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The U.S. is facing a "Sputnik moment" in which it must embrace investments in research and education, President Obama will say at his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Obama, in excerpts of his speech released Tuesday evening, hearkened back to the Sputnik era, when the Russian satellite's 1957 launch set off the "space race" and a decade of intense technological development. "Half a century ago, when the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik, we had no idea how we’d beat them to the moon. The science wasn’t there yet. NASA didn’t...

The Stupidest IntellectualBy J.D. CassidyFrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2003 The following article is adapted from "Noam Chomsky and Sept. 11th," which appeared in PoliticallyRight.com.The day before Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his damning report on Iraq to the United Nations, the most despicable America-hater in all of academia— Noam Chomsky— gave an interview to the Guardian, in which he lowered his political crosshairs not on the deadly regime of Saddam Hussein but on members of the Bush Administration, whom he views as evil warmongers intent on world domination. To those familiar with Chomsky, these anti-American assertions concerning Iraq were...