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 CNN reports that dozens of CIA agents were on the ground there — and that they’re being pressured to keep quiet. Why?

As Nixon learned to his sorrow, and as many have had their noses rubbed in it since, it’s not the original situation but the coverup that will get you.

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Those guys you see pumping iron? MUTANTS!

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Should that be what you want to do, of course.

The mercury-in-glass thermometer has served us well for the past 270 years, but sometimes you need something smaller — say to find the temperature inside a single living cell. Researchers at Harvard have discovered a new technique using lasers and diamond nanocrystals to measure temperatures of microscopic structures, recording temperature fluctuations as small as 0.05 Kelvin (0.09ºF) in size.

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Looks to me like a trend.

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Nothing teaches critical thinking and reinforces math skills like race baiting, right? If Mary, who is white, has five apples and John, who is not white, has two apples, how many of Mary’s apples is John entitled to take?

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Occupational licensing rules allow trade schools in some states to force students to attend them, enabling the schools to charge students lots of tuition for training that is not worth remotely what it costs. At Slate, columnist Matthew Yglesias writes that “beauty schools are ripping off their students. Terrible licensing rules deserve some of the blame.”

Economists call this ‘rent-seeking’ and it depends on special interests using the power of government to force people to do it their way. And yet people like Yglesias are always first in line when it comes to demanding more regulatory power for government. Sometimes the term ‘clueless’ is wholly inadequate….

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Based on the stories we cover at College Insurrection, bathroom use has clearly become the new civil rights battleground.

Hey, it’s not as if they’re out catching criminals or something.

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Only in America can white people organize an event intended to mock poor Southern whites, have black people crying that it’s racist against blacks, and then have white people apologizing to blacks about it.