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SIMMONS: Nation of plenty but also of laws
What do we want? What do they want? What do the countless people who have entered this country illegally or overstayed their welcome really want? They and their supporters say all they want is a better life for themselves and their families. Well, what the dickens do they think Americans want? Published 10:56 p.m. July 29, 2010 - Comments
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By Staff - The Washington Times
Justin Vaisse is perhaps a little too careful to minimize the role of Jews, or at least of the Jewishness of Jews, in neoconservative thinking. Published 10:56 p.m. July 29, 2010 - Comments
Industry sees iPorn potential
By Joel Schectman ASSOCIATED PRESS
It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. Published 10:57 p.m. July 29, 2010 - Comments
Youth charged in attack on white rap fan
By - The Washington Times
A black Florida juvenile faces hate-crimes charges in a gang attack that police say he committed because the victim was listening to rap music and white people "shouldn't be listening to rap music." Published 10:57 p.m. July 29, 2010 - Comments
Obama talks race, pop culture on 'The View'
By Julie Pace
President Obama on Thursday said the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a "phony controversy" generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out. Published 11:13 a.m. July 29, 2010 - Comments
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Why we fund unneeded weapons
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We live in an age of technological dinosaurs — tech projects that never could justify their cost in money or mental effort but have become embedded in our culture and will endure just because killing them off would have a drastic effect on the economy. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Why we fund unneeded weapons
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We live in an age of technological dinosaurs — tech projects that never could justify their cost in money or mental effort but have become embedded in our culture and will endure just because killing them off would have a drastic effect on the economy. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Kahlo lite for 100th
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Fridamania lives. The popularity of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), which peaked with the 2002 movie starring Salma Hayek, is cresting once again as museums mark the centennial of her birth. In Mexico City, the Palace of Fine Arts has just opened an extensive Kahlo exhibition, and the Casa Azul (Blue House), the artist's family home-turned-museum, is now displaying some of the thousands of artifacts recently unearthed from a long-locked bathroom in the house. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has announced a show of 50 Kahlo paintings that will go on display in October and travel to Philadelphia in mid-February and to San Francisco next summer. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Kahlo lite for 100th
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Fridamania lives. The popularity of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), which peaked with the 2002 movie starring Salma Hayek, is cresting once again as museums mark the centennial of her birth. In Mexico City, the Palace of Fine Arts has just opened an extensive Kahlo exhibition, and the Casa Azul (Blue House), the artist's family home-turned-museum, is now displaying some of the thousands of artifacts recently unearthed from a long-locked bathroom in the house. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has announced a show of 50 Kahlo paintings that will go on display in October and travel to Philadelphia in mid-February and to San Francisco next summer. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Quantrill leaves bloody legacy
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Southern rangers, in particular those led by John Hunt Morgan and John Singleton Mosby ("Grey Ghost of the Confederacy"), were thorns in the sides of Union commanders, often causing havoc as well as wreaking widespread destruction. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Quantrill leaves bloody legacy
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Southern rangers, in particular those led by John Hunt Morgan and John Singleton Mosby ("Grey Ghost of the Confederacy"), were thorns in the sides of Union commanders, often causing havoc as well as wreaking widespread destruction. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Uprisings by slaves bring harsh responses
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Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things." — Angelina Grimke, 1836 Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Uprisings by slaves bring harsh responses
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Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things." — Angelina Grimke, 1836 Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Nazi killing camps are a living testimony
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Somehow, we always imagined it to be raining at Auschwitz and Birkenau, the Nazis' infamous killing camps of World War II. But the sun shone when we toured, led by guide Dorita Nicz, whose two non-Jewish uncles were sent to Auschwitz for giving water to an escaped prisoner. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Nazi killing camps are a living testimony
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Somehow, we always imagined it to be raining at Auschwitz and Birkenau, the Nazis' infamous killing camps of World War II. But the sun shone when we toured, led by guide Dorita Nicz, whose two non-Jewish uncles were sent to Auschwitz for giving water to an escaped prisoner. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Rich cultural life exists in Rio's shantytowns
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RIO DE JANEIRO Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Rich cultural life exists in Rio's shantytowns
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RIO DE JANEIRO Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Protecting America, the beautiful
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As a child, I met Lady Bird Johnson — who died this week at age 94 — at a Christmas party at the White House. We met again in 1995 at a black-tie dinner when she was being honored at the National Building Museum for her leadership in the conservation movement. In between those meetings, Mrs. Johnson's pioneering beautification efforts, once derided as "lipstick on the landscape," had grown to become law and an American way of life. Her beloved wildflowers spread to blossom on highways throughout the country, now free of billboards and junk. In Washington, we take for granted all the parks and medians filled with thousands of tulips, daffodils, azaleas and cherry trees that she planted in her days as first lady. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Protecting America, the beautiful
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As a child, I met Lady Bird Johnson — who died this week at age 94 — at a Christmas party at the White House. We met again in 1995 at a black-tie dinner when she was being honored at the National Building Museum for her leadership in the conservation movement. In between those meetings, Mrs. Johnson's pioneering beautification efforts, once derided as "lipstick on the landscape," had grown to become law and an American way of life. Her beloved wildflowers spread to blossom on highways throughout the country, now free of billboards and junk. In Washington, we take for granted all the parks and medians filled with thousands of tulips, daffodils, azaleas and cherry trees that she planted in her days as first lady. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Dancers choose to be on edge
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Washington's second annual Fringe Festival is a feisty, funky, fearless jamboree with one main rule: no rules. Fringe may be in its infancy here, but its basic idea was born 60 years ago in Scotland when eight artists, not invited to participate in the prestigious Edinburgh Festival with top international performers, decided to start a show of their own on the fringes of the site. Published 12:00 a.m. July 14, 2007 - Comments
Happening Now
Recovery loses speed as consumers turn cautious
By Jeannine Aversa
updated 15 minutes ago
The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. Published 8:33 a.m. July 30, 2010
Rangel hit with 13 ethics charges
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
The House ethics committee officially lodged charges against Rep. Charles B. Rangel, including that he used his office to raise $8 million for a college public policy center named after him and didn't file taxes while he was Congress' chief tax writer. Published 8:56 p.m. July 29, 2010
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