I was invited to review a recently released movie titled "Buffalo Soldiers," a movie previously released in Europe under the title "Army Go Home." It's about corrupt and incompetent American servicemen in Germany in the late 1980s. My invitation to ...
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The United States didn't invent slavery. While it is historical fact that certain regions participated in and benefited from slavery, it should also be pointed out that America had the good sense to eliminate slavery and emancipate its slaves - ...
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As one of her six children, the greatest gift I received from my dear, now-departed mother was an appreciation of the value of an education. This appreciation helped me rise from our poor surroundings in inner city Cleveland to become ...
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With summer's hot weather finally upon us, Americans by the millions are cranking up their air conditioners to help them cope with this seasonable discomfort. But in a few weeks they'll be getting the bill from the local power company ...
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One issue has caused the bankruptcy of over 60 companies and threatens the financial health of hundreds more. It has inspired 600,000 pending lawsuits and is likely to cost Americans well over $200 billion dollars - possibly much more. Corporate ...
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Tens of millions Americans got a wakeup call Thursday: cheap, accessible energy isn't something to take for granted. Unfortunately, many of America's most powerful environmental organizations do take energy for granted, and they are trying to set America on a ...
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Nuclear power is economical. All it needs is a level playing field. But the field is not level. For one thing, competing power sources are heavily subsidized by society. Unlike nuclear plants, they don't bear the full cost of disposing ...
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Despite the Surgeon General's warning, anti-smoking campaigns, anti-smoking regulations and over 440,000 smoking-related American deaths annually,1 approximately a quarter of American adults still smoke cigarettes. For approximately 40 percent of them, an addiction to nicotine keeps them puffing.2 Their addictions ...
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When you get behind the wheel of your SUV or minivan, do you automatically become a member of a hate group? According to the radicals now dominating the environmental movement, driving one of these vehicles proves you hate the planet ...
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President Bush is being pressured by the world and many American groups to send U.S. troops to Liberia as peacekeepers. Their well-intentioned argument is that Liberia desperately needs to be saved. That much is true. The tiny country of Liberia ...
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