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Louis Rukeyser a voice for a brighter tomorrow.  Our friend Louis Rukeyser died the first day of May from complications related to a rare multiple myeloma or bone marrow cancer.  He was 73 years old and had not appeared on radio or TV since October 21, 2003.  But it may be a long time indeed before anyone matches his accomplishments, for he truly was a giant in the field of economic reporting....

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Americans are the world's greatest givers.  What has been long a fair guess of, has now been really confirmed.  Despite the mean spirited U.S. critics at the United Nations and Europeans obsessed with resentment for America on any subject line, the highly respected think-tank The Hudson Institute of Indianapolis has now released its 2006 Global Philanthropy Index, confirming that private sector American institutions and individuals generously contribute to helping the world's poor at a rate that fare exceeds any government aid anywhere in the world....

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The Keeper of the Flame.  One has to be grateful for biographer Henry Mark Holzer for writing an insightful study of some 300 Supreme Court cases in which Justice Clarence Thomas's opinions are the principle focus of consideration.  And we are equally appreciative of the fact that distinguished scholar, analyst, and columnist of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Thomas Sowell, our friend, seems to be the first on the scene to review the work....
 

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Quick takes on a passing parade.  Jean-François Revel, the great French conservative thinker and pro-American among the so-called forty immortels of the French academy which protects the purity of the French language, died April 30 at age 82....
 

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Florence Mars died April 23 at age 82.  Her book Witness in Philadelphia chronicled the arduous effort to register black voters in her hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1960 and that culminated in the disappearance and death of three civil rights workers in 1964.  She was one of a handful of white citizens in the town under threat of a Ku Klux Klan reprisal to help the FBI investigate the crime....
 

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John Kenneth Galbraith, dying in the last week of April at age 98, unquestionably had a long life as an intellectual icon of the liberal establishment, and he was a top Harvard economist and advisor to democratic candidates and nominees for presidents such as Adlai Stevenson in the 50s and Eugene McCarthy in the 60s and president John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson....
 

COMMENTARY #7        LISTEN NOW!*

At Gallaudet University is déjà vu all over again.  After almost 20 years, Gallaudet University for the hearing impaired student body, when they protested selection of a highly esteemed but non-deaf president of the college by blocking traffic entrances to the university and appearances on every television and radio program then available to publicity seekers, will now experience a very similar situation and similar in a large number of respects....
 

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