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On Crime, It’s Not Like Father Like Son for Giuliani
It’s not a simple case of "like father, like son" when it comes to Rudy Giuliani. Rudy’s father, Harold Giuliani, spent time in Sing Sing for armed robbery. In contrast, as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, | Read More »
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Rendell’s High-Tax Philadelphia Has Reality Problem
Collapsing schools, middle-class flight drain city
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Food Fight
By order of Iran’s confectioners union, any Danish pastries sold in Tehran, the nation’s capital, must now be called "Roses of the Prophet Mohammed Pastries." Make a quick stop on the way to work at a StarBox Coffee (the Iranian | Read More »
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A Great Resolution: Read More Books
Some great titles to explore in 2006
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A Flood of Free Money
If you think the government’s initial response to Hurricane Katrina was incompetent, at all levels, wait till you see the tidal wave of ineptitude, cronyism, irrationality, waste and thievery that’s guaranteed to be involved in the clean-up and rebuilding. “It’s | Read More »
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Left Still Doesn’t Get It: Rolling Stone Founder/Publisher Blames Bush for Continued Terrorism
It’s Bush who’s to blame for the London subway bombings in July, according to Jann Wenner, founder and publisher of Rolling Stone magazine. "If the London bombings are the work of an al-Qaida offshoot," contended Wenner, "then you have to | Read More »
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Where’s the Winning Strategy on Terrorism?
A majority of Americans, 54 percent, say the United States "made a mistake" in going to war in Iraq, according to the latest CNN/Gallup poll. A similar number, 56 percent, say the war in Iraq is going either "very badly" | Read More »
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Pennsylvania Legislators Vote Themselves Huge Pay Hike — Opponents Lose Leadership Posts
"The lawmakers virtually sit on the board of directors of a $35 billion entity called Pennsylvania," House Democrat Leader H. William DeWeese told The Philadelphia Inquirer. That’s how Rep. DeWeese is defending the recent legislative pay grab in Pennsylvania in | Read More »
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The Jihadi Bomb
"Unfortunately, the amount of material you need for a nuclear bomb is only about the size of a soda can," explained Matthew Bunn, a senior research associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University, in an interview | Read More »
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Pennsylvania Legislators Approved Illegal Pay Hike for Themselves
Leaders promised “walking around money” to legislators who “cooperated”
