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Alan Caruba says it's a shame no one cares about the diminishing freedom of Americans
Problems for the Axis of Weasel: Jackson Murphy says that world events are rapidly illustrating the irrelevance of nations like France and Germany
Walking on thin ice: All the protests and UN posturing doesn't change a fact, says Henry Lamb, Saddam Hussein is on the thin edge of the wedge and it's going to be George W. Bush to give him a shove
America's non-resolve to fight evil: Even as American soldiers prepare themselves for a seemingly inevitable war against Iraq Ed Cline says the United States is fighting the war against terrorism halfheartedly
Does the US have a double standard with regards to North Korea and Iraq?: David T. Pyne says it certainly looks that way. If you compare the actions of Iraq and North Korea, Saddam Hussein doesn't hold a candle to the belligerence of Kim Jong-Il
Why does Saddam pose an imminent threat?: If you don't know the answer, Carol Devine-Molin provides why she thinks Iraq is a clear and present danger to the United States and the rest of the civilized world
Sheryl Crow, useful idiots, and the fashionable anti-war crowd: Principled dissent to war is a good thing but Patrick Bryson has a big problem with the type of dissent being practiced by people like Sheryl Crow
Aren't we all guilty of excess?: Hypocritical celebrities are slamming America's "excess" but Brian S.

Buck & New Dawg: Bring on the Giants for Round 3

Vinny was a Heisman Trophy winner/No. 1 pick overall who didnt win enough ... but didnt give up trying. I think history will treat him kindly. It should.

BUCK: Losing two of the last three in December is about all thats the same.

Chalk One Up For The Armchair Economists

Mike Arrington, over at TechCrunch, has written up a post about "The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free" which will sound mighty familiar if you're a Techdirt reader. It's pretty much the same thing I've been saying for almost a dozen years at this point, pointing out the economics and inevitable trends facing the music industry -- and also noting why that isn't necessarily a bad thing. While he's dealing with emotional responses in the comments (again, that'll sound familiar...), it's more interesting to watch an "industry analyst" trash Arrington as an "armchair economist" without backing it up... and then getting his own economics totally screwed up. In this case, we need to chalk one up for the "armchair economists." The analyst, David Card of Jupiter Research (the same analyst who incorrectly said that Radiohead's new offering would only work because the band was well known), dismisses Arrington's economics as "oversimplified analysis," but doesn't explain why it's actually wrong -- and that's because it's not.

Copying goes hi-tech

The age-old parchi system which used to do the trick during the examination season is now a thing of the past. Enter the low cost hi-tech Chinese pens which students are using to take them through the examinations.

Though education minister Upinder Jit Kaur has said no instance of copying will be tolerated during the board exams and the erring officials will be dealt with strictly, a Chinese pen, costing around Rs 20 has come in handy for the inventive students who have added this invisible-writing pen to their cheating devices.

Sources in the education department said after it decided to go strict with instances of cheating and the staff on examination duty become vigilant no paper slips or chits were being allowed in the examination centre.

The sources said during one such frisking exercise during the exam of the plus-two science stream a few days ago, a teacher found that some of the students had pasted white-blank papers on their clip boards.

Performance and Accountability Report - Fiscal Year 2007 (NUREG-1542 ...

The NRC has a defined set of regulatory practices, knowledge and expertise specific to each activity in the nuclear material cycle to address safety and security issues.

Approximately 20 percent of the Nation's electricity is generated by the 104 NRC-licensed commercial nuclear reactors operating in 31 States (see Figure 3). Since 1994, nuclear electric generation has increased by approximately 22 percent. The NRC oversees 4,369 licenses for medical, academic, industrial and general uses of nuclear materials (see Figure 4). The agency conducts approximately 1,500 health and safety inspections of its nuclear materials licensees annually. In addition, the 34 Agreement States oversee 17,807 licenses. These Agreement States have assumed the majority of regulatory responsibilities for overseeing the activities of industrial, medical, and other small users of nuclear material within their borders.

Businessman Behind Bid For SPL Club Exposed As Pimp

A TYCOON trying to buy an SPL football club can today be exposed as a sleazy pimp luring women into prostitution.

Our investigator, who provided a fake CV and photo, agreed to meet MacGregor at Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire but he fled after being confronted.

Warner’s plan thwarted by Caribbean protests

HAVING GOT his own way for so long in the Caribbean, it appears the little guys have come out fighting against Fifa vice-president Jack Warner.