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My 97 year olf mother passed on recently. I am going through many old photos etc. I have blocked out name and number of my father who was a WWII Vet. Has anyone seen this gov't issue copper social security card before?

An honest question fro Trump supporters

Just a sampling of how bad polls were lately. Incredible. Cruz typically outperformed polls by 6 to 20 points. OKLAHOMAActual Results: Cruz 34, Trump 28, Rubio 26. (Cruz +6 over Trump) Sooner/News 9: Trump 34, Rubio 21, Cruz 18 (Trump +16 over Cruz. Off by 22) Survey Monkey: Trump 34, Rubio 19, Cruz 19 (Off by 21) Monmouth: Trump 35, Cruz 23, Rubio 22 (Off by 18) The Oklahoman: Trump 29, Rubio 21, Cruz 20 (Off by 15) TEXASActual Results: Cruz 44, Trump 27 (Cruz +17 over Trump) Survey Monkey: Cruz 33, Trump 31 (Cruz +2 over Trump. Off by...

Evolution Is Practically Useless, Admits Darwinist    08/30/2006   Supporters of evolution often tout its many benefits.  They claim it helps research in agriculture, conservation and medicine (e.g., 01/13/2003, 06/25/2003).  A new book by David Mindell, The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life (Harvard, 2006) emphasizes these practical benefits in hopes of making evolution more palatable to a skeptical society.  Jerry Coyne, a staunch evolutionist and anti-creationist, enjoyed the book in his review in Nature,1 but thought that Mindell went overboard on “Selling Darwin” with appeals to pragmatics: To some extent these excesses are not Mindell’s fault, for, if...