Book Reveals Neo-Con Influence in GOP
Tom Pauken, a lawyer and conservative political activist hailing from Texas, wrote Bringing Home America: How America Lost Her Way and How We...
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What Goes Around Comes Around
There’s a maxim everyone’s heard, personally mouthed, and undoubtedly believes: “What goes around comes around.” Or, “the boomerang effect. Remarkably, however, although...
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“Fuller Strategy” Needed to “Explain” Afghan War
Back in the 1950s there was a TV commercial designed to induce headaches in viewers in order to increase demand for the product...
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The Last Airbender: Visually Stunning Failure
The Last Airbender is M. Night Shyamalan's ninth directorial effort and is an imaginative and wonderfully visual film — as long as no...
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There Oughtn’t To Be A Law
Pick your peeve: illegal immigrants, toxic television with its pornographic programs, second-hand smoke, ballooning budgets. Even the smallest of small-government advocates sometimes assume...
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Our One-World Sphere of Influence
I used to think you had to have a sense of humor to survive in politics. I am now becoming convinced that a...
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Unskilled Workers and Public Education
The New York Times reports that many factories are ready to hire workers, but that applicants for jobs lack the skills in math...
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Under-reporting Unemployment
The June jobs report issued by the Labor Department noted that total employment was down by 125,000 jobs for the month and that...
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Declaring Liberty As Eternal Law
It was, and perhaps still is, one of those trick questions used by kids to trip up their schoolmates: "Do they have fourth...
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Another Twilight Saga in Celluloid — Twilight
Team Edward vs. Team Jacob: Who will prevail? Viewers learn the answer to that question in the latest movie version of the Twilight:...
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Congress Considers Extending Unemployment Benefits — Again
One ironclad rule of government programs is “if you subsidize something, you will get more of it.” Thus, paying poor, unmarried women to...
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Independence and Its “Improvements”
Most of us will undoubtedly find reasonably pleasant ways to spend the extra hours away from work that a holiday weekend gives us;...
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Headed for Recovery … or the “Cliff-edge Around the Corner”?
After a meeting with his economic team and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on June 29, President Obama announced "the economy is strengthening"...
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Ding Dong, The Pork King’s Dead
Tragically, Robert Byrd has died. Don't get me wrong: it's a stellar day whenever one of Leviathan's lackeys departs for the nether regions...
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Bill of Rights: Not Dead Yet in Dearborn — But Almost
Public officials throughout America have made substantial progress in recent years in keeping demonstrators out of sight and earshot of the objects of...
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