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POPSRitalin Over-Prescribed to Children Finally, it has occurred to someone that some behavioral problems in children could be due to lack of discipline. Now, add to that the excessive use of caffeine and sugar, as well as immersion in TV and video games, and we may have a clue as to what really causes hyperactivity.
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POPSIs Google Making Us Stupid? Thinking makes my head hurt! Carr, the author of the piece, illustrates his point using a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, where HAL, the supercomputer, begs Dave not to terminate him. Ironically, as I was reading the article, a car commercial came on TV, parodying that same scene to advertise its GPS. And I had only just seen the ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time a few days ago--just that one scene--so I fully appreciated his point. Talk about deja vu! Or maybe I just imagined it all...
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POPSCone of Silence? Think "spiral of silence"! Media bias takes on a whole new meaning! If mass media "knowingly" manipulates the "spiral of silence," it amounts to coercion... ya think?!!! (Hey, notice how lately the media have been saying, over and over, there's no bias--but if there is, it's unintentional.") Uh, yeah.
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POPSBarack Obama Dumps 3 Newspapers Apparently it's time for the Obama campaign to dump that tiny fraction of the media that hasn't kissed up to Obama. The NY Post, Washington Times, and Dallas Morning News were asked to leave. Like Joe the Plumber, they dared to ask a question of the Messiah...
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POPSObama's Birth Certificate Withheld Obama's visit to Grandma, which was widely touted by the press, turns out to have been a deceptive run to the courts to cover up the facts of his birth--reputed to have been in Kenya, not America...
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POPSMurtha Calls Pennsylvanians Rednecks This blogger points out that It's not enough to tag everyone as "racist" who bucks Obama the Messiah propaganda... now they're rednecks. Murtha, of Pennsylvania, labelled his own constituents that way. Ironically, blacks who refuse to support McCain are not called racists (only 3% of black support McCain). Nearly half of whites support Obama, yet whites are labelled "racists." It's the old double standard, as usual...
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POPSAlec Baldwin Praises Palin as 'Good Sport' for SNL Visit Liberal leftists have jumped on Baldwin, attacking him for supporting Sarah Palin's appearance on Saturday Night Live. Alec says she was "a good sport." Palin loved the SNL experience. She said the show was "welcoming and friendly" and "(e)veryone was so nice." Critics liked her, too.
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POPSPop Obsession With Obama 'The Messiah' America swoons in the presence of fame, and their obsession with celebrity shows in the treatment of Obama, 'The Messiah'--savior of politics, the media, and fans who faint in his presence. Was that a thrill that just went up my leg?
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POPSJustice is Blind? SEIU & ACORN Pull the Wool Over Supreme Court's Eyes... Greta Van Susteran has found interesting parallels between SEIU and ACORN. SEIU filed a brief in the Supreme Court case that decided to let Ohio's Secretary of State off the hook on the voter-fraud issue. As it turns out, Wade Rathke (of SDS, 1960s) started both groups, SEIU and ACORN. Small world, ain't it? Greta would like some help in researching this further...
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POPSSaturday Night Live Clips Have Larger Audience on 'Net Than on TV! Tina Fey parodies of Sarah Palin have picked up popularity on the Internet. More people watched the clips on-line than on TV. Saturday Night Live plans to do a new website. The trend of Internet video watching may lead to changes in advertising as video producers search for ways to capitalize on on-line videos.
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POPSWarner Brothers Block POW Film to Foil John McCain Here they go again! It is a typical of left-wing Hollywood to shamelessly promote liberal Democrats while dumping on Republicans. Here, they are withholding a Hanoi Hilton documentary that shows American POWs in a favorable light. Supposedly, they don't want to influence the election. Of course, TV had no problem airing similar documentaries that let John McCain's Hanoi tormentors to make light of McCain's POW experience.
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POPSMcCain Shows Great Sense of Humor... He's a Fun Guy! McCain had Obama and Hillary rolling in the aisles at the Alfred Smith Memorial Dinner. Obama laughed in spite of himself, and Hillary seemed to genuinely enjoy the show. Obama seemed pretty stiff in his own comedy routine. He did manage a couple of laughs, but McCain was brilliant.
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POPSAP Perhaps Worried as Obama-McCain Race Tightens As McCain rises in polls, AP must be more creative in manipulating headlines to try and favor Obama. Good old Rush points out the supreme irony of the AP hiding their own poll results deep within a story. As McCain rises in polls, the AP writes "Voters Souring..."
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POPSFact Checking McCain & Obama ABC News checked claims by both presidential candidates and found that Obama did, indeed, fill his pockets through Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. McCain benefited (much less) from those funds, too. As for earmarks? Obama requested $97.4 million in pork-barrel spending...
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POPSObama, ACORN & Voter Fraud Equal Election Theft Obama is linked to ACORN, both by his resume and financially, through his campaign, which failed to accurately report payments made to ACORN (to register voters). False registration is particularly dangerous in states that don't require voter ID.
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POPSConservatives Give More to Charity It is a pet talking point of liberals to portray conservatives as heartless--but conservatives give more to charities than liberals--regardless of income! While liberals lambast, conservatives quietly give to the needy...
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POPSACORN Fraud: False Voter Registration in Nevada ACORN, often accused of voter-registration fraud, is under investigation in Nevada for turning in fake voter registration forms. ACORN has come under scrutiny lately for receiving funds from the Obama campaign. It also made news when Democrats in Congress attempted to funnel future bailout profits into the ACORN slush fund.
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POPSFBI raids ACORN ACORN has been accused of massive voter registration fraud in various states. Now they have been raided by the FBI. Barack Obama has ties to ACORN.
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POPS$700 Billion Bailout Helps Treasury Secretary & His CEO Friends, Hurts Taxpayers In this $700 billion bailout, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has cooked up a fishy plan that has taxpayers overpaying for near-worthless paper assets, while giving banks an excuse to falsely mark up the value of that paper to make bad paper look like gold. Any capital actually gained by the banks would be illusory at best. Timing is everything. This plan does not fix anything--it simply delays the crash until AFTER the election, and it creates "the illusion of stronger financial institutions, not strengthening them." Paulson is "helping his friends" (including "Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack.") It took 150 years to make Confederate money worth a dime... Apparently alchemist Henry Paulson has found a way to do it overnight.
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POPSCollege Classes Closed Due to Gas Shortage Gosh, when I was in school, we were never this lucky! (Just kidding.) So far, I've been lucky. I happened to fill up just before this latest crunch, but I have a couple of short trips coming up, and that will eat into my gas tank. It was bad enough to be paying $4 a gallon... now I have to be glad to get it!
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POPS20% of Profit from $700 Billion Snafu Pegged for Democrats' Pet PAC! While Democrats are busy waffling between blaming the whole standoff on McCain and claiming that he contributed little to the discussion (Pelosi called his participation a "blip"), these liberals failed to mention Dodd had earmarked 20% of profits from the $700 billion bailout to go to ACORN, a liberal PAC accused of vote fraud! Ask yourself why Pelosi's so hot to push a Bush plan in the first place...
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POPSSecularism... Complete secularism: be careful what you ask for... you just may get it!
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POPSIntellectuals are fallible! Interesting--particularly the observation that intellectuals "idealize foreign ideologies because the foreign models are not seen in action." They lack the hindsight of experience of seeing the foreign ideology fail; and lack the foresight to be wary of arbitrary changes that might destabilize their own culture.
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