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That wage question
The sad thing is that the “women earn 72% of what a man earns for the exact same job” factoid is peddled by professors of women’s studies who earn the same amount as for a professor of something useful like astronomy.
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Wind Power’s Greatest Danger is Profitability
Painful debate tonight, just because I hate hearing the candidates accepting the stupid premises of the average joes in the town hall style forum. I would have preferred that Mitt Romney say, “If business owners can really hire a woman to do the exact same work for only 72% of a man’s wages, then women…
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Did the Democrats ever apologize for creating the KKK?
Back circa 1865-1875, the Republican party and America’s black population shared a renaissance. The Republican party, having prevailed in the Civil War (and with most of the Democrats in the South out of power while Reconstruction began), passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, along with a score of civil rights laws banning segregation and…
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This sounds like a hoax!
A drunk underage Irish teen in Boston? Come on!
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Maggie Simpson speaks… and says WHAT?
Tonight’s episode of “The Simpsons” was about four stories of women in literature. Usually, these “three stories” episodes are mediocre at best. I think they started doing these right around the time that I fell out of love with the show. I used to watch the show religiously. Now, I find it boring at best…
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Critic past his prime honored
Roger Ebert received a great honor recently, and I’m of two minds of the matter. As a guy who appreciates film, I bet he’d be great to pal around with and talk about which X-Men movie was better and why, and what movies he hated, etc. At the same time, he’s not as great a…
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Nice Guy finishes first
Gary Sinise, hard-working crusader for the USO ever since September 12, 2001, was given the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second-highest honor a civilian can earn. Way to go, Mr. Sinise! Is it just me, or is Associated Press determined to make every story about the Bush administration stink? Look how the story hammers hard about…
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Is Election Day meaningless?
I don’t like the very idea of early voting and/or voting by absentee ballot just because you don’t want to trouble yourself to do it properly on election day. Per Michelle Malkin: We’re seeing a lot of trouble with mentally handicapped and senior citizens whose “votes” are really just the multiple votes of the…
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Oscar Mayer Conservation
Did you ever notice that the people who praise the American Indian for using every bit of the buffalo will whine about what’s in a hot dog?