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Wikipedia…Friend Or Foe?
Is it reliable? Can we trust it? Well, head-to-head tests may show that the online encyclopedia (even though some dispute it) is just as ...

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Beware India…And Raise Our Standards
Beware may be a strong word, but they aren’t just answering our customer service calls anymore. They’re making our tractors a...

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Evolution Wins In Kansas
A followup to my post yesterday, the creationists/intelligent designers/what-have-yous were largely voted out in favor of moderate candidates wh...

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Science Fights Back In Kansas Evolution Debate
Today’s the day in Kansas when voters go to the polls and strike out to vote out the State Board of Education members who voted in th...

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They Carry the Balls For Us All
Althouse has a post on Title IX and the new phenomenon of men being in the minority on college campuses. When colleges add or emphasize spor...

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Yale Taliban Out…Sort Of…
Yale isn’t going to let a former Taliban member get a degree… A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admissio...

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Educating Baptists
Southern Baptists are looking to depart en masse from public schools:A committee at the Southern Baptists' annual gathering was scheduled to ...

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Finally, A Specific Game Plan for the Democrats.
From Seth Chalmer, also quoting Jared Lefevre of The Split Rail. Jared: 1. A strategy for Iraq, set in clear terms… 2. Securing ports and borders… 3. Initiatives to sup...

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The Man In Favor Of Segregation
Well, this is kind of weird… Ernie Chambers is Nebraska’s only African-American state senator, a man who has fought for causes including the abolition of capital punishment and the end of apartheid in South Africa. A magazine writer onc...

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Other People’s Children
They were told to sell their house and move. Imagine this situation. Two black children, a brother and a sister, enrol at a school which ...

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