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Jonah Goldberg (May 25, 2012)
Jack Andraka, a 15-year-old kid from Maryland, just won the world's largest high school science competition by creating a new test for pancreatic cancer, one of the nastiest...
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David Malcolm (May 25, 2012)
In Hawthorne, California, birthplace of the Beach Boys and just minutes south of Los Angeles International Airport, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is making the...
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Carrie Lukas (May 08, 2012)
Young Americans face tough times: Record-breaking youth unemployment—including for those with college degrees—and high levels of debt from student loans have left millions...
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Jonah Goldberg (May 03, 2012)
"They do that because they were born that way."
If you say that about homosexuals, you are tolerant and realistic. If you say it about blacks, you are racist (unless...
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Cliff May (Apr 19, 2012)
“The fax shall make you free.”
Albert Wohlstetter, the great Cold War strategist, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, said that back in 1990. He was right: The...
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Jacob Sullum (Apr 18, 2012)
If you are reading this column online at work, you may be committing a federal crime. Or so says the Justice Department, which reads the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)...
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Nicole Neily (Apr 10, 2012)
Children learn that April showers bring May flowers. For farmers around the world, however, May flowers are affected by other factors as well, such as weather, disease, and...
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Matt Towery (Apr 05, 2012)
When I was a kid, we dreamt about someday owning a "flying car" like the ones we saw in cartoons. Back in those days, I also heard my dad warn that "someday we will have...
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Suzanne Fields (Mar 30, 2012)
The Internet is the latest tool for compassionate activism. When the sights of Angelina Jolie's leg goes viral, she magnifies her female celebrity by focusing attention on...
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Rich Galen (Mar 16, 2012)
Today, at 8 AM local time, the Apple iPad (colloquially, but not officially, known as the iPad 3) goes on sale at the hundreds of Apple stores in the US and overseas, plus...
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 09, 2012)
There's a great scene in the movie "The Right Stuff" where the original Mercury astronauts are checking out the capsule for their first trips to space. They're horrified to...
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Paul Greenberg (Feb 29, 2012)
It was big news last fall. Not just nationally or internationally but for the universe.
The eminent scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
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Rachel Alexander (Jan 26, 2012)
Congress is supposed to represent the interests of everyone. But what happens when powerful special interests contribute heavily to lawmakers’ election campaigns? Last week...
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Cal Thomas (Jan 05, 2012)
President Obama's decision in 2010 to cut NASA's budget and abandon the Constellation program, established by the Bush administration, which was charged with returning...
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Cal Thomas (Jan 03, 2012)
A friend of mine hands me what looks like a business card. It says, "Don't Die Stupid." As America begins another round of voting to select the next president, or retain the...
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Suzanne Fields (Dec 30, 2011)
This is the week that pits the old fogies against the rising generations in determining "what's in" for 2012 and "what's out" for 2011. Fashion and political opinions have...
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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown (Dec 03, 2011)
If you are like us, every day you pick up a smartphone and you send email, visit with friends on Facebook, send a text message or even log into your bank's website and pay a...
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Paul Greenberg (Oct 03, 2011)
You could almost feel the fear emanating from the official statement/caveat issued by the director of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Its scientists,...
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Rachel Alexander (Sep 28, 2011)
Owners of popular conservative websites have increasing reason to be concerned their sites may be hacked or otherwise physically attacked for political reasons....
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Jeff Jacoby (Sep 27, 2011)
Bill Clinton declared last week that Americans "look like a joke" because leading Republican presidential contenders decline to embrace the agenda of the global-warming...
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