The Washington Post brings us this objective article on "crack[ing] down on bloggers who write about politics." I counted 11 paragraphs in favor of a federal government crackdown on those nasty bloggers who apparently still believe in the First Amendment ...
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This month's Strengthen The Good charity is the Tom Family Education Trust. Please take a minute and read about this single Mom of 13 children, 11 of whom she adopted, many with handicaps or a serious disease. The Tom Family ...
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While shopping recently, I ended up in one of those boxy, warehouse-like stores with a dreaded common dressing room. Four women of different races, ages, shapes and sizes pretended not to notice each other. Suddenly, we heard Michael Jackson's voice ...
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Social Security is in dire condition. Most agree that benefits for present retirees should be protected. At the same time, it's equally important to make sure younger generations - future retirees - see a return on the billions of dollars ...
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In the Bible, the Book of Proverbs has a passage which reads, "a good person knows the rights of the poor, but the wicked cannot understand such things." The Gospel of St. Matthew talks about society's obligation to the "the ...
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Terri Schiavo, a woman who collapsed at 26 and suffered severe brain damage, is dead because her husband and our justice system determined that her life wasn't worth living. Many of us never seriously contemplate our own deaths, especially at ...
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By way of the Daou Report, which I read nearly every day on Salon for a summary of interesting posts on various blogs, I learned of this post on Ankle Biting Pundits: You aren't going to believe this (OK, maybe ...
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Everything I Know Is Wrong is justifiably plugging the Pacific Research Institute's 2005 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. For ten years now, the Pacific Research Institute has provided this report card on environmental progress. I read it every year ...
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Ryan Balis has a piece in the Houston Chronicle, among other papers, asking the question: Is Europe's new government-subsidized Airbus A380 super jumbo jet environmentally-friendly? And, if not, why are European leaders on our case about Kyoto? Addendum: Professor Bainbridge ...
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The Cupertino public school teacher who was banned from distributing documents written by America's Founding Fathers because of their religious content has won a round in federal court. A federal judge has dismissed the school district's attempt to get a ...
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