From CNN.com:
Following an intense assessment of U.S. policies in the war in Iraq, the Iraq Study Group will recommend that a “gradual but meaningful” reduction of U.S. troops begin “relatively early in the New Year,” a source familiar with the group’s deliberations told CNN.
I’ve said that any plan is better than no plan, but I’d […]
In a Letter to the Editor just sent to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
In the summer of 2005, the Milwaukee Common Council voted against assisting the Pabst City project proposed by private developers with City funding. It looks like the Council will soon be hearing a similar request. This time, the proposal is backed by Milwaukee’s […]
James Lovelock, the controversial scientist who came up with “Gaia” theory, which says that the earth functions like an organism, said that because of global warming, the earth will one day only be able to sustain about 500,000,000 people.
“There are refuges, plenty of them. 55 million years ago … life moved up to the Arctic, […]
This past weekend (over Thanksgiving break), I heard on the news that the College Republicans at Boston University started a $250 per semester scholarship with one of the qualifying factors being that the recipient has to be at least 25% caucasian.
The organization stated that it launched the scholarship program in response to all of the […]
A new poll rates a lot of the presidential candidates on a Madden-like grade of 0-100:
Americans have the warmest feelings about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, according to a poll released Monday that scores the popularity of national leaders.
The Quinnipiac University’s “thermometer reading,” taken […]
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Our own Aaron Robertson is like Kramer without the racism - always up to something. The latest is that he’s written an eBook, called, of all things: Beyond Majors and G.P.A. : A Real Philosophy for College and the World Ahead.
You can’t see the book unless you […]
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According to the Business section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Saturday, 11/22/06), the value of Google stock has surpassed the $500 per share mark!
It looks like its value won’t be deflating anytime soon either. With the purchase of YouTube.com, among other recent acquisitions, Google is making a killing on the sale of advertising space all […]
According to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article that appeared in its Metro section (Friday, 11/24/06), the University School of Milwaukee has built a brand-new Science Center. Weighing in at an impressive 33,500 square feet, the center is home to six classroom labs and four project rooms.
The Science Center allows students to safely store, and continue to […]
As crazy environmentalists and global warming soothsayers didn’t predict, the hurricane season this year was a complete bust. Don’t believe me? Believe TBO.
It was not the hurricane season we expected, thank you.
With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season […]