Boris Johnson, a champion of free trade and lower taxes, will serve as the next prime minister of the UK beginning on Wednesday, July 24. Officials announced on Tuesday that Johnson won 66.4 percent of the Conservative Party’s popular vote, besting rival Jeremy Hunt 92,153 votes to 46,656. In his victory speech, Johnson thanked his opponent, Jeremy Hunt,
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“Graham Allison (China expert and Harvard professor) knows of a Shanghai deputy mayor who says he looks forward to the day when every upper-middle class family in Shanghai has an American house-boy.” – Aaron Sarin Every once in a great while an online article will reach out from the screen of my laptop, grab me
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Political correctness has now conquered beauty pageants. On July 18th, Kathy Zhu was suddenly stripped of her Miss Michigan crown. Subsequently, she was disqualified from competing in Las Vegas for the Miss World America Organization (MWA) competition. Why? For “offensive” Tweets that date back to over a year ago. Based on those tweets, MWA’s National
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For three years, the pair scrimped and saved in order to fix up the four-unit property. On the weekends, Ramouldo would spend his days off making the 11-hour drive from New Jersey to Michigan to work on the house, making the much-needed repairs himself. In addition to the small complex, the family had purchased a
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This past weekend the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was, for those too young to recall, the first time any nation put humans on an alien world. It was an amazing feat of engineering, ingenuity, and courage. And it happened just eight years and 56 days after President
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There has been a great disturbance in the force, like a million chirpy robot voices crying out for owners. In every day terms, we are facing what Wired terms “the second coming of robot pets.” This surge in companion robots is exemplified in a cutesy little bot called Kiki, whose appeal (beyond being utterly adorable)
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