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In light of the rocky relationship between the U.S. and communist China, perhaps we should add ‘free trade’ to the list of dangerous foreign policy bywords.

The Social Security Trust fund is steamrolling towards bankruptcy, yet the majority of Americans do not fully comprehend the future crisis of today’s working generation.

Heated comparisons between the Iraq and Vietnam wars have often been used by public officials ranging from Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Nebr.) to prove that America must simply ‘pull out’ from its doomed attempts at nation-building in the Middle East. However, a variation of the Vietnam model may actually enhance our military’s ability to counteract the Iraqi insurgency by providing useful data-collection models, the lessons of which can be applied to the Iraq war.

Though the mainstream media has kept the facts well-hidden, and Hollywood would proclaim otherwise, global warming skeptics not only exist, but they are plentiful in number. Furthermore, a fair number of the skeptics are scientists and experts in meteorology, and some are even converted Kyoto supporters.

Following the failure of the recently proposed Immigration Reform Bill, the national debate continues to echo throughout the various echelons of society on the future of the problem in America.

The July 2007 Immigration Bill brought along with it unexpected levels of controversy and public interest.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP), a conservative Islamic party in Turkey, expanded its electoral lead in the July 22, 2007 elections by 13% over its 2002 levels, garnering 47% of the popular vote.

This July, Washington Post writer Marc Kaufman championed a two-year Global Warming study by the Union of Concerned Scientists in his article, “Study: Inaction on Warming Will Be Disruptive, Costly.” The study, which the author obviously supports, makes sweeping pronouncements about the global Armageddon to come.

When awake, trustees on university boards tend to be more Republican than professors.

In anticipation of the upcoming academic year, two State universities plan to install foot baths in their public restrooms, funded with tax money.

In the last few months, a series of reports about the looming dangers of products from Communist China has sparked a public outcry against compromised foreign safety standards.

With the recent revelation that the Department of Defense cannot locate more than 50,000 containers, concerns about the government’s ability to equip soldiers on the battlefield prompted Senators Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and George Voinovich (R-OH) to call the fourth senate hearing on DoD supply-chain management since 2005.