Black Angels: Not Intelligent Enough to Fly? by Jimmie Hollis

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As a student of history, I find myself particularly drawn to military history. Over the years, I have read numerous books and watched untold television documentaries about American military forces at war. Most of the documentaries I've seen only occasionally ...
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Terrell Owens Can Teach Kids That Actions Have Consequences, by Deneen Moore

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As a young, successful NFL wide receiver, it's not surprising that Terrell Owens has garnered the admiration of kids everywhere.  Now after his actions radically altered his own world, he must consider those who admire him as he seeks a ...
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Reliability of Medical Journals

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Bizzy Blog notes a warning from an American Cancer Society Professor at Harvard Medical School: ...doctors should take all studies published in "prominent medical journals" with "skeptical caution." Read it in conjunction with this BizzyBlog post from December 17, 2005: ...
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Eminent Domain Abuse — Again

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The Indianapolis Star reports on yet another eminent domain abuse case: This time, a family business that has been operating since 1938 is being threatened so a sports stadium can have a larger parking lot. Hat tip: Radley Balko ...
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Tax-Subsidized Lobbying on Social Security

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Writing for the National Legal and Policy Center, John Carlisle describes how the main group opposing Social Security rescue and modernization received over $80 million from five federal departments last year ...
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NCPA: Reducing Retirement Age

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The National Center for Policy Analysis takes a look at a National Bureau of Economic Research study on the fiscal implications, in 12 countries, of raising hte retirement age. Amazingly, they are discussing raising it only to 65 ...
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Unnatural Fear of Orange

The Russian government, apparently, is afraid of the color orange. And to think we once thought of the Russian state as a superpower ...
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Advantages of Nuclear Power – A Debate

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Those interested in energy development, energy independence, clean energy and/or global warming may be interested in a debate about the advantages and feasibility of nuclear energy ongoing presently in Scientific American and the Chicago Sun-Times. Writing in the December Scientific ...
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Mrs. Victor Yushchenko

Every now and then, I read something in the newspaper that really knocks my socks off, and this is one of those times. I just read John Fund's On the Trail column in the Wall Street Journal and learned that ...
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Surprise of the Year

From Haaretz.com on December 26, this headline on an AP story: "Russian Agency Okays State's Purchase of Yukos." What were the odds? ...
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