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Muslims Sue To Remove Crosses At Catholic University?

The story that's circulating is that "Muslims at a Catholic University are offended the university doesn't allow them to take down or cover crosses before they pray and claim their…
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Feel Better? Antidepressant Use Rises 400%, White Women Top Lists

Pill popping for pleasure pushes past previous records. Or so says the CDC in their report Antidepressant Use in Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2005–2008. "From 1988–1994 through…
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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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Predict The Next Strangest Government Regulation

Perhaps the most fantastical regulation to launch recently from the collective hive-mind of the federal bureaucracy is the one which administrates the very breath of life. Yes, the Environmental Protection…
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Stock Tomato Seeds! Global Warming Is Coming!

It must be a joke. The punchline is surely coming. Ha, ha! Hoarding tomato seeds! Bars on his basement windows! Hilarious! This guy really nails nuttiness. He'll shame a few…
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Midweek Catchup: The Natural Advantage Of Doomsayers

Micro-economics of the End of the World As I sit contemplating my under-employment and its various causes, it became clear to me that my natural sunny disposition has hampered me.…
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Cornell’s Cancun Climate Conference Crew

"A delegation of Cornell researchers will join the fight against climate change Monday in the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico." So begins an article in the…
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Shocking Research: Kids Who Play Games, Watch TV, Text Don’t Read And Do Poorly At School

The New York Times has come to the conclusion that watching television and playing video games is not conducive to reading. Further, preliminary evidence suggests that chatting on cell phones,…
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