Mitt Romney’s struggle to win the hearts of his party was encapsulated in a photo shared on Twitter this week by his son Tagg. It showed Romney and his wife Ann doing laundry in a hotel basement, with Romney wearing a starched shirt and jeans. Tagg captioned the image with “Nothing like the glamorous life […]
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Since the end of World War II, the UK’s major civil airports have been run by the Ministry of Aviation. In 1966, Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick were grouped together and run by the British Airports Authority (BAA) under the chairmanship of Sir Peter Masefield. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen airports were later added, and Southampton
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James Madison, one of the founding fathers of the United States, warned in a speech to the Virginia Convention on June 16, 1788, that “there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” This warning appears
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Last week, the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, Tories and Labour, declared their support for genetically modified (GM) food crops, a move that surprised and dismayed many. However, the decision should not have come as a shock, as Professor Maurice Moloney, director of Rothamstead Research in the UK – the world’s largest
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The issue of genetically modified organism (GMO) corn and its byproducts has recently become a subject of heated debate. In particular, the European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the MIR162 Agrisure Viptera corn gluten feed, produced by Swiss group Syngenta and approved for cultivation in the US in 2010, but not yet approved in
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As the US prepares to withdraw its troops from Iraq, there are 3,400 Iranian refugees living in Camp Ashraf who are in danger of being killed. Iraqi troops and Iranian secret police constantly harass and attack the camp, and earlier this spring a coordinated attack left 36 refugees dead and more than 350 injured. The
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Jon Stewart recently made a historic appearance on FOX News Sunday, hosted by Chris Wallace. Stewart had previously been invited to the show by Wallace, who had appeared on The Daily Show multiple times. During the episode, the two discussed a series of emails leaked to Media Matters for America from FOX News executive Bill
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has kept the world guessing as to whether the Catholic Church will fully support genetically modified organisms. On November 30th, 2020, 40 international scientists, including seven Pontifical Academy members, released a statement calling for a relaxation of what they deemed “excessive, unscientific regulations” for approving GM crops. The scientists argued
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