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Intensive, high-profile Special Operations medical training unit gains new commander

July 6, 2010

By Dave Chace USAJFKSWCS Public Affairs Office Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Csrnko passes the guidon for the Special Warfare Medical Group to incoming commander Col. Robert Lutz June 17 at the JFK Plaza, Fort Bragg, N.C.  SWMG is responsible for the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center that trains special operation medical personnel from the [...]

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Beloit College Class of 2012 Mindset List has been released

August 22, 2008

Beloit College’s Class of 2012 Mindset List has been released. It’s a list of things that incoming freshmen – most of whom were born in 1990 – are familiar with, but things they also don’t know or comprehend. For example, Harry Potter could very well be one of their classmates, the Class of 2012 Mindset List notes.

The list was started by Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, providing insight into the life and realities — as they exist — for incoming freshmen. It provides cultural touchstones that shape the lives of the incoming students, sometimes making it easier for a professor to understand why some students don’t grasp course content. one such example, for which I must be an exception, is this year’s item #20.

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Where’s everyone hiding in Philly?

July 14, 2008

This past weekend, it seemed as though every news outlet in the nation was busy hammering on Philly yet again. This time it was over a recently released Census Bureau report, showing Philadelphia had the largest percentage population loss over the past seven (7) years than any other major city in the United States, including Detroit.

Looking at all major cities in the U.S., Philadelphia is estimated to have lost more residents since the last U.S. Census – from 2000 and 2007 – than any other city in the country, with the exception of New Orleans, which was devastated in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, according to estimates recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Brownback cheers about Senate approval of apology to American Indians

February 18, 2008

Words. Nothing but words is what it comes down to from U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) who is cheering about the U.S. Senate passing an apology, tacked on to the Indian Health Bill, that was approved last week.

Mere words, nothing else, yet Brownback thinks the forked tongue the White Man, let alone politicians, are known to have, is going to help restore the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. Don’t make me laugh.

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New Jersey took the forgive-us plunge

January 10, 2008

Well, as many people expected, the politicos running the State of New Jersey took the “forgive us” plunge by making an official proclamation to apologize for its history with slavery.

Sure, New Jersey did many stupid things in its history, including standing against the Emancipation Proclamation, as well as being the last state in the United States to abolish slavery, but this apology — for something more than 143 years old — is loonier than Looney Tunes.

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Boy angry because he couldn’t wear dress to prom

December 19, 2007

Kevin Logan wanted to go to his Gary, Indiana, high school prom last year, but when he showed up at the door in a pink dress, West Side High School officials told him to nix the dress or go home.

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