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The difference between a skeptic and a cynic is that when faced with something too good to be true, a skeptic says it isn't really true and a cynic says it isn't really good. - Sydney J. Harris
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Downtown Lens: Your Right to Photograph
As a photographer you have certain rights that permit you to take photographs in public places. Frequently, security guards and other people will tell you ...
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Is History Siding With Obama?s Economic Plan?
CLEARLY, there are major differences between the economic policies of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain . Mr. McCain wants more tax cuts for the rich ...
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MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education
From letting students get their hands dirty to spending more on teachers and supplies, Adam Savage has three humble suggestions to banish boring science.
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Magpies are no bird-brains, mirror test shows
It had been thought only chimpanzees, dolphins and
elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own
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Government Projects do not "Create Jobs"
When government spends money, it simply takes that money from one place (taxpayers) and moves it to another (state employees, roads, etc.). When private individuals ...
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DHS Has Deported Over 90,000 Children Without a Parent or Caregiver
According to a new report released this week in Mexico City by the Population, Border and Migrant Affairs Commission, for every three adults deported from ...
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Marijuana:It's Time For A Conversation
This program was intended to stimulate conversation about current drug policy.As usual ,the MSM has a problem allowing any differing viewpoints and has refused ...
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Video shows police punching teen 13 times in face, then tasering him
An 18-year-old was punched 13 times in the face by a South Carolina deputy, and it was all caught on tape. In the video, a ...Discuss (110)
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Slow-Moving Vehicle
Traffic jams are not, by and large, caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature. While this is bad news for ...
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Pick ens Plan Is Based on Ignorance
Can a person be a good businessman but a lousy economist? Yes. Take T. Boone *******, for example. He’s all over television touting his plan ...
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How Would You Spend the Last Day of Your Life?
What happens if you found out that the next 24 hours will be the last of your life, how would you live it?
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After Killing His Dogs, Police Admit Mayor Calvo Was Probably Innocent | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
The botched drug raid fiasco in Berwyn Heights, MD grows more embarrassing for Prince George' s County police everyday. Their theory is now that ...
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White House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs'
MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi
source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The ...Discuss (7)
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Obama Slaps GOP Back Hard On Tire Gauges - Video
Speaking in Berera, Ohio, the Senator offers a strong defense of his comments about tire inflation being an effective conservation tool. “They think it is ...
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Find Out How Much Radiation Your Cell Phone Emits
The first long-range studies about the health effects from cell phone use have raised some serious questions about the safety of the ubiquitous little talkers ...
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