Corpse And Vultures

Corps and vultures is a good description of a lot of the media talking heads. I listened to several talk shows this morning and was sickened by the talking heads trying to degrade the president because America lost the Olympic bid.

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In a conversation earlier this week about polls showing that large numbers of Republicans don't believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, I wondered how many of those respondents might not know that Hawaii is a state.

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Surgical fires -- in which patients actually catch fire in the operating room -- are rarely talked about, but they do happen, Baltimore television station WBAL reported.

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"Democracy is not about taking the most educated portion of the society and having them decide who's going to run the entire society. Democracy is about every individual having a voice." I suggested that when people don't know anything, maybe it's their civic duty not to vote.

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Stossel asks the heretical question: should an uninformed voter vote? Or, if by his choice to remain uninformed, should an uninformed voter lose that right? Is this a poll tax by stealth? Or, is our union damaged by a low bar of voter education?

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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson Stupidity cannot mean, as Humpty Dumpty would have it, whatever we say it means.

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With Sen. Barack Obama commanding a strong lead over Sen. Hilary Clinton in the race for the U.S. Democractic presidential nomination, Obama's advisors paint a murky picture of his foreign policy positions.

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Minneapolis City Retirees Kept In Dark On Benefits Six Months

Minneapolis city employees are left ill-informed of their benefits upon retirement, in cases that have come to light earlier this year.

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