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One can't help but look at how the Brits have dealt with the recent attacks on their citizenry and think, This is how it should be done. London Police Nab 7 More in Blasts Probe: Police arrested seven people in...

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Why do I get the impression that the New York Times would characterize any organization that isn't part of the MoveOn/Soros wing of the Democratic party as "an organization of hard-line conservatives"?...

Ask What You Can Do To Get To Mars

If God had meant for man to fly in space, he would have given him a brain to figure out how to build and navigate spaceships! Now, that THAT issue is settled, the Chief strongly believes that we need to be pushing ourselves into that great beyond.

For many years people have asked the ever so important question, "Why Mars - why should we go to Mars?" For every individual who ponders this question there is a unique response. There is no correct answer to the conundrum and there is no single best answer either. Everyone must challenge their own intellect and form their own opinions on why, or why not, which brings about the focus of this rant. The driving question for those of us already dedicated to human space exploration should not be "Why Mars", but rather "What?" Mars. As in, what will you do to help set the human race on the path to Mars? It is as cliché as "everyone has to do their part" and as direct as John F. Kennedy?s famous speech "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

It's a universal principle that anything that exists is either expanding and growing, or else it is contracting and dying. This applies to humanity as well as anything else. We need to be moving along...if we don't we will surely go down the tubes.

Mars is a goal worthy of only the greatest efforts that we as a civilization can offer. We cannot garner the social, political and economic momentum on the blind faith of assured success alone. We cannot fly to Mars "on the wings of love," or even fuel our rockets with hopes and dreams. Instead, it is by the sweat of our brow, the ache of our muscles and the drive of our will that we have always blazed the trail of exploration, and will continue to do so in the future.

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They won't ever have a chance to do it again. Police swooped down on a posh London neighborhood and traced cell phone calls across Europe to a Rome hide-out Friday, netting the remaining suspects in the failed transit bombings without...

Now Schuldt correctly points out that the Domenici Amendment was related to ethanol only and was not the Energy bill. I stand corrected. And isn?t ethanol what South Dakota was most interested in? And Daschle couldn?t get it passed on...

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