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Nickelodeon Junk Food Lawsuit: The Food Doesn’t Jump Out of the TV and Into the Kids, Folks

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Pat Cleary, writing on the National Association of Manufacturers blog, comments about an AP story about "advocacy groups" and parents suing "the Nickelodeon TV network and cereal maker Kellogg Co. in an effort to stop junk food marketing to kids." ...
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Steven Hayward on Ronald Reagan

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There is a wonderful essay about Ronald Reagan by Steve Hayward on National Review Online today. The final paragraphs covering some of the reporting about Reagan's First Inaugural Address were particularly satisfying for me ...
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Katrina Aftermath: Recriminations, Rancor and Racial Divisions Don’t Help Us Learn from Our Mistakes

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Annelie O'Neal Roche, who sent dispatches to this blog while working in New Orleans with her National Guard unit during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (see here, here, hereand here), has some thoughts about the Katrina "blame game" currently ...
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Ray Nagin’s Remarks

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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has apologized for remarks he made yesterday in which he appeared A) to be channeling the Lord a la Pat Robertson, and B) doing so in the service of racial segregation. Not the best combination ...
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No Chlorophyll Here

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An e-mail from a very antagonistic stranger, who even went to the trouble of complaining in red: I just wondered what you STUPID ASSHOLES had to say about this new revelation. LMAONew source of global warming gas found: plants Wed ...
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How Custom Jewelry Sales are Like Local Sports Journalism

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How is a sports journalist like a custom jewelry designer? That's not a trick question; it is something I started thinking about today while reading this Washington Post story, as my father-in-law called just then to tell my husband about ...
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Senator Biden’s Environmental Threat

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From the Borowitz Report: Senator Biden Producing Dangerously High Levels Of Carbon DioxideTalkative Lawmaker Creating Environmental Threat, Scientists Fear Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who has dominated this week's confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito with his seemingly nonstop ...
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Professor Bainbridge: Eminent Domain Crimes

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Professor Bainbridge is exposing a Los Angeles eminent domain abuse case with a twist: The original landowner not only lost his property for the use of another private business, but the city council managed to commit fraud against city taxpayers ...
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Global Warming Poll: Better Late Than Never

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Canadian national television has an online poll today: "Should Canada withdraw from the Kyoto accord?" Interesting that the question is even being asked. When I visited, the results were 70 percent, yes; 30 percent, no. No indication was given of ...
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Science Magazine to Try Harder

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From a New York Times story by Nicholas Wade: Science magazine, the leading scientific journal that published Dr. Hwang Woo Suk's two now-discredited reports on cloning human cells, said yesterday that it would evaluate how the articles had been reviewed ...
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