Tag: global politics
member name: Duane B.
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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November 27, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Merrill Lynch has published the 2006 World Wealth Report that provides some interesting details on the 9.5 million high net worth individuals (HNWI) in the world that have . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
As I sit down to write this article, much of the Middle East is in crisis. Rockets are falling on Israel and bombs are falling in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed on injured on . . .
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May 17, 2006 10:54 AM EDT --
Americans are always encouraged to believe in the power of free markets. If someone invents a new product that is needed and fills a demand, the free market system will ensure that the inventor . . .
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May 28, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
According to the popular press and other media sources, ethanol and ethanol-gasoline blends are going to be the solution to the current and future oil crisis. TV ads point out that corn, one of our . . .
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August 05, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Sometimes just reading the individual captions of articles and columns in my local newspaper can be either informative or raise troubling questions. Today’s Sunday edition of my . . .
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December 07, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
Recently the CBS program Sixty Minutes ran a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians still living in Iraq. Since our invasion of Iraq the minority Christian . . .
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May 23, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
In WWI they called it "shell shocked", in WWII it was called "combat fatigue. In Vietnam it was "the thousand yard stare", but it is as old as human warfare. . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:55 AM EST --
All of us have heard about the success of Brazil in developing an ethanol economy based on sugar cane. This year about 85% of the cars manufactured in Brazil will be flex-fuel . . .
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July 30, 2006 12:05 PM EDT --
CNN reported this morning that at least 54 Lebanese women and children were killed by Israeli air strikes in the village of Qana, near Tyre. The bombs stuck a four-story building where the . . .
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September 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
An official Canadian commission has found that a Canadian computer specialist of Syrian birth, Maher Arar, had no ties to any terrorist groups or individuals. Arar claims . . .
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September 04, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
A study completed by the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business has developed quantitative data linking increased immigration to depressed wages in South Carolina. . . .
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August 27, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
With more than 2 billion people traveling by air every year, WHO (the World Health Organization, part of the UN) officials are warning that the next worldwide epidemic (pandemic) of a new disease . . .
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September 03, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
CNN presented a three part series entitled God’s Warriors researched and reported by their award-winning Chief Foreign Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. This series deals with the . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:58 PM EST --
There is a great deal of discussion today about the goal of ending global poverty. It is estimated that 2.5 billion of the world’s population of 6.5 billion, almost 40%, try . . .
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April 06, 2008 02:28 PM EDT --
Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska has made an interesting, and I think important, proposal: all future funding for Iraqi reconstruction will be made in the form of a . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently received an unsolicited email from a person I don't know that is a member of a national organization I belong too. It contained some of the most virulent anti-Semitic . . .
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April 28, 2008 09:39 PM EDT --
With crude oil prices pushing toward $120 a barrel and predictions that they may reach $175, it is important to understand a little about how the crude oil market functions. A number . . .
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June 11, 2008 10:07 AM EDT --
Time's cover story for the June 16 th issue reveals that thousands of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are routinely being prescribed antidepressants to help them deal with . . .
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