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The Effects of Low-dose Radiation
In 1990, the International Journal of Radiological Biology published a paper by M. Mine and his team of Japanese researchers entitled “Apparently beneficial...
Federal Bureaucrats Target Kids’ Cereal
Federal bureaucrats are at it again, interjecting themselves into affairs that should be of no concern to them. The latest overreach involves new...
Read moreProp. 8 Defenders Ask Court to Vacate Ruling of Homosexual Judge
Proponents of California’s Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2008 that defines marriage as between a man and a...
Read moreMilitary Atheists Want Chaplains
In what may be the apogee of oxymoronic ideas, a gaggle of military atheists is pushing the armed forces to create atheist chaplains....
Read moreIndiana First State to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
The state of Indiana has become the first in the Union to cut off all government funding to Planned Parenthood. Though the effort...
Read moreBernanke Press Conference Proclaims Inflation Not a Problem
Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters at the Fed's first ever press conference April 27 that the Fed's Open Market Committee will...
Read moreLaw Firm Bails on House Republicans DOMA Defense
A prestigious Atlanta law firm hired by Republicans in the House of Representatives to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal...
Read moreGOP Faces Tough Audiences in Pitching Medicare Overhaul
In the weeks following the release by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) of his budget proposal to overhaul Medicare, he and other Republicans across...
Read morePresidents Presentation of a Certificate of Live Birth Raises Even More Questions
At 9:45 a.m. on April 27, President Obama addressed the escalating controversy over the actual location of his birth at a press briefing...
Read moreRep. Gutierrez Demands Amnesty Through Executive Order
America’s elected officials are becoming less sheepish about their blatant disregard of the voters and the Constitution. This attitude is evident in the...
Read moreSpeculators and High Oil Prices
Last Thursday, speaking in Reno, Nevada, President Obama announced that the Department of Justice was going to examine the role of "traders and...
Read moreFukushima: Just How Dangerous Is Radiation?
The situation in Japan is grim. Estimates of the dead or missing — and by now this latter group must be moved into...
Read moreTSA: Back to the Abyss
Throughout history and around the world, suppliants have groveled to potentates for the most basic of rights and common decency. Whether it was...
Read moreState Department Proposes Bizarre Questionnaire for Passport Apps
It seems that people are under much less scrutiny when entering the United States than leaving it inasmuch as the State Department has...
Read moreHeritage Foundation: Racial Disparity In School Funding A Myth
A disparity in public education funding does not explain the racial achievement gap among students, a report from the Heritage Foundation found. ...
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