William Moyers
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Bridging the Ignorance GapIn the past few months, I've had an opportunity to speak to students at a high school for adults in Minnesota and criminal defendants in the judicial system in Texas. The students know almost nothing about addiction. The felons know everything. They're at opposite ends of the spectrum that separates fiction from fact. And both are crucial to changing the debate about alcoholism and drug addiction ...
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Amy Alkon
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Husband And KnifeIt took me two years to get a divorce from my husband, a jerk I was married to for only 13 months, after knowing him for just nine weeks. (I was 38 and increasingly desperate to get married and have a baby.) I basically gave up on "equitable distribution" because I ran out of steam, but he agreed in our divorce decree and in court, under oath, to give me $7,000 of his retirement monies. ...
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Connie Schultz
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Another Lesson at the PumpGargantuan gas guzzlers on the road sure do bring out the worst in me.
There's just something about standing at the gas pump with my dumpy little car next to someone with a tank bigger than a swimming pool that makes me want to yell, "What on God's green earth could you be thinking?"
It's like watching a remake of "The Little Shop of Horrors." They stick in the nozzle, and $70, ...
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Walter E. Williams
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The Ultimate ResourceWhy is it that mankind enjoys cell phones, computers and airplanes today but not when King Louis XIV was alive? The necessary physical resources to make cell phones, computers and airplanes have always been around, even when caveman walked the Earth. There is only one answer to why we enjoy these goodies today and not yesteryear. It's the growth in human knowledge, ingenuity along with specializat ...
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Thomas Sowell
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Does Patriotism Matter?The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday but patriotism has long been viewed with suspicion or disdain by many of the intelligentsia. As far back as 1793, prominent British writer William Godwin called patriotism "high-sounding nonsense."
Internationalism has long been a competitor with patriotism, especially among the intelligentsia. H.G. Wells advocated replacing the idea of duty to o ...
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David Limbaugh
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Obama's Leftist ArmiesBe afraid; be very afraid. If you think Barack Obama is arrogant and leftist, you ought to see those he will have to cater to if elected — and, according to them, even to get elected in the first place.
These leftist "netroots" are none too pleased with Obama's feint to the center the past few weeks, his "capitulation" on retroactive immunity for telecoms for cooperating ...
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Steve Chapman
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How Gun Control LostThomas Jefferson once wrote, pessimistically, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." He would probably not have been surprised to see the proliferation of gun control laws in our time. But he might not have anticipated that the water would run back uphill.
Thursday's Supreme Court decision affirming that the Second Amendment recognizes an ...
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Peter McKay
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Falling on Deaf EarsMost people in our neighborhood have proper dogs, animals produced by reputable breeders, canines that show hundreds of years of careful breeding designed to enhance particular traits. We have Harry.
Harry's an old, dirty little Westie my wife got from an animal shelter around four years ago. He has about every problem a puppy-mill-bred Westie can have, from chronically infected ears to bowl legs. ...
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Joe Weider
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Ask Joe Weider, June 21Tip of the Week: "Better safe than sorry" may be an age-old axiom, but when it comes to exercising it couldn't be a more important one to remember.
The gym can be a veritable minefield for the careless or uninformed trainer. With bars sticking out here and there, dumbbells and plates often left in the middle of the floor, and weight stacks just waiting to pinch a finger, there are plenty ...
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Linda Chavez
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Right To Bear ArmsWashington, D.C., will become a safer place to live and work thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday against the city's absolute ban on handguns. The Court ruled that the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms is an individual right, not just one that permits states to maintain militias, striking down one of the nation's toughest anti-gun laws. As someone who lived in the ...
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