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A Taxing Proposal for Online Retailers
There are many positive features about shopping online, including convenience, selection, and speed. There is also the fact that a customer doesn’t have...
Grade Inflation in American Education
The Boston Globe reported July 4 that students have been studying less in high school and college compared with past decades. “In survey...
Read moreSteele Galvanizes Neocon Hawks
Michael Kinsley famously defined a gaffe as “when a politician inadvertently tells the truth.” That being the case, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael...
Read moreThe McDonald Decision and the Second Amendment
The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The court found, in a 5-4 vote,...
Read moreThe Right’s Posturing and the Left’s Illogic
Broken down into its most simple explanation, cognitive dissonance is when one spouts diametrically opposite ideals with equal conviction — something akin to...
Read moreObama Speaks on the Immigration Issue
For all those playing "Obama Immigration Bingo" on Thursday, July 1, your bingo cards would have been blacked out completely by the end...
Read moreFinancial Reform: Expanding Hubris, Limiting Freedom
When the House passed the 2,319-page Dodd-Frank financial reform bill by a vote of 237-192, all it did was confirm for many the...
Read moreMillions of Expired Swine-flu Vaccines To Be Destroyed As Criticism Mounts
Amidst strong criticism of governments’ responses to the swine flu H1N1 hysteria, nearly half of the more than 150 million swine flu vaccines...
Read moreComing to the Internet: Triple-X Domain for Pornography
Without a doubt, pornography is one of the biggest businesses on the Internet, with an estimated $3,000 spent on Internet porn every second....
Read morePetraeus Arrives in Afghanistan as Taliban Attack
New U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus arrived in Afghanistan on July 2 to assume command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) —...
Read moreBlack Landowners Fight to Reclaim Land Taken by Feds
A group of black former residents of an area of McIntosh County, Georgia, known as Harris Neck has banded together in an attempt...
Read moreKagan Promises She’ll Reread Federalist Papers
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan on May 10 to occupy the chair that would be soon left vacant by Supreme...
Read moreHigh Court Rules Against Christian Group at California Law School
The U.S Supreme Court ruled five to four on June 28 that a University of California law school can refuse to recognize a...
Read moreKagan, Confirmation, and the Constitution
Elena Kagan's responses to the questions put to her by the Senate are worthy of comment since she has been nominated for a...
Read moreGraham, Kagan and the Global “Battlefield”
As a preface to a series of questions about the due process afforded the would-be "Christmas Day bomber" last December 25, Sen. Lindsey...
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