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Just a Theory in Mississippi
Representative Chisim of Mississippi has proposed “an act to require the state board of education to include certain language explaining that evolution is a theory in the inside front cover of certain public school textbooks.” Check out the PDF here or there. The State Board of Education shall require every textbook that includes the teaching [...]
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Vietnam Thinking
William McGurn says that Bush’s Real Sin Was Winning in Iraq. Mr. Bush’s disfavor in Washington owes more to his greatest success. Simply put, there are those who will never forgive Mr. Bush for not losing a war they had all declared unwinnable. Here in the afterglow of the turnaround led by Gen. David Petraeus, [...]
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Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley
This WSJ article from before the holidays shows the effects only government can have on an industry. According to the National Venture Capital Association, in all of 2008 there have been just six companies that have gone public. Compare that with 269 IPOs in 1999, 272 in 1996, and 365 in 1986. That’s quite a [...]
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Don’t Go Nowhere Y’all
Did you see the Grammys tonight? I did. After grabbing a quick bite and watching last night’s 24, I flipped over to ABC to find the self-love so typical of celebrity and so typical of award shows. P Diddy, Sting, Mary J.; everyone was there to pat themselves on the back and get screen time. [...]
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Riding the Bike at 15° Below
It was a chilly day to ride the bike into work. And I had to walk through snow for nearly a mile of the 8 mile journey. But it gave me a chance to try out a mask I got for snowboarding which worked well, and the scene was so nice I had to stop [...]
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Google Apologizes for Being Great
Times Online has an alarmist article about the environmental impact of Google searches which elicited an apology of sorts from Google in which they explain that the numbers in the original article were inflated. They then proceed to show how much penance they have already done, for the sin of doing business, through climate saving [...]
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Leaving a Footprint
In an op-ed at the Washington Times, Keith Lockitch takes environmentalists to task for the never-ending guilt levied on us for our “environmental footprint.” [F]or environmentalism, the size of your “footprint” is the measure of your guilt. Nature, according to green philosophy, is something to be left alone to be preserved untouched by human activity. [...]
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Irresponsible Banks? Hardly
Another gem from Obama’s “only government” speech: Banks made loans without concern for whether borrowers could repay them… Assuming he’s referring to mortgages, these banks were forced to lower their standards and offer “affordable” loans to borrowers that couldn’t repay them. And when those loans were taken off the bank’s hands by concerns backed by [...]
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Only Government
President-elect Obama’s speeches have been so full of tiresome platitudes unattached to ideas that it’s been hard to know what he stands for, and hard to determine how he will act as president. His appointments of Clinton retreads aren’t the “change” some were “hoping” for, and have given a few hope that America won’t swing [...]
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Former French President Fails to Surrender to Poodle