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Minus Rapture
Read more: Minus RaptureElon Musk evaluates a SpaceX launch with Donald Trump in 2024. Little did the world then know Musk would be appointed a “special government employee” in charge of efficiency, instead slashing USAID and other programs. Inventor-turned-wrecking ball Elon Musk is a sick man. This he may not even know, since…
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Too close for comfort
Read more: Too close for comfortOn its way from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, American Eagle Flight 5342, a regional jetliner (like the one shown here), collided with a military helicopter and fell into the Potomac. There were no survivors from this Jan. 29, 2025, crash. Long, long ago, before security became a national obsession as…
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New Age dinosaurs
Read more: New Age dinosaursTyrannosaurus rex chicks after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago experienced a deep freeze that likely lasted decades. Artist’s rendering © James McKay, Creative Commons In a clever but ominous piece of reporting, London’s Financial Times suggested that by the year 2100, the wine regions of Europe as they…
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Joe and Elon
Read more: Joe and ElonAs the chair of two powerful Senate committees, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin, seen in a March 1950 subcommittee hearing, was well positioned to make unfounded complaints about the supposed Communist infiltration of the U.S. State Department, stirring up a second “Red Scare.” Those who consider the wrecking ball duo of…
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Before New Orleans
Read more: Before New OrleansFormer Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, left, differentiated himself from other politicians of the time by dialing down post-9/11 military-themed rhetoric on the “war” on terror. In the poker game of psychological warfare on which terrorism depends, the September 11 plotters cleaned out the house. In attacks greater than the human…
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So help me God
Read more: So help me GodWhen hope goes dark, what’s a heaven for? Italy long ago backed away from Catholicism as its state religion, but the faith remains fundamentally important, even in the practice of medicine. And Italian medical culture can differ so dramatically from that which is standard in Anglo-Saxon nations as to seem…
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