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Bkumm
Ex-Navy, degrees in History and Marketing and Management.
Socially liberal, fiscal conservative.
Just following my own brand of atheistic spiritualism.
" [T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"
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Director's book disputes birth of Jesus »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
Director Paul Verhoeven has written a book that contradicts the Bible by suggesting that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier who raped ...
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OP ED: The Dream That is America »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
Some see us as decadent, oppressive, willfully ignorant of the world. Others see us as strong, economically vibrant and possessing a rich, unique cultural heritage ...
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80,000 watch spring game for Pelini's rebuilding Huskers »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Sports
The crowd was the second largest for a spring game in college football history behind the 92,138 that showed up at Alabama last spring ...
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The Queen: Eleanor Rigby »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
There can be only one: Aretha Franklin does Eleanor Rigby. And she does it better than anyone else!!!
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China led world executions in 2007 »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
China reduced the number of executions it carried out last year but still executed more people than any other country in the world, Amnesty International ...
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World Bank tackles food emergency »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
World Bank head Robert Zoellick warned that 100 million people in poor countries could be pushed deeper into poverty by spiraling prices. The crisis has ...
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The incredible shrinking city »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Business & Finance
Youngstown, Ohio, has seen its population shrink by more than half over the past 40 years, leaving behind huge swaths of empty homes, streets and ...
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Invention: Fan-assisted trucks »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
Travel at 70 mph on a motorway, and approximately 65 per cent of the fuel you burn goes to overcoming aerodynamic drag. So even a ...
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US bulldozing green laws to build border fence »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
The Bush administration is bulldozing environmental laws to build a controversial fence designed to block illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border. To force through ...
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Blast kills UK troops in Afghanistan »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
An explosion struck a vehicle carrying British troops on Sunday, killing two and wounding two others on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, Britan's Defence Ministry ...
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Nuttin But Stringz - Thunder »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
My kid loves these guys when he sees them on Noggin'. I'm not a huge hip-hop fan, but this isn't really hip-hop. Talk ...
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Coat of armour creates hardy 'super-cells' »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
Giving cells a tough mineral coat can make them much more robust, Chinese researchers say. The team has developed such egg-shell-like coats for yeast cells ...
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Curious cloud formations linked to quakes »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in Science & Technology
CAN unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That's the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an ...
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Top Colleges Mum on Legacy Admissions »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
But there's at least one admissions statistic that many top colleges don't trumpet: the rate of acceptance among legacy students, that is, students ...
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President Bill Clinton's Defense of His Wife's Bosnia Sniper-Fire Story »
Posted by: 1 year, 8 months ago in News
Former President Bill Clinton offered this bit of revisionist history of his wife's Bosnia story in Jasper, Ind., today, one riddled with a veritable ...
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