Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
brianCuban.com: Do illegal aliens have rights to basic services? Will local regulation herd them all into massive “sanctuary cities?
I am aware we all have basic human and constitutional rights regardless of our immigration status. To what extent however can local government alter those rights based on that status?
While not the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
newsWeek: Mark Kellogg's hot-dog stand sits at Broadway and Fleet Avenue, the main intersection of Slavic Village, a traditional working-class neighborhood in Cleveland. It's midday on a Wednesday, and the place is deserted except for a new metallic-blue VW convertible in the lot, blaring rap music. A towering sign advertises ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
zen habits: Too often the trend in our society is for people to be separated from each other, to be cut off from the great mass of humanity, and in doing so to be dehumanized a little bit more with each step.
Cars have taken us off the streets, where we ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
yahoo news: WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed President Bush's former chief political adviser, Karl Rove, to testify about whether the White House improperly meddled with the Justice Department.
Accusations of politics influencing decisions at the department led to the resignation last year of Bush's attorney general, Alberto ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Silica is present in Martian soil that the Spirit Rover unintentionally turned up. Image: NASA/JPL.
The Spirit Rover, one of two planetary rovers operated by NASA on the planet Mars, has made an important, though unintentional discovery on the red planet. A wheel which has been inoperable on ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The last remaining members of the Russian doomsday group True Russian Orthodox Church emerged from a cave outside Penza Friday, after enduring the toxic stench of rotting corpses from two deceased members of their group. Interfax quoted authorities who said that fumes from the corpses in the cave threatened the ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
msnbc: General Motors may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft. The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may just wait for the next version of Windows, due in 2010 or 2011.
"We're considering bypassing Vista ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted to direct the Bush administration to stop filling the strategic petroleum reserve temporarily in an effort to alleviate increasing gas prices.
Both the House and Senate, which voted earlier Tuesday, exceeded the two-thirds vote required to override the president's expected veto: The House ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
laTimes: Donald Rumsfeld is today a discredited and widely reviled figure. Robert Gates, Rumsfeld's successor as Defense secretary, is generally admired for manifesting qualities that Rumsfeld lacked -- a willingness to listen not least among them. Yet on one crucial point, the two see eye to eye: Both believe that ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
guardian.co.uk: Albert Einstein - A little known letter written by him...
Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".
Einstein ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.92 earthquake has struck eastern Sichuan Province in China. The USGS first reported the quake to be a magnitude 7.8 which hit at 6:28:00 UTC. Officials say that at least 10,000 may have been killed and local reports indicate over ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
espn: SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Andrei Kirilenko blocked Kobe Bryant twice in overtime and converted a three-point play with 35 seconds remaining as the Utah Jazz beat the Los Angeles Lakers 123-115 on Sunday, tying the Western Conference semifinals at 2-2.
The Jazz went 9-for-9 from the foul line in ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
reuters.com: LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.
Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, "sterile" boxes that stifle creativity ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
the independent: China's rise in the early 21st century is the headiest tale of development the world has ever seen. A drive through Beijing or Shanghai or Shenzhen or Guangdong gives you all the evidence that you could ever want of the 66 per cent expansion of the Chinese economy ...
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