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The very oldest men are still interested in sex but illness and a lack of opportunity may be holding them back, Australian researchers reported on Monday.

In New York state, contrary to gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan, the rent is not too damn high. It's actually too damn low in most places -- and that fact reflects the state's true problems. McMillan created a sensation at this week's gubernatorial debate with his handlebar mustache and his incessant repetition of his slogan about rents being too high. Although McMillan is evasive about his own rent (The Post reported yesterday that he pays $800 a month for a Brooklyn one-bedroom), news accounts and typical "voter in the street" interviews suggest many people approve of McMillan's gripes that rents are...

It’s odd but no so odd at the same time. By now, many people expect to walk into a beauty supply store and see a Korean store owner manning the register. Whether you’re in the suburbs of Houston or on MLK Blvd in Anytown, USA, you know what to expect. And yet, walking down a street in a Black neighborhood with Black residents and Black customers buzzing about the retail shops, that image of the few Koreans in the neighborhood only existing behind the cash register of liquor, beauty supply and other retail shops is still perplexing.

Is the American Dream getting smaller? Are we defining down the tools of opportunity and the pleasures of prosperity? President Obama's flippant dismissal of American Exceptionalism last year stirred a lot of criticism because it suggested he did not believe the United States held a special place in the world. It also suggested America's unique history is, to the President, no big deal. Now with fellow travelers exercising power at all levels of government, progressives can do more than just belittle the idea of American Exceptionalism. They can enact policies to make America unexceptional -- diminishing our quality of life...

After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

For Republicans, the Road Map authored by congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is the most important proposal in domestic policy since Ronald Reagan embraced supply side economics in the 1980 presidential campaign. ItÂ’s not only the freshest, boldest, and most comprehensive Republican thinking, itÂ’s also the most relevant. If Republicans adopt the Road Map as their basic ideological blueprint, it offers them the prospect of a landslide in the midterm election this year, followed by victory in the presidential election in 2012. For sure, thatÂ’s a lot of weight for a policy statement drafted by a 40-year-old House member to...

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NOTE The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-and-president-medvedev-russia-us-russia-business-summit Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 24, 2010 Remarks by President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia at the U.S.-Russia Business Summit U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 3:08 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, good afternoon, everybody. It is a pleasure to be here with my friend and partner, President Medvedev, and I want to thank him again for his leadership, especially his vision for an innovative Russia that’s modernizing its economy, including deeper economic ties between our...

Opportunity to excel more important than equality of outcome In the weeks before the fight over a new Supreme Court justice takes place, it is worthy to note that we are not remaining true to the purpose of our Constitution. In the years after the Revolutionary War, our Founders had specific goals when they wrote our Constitution. Chief among those was certainly "a more perfect union." It also was, however, to ensure that Americans would never again be ruled by their government. When asked about the Revolutionary War, John Adams would say: "But what do we mean by the American...

A once-in-a-generation voter revolt is brewing. This revolt is growing quickly and will test the very ideals of democracy to fix a state that has fallen far and fast. The movement for a constitutional convention offers Californians who passionately love their state a chance to cease armchair criticism and instead stand up to lead. The cause of the revolt is obvious, .. Our public schools, once the nation's best, are now among the worst. Our crumbling transportation and water systems were the envy of the world just a generation ago. Our business climate is ranked among the lowest in the...

With Congress phasing out the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, D.C. parents and students are looking to President Obama/administration to step in and save the federal initiative, which has given hope for a brighter future to thousands of families. However, Mr. Obama has been silent on the issue.... Asked ...why he didn't support the Opportunity Scholarship Program -- given that the Department of Education's own evaluation found it was benefiting participating students. Duncan explained that he was focusing on reforms to turn around the entire public school system, not just save a few children: "As a country, we like to save...

PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan, July 15, 2009 – Afghanistan’s future depends on its ability to educate youth, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today at the opening of Afghanistan’s newest elementary school here. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen joined local leaders and hundreds of children and villagers at the opening of the Peshghur School for Girls. He addressed the Afghans and spoke of the importance of education and the advantages it offers. “I bring good wishes from the American people, in particular, to express gratitude to all of those who’ve given so much to build this school,” Mullen said....

OPPORTUNITY IN RECESSION (June 17, 2009) By Andrei Nana* Generally, we complain about the recession because it affects our lives negatively. It starts with finances and having less money to live on. This impacts everybody’s life without regard to the issue of net worth. Usually, the second impact might be seen in self esteem, followed by a negative impact on relationships, and so on. Very soon we find ourselves in the position of being bankrupt, as well as depressed. We all agree that during “hard times,” people and companies make money. Some countries prosper during wars, and some investors make...

Remember Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's pitch to use the economic "crisis" as an excuse to impose a far-left agenda? EMANUEL: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems -- be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area -- things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt...

Silver Linings in a Dark Economy by Dennis Prager There are two definitions for the term "optimist": One who believes the future is good and one who sees the good in any given situation. I am as little an optimist by the first definition as I am a big optimist according to the second. In the world (as opposed to my own life), I rarely think things will turn out well because they rarely do. Evil often triumphs; and even when defeated, the amount of human suffering it causes does not mean that the optimists were right. Hitler was vanquished,...

Rivalry between normally polite banks is getting down, dirty and very public with some using the government's TARP program as a handy target. Just ask Alan B. White, the entrepreneurial founder-president of Dallas-based PlainsCapital Bank, who is lashing back at competitors who slam his participation in the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, aimed at jump-starting the economy. PlainsCapital received $87.6 million from TARP.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2009 – A relatively good security environment and hopes for more U.S. troops on the way are laying conditions for more development and economic opportunity in eastern Afghanistan, the commander of Task Force Warrior told Pentagon reporters today. Army Col. Scott A. Spellmon’s task force is responsible for improving provincial- and district-level Afghan government capacity in Afghanistan’s Regional Command East. Aggressive efforts to root out Taliban and other insurgent groups has brought a sense of security to much of his area of responsibility in Bamyan, Pervan, Panjshir and Kapisa provinces, he told reporters via teleconference from...

There aren't a lot of machines that operate 20 times longer than they were supposed to. There aren't a lot of scientists doing 20 times more research than they intended to. There aren't a lot of explorers covering 20 times more ground than they were supposed to be able to. But then again, there aren't a lot of things like NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, the robotic ships that landed on the Red Planet five years ago this month with an expected lifespan of 90 days, and yet have chugged along ever since — surviving paralyzing cold, blinding dust...

The craft is dangerously low on power because of dust covering its solar arrays. News of the problem comes a day after NASA declared an end to the Phoenix polar mission.

The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has chosen southeast as the direction for the rover's next extended journey, toward a crater more than 20 times wider than "Victoria Crater." Image credit: NASA/JPL/ASU Click here to enlarge image (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years. To reach the crater the rover team calls Endeavour, Opportunity would need to drive approximately 7 miles to the southeast, matching the total distance it has traveled since landing on Mars in early 2004....