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Unemployment rate hits 4-year high as job losses continue - Aug. 1, 2008
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Employers cut jobs in July for the seventh straight month, while the unemployment rate hit a four-year high, according to a government report released Friday.
This is not surprising at all. Locally I have seen way too many retail [...]

Weeding Out The Highs Of Medical Marijuana
ScienceDaily (July 15, 2008) — Research exploring new ways of exploiting the full medicinal uses of cannabis while avoiding unwanted side-effects will be presented to pharmacologists on July 15 by scientists attending the Federation of European Pharmacological Societies Congress, EPHAR 2008.

For a second time today I am posting a [...]

It is hard to figure out exactly what the priorities of Bush Administration really are since they are covered with so many layers of obfuscation and double talk. Thankfully though, that administration’s days are numbered. Not even W would be so arrogant as to think he doesn’t have to leave the White House [...]

Well I would think after so long it would be obvious to anyone Condee is lying when words are coming out of her mouth. Right now she is spinning the the Scott McClellan slap to the face. Of course she is claiming it really isn’t a slap either more like an obscene mooning [...]

George is very disappointed in this surprise. W was hoping we were going to let him call a mulligan on the golf game that has been his presidency. Sorry George there are no do-overs or take backs you have had your two terms even if you wasted them along with trillions of dollars and [...]

In the modern age, the latest roaring battle cry from women is “Reproductive Rights”. I find myself questioning the whole notion, on a legal level and an ethical level. Here is your opportunity to speak out.

My first instinct is that yes women have reproductive rights. The more I think about it on a legal level [...]

The proposed Gas Tax Holiday smells like it has been stuck up the ass of a politician for years and is only now being pulled out at election time. No matter how you try and sell the plan, the results still stink.
First there is nothing to prevent stations from simply offsetting the 18.4 cent discount [...]

When did we quit teaching history in school? I find it all well and good that schools invest in teaching kids new technologies, but if this is what we get by skimping elsewhere, I may have to make some revisions to my thoughts on how education dollars are spent.
On the other hand I think [...]

New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources as Britain becomes a bit-player. The outcome could be deadly
I have long been saying that it was water not oil that really matters in the world. If you have ever thought Tibet was about land you would be greatly mistaken, unless you were referring to the watershed [...]

WASHINGTON — The steady loss of “good jobs” by less-educated workers has left them more vulnerable to recession than at any time in nearly 30 years, and signs are mounting that a recession is either already here or coming soon.
There comes a point in time when we have to open our eyes to the reality [...]