit speculative but, all things considered, he goes about as far as political correctness allows. I however am a retired academic and seek no...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Lately, the words Republican and Conservative are being used interchangeably by members of the news media, commentators and many people in the general population. To be sure, there are many conservatives who are Republicans, while at the same time there are but a few Republicans who can claim they are...
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Diana Bianchi is the 19-year-old former flingmate of Peter Cook, the 47-year-old soon-to-be-ex-husband of Christie Brinkley. As the story goes, Cook met Bianchi while she was working in a toystore in Southampton, LI. Allegedly, under duress and at gunpoint, Bianchi: Quit her job at the toystore to work at Cook’s architectural firm Began having...
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The U.S. Marines are advertising on MySpace.com, and have a recruiting site there as well. As somebody who has a couple of relatives with MySpace websites and has seen the kinds of blog replies and links they get, I’m thinking this is a recruiting tactic — not for the Marines, but for whatever director...
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American and German scientists have embarked on a two-year project to decipher the genetic code of the Neanderthal, in the hopes that it will lead to an understanding of how the modern human brain evolved. Neanderthals are a species that thrived in Europe and western Asia from more than 200,000 years ago to about 30,000 years ago, a...
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The chutzpah of presidential wannabe John Kerry never ceases to amaze. During a trip to Detroit to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for re-election, Kerry attacked what he considered to be President Bush’s lack of leadership in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. “If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” he intoned during a noon stop at...
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The chutzpah of presidential wannabe John Kerry never ceases to amaze. During a trip to Detroit to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for re-election, Kerry attacked what he considered to be President Bush’s lack of leadership in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. “If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened,” he intoned during a noon stop at...
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How sad. “Antioxidant” vitamins dangerous: “Expensive high-dose antioxidant supplements have no benefits but can increase blood pressure in some people, a pharmacology expert says. Professor Kevin Croft of the University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology, said recent research showed there were no benefits from popular high-dose vitamin C and E supplements...
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MORE ON THE INCORRECTNESS OF BABY FORMULA The Merchants of Death in Christopher Buckley’s novel “Thank You for Smoking” are spokesmen for the most vilified industries in Washington: alcohol, tobacco and firearms. A lobbyist for baby formula may have to join them in a sequel. Proponents of breast-feeding, emboldened by studies that trumpet human...
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Today’s column at WorldNetDaily is on the recent striking down of Maryland’s “Wal-Mart Law” regarding any company in that state with over 10,000 employees being forced to spend at least 8% of their payroll on health care (which would have left 8% of the payroll not going to payroll, but that’s neither here nor...
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CA: Bandit shot dead by armed clerk: “An armed clerk at a convenience store surprised a gunman attempting to rob the store Monday at 8:30 p.m., fatally wounding him. The stricken bandit stumbled from Nader’s Market at the three Star Plaza in the 25000 block of Redlands Boulevard to a waiting getaway car. He...
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SOME INTERESTING CONFERENCE NOTES FROM STEPHEN FRANK Saturday afternoon we heard U.S. Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma speak. He noted that by 2016, 80% of the Federal budget will go towards Social Security, Medicare and Interest payments. Imagine, no money for roads, parks, salaries, education, or defense. So far, according to the Senator few...
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  By Vincent Fiore     As the war progresses in the Middle East and wave upon wave of rockets fired by Hezbollah kill Israeli civilians and military personal, the world hears from one of liberalism’s premiere statesmen, opinion writer Richard Cohen:      “The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to...
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The think tank Education Sector recently released a study that suggests the problem of academic underachievement in boys is a misperception. Sara Mead of Education Sector suggests that the belief that our educational system may be shortchanging boys is “hysteria†tied to “Americans’ deepest ambivalences and fears about changing gender roles.â€Â Mead also said,...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP In my position with the National Association of Chiefs of Police, I get many reports, press releases and other documents on a daily basis. Because of time constraints, I may read perhaps one-third of them, giving priority to Department of Homeland Security and FBI reports. However, every once in a...
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In a mad scramble to attract viewers, CBS has a new promotion that may leave the Tiffany network with egg on its face. The CBS logo and slogans promoting the TV network and its series will appear on eggs at your local grocery store. No doubt CBS honchos are walking on eggshells, wondering if their campaign...
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It’s no secret that liberals hold in contempt what they regard as the provincial nature of conservatives. And I certainly would love to buy liberals for what I think they’re worth and sell them for what they think they’re worth, to paraphrase the old retort. That said, a part of me is so frustrated...
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Bill Clinton’s given title of the “first black president of the United States,” a label which was first applied by Toni Morrison in a 1998 article in The New Yorker, has always been a misnomer, but could some of that BS finally be bubbling to the surface, soon to burn the former prez? From the U.K.’s “The Independent”...
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Marvellous what a dose of their own medicine does: “Militants in the Gaza Strip have reportedly agreed to stop firing rockets into Israel. Senior Palestinian officials have been quoted saying militant groups in Gaza have agreed to a unilateral cease-fire. They have been battling Israeli troops for more than three weeks. Hundreds of homemade...
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