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Hawaiian Apartheid?

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This is harsh. Unfortunately, it also is accurate. If the "Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005" happens to become law, I'm going to being looking very, very hard for the necessary single Native Hawaiian ancestor it takes to get ...
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Katrina’s Pestilence Potential

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I was visiting the New Jersey Pest Management Association website today (yes, my life is very exciting) and happened to notice this "fun fact about pests": In the 1960s, animal behavior researchers studied the effects of various substances on spiders ...
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Katrina Rescues: Scenes of New Orleans

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As I mentioned in this post, our friend Joe Roche's wife Lili, a member of the Washington, DC National Guard, is doing helicopter rescue missions in hurricane-affected areas. Joe's been sharing her reports about her experiences with friends and family ...
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Katrina Rescues: A Military Perspective

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I'm posting a letter from Joe Roche, whose wife is doing helicopter rescue missions in hurricane-affected areas, "24/7, very tired, sometimes being shot at, facing intense heat and humidity, having spartan-to-bare sleeping conditions, with sickness and disease spreading." Amy, I ...
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Tidbits on Rehnquist

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A few tidbits I saw this night while reading about the late Chief Justice: Comedian/actor Robin Williams, doing a supposed imitation of Rehnquist soon after he became Chief Justice in 1986, as quoted in People magazine's September 22, 1986 edition: ...
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Reviewing Anne Rice

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Judging from her screed in the New York Times today, the writer Anne Rice apparently doesn't know the simple word "thanks." But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on ...
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Ex-Liberal in Hollywood: New Orleans: Where Laid Back is Laid Bare

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Clark Baker sent me a copy of a post in his new blog "Ex-Liberal in Hollywood" in response to my post about Anne Rice complaining about America. After I read the post he sent me I went to his blog ...
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Hurricane Relief Suggestion Box

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I've not blogged the Katrina aftermath much, partly because I'm so disgusted I don't trust myself around a keyboard when I'm thinking about it, and partly because I have been assuming that most decent, clear-thinking people are thinking pretty much ...
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Gainesville, Texas

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Looks like Gainesville, Texas, is a very neighborly town. Brad Baugh, the inspirational young man in the story, is the cousin of National Center staff Sam Baugh. We send our best wishes to Brad and his family ...
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Neo-Luddite

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The National Center's Peyton Knight is not joining the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. fan club (assuming there is one): Hurricane Katrina has wrought tragedy and human suffering like few of us can even imagine. Disasters of this magnitude have a ...
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