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Associated Press -- The United States last week became the world's first nation of 200 accredited law schools, as the American Bar Association gave provisional approval to two North Carolina institutions.In other countries, it's much harder to become a lawyer. In the United States, the doors are open and getting wider. The (Read More)
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MOSCOW -- Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum announced it has made a major oil discovery in Russia's north Caspian Sea. The discovery was made during exploratory drilling on the Morskaya-1 well on the Lagansky block, which has estimated reserves of more than 800 million barrels of oil. "This is a world class oil discover (Read More)
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Economic theory predicts that rent control laws will result in these effects (from the Gwartney textbook):1. Shortages and black markets will develop for housing.2. The future supply of housing will decline.3. The quality of housing will deteriorate.4. Non-price methods of rationing housing will increase in importance (disc (Read More)
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IBD: Alaska was bought by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 specifically to ensure a supply of natural resources. How do Alaskans feel about the opposition from politicians representing the lower 48 to drilling for oil there?Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: Alaskans are frustrated because there is opposition in Congress to developin (Read More)
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For years, people have beaten down the doors to work at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart's more than 1.3 million American employees aren't stupid. The company's wages and fringe benefits -- including health care coverage and retirement benefits -- are comparable to those of other retailers.Wal-Mart pays as well as Target, according to Ch (Read More)
History News Network :
Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University, and the author, most recently, of Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents. His other books include: Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady and Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. He is a member of the advisory boar (Read More)
History News Network :
It is impossible to ignore the recent growth of the U.S. undocumented migrant population, which has almost tripled over the space of the past fifteen years.1 According to recent estimates, the annual flow of undocumented migrants into the U.S. is on par with the number of migrants who are granted legal permanent residence.2 (Read More)
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This blog is run by Rick Shenkman, the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008). Mr. Shenkman, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History News N (Read More)
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Many of us will hoist a glass of bubbly and nibble a plate of paté in a Gallic eatery today in a misty-eyed hommage to Bastille Day -- that heart-warming moment in 1789 when a mob stormed a near-empty prison, butchered the warden despite promises of safe passage, then liberated all seven prisoners (four forgers, two lunatic (Read More)
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There have been few problems within contemporary Catholicism that arouse such passions as the subject of Eugenio Pacelli, known to history as Pope Pius XII (1876-1958). Pacelli has been the center of a storm since 1963. In that year Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy opened in Germany. His scathing summation of Pacell (Read More)
History News Network :
My new book is not a conventional history book. It combines solid history with fiction. Having studied and taught about the Black Death for more than thirty years I wanted to find a new way of adding to our knowledge and understanding of this massively important but very well-worked historical event. I therefore decid (Read More)
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As one of the few pro-U.S. and pro-Israel voices in thefield of Middle East studies, I find my views get frequently mangled by othersin the field – thus I have had to post a 5,000-word document titled “Departmentof Corrections (of Others' Factual Mistakes about Me)” on my website. Usually, the precise evol (Read More)
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T. Boone Pickens -- As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount of money we send to foreign nations every year is soaring. At current oil prices, we will send $700 billion dollars out of the country this year alone — that's four times the annual cost of the Iraq war.Projected over the next 10 years the cost will be $1 (Read More)
The Masked Millionaire :
I asked a random group of people: What makes them happy?
Here is the Best of the Happy List:
When my wife tells me that she is not in the mood to go shopping (that makes me very HAPPY!!) This is the only one from The Masked Millionaire
My dogs playing with each other
My neighbor who is a celtic fiddler and who practices o (Read More)