Yesterday, Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party, told members of the National Baptist Convention of America th...

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Neil Armstrong has publicly speculated that it will take the United States at least twenty more years to make a successful manned flight to Mars. This greatly disappoints me–not because I want to see us pu...

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Somebody has to get paid for cleaning up after hurricane Katrina. Lo and behold, it will be Halliburton. Imagine that. Halliburton will be restoring energy and making repair...

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I’m glad that the government is finally puting together some kind of response to the New Orleans disaster. I won’t complain ab...

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At least the terrorists kill only a few Americans a day. But Bush has found a way for the war in Iraq to kill hundreds if not thousands of Americans in roughly a week. ...

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The new Democratic governor of Montana has proposed that his coal-rich state invest in German, 1920s-era Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technologies to use...

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Instead of paying taxes into a social security fund to support those unable or unwilling to support themselves, there has been a push to pr...

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Today is the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act by Roosevelt. I read an ode to the Social Security Act today, and decided it was fitting to propose an alternativ...

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First, let me ask this: is there anyone who doesn’t believe that the Bush administration has used the war in Iraq to unfairly funnel mo...

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My fellow Americans, would you not save up for a rainy day? Apparently, they wouldn’t. The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that citi...

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That portion of the insulating foam which broke away from the space shuttle Discovery’s fuel tank last Tuesday morning came from a section of...

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