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...dDepartment; 4) John Roberts; 5) the Federal Government has only the powers that the Constitution states that it has, or the states have all powers that the Federal Government does not; 6) $5.15; 7) rights that people are born with; 8) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton or John Jay; 9) Louisiana, or the Louisiana Territory; 10) Mount McKinley, or Denali
...Soldier's Story, a black military officer is investigating the murder of an unpopular black soldier near an Army base in Louisiana. Sergeant Waters, the victim, brutally compels a young black private to give up his country ways and "quit thinking like a nigger." It was a rarely seen public representation of our private interactions: the impatience some blacks have with a victim mentality. Shocking. Powerful. A message to a white populace that we are not lemmings. And that even among ourselves, we're not a single tribe...
...showed that while those contaminants pose a danger, particularly for women of childbearing age, for most people the benefits of fish outweigh the risks. Eat modest servings of fish each week--particularly salmon and bluefish--and you may reduce your risk of coronary heart disease 36%. Elsewhere, researchers at Louisiana State University reported that omega-3s can help protect cells in the retina, slowing the damage caused by such blinding diseases as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration...
...been one since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. In Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace [a short book from 2002], I stunned everybody by listing all of our military interventions in the past 200 years that were undertaken without declarations of war or even causes of war, starting in 1846 and the war against Mexico, which is the first moment the idea of empire took center stage in American affairs. As President [James] Polk said, "We've just got to have California!" Well, we got California--which the Mexicans are now quietly redeeming...
...impact than anyone else. To cite just one example, policy regarding sex trafficking, drawn up by Harvard students at the IOP, has recently served as evidence for a bill in the state legislature in Pennsylvania, and is serving as the basis for legislation to be introduced next term in Louisiana and Tennessee...