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Race in America

Shelby Steele wrote a fabulous piece at OpinionJournal.com about racial politics in America.Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children...

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My Favorite Internet TV channels

Here are a few sources for online video that I like to watch.BYU-TV - Religious programming for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsAnnenburg specials at learner.org - Tons of TV...

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Teacher Pay

An OpnionJournal piece cites some interesting stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics about pay for public school teachers.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned...

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Frustrations of a climate geologist

John Marchese from the Philadelphia Magazine interviews a geology professor in Al Gore is a Greenhouse Gasbag:When Gieg gets to this point in his argument, as he often does when talking about global...

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You can only give us money if you...

Victor Davis Hanson has an insightful post about the attitude of the current Palestinian government on Western aid. The whole thing is incredible (in that I have a hard time believing it is even...

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Global warming roundup 02/07

Jonah Goldberg main column "Global Cooling is Too Expensive"Europe's emissions vs United States' by Iain MurrayDirty work at the green crossroads by Melanie PhillipsClimate of Opinion WSJ EditorialA...

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Joe Wilson File

Mona Charen article at National ReviewThe prosecutor accepted Joe Wilson’s “retaliation” theory from the start, looking for a White House conspiracy to harm Wilson. Fitzgerald tamely followed this line...

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Global warming roundup 03/07

"The Great Global Warming Hoax" shown on Channel 4 in Britian (opens in YouTube)A tale of two markets on the Economist.com, about carbon offsets You are a carbon-emitting American, currently purchasing...

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Hero Hypocrisy

We haven't seen a lot of TIME or Newsweek cover stories about the heroics of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thomas Sowell points out the insincerity of calling our soldiers "heroes" only when we...

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Why the government shouldn't do health care...

Mark Steyn says: There are immigration laws on the books right now, aren't there? Why not try enforcing them? The same people who say that government is a mighty power for good that can extinguish...

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Sun Spots, Schwabe Cycles, and Global Cooling

From the Financial Post, R. Timothy Patterson's article "Read the Sunspots": Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two...

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Global Warming roundup 8/07

In an interesting exchange on Steve U.'s blog, a commenter left a huge comment that really articulated well some of my feelings on the climate change issues. First, one commenter wrote, "There is one...

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Arbinger Books

A few of the Arbinger Institute books have been published serially in Meridian magazine and are available there.Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to OurselvesThe Peacegiver...

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Of Mice and Mormons: Religion in Higher Ed

A scary tale of religious and social discrimination against a Latter-day Saint student in higher education. A seven part series, with all seven parts linked here for convenience. By Mike S. Adams at...

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My latex-free boy

Our son has a heightened chance of developing a latex allergy (he has spina bifida). To combat this, we treat him as if he already has the allergy (without panic if something latex happens to touch...

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Boo for Yahoo

I was looking at the Yahoo Kids site today and left annoyed. I sent the following letter on their feedback form.I visited the site to check out the possibility of letting my kids hang out here. The...

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U of A Recommended Reading

From a list given to Bradley while in high school in Page, Arizona.Achebe: Things Fall ApartAesop: FablesAgee: A Death in the FamilyAnaya: Bless me, UltimaAnderson: Winesburg, OhioAustin: Pride and...

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Global warming winter 2008

From RIA Novosti, Oleg Sorokhtin writes:Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest...

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Barack Obama

On the Wright controversy:Video (and commentary) from a sermon Rev. Wright gave at Christmas 2007 (Powerline Blog)Commentary on other Wright inflammatory rhetoric from the WSJVictor Davis Hanson...

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