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Arizona Decides Enough Is Enough Rob Argento
Category: Immigration Reform Published: July 2010
"Arizona completely is within its rights under the Tenth Amendment to act where the Feds have failed--and, indeed, it merely is a matter of practicality that the state enforces the law here."
 
Baseball's Enduring Images Recall Its Storied History Susan Reyburn
Category: Athletic Arena Published: July 2010
The Library of Congress is the keeper of American memory, as the collective fragments of our national pastime are carefully catalogued and painstakingly preserved.
 
Doubling Down on Disaster James T.B. Tripp
Category: Environmentalism Published: July 2010
". . . The ongoing land loss in the Mississippi Delta is just as much of an environmental and economic calamity as the current BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. Keeping the wetlands clear of oil does not do any good if they ultimately are los to the sea."
 
Dreaming of Eternal Life
Category: The World Yesterday Published: July 2010
The world's largest-ever traveling exhibition of mummies--including a child 3,000 years older than King Tut--comes to America's shores.
 
First They Juiced the Ball--Now It's the Players Victor A. Baltov Jr
Category: American Thought Published: July 2010
"Baseball no longer is a sport that provides entertainment, but entertainment that happens to be a sport--much to the detriment of the country."
 
How Does the U.S. Economy Stack Up? Murray Weidenbaum
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2010
It would be helpful if the public, as well as governmental decisionmakers, would take more enlightened positions on the vital role of private enterprise, especially companies involved heavily in international trade and investment.
 
Military Might Comes with a Price Murray Weidenbaum
Category: Economics Published: July 2010
". . . The uncertain and dangerous world in which we live requires a serious rethinking of the tendency of the last half-century to reduce the portion of the nation's resources and, specifically, of the government's budget devoted to national defense."
 
Mining High Hopes from the Baseball Diamond Craig Daliessio
Category: Life in America Published: July 2010
A homeless victim of the recession recounts how the words of Philadelphia Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas saved his life.
 
New ID Technology's Role in Pinpointing Potential Threats Sebastian Thaler
Category: Science & Technology Published: July 2010
What good is a Federal government-issued "no-fly" list, critics rightfully ask, if it fails to keep those on the list from boarding planes?
 
Rock On!
Category: USA Yesterday Published: July 2010
Colorful music makes for colorful posters during the Psychedelic '60s.
 
Stop Strawberry Citizenship Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Immigration Reform Published: July 2010
"There is a lot of posturing about needing illegal immigrants because they will perform jobs Americans will not. That assertion is insulting."
 
The Case for Auditing the Federal Reserve Bank Is Obvious Arnold Kling
Category: Business & Finance Published: July 2010
"The results . . . would go a long way toward answering the ultimate question about the Fed's actions: Did it make the overall economic situation better than it would have been otherwise?"
 
The Coming Constitutional Debate Stephen Markman
Category: Law & Justice Published: July 2010
"Proponents of a '21st century constitution' or 'living constitution' aim to transform our national supreme law beyond recognition--and with a minimum of public attention and debate."
 
The President Needs to Invoke the Constitution's Wartime Provisions Andrew C. McCarthy
Category: Law & Justice Published: July 2010
"How do we get from the decisive actions of [Andrew] Jackson, [Abraham] Lincoln, and [Franklin] Roosevelt to the Obama Administration's stunning mislandling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab?"
 
The Race to Save the World's Great Apes Michael Cranfield , Linda Lowenstine
Category: Ecology Published: July 2010
". . . As more and more humans encroach on the mountain gorillas' habitat with agriculture, logging, and other developments, the animals' options are dwindling."
 
What's That Sound? Mark Shwartz
Category: Ecology Published: July 2010
". . . Low-frequency calls . . . Generate powerful vibrations in the ground--seismic signals that elephants can feel, and even interpret, via their sensitive trunks and feet."
 
Working to Be a Model Citizen Molly Sims
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2010
". . . It's not about how much you have or how big you are; It's about whay you do. . . . United, we can end malaria."
 
Yesterday's Modern Woman
Category: Museums Today Published: July 2010
The French Masters' tale pm the fairer sex--19th century style. . . .