For the first time in history, the Siemens Competition, formerly the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition, was won by two females. The competition, which along with the Intel Competition are one of the two most prestigious competitions for high school science research in the United States. The Siemens Competition has two competitions, one for individual research and...
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Documents show Gonzalez was denied fair tenure process by hostile colleagues who plotted behind his back, suppressed evidence, and then misled the public. Click Here To See a PDF Version of this Document with Citations Included. Executive Summary. Internal e-mails and other documents obtained under the Iowa Open Records Act contradict public claims by...
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by Jim Kouri “I shudder to think how millions of California children will be led astray, how marriage will be destroyed, and how immorality will step on the neck of morality if Arnold Schwarzenegger signs five anti-family bills into law. The ‘Terminator’ has less than two weeks to sign or veto very bad bills!”...
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Author’s note: A previous version of this article was first published several years ago in the publication of the Atlanta Writing Resource Center. The many changes in our technologically oriented society have led some to doubt the value of a liberal arts education and the literary skills it builds — but it has in...
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In Expelled: The Movie, economist, lawyer, presidential speech-writer, and all-around media personality Ben Stein will stare down the brutes of Establishment Academia with a singularly profound question: can modern cosmology offer any evidence of Intelligent Design in the universe? The answer to this question can have unanticipated consequences, as Astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez learned...
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Since author Norman Mailer has just died – and so close to Veteran’s Day — I must take this opportunity to put in a plug for his first novel, “The Naked and the Dead.†It is set on the Pacific front in World War II and centers on a group of American soldiers. They...
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Since author Norman Mailer has just died – and so close to Veteran’s Day — I must take this opportunity to put in a plug for his first novel, “The Naked and the Dead.†It is set on the Pacific front in World War II and centers on a group of American soldiers. They...
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Tonight in the Florida presidential debates, Fred Thompson made a statement of tremendous historic political significance: “Part of the problem in our education system and with our children has to do with the societal breakdown that’s going on in this country. We need more fathers to stay and raise their kids.” This is the...
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There has long been a critical controversy surrounding Henry James’s brilliant and haunting The Turn of the Screw. That controversy centers on whether the novella is a ghost story or a tale of mental disturbance. James wrote several stories dealing with the supernatural prior to penning The Turn of the Screw. In these tales,...
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A liberal Yale professor takes a critical look at his cohort’s handiwork. Politically-correct, multicultural education, like a lost spacecraft drifting forever in space with no destination and no way to return home, has lost contact with real life. It has become a caricature of science, a bastardized version that Friedrich Hayek called scientism. Jacob...
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David Vitter, a Republican United States Senator from Louisiana, has earmarked $100,000 for Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), a conservative creationist organization. Vitter put the earmark into the labor, health and education financing bill for fiscal year 2008. The bill specifies the Louisiana Family Forum received the money “to develop a plan to promote better...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A growing number of Americans believe that the US government school system has declared war on white, male students. In fact, many believe that young boys are treated more harshly than teachers who sexually exploit children. While Americans are constantly told about “zero tolerance” for misbehavior in public schools, they...
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Penny Patterson has said of herself, her longtime companion Ron Cohn, her adopted gorilla daughter Koko, her adopted gorilla son, the late Michael, that “we function as a family, albeit a weird one.†In some ways, however, that family is traditional, hearkening back to the 1950s and previous eras in its division of sex...
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As readers of my column probably already know, I’m a fan of the Maury show. His paternity test programs are especially dramatic. One thing I have noticed is that men are often certain that they “can’t be the father†because of the circumstances under which the sex took place and their feelings – or...
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Author’s note: This was originally published several years ago in a slightly different form. It originally appeared under another writer’s name but that was a mistake. I wrote this article. African Americans have a rich and inspiring history, starting in Africa, which is believed to be the home of the first humans. Black history...
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Collapse of the subprime mortgage market reflects the “don’t trust anybody over 30″ mentality of the Baby Boomers. From 1605 until the late 1960s, Americans universally subscribed to Benjamin Franklin’s maxim,”A penny saved is a penny earned.” Since the Baby Boomer student anarchism of the late 1960s and 1970s, we have become a nation,...
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