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Memorable
Holiday
Another Fourth of July to Remember
Last year it was all about events of the world that just
happened to come together in such a way to make a strange kind of
“sense” in light of events that take place on the fourth. This year,
it was all about family. It started off with my daughter, Danielle,
singing the National Anthem at Sea World.
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First
Grader Punished
Suspended for
Sexual Harassment
Can an elementary school actually suspend a first grader for
three days because of sexual harassment? That’s what happened in
Brockton Massachusetts. Instead of directly dealing with the
mischievous behavior of a six year old, school officials went
overboard in punishment.
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Ban
The N Word
End This Double Standard
If any non-black person uses the N word, it is automatically
the most vulgar form of racial insult imaginable. But black comics
and rappers say it all the time. Some African Americans employ it as
part of their colloquial language as if it was as harmless as saying
dude. It is time to end this double standard.
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The
Cost of Defense
Is Our Military Too
Expensive?
To most liberals, anything spent on defense is too much, let
alone the $450 billion we are currently spending, which does not
include the continuing cost of the war in Iraq. But what really is
the true amount that we are spending on all of our military assets
and how much (or how little) is “enough”?
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Is
Wal-Mart Evil?
The War Against Wal-Mart
Every generation has seen its share of Luddites. Luddites are
people who rage against society, technology, especially about the inevitable changes
of life even if it
means advancing civilization. So with the war against Wal-Mart, are
today's militant Wal-Mart protesters and activists our next modern
day Luddites?
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Bogus
Refusal Letters
Stupid Credit Bureau Tricks: Part 1
One stupid but annoying trick that the credit bureaus employ
is to refuse to investigate your dispute because they assume that it
was written by a third party such as a credit repair clinic. And it
is totally irrelevant that you even wrote the dispute
yourself. But here is how to get around that.
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Gehenna
Station
Check out the
book
review to this book as well as the interview with the author.
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The Real Barack
Obama
Will He Please Stand Up
The bloom is off the rose. Barack Obama, far from being a “new” sort
of politician, you know, one we can trust, has revealed himself as
just another in a long line of politicians like the ones we vote for
or against every election.
You know, the ones you can tell are lying to you because you can see
their lips move?
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Internet
Safety
Should Schools Teach It?
When it comes to the safety and wellbeing of a child, the
most import person is the parent. And it is irrelevant on how good a
curriculum is or how articulate a speaker may be, it is the parent
who sets the rule and boundaries on Internet usage as well as
setting the foundation for behavior.
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Psychic
Detectives
Part 1: How Do They Help Police?
In cracking tough cases like unsolved murders and missing
children, psychics often offer to use their extraordinary powers to
converse with the dead, probe heaven and hell, and predict future
events as well as seeing what has happened in the past. So what kind
of value do psychics have for law enforcement?
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Psychic
Detectives
Part 2: How Do They Do It?
When a psychic detective is investigating tough cases like
unsolved murders and missing children they use their supernatural
insight to see horrific events that have already happened in the
past. So what is it that these psychics exactly do that allows them
to gain information from crime scene?
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Banning
Junk Food
The Onerous War on Obesity
As an ethical consideration, people ought to eat healthy
meals because that is the right thing to do. However, it is the very
concept of individual freedom and personal responsibility that irks
and frightens food activists. If people cannot make the right
decision, they want the government to make it for you.
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Road Ahead
in Iraq
No Cutting and Running
Regardless of opinions about Iraq, right
now we are there and we are heavily engaged so we need to win and
stop at nothing short of it. It is also time to leave the second
guessing to historians. The war may not turn out the way we had
planned but we can still achieve success if we make the right
decisions now.
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Rental Vouchers
Tear Down Housing Projects
One radical idea promoted by poverty warriors to end poverty
is to close down all housing projects and replace them with rental
vouchers. This idea really holds a lot of promise about reshaping
housing for the poor although I wish the poverty warriors would also
entertain the same idea of choice for school vouchers.
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Sex
Offenders
Getting Tough on Perverts
Hug-a-thug advocate organizations and their sympathizers have
always stymied and thwarted the crusade for tougher laws for sex
predators. They do not object to the fact that sexual assault is a
vicious crime. They just don’t see it as being as pervasive of a
problem that represents a big threat to society.
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Earn It, Not
Give It
Overboard on Self-Esteem
Do kids get too much lavish praise from parents and schools?
Although experts debate whether or not kids are now more
narcissistic, no one can deny that the the self-esteem movement that
quickly took root in school districts across the country in the
early 1990's went overboard. Some of the trends bordered on the
ridiculous.
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Bad Bill
Collectors
Are They Really That Bad?
The Federal Trade Commission which administers the Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act is constantly inundated with
complaints about the creepy practices of
some debt collectors. Attorney general offices in every state have
levied harsh penalties against them. So are bill collectors really
that bad?
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Helicopter
Parents
Parents Who Do Too Much
Helicopter parents are people who are way too involved in the
academic development of their offspring. They pick their children's
colleges as well as their majors. They even
hound professors about test scores and tag along to job fairs
to hand out resumes (which they also wrote), etc.
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Mission to
Mars
Future or Fantasy
Can a Mars mission be done for less, or does it have to cost $500
billion, some say up to a trillion dollars to put a few astronauts
on Mars for a few days? NASA is
supposed to be in the business of exploration but like any other
government agency, its prime goal is survival and expansion.
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