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 | » Artists No More Important Than The Rest Of Us
by Frederick Meekins
In a market economy, those with socially valuable skills and abilities are monetarily rewarded in free exchange for their services or the goods that they produce. Those whose aptitudes do not fulfill some kind of broader demand or need are forced to ... read more
• May 31, 2006 |
 | » CDC: One Eye Closed
by Jane Jimenez
Unprecedented!" screamed Bruce Trigg of the New Mexico Department of Public Health. "Shocking!" lamented William Smith of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. "Astounded!" wailed Jonathan Zeni... read more
• May 26, 2006 |
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| » Scientists Suggest Bestiality
by Frederick Meekins
A comical reworking of "Happy Birthday To You" ends, "You look like a monkey and you act like one too." If certain scientists have their way, that ditty might very well come to be seen as something akin to a racial slur. It is rep... read more
• May 24, 2006 |
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| » CDC: Center for Disease Confusion
by Jane Jimenez
There is no doubt that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is involved in heroics on a daily basis. At the mention of the CDC, the mind conjures up pictures of people in white body suits racing across the world to halt the Ebola virus, swe... read more
• May 18, 2006 |
 | » The Pill That Kills-Available at a Doctor Near You
by Nathan Tabor
Imagine going to your doctor and being offered a pill-not because you were sick, or in any danger of becoming sick. No-you're friendly physician is simply giving you drugs because you're a woman. If that sounds like a Hitchcock horror story to you-be... read more
• May 17, 2006 |
 | » GASOLINE IS NOT GOING UP!
by Paul Proctor
For the first time in my life, I put $70 worth of gas in my car. It wasn't premium and my tank wasn't empty. Many around the country are experiencing the same kind of shock at the pump and really don't know why. As a result, everything else we purcha... read more
• May 17, 2006 |
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| » Congress Threatens Internet Censorship
by Frederick Meekins
Thanks in part to sensational media reports, websites such as MySpace.com have gotten a reputation for attracting various kooks such as pedophiles and other nefarious miscreants. Now to make them look like they are doing something, the House of Repre... read more
• May 16, 2006 |
 | » Fred Phelps, Homosexual Activists Both Wrong
by Gary Glenn
The American Family Association of Michigan believes that homosexual behavior is harmful and wrong. Without apology, we oppose attempts by the Triangle Foundation and other homosexual activist groups to force their political agenda onto our children,... read more
• May 9, 2006 |
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| » Deaf-Mutes Make A Noisey Rucus
by Frederick Meekins
Normally, those with disabilities bring warm feelings to heart as they struggle to achieve and get ahead despite their limitations often with a positive outlook most of us could learn from. Ironically, though, the deaf seem to rank among the crabbies... read more
• May 9, 2006 |
 | » Religious Communities Hardly Score with TIME
by Matt Friedeman
Here's our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world," says the latest issue of TIME Magazine. As Joel Belz of World Mag Blog suggests, only three on the TIME list could be deemed religious lead... read more
• May 5, 2006 |
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| » GOWYL (Get On With Your Life)
by Jane Jimenez
They offer advice to people in pain. On the surface, their advice sounds forward-looking, pragmatic, and helpful: Get On With Your Live ... GOWYL. Psychologists and counselors are dealing with a problem that many in America consider inevitable: divor... read more
• May 3, 2006 |
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| » He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
by Jane Jimenez
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if he loved you, it was a simple matter of asking a daisy flower. Pluck a petal, he loves me. Pluck another, he loves me not. Plucking petal after petal, down to the center of the daisy, love, not, love, not, l... read more
• April 27, 2006 |
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