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America as Captured on Canvas
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2004
An extraordinary exhibition of one of the foremost private collections ever assembled brings to life a vibrant nation through its captivating people and breathtaking landscapes.
 
Brown vs. Board of Education: Celebrating a Half-Century of Hope Rev. Otis Moss Jr.
Category: Education Published: November 2004
"The decision made apartheid, segregation, Jim Crowism, and racism in public education illegal," and, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "was a joyous daybreak after a long and desolate midnight." by Rev. Otis Moss, Jr.
 
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors
Category: Focus on Nature Published: November 2004
This is "a fascinating and fun exhibition that explores the incredible diversity of this important group of amphibians which has been roaming the Earth for more than 200,000,000 years, at least as long as the dinosaurs."
 
How Political Ignorance Threatens Democracy Ilya Somin
Category: American Thought Published: November 2004
"Voters are [uninformed] not just about specific policy issues, but about the basic structure of government and how it operates."
 
Journalism's High-Tech Revolution Ann Compton
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2004
"Since the day I first walked up the [White House] driveway as a novice ABC News correspondent in December, 1974, a technological boom has made news faster and more accessible than ever before." by Ann Compton
 
Life at the End of the Reaganomics Rainbow George Gilder
Category: Economics Published: November 2004
High tax rates don't stop someone from being rich. Wealthy individuals move their money to protected havens. High tax rates stop poor people from getting rich & entrepreneurs from supplying goods & services that generate wealth, jobs, value & tax revenue.
 
Medicare Cuts Endanger Hemophilia Sufferers Jeff Elliott
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2004
"From every indication, there is no way that the administrative fees they are proposing are going to come close to covering the level of services that has been received by individuals with hemophilia in the past."
 
Setting the Record Straight Concerning Low Voter Turnout John Samples
Category: Life in America Published: November 2004
"No justification exists for limiting the rights of citizens to donate to campaigns or fund political advertising as a way to promote" people going to the polls.
 
The Death Penalty as Delineated by the Old Testament Robert Blecker
Category: The World Yesterday Published: November 2004
From Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel to Noah and the Flood to Abraham and Sodom to Moses and the Ten Commandments, Biblical passages trace the roots for how modern society deals with the execution of killers.
 
The President and the Terrorist: Does George W. Bush Have Business Ties to Osama bin Laden? Marc Umile
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2004
Isn't it a concern that George H.W. Bush, having traveled the world soliciting business for a giant defense contractor with deep ties to Saudi sheiks who funded Al Qaeda ... May have been whispering into the ear of his son to wage a global war on terror?
 
The Quandary Over Mental Illness Richard E. Vatz
Category: Psychology Published: November 2004
"For the vast majority of untoward behaviors labeled as mental illness, [some critics of psychiatry contend] that they are freely chosen behaviors for which the agent must take responsibility. . . ."
 
The U.S.'s Befuddled Approach to the War on Terrorism John L. Scherer
Category: Worldview Published: November 2004
The Capitol was evacuated and an F-16 jet fighter was deployed to gun down a stray plane that had wandered into restricted air space over Washington, D.C. It turns out the aircraft was carrying the governor of Kentucky. By John L. Scherer