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By Hobbes | Dec 24, 2007 |
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It is claimed that this boat runs on biodiesel made form the crew's fat and that it is carbon-neutral. But how is that calculated?
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By Hobbes | Dec 17, 2007 |
5
Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.
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By Hobbes | Nov 14, 2007 |
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The issue of illegal immigration cuts so deeply to the very heart of what America is and who Americans are, that for a potential President of the United States to decline an opinion on the subject is totally unacceptable.
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By Hobbes | Oct 26, 2007 |
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It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.
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By Hobbes | Oct 16, 2007 |
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It does seem slightly odd that the famous Nobel Peace Prize should go to someone who is famous, more or less, for talking loudly.
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By Virginia Fox | Oct 15, 2007 |
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What is not acceptable, what is a non-starter, is the notion that we can dispense with the law.
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By Pukka Sahib | Oct 12, 2007 |
1
Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.
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By Virginia Fox | Oct 9, 2007 |
0
I stood on the bridge; I stood right there on the bridge looking down at the Rio Grande River, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a Mexican gentleman who had started himself a ferryboat service.
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By Hobbes | Oct 1, 2007 |
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Inspecting IDs is a waste of time and money, but it's ideal from the bureaucratic point of view because it doesn't solve the problem.
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By Pukka Sahib | Aug 31, 2007 |
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Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.