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MICHAEL PHELPS AND THE POLITICALLY CORRECT

By Sidney Gendin

August 20, 2008

For several decades the politically correct have been bombarding us with linguistic demands. First, “negro” became “Afro-American”. Wait, that was a mistake. We were told to switch to “African American”. Wait, that, too, was a mistake. The right term is “black”. Oops, sorry, we were too quick. We really meant to tell you the proper form of address is “person of color”. But that sounds too close to being “colored”, a very evil word. So let’s go back to “African American” and make the best of it. The trouble is that the term cannot possibly be equivalent to “negro” because it implies that negro persons born and raised elsewhere are African American. Why should a Frenchman who is negro and, who like all respectable Frenchmen, hates America, have to admit he is an African American?

Feminists …

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TIDBITS, PIECES, MORSELS, NIBBLES AND MUNCHIES

August 20, 2008

An MSNBC poll rejects the atheist suggestion to remove “In God we trust” from coins. The evil, sinful, wicked, vicious, criminal-minded, perverted atheists went down to defeat …

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DOES ELEMENTARY DECENCY COUNT?

August 18, 2008

We know morality counts for little in the decisions of government, but what about in the decisions of corporate officials? Well, here is the

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GAY MARRIAGE, THE NO BRAINER ISSUE AND THE LACK OF BRAINS CANDIDATES

August 18, 2008

Our friends at PEW Research Center have provided us with another poll. It is mildly encouraging.

There have been favorable shifts in people’s attitudes towards gay marriage but …

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IMPACT JOURNALS IN SCIENCE

August 16, 2008

Want to buy a scientific journal? Here is a list of the top journals along with their point scores.
The complete list is 1500 deep and you

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BRUTALITY

August 16, 2008

Each year humans kill humans and that is bad news but each year humans kill more animals than there have ever been people living on this planet. …

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE THINKING

August 16, 2008

Polls are interminable, eternal, and baffling. Nobody conducts them with more enthusiasm than the collaborative Washington Post - Kaiser Family Foundation - Harvard University gang.

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IS JOHN McCAIN A VIETNAM WAR LIAR?

August 16, 2008

ocregister Irvine, California.

POW mate calls McCain ‘liar’ over ‘turncoat’ charge.
Retired Marine colonel angered by candidate’s statements that he helped enemy while 2 were in Vietnamese prison camp.
By MARTIN …

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FUN AND GAMES IN THE WORLD OF LAW

August 15, 2008

Law is serious business and don’t you forget it!

Law.com……….Shearman & Sterling has dismissed an associate in its London office after a vacation scheme student — a U.K. summer …

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THE OLYMPIC RING IN YOUR NOSE…with CORRECTION

August 15, 2008

Like blind, dumb sheep, the American public are being led to their seats in front of their TV seats and, comfortably ensconced in soft couches, accompanied by beer …

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TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

August 13, 2008

Over the last few days the theme MEET KIWI has sometimes replaced WATCHINGPOLITICSin the masthead.

We apologize for this technical glitsch and we are working on it. …

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CORPORATE THIEVERY

August 13, 2008

Please read this post in conjunction with the post directly below that comes from the GAO. This is a nice summary of what the GAO (General Accounting …

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GAO REPORT ON CORPORATION TAX LIABILITY

August 13, 2008

The following information is provided by the GAO (Government Accounting Office.) [SG: By contacting the GAO you can obtain monthly or daily briefings by e-mail free of …

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WATCHING POLITICS ENDORSES TYRA BANKS

August 13, 2008

The handwriting is on the wall. The American people refuse to line up behind me in my bid for the presidency. It is time for me …

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PEACE PLAN IN GEORGIA

August 13, 2008

NY Times…………TBLISI, Georgia — The presidents of Georgia and Russia agreed early Wednesday morning to the framework of an agreement that could end the war that flared up …

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REVISED IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS

August 13, 2008

Articles of Impeachment for President George Bush introduced by Representative Dennis Kucinich, June 9, 2008.

Art. Summary………….. Allegation
1 Secret Propaganda — The President has illegally spent public dollars …

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SOCIALIST TAKE ON THE GEORGIA/RUSSIA CONFLICT

August 12, 2008…………The leading socialist newspaper in the U.S. weighs in on the conflict between Russia and Georgia and has some very interesting perspective you can’t find in the drab, …

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