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Bill Kristol’s performance yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday was sub-par. His “je ne sais quoi” was missing and his answers were rote. It was almost as if he was reading from a script. Watch as he seems to struggle to remember his “lines”:

Dacher Keltner a professor of psychology at Berkeley and coeditor of Greater Good in the May/June issue of the UTNE Reader writes:

The wage-gap continues.

Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street’s rarefied realms.

The Museum's Annual Benefit Auctions will be held on Wednesday, April 23; Thursday, April 24; and Friday, April 25. The SILENT AUCTION will be held from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. on Friday in the Newsstand on the 2nd floor of the Executive Inn Convention Center. Different items including fabrics, notions, textile items and quilts will be available each day!

Cascade avoided any notions of revenge for Moore County, shutting down the Raiderettes 5-0 in non-district action in Wartrace. The Lady Champions ruined Moore County's home opener with a...

With Confirmation, Busy D.'s birthday, graduation (Mah, baby! Goin' to high school in a few short months!), camp registration, etc. coming up, we're generating a lot more important papers than usual, lately.

Sometimes? We're not so good with the 'portant papers.

Here we are, in 2008, at the precipice of a new America. A new country where we can move beyond the racial divides of past, move beyond the horrors of slavery, move beyond the history of segregation and disenfranchisement. Much has been made recently of my pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose inflammatory rhetoric which has rightfully upset a nation.

There is much I admire about the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Sure, it’s one dimensional, but her emphasis on individual liberty was worthy of respect. It’s not necessarily pro-virtue, but it is pro-liberty.

However, personally Ayn Rand was a rather bizarre and contradictory figure. For a philosopher who espoused such radical notions of individualism, she sure demanded conformity from her followers. This predictably created a quasi-religion around Rand in which she is seen as so