The US Department of Justice yesterday unveiled an innovative national public service announcement (PSA) campaign to educate parents about the potential dangers that their children face online and, for the first time, warns potential online predators that exploiting a child online is a serious federal offense, according to a report obtained by the National...
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By Yaron Brook and Don Watkins Speaking of the financial crisis, French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently said, “Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.†Sarkozy was echoing the views of many, including president-elect Obama, who assume that the financial crisis was caused by free markets–by “unbridled greed†unleashed by...
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(Note: This was my ChristianWeek column, published in print as “Neuroscience hits the junk science circuit” November 15, 2008) Methods of probing the brain at work – while communicating with the research volunteer – have made neuroscience a very cool toy indeed. Functional magnetic resonance imaging has done for brain studies what the diving...
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In the epigram to “them,†Joyce Carol Oates quotes John Webster from “The White Devil,†as saying, “. . . because we are poor/Shall we be vicious?†The question echoes through this complicated, impassioned, and masterful novel. “them†focuses on Loretta, her son Jules and daughter Maureen. They are impoverished white people. They survive...
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Author J. M. Barrie gave literature Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. Government, by encouraging people to not assume the responsibilities of adulthood, is fashioning a nation of Peter Pans. Many health insurance policies allow parents to carry their children as covered dependents until they turn 19 or, if a full-time...
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Following detention stemming from corruption allegations, former Taiwanese President, Chen Shui-bian is reportedly on hunger strike. Cheng Wen-lung, stated that Chen has not eaten since since his admission to Taipei’s Tucheng jail on Wednesday. The ex-president’s lawyer went on to tell reporters the hunger strike is to continue, “to protest the death of justice...
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Iranian diplomat Heshmatollah Atharzadeh has been kidnapped by armed men in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday morning, police have said. The diplomat’s car was ambushed in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Atharzadeh was heading from home to office with his guard when the car was ambushed in Hayatabad, a neighborhood near...
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More than 1,000 protesters showed up to demonstrate in front of the Los Angeles temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Friday, November 7, to protest the church’s involvement with the passing of Proposition 8, an amendment to the California constitution banning gay marriages. Protesters have claimed that the church...
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Less than one week after the College La Promesse Evangelique in Pétionville, Haiti collapsed, a second school in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has partially collapsed injuring nine people. The Grace Divine school partially collapsed while school was in session, but no one was trapped or killed. At least two people were transported to an...
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On Monday, the Pakistan branch of the Taliban captured an entire supply convoy of thirteen trucks, two armored Humvees and other supplies bound for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, without incurring a single fatality. Approximately 60 masked militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban blocked off part of a roadway in the Khyber Pass....
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A United Kingdom radio presenter with the BBC was fired on Saturday, and replaced, after an allegedly racist off-air phone call. Sam Mason of BBC Radio Bristol had earlier called up a taxi firm to arrange a booking for her 14-year-old daughter. Mason asked the operator not to send an Asian cab driver. She...
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