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Are Scientific Papers Becoming Worse?
The United States Football League began in 1983 with twelve cities, many of which already had an NFL team. The level of play was decidedly inferior to the "senior" league…
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Global Warming Beliefs, New Poll
I'm still on the road this week, with my access to the internet sporadic. Email or phone is the best way to find me. Rasmussen reports that, "69% Say It's…
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Interest In Penile Length Among Academics Growing
Who said Finns don't have a sense of humor? One of Finland's very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and…
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California Requires LGBT History In Textbooks; The Disabled, Too
The rulers of the State of California are very unhappy with their subjects and their backward and old fashioned ideas; and, darn it, the rulers are just not going to…
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Earth Has A Fever: How Can We Cool It?
Earth Fever: Living Consciously with Climate Change by Judy McAllister, Erik van Praag, and Jan Paul van Soest With Foreword by Hazel Henderson and Preface, by Jacqueline Cramer, Minister for…
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Kirk’s Principles Of A Preserver
Richard Weaver, author of the must-read Ideas Have Consequences and grandfather of the Burkean resurrection in the USA, writing in 1954, noticed the young Russell Kirk, whose doctoral thesis had…
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Happy 1000th Post!
This is it! The nine-hundred-ninety-ninth-plus-one post! The post whose number is a pleasing and large (relatively speaking) power of ten! The post that pushes us over the top of the…
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Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
2015 --- Dateline, New York City. Michael Bloomberg, who after purchasing his fourth term as Mayor of Gotham, today signed into law a ban on cellphones in public. This follows…
