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Obama Logic Hit with a 10-Piece
Victor Davis Hanson is confused about the national logic since November 4th, 2008. Some things just don’t seem to make much sense and he’s jotted down a ten-item list to help out. THE BUZZ will keep score with Zing points. Hanson writes: “1. The budget. Wanting to cut $17 billion from the budget, as President…
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Ayatollah Says Election Was Totally Legit
Iran’s supreme leader says last week’s election was above board and that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory was “definitive.” Addressing a crowd at Tehran University during Friday prayers, the Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed vote-rigging charges and asked that those who take exception with the results use the proper legal avenues to do so. He did not call for…
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Apparently Suffering from Amnesia, Bush Criticizes Obama
NewsOne is reporting that George W. Bush has ended his silence embargo on President Obama. To wit: “I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor, I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t…
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Video: Affording Health Care
The video’s a bit old, but the perspective is both cringe-inducing and thought-provoking.
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Um…WHAT? 1 in 4 South African Men Admit to Rape
A country notorious for having one of the highest levels of rape in the world, a recent South African study on the issue showed that 25 percent of the participants admitted to having raped, some claiming to having been multiple-time offenders. The study, conducted by the Medical Research Council on the correlation between rape and…
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Not My Newports! Tobacco Bill Focuses on Menthol Cigarettes
Maybe President Obama is a turncoat after all. A man known to in a sqaure from time to time, he is expected to sign a bill giving the FDA the power to regulate tobacco products this week. According to Reuters, the bill which will outlaw flavored cigarettes such as strawberry, clove and chocolate but did…
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Colin Powell: Minority Dropout Rate is a 'Catastrophe'
52 percent. That is the average rate of 4-year graduation among Black and Hispanic high school students in the United States, according to a study. The national average is 70 percent. Both these statistics are troubling, particularly the latter, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to bring both up. Through America’s Promise Alliance,…
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A Road Trip Worth Taking
Away We Go is your classic road movie; the two protagonists—in this case, a mostly happily unmarried couple—use all manner of methods, from planes to trains to automobiles, to get to where it is that they happen to be going. And like all road movies, the true journey is really an internal one; in this…
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A Father's Right to Choose
Dr. Eric Wallace of FJM Blog asks a question often overlooked on the reproductive rights’ landscape: What rights and say does a father have in the life or death of his unborn child? Wallace writes: “In many ways, the parental rights of expectant fathers are blatantly ignored and fathers are, in a court of law,…
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