Fictions don't become facts through repetition. Keep that in mind next time you hear a politician breathlessly decry the horrors of the American health-care system and then explain how he intends to fix it. Some of the most popular talking points in the health-care debate pass as the gospel truth simply because,...(Read more...)
The Federal Reserve would have the power to regulate virtually the entire financial industry under a Treasury Department proposal to be announced Monday.
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The work is done by a Dutch firm which gets its chips from Taiwan and Singapore. They are then sent to Thailand where the chips and their antennas are imbedded into passport covers.
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WESTON, Wis. — An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. I understand that in Wisconsin, the parents will not be prosecuted for child abuse, because substituting prayer for medical help is not considered child enda...(Read more...)
"They can examine my pulse, my urine, my stool, everything." -- The Dalai Lama invites Chinese authorities to investigate whether he was behind the rioting in Tibet. (Read more...)
A credit crisis has been spreading through the economic system. It began with the collapse of the housing bubble, which was the result of years of Federal-Reserve-sponsored credit expansion. This credit expansion poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the purchase of homes largely by sub-prime borrowers who never...(Read more...)
... lawmakers were passing bills to restrict or eradicate the distribution of comic books, and community groups organized mass burnings. The reviews of Wertham's book were largely uncritical and admiring, despite his bizarre fixation on superheroes and their purported connection to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche...(Read more...)
Cone maintains: Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black ...(Read more...)
"We must see through the secessionist forces' evil intentions, uphold the banner of maintaining social stability ... and resolutely crush the 'Tibet independence' forces' conspiracy," People's Daily said in an editorial. Beijing has released tallies of statements of support from foreign governments — 100 of them...(Read more...)
Many people in the Philippines consider crucifixion and self flagellation good for the soul, but it is bad for your health according to new government advice for penitents.(Read more...)
