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Move over War on Women and "internalized racism," the Left has a new catchprase: "internalized capitalism." That's the new buzzword that's being bandied about by the left over the last few months. Haven't heard of it yet? The website "Black Girl Dangerous" has this quick definition: "Because of internalized American capitalism, I accept that there is only so much love and appreciation to be handed out, and more of it will go to those who perform well. There are so few resources for people of color, period. Not to mention our vibrant intersectional identities and creative work." And, according to...

Former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Mitt Romney's top Hispanic surrogate, is calling for the Republican Party to "modernize" and embrace comprehensive immigration reform in order to survive as a national party. "We need to modernize. Modernization includes diversity. Obviously, immigration reform is part of that process of diversity," he told The Hill on Tuesday. "We are the party of growth, of business, of entrepreneurship, of innovation. We cannot continue to be that without an effective immigration policy." Gutierrez, who chaired Romney's Hispanic Steering Committee during the GOP nominee's presidential campaign, blames Romney's rightward primary shift on immigration for his loss....

SEATTLE -- If Tim Schellhardt had one wish, it would be to eradicate the word "solution" from the technology industry, if not the entire English language. "Solution" used to be a fine word. If you had a problem, you needed a solution. But now, "It's used so much in the tech industry that it's lost its meaning," laments Schellhardt, the director of editorial services for the public relations firm Ketchum in New York. These days, high-tech companies don't release products, they provide solutions. And those products - er, solutions - don't just run a program or play a song. Instead,...

Did twins doctor up doctorates with physics buzzwords? By Charles Arthur Technology Editor 09 November 2002 Is it a scientific hoax on a grand scale through the most subtle of leg-pullings? Is it important work with a deep significance? Or is it just jargon-filled research by aspirant PhDs that pressed enough buttons to be published in some scientific journals, although neither the authors or the reviewers knew what it actually meant? That's the burning question in the world of physics, where there are angry claims that Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff – 53-year-old French twins who starred in a popular science...