For more than a week now I have had a #10 envelope perched on my desk lamp. It has a little sticky on it, with "???" written in inch-high red letters. Someone in my office opened my incoming mail and ...
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It's common to believe more is better. More money. More fame. More power. While having more might be nice, isn't it better to be right? Being right and rich is much better than the alternative. Consider the benefits of being ...
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There are several passages in the Bible suggesting that much is expected from those to whom much is given. One of the greatest gifts that God has given to his people on earth is the gift of good health. Like ...
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This past August 4, Lemuel and Julia Redd took their daughter Julianna shopping, but they bypassed the local mall and drove 240 miles from Provo, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado. Julianna's parents never planned to take her shopping. Instead, it ...
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Like many Americans, I've heard the pundits prognosticate over what the new leadership in Congress will do. How will they change things, will they succeed, and will they keep their majority beyond 2008? Some of these predictions specifically have addressed ...
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The Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post v. National Science Teachers Association kerfluffle continues, with the Inconvenient Truth/Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post team losing ground fast. Watch for the drive by media to lose interest in this story any minute ...
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An excerpt: Soldiers serving with the UN have immunity from local laws and it's up to their home countries to discipline them. More often than not, they're simply repatriated and the UN has little information about what, if anything, happens ...
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Americans on opposite sides of the issue address the question of projected costs of ratifying the Kyoto Treaty: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1998: Recently [a Republican Congressman] claimed that complying with the Kyoto Protocol would increase the prices of consumer ...
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A demand from the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare for the incoming Senate leadership to reject the nomination of a proponent of Social Security privatization indicates that liberals are unwilling to consider all possible ways to ...
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The National Science Teachers Association has now officially responded to Laurie David's Washington Post op-ed (see Noel Sheppard's Newsbusters post on the op-ed here) essentially accusing the group of being captive to corporate interests when it declined a gift of ...
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