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What I learned from the WSJ today…

March 8, 2013 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

So, as I am wont to do, I was devouring my newspapers at St. Elmo’s (the best coffee shop in Alexandria- come visit!) and ran across this article by Reuel Marc Gerecht (Israel’s New Islamist Neighborhood) that blew me away. It was even a topic of conversation with a few of my friends. Not because it discussed Israel (which is a topic near and dear to my heart), but because of the thought processes it engendered about the more global situation.

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22.143% of Americans hop on one foot, twice a day…

July 15, 2010 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

So, there’s a new book- one that will probably tick you off. Not because it’s annoying, but because, if you are like most people, you had no idea that the facts reported in the paper (and CERTAINLY on the web) are highly suspect. The book: Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: the Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict, by Peter Andreas with Kelly Greenhill. (If you want to buy the book, you can find it here.)

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