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If the left wants to convince voters the stimulus package was effective, it should focus on teaching Americans basic economic theory. Only then does it stand a ...
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If the left wants to convince voters the stimulus package was effective, it should focus on teaching Americans basic economic theory. Only then does it stand a ...
Perhaps if Americans treated their elders better the American elderly wouldn’t be so bitter. But when you alienate an entire community, they will eventual...
As much smack as I talk about the business community, I prefer to side with organizations that invest in science rather than faith. Here are the headlines from ...
When you’re poor and you owe money, you might find yourself in this situation: On another call, Jimmy spoke with a man whose original debt was two hundred...
It’s hard to believe that I was born at a time when the city of Berlin was divided in the middle by a militarized border wall. The movie The Tunnel goes a...
Our society and economy would be much, much better off if debaters, especially on television, were able to call each others’ bluff with the simple use of ...
Knowledge is shaped by subjectivity. This is not my opinion but rather an objective fact that has been independently confirmed by many different disciplines, fr...
I have an anger problem. It’s not something I’m proud of and definitely one of the habits I’d like to break. The Democrats also have an anger ...
Matthew Yglesias: Perhaps the most telling thing about where the modern conservative movement is now, however, is their pledge on spending which says that “with...
A new video advert shows Uncle Sam digging a hole, deeper and deeper, as a woman with neutral English worries about our national debt. The woman mentions that t...
Whoops: When one of these intelligence bulletins was spotted on a pro-drilling Internet site and disseminated among anti-drilling activists, [State Homeland Sec...
Aren’t the majority of the problems facing the RC Church related to weak staffing? Not enough qualified people. Can’t attract more. Actively losing ...
Historic Voter Volatility in This Year of Fear, WSJ: Today’s dark public mood appears to be the culmination of a long stretch of national anxiety encompas...
Lee Smith has written a fun, smart and thorough takedown of Gingrich et al’s latest boogie monster: “sharia” law. As you would expect, Gingric...
The NYT: Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based ...
Writing about Sarah Palin and more recently enjoying parodies of Glenn Beck I’ve been thinking on and off about political theater. Or rather, how difficul...
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it ...
Timothy Garton Ash: [The Velvet Revolution], might be contrasted with an ideal type of 1789-style revolution, as further developed in the Russian Revolution of ...
Republican activists in Iowa are decrying the Iowa Family Policy Center’s efforts to raise $100,000 to hire Sarah Palin for a speaking engagement, “...
Matthew Cordell writes: The WFP has announced a new twist in its successful program using mobile phones to alert Iraqi refugees in Syria about available food ai...