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By Will Offensicht | Jan 25, 2008 |
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GM found that when you ask for government help, you'd better be careful - you might get what you wish for, and our guys have a track record of losing negotiations.
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By Petrarch | Jan 24, 2008 |
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George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.
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By Petrarch | Jan 23, 2008 |
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Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.
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By Demosthenes | Jan 21, 2008 |
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In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?
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By Hobbes | Jan 21, 2008 |
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Who needs a "first black president" who is actually white when you can have a "first black president" who really is black?
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 15, 2008 |
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Bush-bashers hate to admit it, but a smaller percentage of active-duty military personnel died during both Bush administrations than during the Reagan and Carter administrations.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 14, 2008 |
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Scientists want research grants, more published papers, and to be listened to by the general public. Bureaucrats want a bigger department and more clout. Politicians want a crisis - any crisis - so they can ride to power with a "solution".
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 11, 2008 |
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Sure, global warming seems unlikely; but if it's true, it's so awful, shouldn't we take action just in case?
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By Hobbes | Jan 10, 2008 |
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The left-wing blogsphere claim that Hillary's people stole the election from Obama. The evidence, if true, is staggering.
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By Kermit Frosch | Jan 10, 2008 |
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The ocean levels are not going to rise by 20 feet by 2100. According to the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, it's more like a single foot, or maybe 18 inches.