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by Robert Roy Britt http://www.livescience.com Americans grow happier as they age, surveys find. And a new Pew Research Center survey shows the tendency is holding up as the economy tanks. Happiness is a complex thing. Past studies have found that happiness is partly inherited, that Republicans are happier than Democrats, and that old men tend to […]...
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By Douglas MacMillan and Rebecca Reisner Business Week In August 2008 we reported on 18 chief executives who use the microblogging application Twitter to clue customers in on new services, help them with questions about their products, and generally get a little bit personal with customers, business associates, and the public. Not even a year […]...
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As our nation struggles with its worst recession in decades, a beauty pageant runner-up, who most Americans probably never heard of three weeks ago, is attracting national headlines. Such seems absurd given the low interest in these events let alone the improbability of anyone caring about the views expressed by the contestants during the question […]...
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by Frank Turekhttp://www.townhall.com/ Is waterboarding torture? If it is, we’ve been torturing our service members for years. As a United States Naval Aviator, I attended SERE school in the California desert in 1985. SERE (which stands for Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape) prepares combatants for the possibility that they might be taken prisoners of war. […]...
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This is really kind of mind numbing and demonstrates what is wrong with Congress. During a House Judiciary Committee meeting, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) offered up an amendment to the hate crimes bill to exclude pedophiles from being a protected category under the hate crimes legislation. Every single Democrat voted it down. In the same […]...
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MEMO TO DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY: MAYBE YOU SHOULD STAKE OUT THE WHITE HOUSE GrassTopsUSA Exclusive CommentaryBy Don Feder In 1993, a terrorist cell detonated a 1,500-lb car bomb below New York’s World Trade Center (six dead, more than 1,000 wounded) The perps were: 1. Operation Rescue activists2. The NRA’s Board of Directors3. Members of […]...
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by Mark Walsh, Yesterday, 4:03 PMOnline Media Daily Dubbed the YouTube election, the 2008 campaign proved to be a watershed not just for the use of online video but for the Internet’s role as a whole. It was the first election in which more than half voting-age adults were politically engaged online, according to a […]...
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by Dennis Prager “The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them.” — President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009 As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: “Countries with nuclear weapons will move […]...
