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Liberal Bias on Parade
Some of the presidential debates were awful. If the questions aired are
the best that the American public can come up with, then perhaps the world is correct in thinking that we are
a bunch of shallow self-absorbed idiots. About the only thing
they didn’t ask was the candidates positions on Britney Spears.
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New Kindergarten
Playtime Out, Academics In
For much of the country, kindergarten has been entirely
transformed. Gone are the days of finger painting, snack breaks and
naptime. Today, the curriculum strictly centers on academics instead
of playtime. Children are expected to learn something and be tested
on it because they can actually fail kinder.
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Is This
Entrapment?
Police Use Topless Women
A police sting operation to ensnare perverts in Columbus Ohio
has generated a lot of controversy. The way it works is that police
use an undercover female officer to sunbathe topless in a local
park. In Columbus, being topless in a park is legal but anything
else is not. She then asks men to do something illegal.
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Wild Celebrities
Paris Hilton is not a Role Model
Paris Hilton is not a role model. And an “all night partying
heiress” is not a job title. Even so there are millions of girls and
young adult women who cannot get enough of the antics of Paris
Hilton and her panty-less cohorts like Britney Spears and Lindsey
Lohan. Society has become obsessed with the exploits of celebrities.
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Bogus
Predictions
What Happened to the Hurricanes?
After hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, what happened
to the hurricanes that were supposed to ravage us in 2006 because of
global warming? Hollywood celebrities and many scientists made a
number of gloom and doom predictions. Instead, the 2006 hurricane
season was pretty lame.
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Hyphenated
Americans
Is this Issue Really a Problem?
Why should any minority want to bring attention their
ethnicity or place of origin if we want a color-blind society? As a conservative Hispanic,
I see
“hyphenated Americans” nowhere near as threatening as many
Right-Wingers suggest. In fact, I often feel that too many
conservatives blow it out of proportion and here is
why.
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Gehenna
Station
Check out the
book
review to this book as well as the interview with the author.
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Reducing
Poverty
Does Marriage Really Help?
To reduce poverty in general and child poverty in particular,
the mantra from social conservatives is for unwed mothers to marry
the fathers of their children. I don't discount the value of
marriage especially in its relationship to poverty but the problem I
have is that this solution is far too limited and a bit naďve.
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Another
Nuisance
Teachers Harassed By Teachers
Teachers already have a hard enough time maintaining
discipline in the classroom but they have another pesky problem to
deal with. Educators are sometimes hassled by their fellow faculty
members who actually insist that they gloss over a student’s
misconduct or some other behavioral issue.
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Legal
Loan Sharking
The Rise of Payday Loans
For people who manage their
bank accounts wisely, the payday loan and check cashing industry
is a bit of a culture shock. But for millions of Americans, paying
an obscenely high fee just to cash a paycheck as well as paying an
outrageous interest rate for a minuscule short-term loan is more of
a lifestyle.
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Gaydar
Another Weird Cultural Phenomenon
So there I was, discussing with some straight acquaintances
of mine why I wouldn’t accompany them into a bar for homosexuals on
a so-called straight night.
My friends said that homosexual men have GAYDAR and they would
automatically know that I was straight just by looking at me.
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Internet
Safety
Should Schools Teach It?
When it comes to the safety and wellbeing of a child, the
most import person is the parent. And it is irrelevant on how good a
curriculum is or how articulate a speaker may be, it is the parent
who sets the rule and boundaries on Internet usage as well as
setting the foundation for behavior.
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The Real Barack
Obama
Will He Please Stand Up
The bloom is off the rose. Barack Obama, far from being a “new” sort
of politician, you know, one we can trust, has revealed himself as
just another in a long line of politicians like the ones we vote for
or against every election.
You know, the ones you can tell are lying to you because you can see
their lips move?
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Price
of Criticizing
Politician Pushes Constituent to Suicide
A councilwoman
complained to the politically powerful employer of a constituent,
accusing him of being a racist. He was immediately fired (he worked there for
27 years). The newspaper splashed racism accusations across the headlines. Shortly
afterwards, the constituent shot himself in the head.
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Naked
Teachers
Educator Fights to Keep Her Job
Tamara Hoover is an outstanding arts teacher. And being an artist, Hoover felt that it was
absolutely innocuous to have her nude pictures posted on the Flickr.com
web site. The photographs show her nakedness while doing routine
daily activities such as taking a shower, getting dressed, lifting
weights, and even in bed.
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Broken
Process
Reform The Confirmation Process
The confirmation process of a Supreme Court justice is a
circus. The role of the Senate has become nothing more than a
theater stage to showcase useless drama and pointless passion. The
entire procedure needs to be streamlined so that debate is limited
and that a direct “up and down” vote taken.
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Arnuld
Speaks
Turn Off Spanish Television
The California governor found himself in hot water when the
Left Wing and the Right Wing both jumped in on this controversy in
hopes to exploit a wedge issue for their own political gain.
However, what each side of the political spectrum fails to realize
is that they are both half right and half wrong.
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Rise
of Spending
Savings at
Lowest Ever
Personal savings have fallen to its lowest point since the
Great Depression. The years of 1932 and 1933 were the only times
that this country experienced a negative savings rate that lasted
longer than a year.
But what caused this dramatic decline in savings and what can be
done to reverse it?
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Running on
Empty
Coasting to a Gas Station
Towards the end of the work week, I had been meaning to fill
up my gas tank but things kept coming up. Now here I was on a
Saturday morning, a grown man with a wife and kids and an empty gas
tank on the freeway. As I coasted on the off ramp, I remembered my
reckless youth when stuff like this happened more often.
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