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What do Rolling Stone’s University of Virginia rape article and Senate CIA report have in common? Neither report talked to the accused. However, both also suffer from the same paralyzing component. Both reports' conclusions were determined before the facts were collected. Although each report touches on vastly different topics, they both expose a lack of unbiased critical thinking necessary for the honest, intellectual presentation of the facts. Both reports are a product of an “end justifies the means” philosophy, where the authors start with a desired conclusion and build the “facts” to support that end. Both reports are a demonstration...

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,944265,00.html   AMERICA'S families are in trouble—trouble so deep and pervasive as to threaten the future of our nation," declared a major report to last week's White House Conference on Children. "Can the family survive?...unmarried couples living together call into question the very meaning and structure of the stable family unit as our society has known it."   Hand-wringing over welfare cuts and other ‘community growth’ goodies?  No.  It was…12/28/70     http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,943113,00.html   THE Supreme Court had forbidden it, but they prayed defiantly in a school in Netcong, N.J., reading the morning invocation from the Congressional Record.…[e]verywhere, they...

While the New York Times has proven itself to be selective in it's reporting all the details about the war in Iraq, it seems to have no problem running attack ads on President Bush in regards to the same. As Bill O'Reilly reported on FOX News tonight, World Can't Wait's "next phase of the battle to drive out the Bush regime by placing a full page ad in the NY Times" ran on page A17 in the Times today The ad along with coordinated fliers make radical claims including the following: "Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is...

NDP in hot water over 'Shrub' memo Canadian Press Wednesday, July 30, 2003 Saskatchewan's plan to petition the United States to reopen borders to Canadian beef stumbled out of the gate Wednesday when an internal government document flippantly referred to U.S. President George W. Bush as "Shrub." "Re: Petition to President Shrub," is the title of the memo, dated Tuesday, and sent to NDP legislature members and candidates by party researcher Ted Bowen. The memo was sent to media outlets by mistake. "Shrub is Molly Ivins' dismissive nickname for President Bush," reads the P.S. Shrub: The Short But Happy Political...

U.S. says forces closing in, Saddam defiant By Nadim Ladki BAGHDAD, March 24 (Reuters) - A defiant President Saddam Hussein said on Monday invaders sent to topple him were trapped in Iraq after five days of war, but the U.S. commander of the invasion said his forces were closing in fast on Baghdad. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said advance units were just 60 miles (90 km) south of the Iraqi capital and predicted that a critical battle of the war was fast approaching. U.S. General Tommy Franks described Iraqi resistance as "sporadic" and said his forces were intentionally skirting...

Born in 1917 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, I was left a virtual orphan by the death of my mother when I was only one year old. Brought to West Virginia by my aunt and uncle to be reared as their own, I grew up in various communities in the bituminous coalfields, mastering life's early lessons and learning its duties as a miner's son, and graduating as valedictorian of my high school class in the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Unable at the time to afford college tuition, I sought employment wherever I found an opportunity --...