Las Vegas is a city where tourists are welcome to wander certain streets with open bottles of alcohol, where the phone books contain hundreds of color page ads for escorts and where gambling is so ubiquitous that slot machines appear in most 7-Elevens.
Yet the City Council is now zeroing in on halting a new public menace: Hula-Hoops.
Arkansas, Indiana, Delaware, North Dakota
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http://thesoapboxroadshow.blogspot.com/2010/08/dems-will-lose-at-least-4-senate-seats.html
Here then, are a few stranger than fiction� real stories that inspired the fairy tales as we know them today.
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http://www.weirdworm.com/5-fairy-tales-based-in-fact/
>...Like Climategate, the public policy debate over hESCR (human embryonic stem cell research) has shown that scientists are not always disinterested parties..
Rather, scientists can be every bit as political and partisan as the politicians, selectively using scientific "evidence" to justify their ideological viewpoint.....>>
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/playing_politics_with_stem_cel.html
Why couldn't we have had the EPA in the Great Depression? If they had issued their proposed "No dust" regs in 1930, we would have been spared the decade of human suffering from sustained drought and agricultural devastation in the Dust Bowl.
Of course John Steinbeck wouldn't have had a reason to write The Grapes of Wrath.....>>
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/so_long_to_the_dusty_trail.html
To note that the United States is the richest country on the planet is a bit of an understatement.
We can take the economies Japan, China, and Germany, combine their gross domestic product totals, and the U.S. still has more wealth. But how we decide to use or not use our wealth, particularly in times of economic distress, can boggle the mind.
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http://progressivenation.us/2010/08/08/all-of-this-in-the-wealthiest-country-on-earth/
Gay marriage advocates are becoming increasingly frustrated with President Barack Obama
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http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=6182&MediaType=1&Category=25
