In CBC News today – Fossil skull find challenges theories on human origins: "Scientists have unearthed an intact skull from a primitive human ancestor that lived as far back as […]
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
Medical myths
Debra Melani writing for Scripps Howard: "Remember Grandma's foreboding threat that if you stepped outside without a coat, you would "catch your death of cold"?" "Or maybe it was Dad's […]
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Rick Stanley
In the July 3rd Rocky Mountain News, Stanley says he's not racist – Libertarian Senate candidate defends use of poem 'Illegal' in immigration e-mail: Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Rick Stanley […]
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Terrorism
Gene Healy on Al Qaeda and Peter L. Bergen's Holy War, Inc.: "Don't get me wrong: Al Qaeda's patience and detailed planning of operations is impressive. But how do you […]
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The Wrath of Farrakhan
Thanaa Imam writing for UPI in the Washington Times: "Iraq's state-run media has quoted Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as saying during a visit to Baghdad that American Muslims […]
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Real Patriots
Cathy Young in Reason: "Make no mistake, there are people on the left (MIT linguist Noam Chomsky comes to mind) who seem to truly hate America and everything it stands […]
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Profiling vs. “Racial” Profiling
In the Washington Times Profiling scorned as 'false comfort': "It is very tempting to take false comfort in the belief that we can spot the bad guy based on appearance […]
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Staff Meetings II
11:32 am and still waiting. What a waste of time. Oh well, more time for blog-reading.
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Pop vs. Soda
Radley Balko's got an interesting series of posts on the subject. My take. In Central Illinois, say Bloomington, Pekin, Morton or Peoria (Tazewell, Woodford and Peoria counties), where I am […]
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Staff Meetings
I hate them. I'm waiting for one now that was supposed to start at 11:00 am this morning. It might start at 11:30 am. Or 11:45 am. What's the point? […]
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