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REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
… An outline in simple talking points …
911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made below. Much of the basic research is available at the Complete 9/11 Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room (911readingroom.org), and the NY [...]

I hate to be pessimistic, but I am inclined to agree with the outcome predicted in this fine essay by Adam McKay:
“Stop saying that!” my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I’m not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand [...]

Philip E. Johnson makes a good point about the connection between creationism and equality. In his article “The Creationist and the Sociobiologist,” Johnson observes that the contemporary secular university is immersed in the flux state of post-Modernism. In such environments, the “nature and even the very existence of objective knowledge is in question.”
He then [...]

I was so tickled today to receive an email from my sister Sherry.  Sherry was second born of us five, an occupational therapist living in Colorado with her husband, Gary.  They love hiking and taking pictures of their adventures.  She often sends me pictures and albums.  But today she pointed me to a very interesting [...]

Thanks to tomdispatch.com for this:
On November 14, 2002, the New York Times published a column by William Safire entitled “You Are a Suspect” in which he revealed that DARPA had been given a $200 million budget to compile dossiers on 300 million Americans. He wrote, “Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine [...]

It’s been a disappointing summer for blockbusters, for me.
I had so many sure-fire hits lined up on my Gotta-See list: Wanted, Hancock, Hellboy II. How can you go wrong when you’ve got A-list stars like Angelina, Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Ron Perlman? Directors like Guillermo Del Toro, who did a masterful job on Pan’s Labyrinth [...]

My daughters and I recorded this yesterday. She wrote it within the last year. We think you will enjoy it.
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I just finished my final exam in a graduate level course I’m taking called Brain Science and Learning. As I walked back to my dorm, passing the library, a coyote was twenty yards in front of me on the sidewalk. I had just passed a pile of doggie poo, and at first my brain registered [...]

What Teachers Make, or
Objection Overruled, or
If things don’t work out, you can always go to law school

By Taylor Mali
www.taylormali.com (on YouTube)
He says the problem with teachers is, “What’s a kid going to learn
from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?”
He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s true what [...]

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