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By Dick McDonald Barack Hussein Obama is socialism and communism’s perfect front man – a stealth candidate flying under the radar. The man has left no record of his beliefs. He has not written one single opinion piece in school or in legislative halls – he has merely voted present. You get the feeling that he has been running for President his entire life which apparently he has – that was the theme of his first two essays in grammar school. The man hides his alliances and calls them casual and meaningless “associations”. His first mentor Frank is Frank...

Published January 22, 2006 [ From the Lansing State Journal ] Mexican painting has both Christian, Aztec influencesUnearthed mural shows melding of cultures(Photo by Associated Press) Flying into view: This image of a bird is part of the 16-yard-long mural at an excavation in Mexico City. By Mark Stevenson Associated Press Salvador Guilliem dangles on a narrow beam over the sunken remains of a mural painted by Indians shortly after the Spanish conquest. Guilliem, an archaeologist, points out the newly excavated red, green and ochre flourishes in one of the earliest paintings to show the mixing of the two cultures....

Language influences the way you think Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too, according to a new study. Researchers used a cartoon featuring black and white cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected in the gestures people made. Dr Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol's Department of Experimental Psychology, showed the cartoon to a group of native English, Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the action they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to depict the...