Tag: thecontrarian
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October 10, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
Earlier this year there was “travelflub.” It involved a set of new travel requirements aimed at controlling illegal immigration. However, it was so poorly planned that it had to be scrapped . . .
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May 23, 2008 01:03 AM EDT --
If this nation was a corporation, heads would roll and there would be a top to bottom reorganization.
Well, we the voters are probably as comparable as you can get to corporate stockholders, so I say . . .
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October 01, 2007 03:14 PM EDT --
Reading some of the comments suggests to me that it might be helpful to spotlight the one aspect of HIT that makes it uniquely dangerous.
Heparin, of course, is a blood thinner. The paradox of heparin . . .
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November 17, 2007 12:20 AM EST --
The Terror Alert page of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the following:
“Raising the threat condition has economic, physical and psychological effects on the nation.”
In . . .
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February 04, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
"Détente" is a French word meaning a relaxing or easing.
During the seventies it also became an English word applicable to an international situation in which countries that had been . . .
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March 07, 2008 05:53 AM EST --
Most anyone's first reaction concerning the government's acquisition of additional powers is that these laws and executive orders must be for our own protection.
The government - our government . . .
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April 04, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The planes rose into the blackness of the new-moon night and, after reaching their maximum altitude, headed east. The lights of Amman could be seen as the formation left Israel, sped across Jordan and . . .
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May 17, 2008 01:41 AM EDT --
It's gotten so prevalent that even the outsourcing is being outsourced.
A firm in India is performing offshore outsourcing services for at least one American pharmaceutical company.
Offshore . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board declined to raise interest rates and, surprisingly, this may have been a factor in the Dow's 358 point drop today. It's surprising because generally . . .
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July 23, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
On his current trip, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama seems to be doing a good job of persuading the world and - perhaps more importantly America - that he is, indeed, presidential material. . . .
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August 08, 2008 05:03 PM EDT --
If there has been one consistent theme in the contrarian articles it relates to the insidious influence of the massive amounts of money that have overwhelmed the political process. It has been argued, . . .
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September 16, 2008 08:34 PM EDT --
Economic conditions in America - if not the world - might be likened to a fish-tailing trailer hooked to a Volkswagen.
I learned about the science of fish-tailing the hard way one day as I sped down . . .
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May 09, 2009 05:28 AM EDT --
April 1 - In Beaumont, California, parents were charged with negligent storage of firearms and child endangerment after one of the several firearms in their home, which had been picked up by their 12-year-old . . .
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May 23, 2007 10:11 AM EDT --
Why the rush?
A tentative version of the new, proposed immigration bill was first made available to the Senators at 2:00 AM on Saturday, and the Senate leaders are pressing for a resolution by Memorial . . .
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September 05, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
If there's any service we here at home can perform for the troops in Iraq, it is simply, but importantly, to be aware of the issues and to follow the debate this month as it unfolds. An informed electorate . . .
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September 28, 2007 05:30 AM EDT --
Part II ended with my son, Ed, rendered immobile on paralytic drugs, while hooked up to a ventilator, following four episodes of cardiac arrest. This was Friday, Day 15 of his attempted recovery from . . .
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August 08, 2007 01:51 AM EDT --
Many of you have seen this photo, taken several months ago, representing a flagrant case of disrespect for the American flag at Montebello High School in the Los Angeles area. As you can see, the flag . . .
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September 26, 2007 03:20 AM EDT --
I’d been expecting the call.
It was the night before Halloween in 2003. Ed sounded tense and uncharacteristically quiet. It almost seemed as though he wanted me to somehow take the load . . .
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October 17, 2007 03:01 AM EDT --
The Bush administration may talk a lot about democracy and freedoms, but its chief architect has clearly been more interested in carving out a dictatorship. Dick Cheney has spent the last 30 years, . . .
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January 29, 2008 09:54 PM EST --
It may not be apparent to everyone, but several of our civil liberties seem to be under attack. Recent legislation threatens our rights to due process, fair trials and privacy and, indirectly, it . . .
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