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Endangered Species Act: Fix It, Don’t Fix it

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer caps off a silly editorial about Rep. Richard Pombo's plans to strengthen/weaken (depending on whom you ask) the Endangered Species Act with this concluding paragraph: As critics point out, the [Endangered Species] act hasn't restored many threatened ...
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Tell It to Anne Rice

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From Texican Tattler: I heard a radio interview over the weekend with one of the evacuees in Houston, bitching that the $2000 debit card he received from FEMA wasn't enough, he needed at least $10,000 to feed his family. I ...
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Shame in Gaza

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Joe Roche has shared more emails about his wife, Lili, who is conducting hurricane rescue work as part of her service with the Washington D.C. National Guard. She is based at Naval Air Station New Orleans. Before I share the ...
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Katrina Rescues: The Military’s Work Continues

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Joe Roche has shared more emails about his wife, Lili, who is conducting hurricane rescue work as part of her service with the Washington D.C. National Guard. She is based at Naval Air Station New Orleans. Before I share the ...
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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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