January 07, 2009
On the shore of Lake Isabella, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, a crowd of flight techs, most of them either pierced or tattooed, swarms around a small white airplane. It's called an Icon A5. It's a collaboration between an F-16 pilot and a skateboard designer, and it looks like an odd, rakish ...
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December 28, 2008
Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and 40.6% respectively for the year to date, many investors would be anxiou...
The Big Picture
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November 29, 2008
Besides the latest from Mumbai, the most interesting news tonight concerns the BNP. The Labour governmentâs policy of overt persecution towards the BNP and other dissenters has backfired, and the BNP is gaining in strength. There are a couple of reports below about yesterdayâs BNP demonstration ...
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I receive questions regularly from readers about the latest situation involving the Community Police Review Commission and specifically whether or not their elected officials support it or oppose it especially since this city's coming up on an election year with the council seats in even-numbered wa...
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November 17, 2008
Yes, that was an earthquake in the early morning hours of Nov. 17 and you can discuss it here. It's noted here at the United States Geological Survey's earthquake site. It was 4.1 and felt over a wide region of Riverside County. The earth kept quaking later into the morning with this 3.8 quake at 9:...
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November 14, 2008
The news stories to pay attention to tonight concern immigration. In Italy, a âRecord Number of Would-Be Immigrants Arriveâ. But the President of Italy says, âImmigrants are a resource â no more prejudice!â And in the UK, a report in the House of Lords: âEconomic Benefits of Mass Immigra...
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By Debbie Schlussel Remember when ESPN threw Rush Limbaugh under the bus after he made reasonable comments about how the media was excessively gushing over Donovan McNabb because they wanted a Black quarterback to succeed (kinda like the gushed over the current Black Quarterback-in-Chief-Elect Obama...
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November 13, 2008
By CandidProf, who teaches physics and astronomy at a state university. He shares his thoughts and experiences teaching todayâs students anonymously every Thursdayâanonymously because thatâs the only way he can be truly candid. Read all of CandidProf here. Todayâs generation of college stude...
Leadership Turn
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November 09, 2008
Lawrence A. Summers: "Intrinsic Nature" of Women is Inferior by Manic Lawyer, Sun Nov 09, 2008 at 09:34:59 AM EST An anonymous reader of my blog was good enough to provide a link to the remarks about women's intelligence by Harvard University presidentn Lawrence A. Summers that led to his resignatio...
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September 16, 2008
"QUANTUM SHOT" #475 Link -- Article by M. Christian of "Meine Kleine Fabrik" and Avi Abrams Fulfilling numerous requests from our readers, here is a page documenting the history of huge airplanes, in a visually striking and wondrous manner: Flying on Gigantic Wings For a few thousand years the bigge...
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