July 07, 2005
By Kevin Rollins On the cover of this issue, we have an image of the “Good Citizen.” Fat and recumbent, he lounges in the hands of tyranny, absorbed by television-watching, and is blissfully apathetic to his status as serf. While...
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06:38 PM
June 13, 2005
By Paul Gessing Much has been made about the fact that former FBI agent Mark Felt was the source that Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein used to confirm President Nixon’s direct involvement in the Watergate scandal. For years after...
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09:58 AM
June 07, 2005
By James Plummer Signed into law recently was the “REAL ID Act,” which had been attached to the “emergency” supplemental spending bill (headlined by money for Iraq operations and tsunami relief). REAL ID will move America beyond a mere de...
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06:51 PM
By Ali Massoud Psychologists and salespeople call it the “chameleon effect”. People are thought to be more trustworthy and likeable if they imitate the body language of the person they’re speaking with. A new experimental study has now shown that...
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06:47 PM
By James Turbett Imagine people receiving honoraria (fees for giving speeches) claiming that the freedom of speech provision of the first amendment was exclusively for their protection and that others weren’t protected by it. Or that police, hit men, and...
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06:30 PM
By Robert Capozzi Did you know that schools have been allowed to coerce students to take drugs? That’s correct, although in this case we are talking about pharmaceutical, psychotropic drugs. It’s been an under-the-radar-screen issue for years. The challenge of...
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06:28 PM
By Michael Ostrolenk Many of the most problematic provisions in the USA Patriot Act are set to sunset at the end of this year. Some of those provisions include Section 206 (roving wire taps under FISA) and Section 215 (“library...
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06:24 PM
June 06, 2005
By Carl Milsted Each year the government gets bigger. Democrats demand new entitlement programs and Republicans grant them “lite” versions, which then grow. Democrats raise taxes and Republicans raise deficits. Republicans snoop into our personal lives to hunt for terrorists...
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07:01 PM
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American Historyby Thomas E. Woods, Jr. 380 pages, Regnery Publishing, Inc. (December, 2004) Reviewed by Robert Capozzi “Political correctness,” or PC, is an unfortunate term that’s been kicking around for at least 20 years. Essentially,...
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06:57 PM