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How Bad Is the Oil Spill? Ask the Pelicans

As a professional ornithologist, I am called to ponder the calamity now gushing forth in the Gulf of Mexico. Its most unnerving feature is that we cannot begin to estimate how far-reaching its biological effects will be, let alone the scale of its economic impacts. The most essential facts are …

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School Choice Missing In Obama's Address

Students and teachers at Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School began the school year with the ultimate back-to-school pep rally on Tuesday. President Obama delivered a speech to students at the highly-ranked Philadelphia magnet school, which was named a 2010 national “Blue Ribbon School.” Last year, the president delivered …

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A Platform for Terrorists

It is amazing that the Obama administration can continue to be so blind to the fact that the terror trials in New York will be used as a forum to spread hatred for the U.S. around the world. Don’t they recognize that these trials may spur further attacks against us? …

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