Latest “Twilight” Saga Will Please Only Avid Fans
Breaking Dawn, part one of the final installment of the Twilight movie saga, brought in $139.5 million in its major North American box...
Opinion
80 is the New 65, Two Surveys Show
On Wednesday Wells Fargo released the results of its survey of 1,500 individuals between ages 25 and 75, titling it “80 is the...
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Penn State’s Sex-abuse Scandal: The banality of detachment
Why did it take 17 years? Here’s the timeline in the Jerry Sandusky case: ...
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Economic Outlook: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknowable
Expressions of joy were muted on Wall Street at Friday's release of the latest report from the Conference Board (CB) showing its Leading...
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Options After the Supercommittee Failure
Barring a miracle, the Supercommittee will announce Monday morning its failure at coming up with legislation to reduce the projected combined federal budget...
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Anonymous: Emmerich’s Grotesque Elizabethan Romp
Roland Emmerich’s long-awaited big-screen production of a movie based on the Shakespeare authorship controversy has turned out to be a great disappointment. While...
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An Honest Look at Mitt Romney
From the time the GOP presidential primary contest got under way, Mitt Romney has been heralded in the media as the frontrunner. Since...
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Why Ivan Can Read But Johnny Can’t
Back in 1962, Arthur Trace wrote a book entitled What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn’t. In that book Trace informed us that Ivan...
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National Debt Runs Past $15 Trillion
It’s official. The U.S. federal debt has crossed another unbelievable line: $15 trillion. The Treasury Department reported the news on Wednesday, and various...
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What If Obama Wins?
One should always be prepared for the worst. Considering that we have a dumbed-down public who votes emotionally rather than rationally, it is...
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An Honest Look at Newt Gingrich
Imagine a world in which Americans weren’t remotely as susceptible to media manipulation as they currently are. Let’s call it “America 2.” In...
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Disarming That “Important Layer of Aviation Security”
We probably all agree on the worthlessness of the New York Times. For starters, it publishes propaganda it barely bothers to disguise as...
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Missouri Professors Scoff at Twilight’s Traditionalist Message
This weekend, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1, will premiere at a theater near you. The quirky fictional romance about an ordinary...
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Reminiscences of a Libertarian: Lessons for Today
I suppose you could call me a “right-wing extremist,” although I don’t consider myself an extremist by any stretch of the imagination. But...
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Will Republicans Blow It?
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catch phrase could stop thinking for 50 years. One of the often-repeated catch phrases of...
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