Paine’s ideology was the antithesis of the ethos that produced our Constitution. Responding to A View From the Left, Kenneth T. Ellis wrote: Mr. Brewton,  As a member of the Thomas Paine Assn. I am appalled when I see what has happened to the U.S. and its downtrodden masses.  These words by Thomas...
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On Friday, an agreement was reached stating that the all of the United States armed forces currently stationed in Iraq would be pulled out by 2011. Mohammed al-Haj Hamoud, the deputy foreign minister of Iraq, stated that the deal has to be signed by both the Iraqi and US governments. The agreement, which has...
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(This article is based on a report submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s National Security Committtee.) The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a set of security recommendations for the transportation of certain quantities of hazardous materials across the nation’s highways. The recommendations – while voluntary – will help to ensure the...
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Reader Len writes in to ask for advice on how to handle discrimination against men in the workplace: Dear Dr. Helen, I read one of the letters sent to you about male-bashing and just wanted to share one of my experiences also. I work at a fast food restaurant where there are “unofficially†two...
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Snakes and alligators have been forced out onto Florida streets in the United States as Tropical Storm Fay continues to flood the state, breaking the region’s two-year drought. The storm has already left over two feet of rain along Florida’s central Atlantic coast with more still to come. About 60,000 homes have lost power...
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The campaign offices for 2008 United States presidential candidate John McCain in Centennial, Colorado and Manchester, New Hampshire have been evacuated after receiving letter threats in the U.S. mail. Office staff state that the Centennial envelope contained an unknown white powder. “We immediately notified local and federal law enforcement agencies and are looking to...
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When I ponder our curiously unbalanced civilization, able to put golf carts on Mars but unable to equal the verse of muddy Elizabethan London, I wonder why we are as we are. In all things technological the United States is magnificent, the Athens of solid-state physics. Yet the great orchestras die unlistened to, we...
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