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Maybe Time to Take Another Look at the Military Draft
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 Yeah, I know, nobody wants it and it took us long enough to get rid of it after the 2nd world war. But it's just not fair to keep fighting our wars with the National Guard, a force that was never meant to be doing what it is currently asked to do. Doesn't serve our national interests very well either.
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Why Detroit Doesn't Deserve to Survive in Automobile Manufacturing
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Fifteen years or so ago, General Motors talked enthusiastically about developing electric cars.
Talk was cheap, but the car wasn't. The fifty or so that ever saw wheels on the road cost about half a mil each. Which is okay. Research and development doesn't come cheap to a company that keeps te...
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Didn't Martha Go to the Slammer for This?
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The headline from 2004 read
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A jury found Martha Stewart guilty Friday on all four counts of obstructing justice and lying to investigators about a well-timed stock sale, and the former stockbroker turned style-setter could face years in jail.
And, as it turned out, Marth...
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Why Not Just Shoot Network TV and Get it Over With?
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 Somebody take CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox into the back pasture and shoot them.
Put these poor derelict remnants of government-in-broadcast out of their misery. Either that, or drive a stake through the heart of the FCC. What a long, long slide downhill it's been from Walter Cronkite retiring wi...
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You Can Tell the War in Iraq is Winding Down
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There are all sorts of ways to judge the length of the war yet to come in Iraq and our commitment to it. You can
* listen to the repetitious declarations of a trapped president * parse the Pentagonal statements of Donald Rumsfeld * pay attention to yet another strutting Senator * heed this or th...
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The CA/T Magic Show
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The gushing and fawning by Boston columnists over how quickly Governor Mitt Romney mastered the nuts and bolts of Big Dig information is frightening. I think his new found leadership is a diversion. In a slick show of "control" over the Central Artery Tunnel fiasco, Mitt commands respect with...
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Have We Issued One Blank Check To Many!
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With Mid Term elections just around the corner maybe it's time for us to start taking a harder look at what has happened to "OUR" civil liberties. What we once took for granted as the cornerstone of being an American would seem to be in the process of disappearing on an almost daily basis.
The White Hou...
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I Was Born A Christian But Will Certainly Die An Atheist
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 I, like many others was born during the 1939/42 war. I have watched nothing but human conflicts throughout my life to date culminating in the current human disasters being enacted out in the Middle East. I now have not the slightest doubt that over my remaining years to come I will see repeat...
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John Walsh Promotes Anal Implants
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This writer, a 43 year resident of Florida, very much remembers the circumstances leading to the kidnapping of Adam Walsh. As a young parent during this time, the writer grieved with the Walsh family at the loss of their child and empathized with Reve Walsh regarding her decision to leave her...
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Reduce Crime By Repealing Drug Prohibition
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Working in the field of crime prevention, self-defense, and victim-assistance brings out both my philanthropist side and my cynical side. On the philanthropic hand, I don't want to see any person victimized. On the realistically cynical hand, humans will always victimize ea...
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