On May 27, journalist Jesse Rosenfeld and I set out on the streets of Tel Aviv to probe the political opinions of young local residents….
Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
Michele Bachmann Defies Critics, Introduces Bill To Curb Yearly Census Survey
July 14th, 2009 |
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Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Ted Poe (R-Texas) have introduced legislation that would curtail the extent of information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in a yearly survey.
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Michael Markarian: Strong Federal Law Brings the Hammer Down on Dogfighters
July 13th, 2009 |
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The flagrant disregard that dogfighters routinely show for society’s norms was replaced by the snap of handcuffs and the slap of 30 or so arrest warrants.
James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Eric Holder Mulls Investigating Alleged Bush-Era Torture
July 12th, 2009 |
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Attorney General Eric Holder might not heed what seems to be the White House preference not to look back and investigate allegations of Bush-approved torture of detainees and enemy combatants.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: A Law Worth Saving
July 11th, 2009 |
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Racial discrimination in voting, while much reduced since the Voting Rights Act’s passage in 1965, remains all too prevalent in many parts of the country.
Super Computers – What are They?
December 30th, 2008 |
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Worlds Top 500 Super Computers Reviewed
MANNHEIM, Germany, BERKELEY, Calif., and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The 32nd edition of the closely watched list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers has just been issued, with the 1.105 petaflop/s IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory holding on to the top spot it first achieved in June 2008.
The Los Alamos system, nicknamed [...]