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“And that’s what happened when Walter Block, an economics professor at Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit institution, gave a talk this month, “Injustices in the Politics and Economics of Social Justice,” at Loyola College in Maryland, a fellow Jesuit source...

“President-elect Barack Obama will have to give up the BlackBerry that he's had literally by his side (clipped to his belt, a surprising fashion faux pas by the normally quite fashionable candidate). Because of security concerns, the chief executive is source...

“It would be easy to dismiss today’s rant (however spot-on it might be) by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as yet another ideological tirade against the U.S. automobile industry. But based on the bad news coming out of shopping-mall source...

“Physics has a history of intersecting with politics in ways both large and small, from the creation of the atomic bomb to nuclear meltdowns to terrorist methods. And now, with more specialized, high-tech issues to tackle than ever before, it source...

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“Fed up with the internet? The US Air Force certainly is. It turns out that all sorts of mean and horrid bad guys think it would be funny, profitable or politically expedient to hack, spam or DDoS the USAF. And source...

“The G-20 met last Saturday. Afterward, the group issued a meaningless statement and decided to meet again in March 2009, or perhaps later. Clearly, the urgency of October is gone. First, the perception of imminent collapse is past. Politicians are source...

“ With the race to the White House being fiercely fought as ever, the undecided voters could make all the difference, and so while polls can give current trends in voter choice for one candidate over another, albeit possibly inaccurately, source...

“A graphic in Vanity Fair last month showing the biggest stock-market losers had Warren Buffett down about $16 billion. The Walton kids were down a combined $21 billion. The Google guys were each down about $12 billion, as was Bill source...

“Those actions are what probably make the recent lawsuit by Bloomberg News against the Secretary of the Treasury so important, because it appears that with all those loans that we’ve been making lately to banks, the Secretary of the Treasury source...

“OK, I admit it. Nights get long down here at Jason Scott Ranch and I don't like to just walk away from things for political/ethical reasons just because my politics and ethics fall along a different path than others might. source...

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“ Computer ads in the past were pretty simple and straight forward. You could hardly find one bashing the other but it sure did exist but not to the extent it does today. The “I am a PC” ad is source...

“For as long as I can remember, conduct disorder (sometimes known as anti-social disorder in adults), a slippery diagnosis to begin with, has been parked securely among Axis 2 disorders in the DSM and is commonly thought of as a source...

“In fact, the health care plan is looking distinctly Hillary-ish, especially in that it mandates health care coverage for all adults. Now if you were paying attention during the primary debates, younger Americans were bedeviled and beguiled because, generally, we’re source...