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Armies of ants are doing an important job in New York, by keeping the city’s streets clean. Researchers have calculated that on just one stretch of Broadway they could be removing the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs, or 600,000 potato crisps, a year. A team from North Carolina State University put three commonly dropped foods – …
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For years many Democrats have wondered why poor and middle class Americans vote against their economic interests, especially in the country’s poorest states like West Virginia. Race, guns and religion play their part, but the issue of jobs is the main factor. Or more specifically, the fear of losing those jobs. Earlier in the year …
“I’m not sure I’d dare admit this in print if I were a young man just embarking on a media career, but I’m 58, so here goes: I believe that a “heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman, preferably married to one another, are – other things being equal – the best parents”. This belief shouldn’t …
32% of British taxpayers believe it’s acceptable to legally avoid paying tax. 66% think authorities should name people who have been forced to pay back tax they have avoided. 66% believe the tax authorities treat rich offenders more leniently than other offenders. (YouGov/The Sunday Times) Tax is the cost of living in a liveable country. We should be glad that …
A joint Navy SEAL /Green Beret exercise was organised in Texas and ofher States. Texan extremist conspiracy theorists took this to be the long-expected Obama move to put Texas under martial law. Texans have loaded weapons at home to guard against this expected move. Governor Greg Abbott, pandering to these nut-cases, actually ordered the Texas …
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