Sunday, I was talking about the poverty report coming out [what’s a liberal to do?…]. Well, it’s out now [One in seven Americans is living in poverty, Census shows]. It says" the highest number in the half-century that the government has kept such statistics." Percentage-wise, it’s the highest since 1965. Remember back then? It was […]
Benedict, in Britain, Criticizes Abuse Response Speaking to reporters on his flight from Rome, Benedict also said that the church’s “first interest is the victims. I must say that these revelations were a shock for me, a great sadness,” he said of the crisis that has undermined the church’s moral authority in many parts of […]
Bombshell from London Toronto Sun By Eric S. Margolis September 14, 2010 The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia […]
The Monarch yearly migration [four generations]
A review of congressional records by the AP shows Deal was the lead sponsor on 72 bills over his 18-year career. Just seven became law, and three of those involved the naming of post offices. Washington Examiner GOP’s Nathan Deal Leads Democrat Roy Barnes in Georgia Governor’s Race Politics Daily by Bruce Drake 09/13/2010 Former […]
Throughout the last decade, I’ve received countless requests to write my Congressman concerning this or that issue. And even more often, I’ve wanted to write my Congressman myself about things that are happening. But I haven’t written him very often. I thought I’d introduce him to everyone so you would know we haven’t corresponded very […]
In maybe 1966-67, I was in a political discussion and a wise older [sort of famous] doctor said something like, "We have to alternate. The Democrats come in and help people, then it’s the Republican’s turn, and they turn things down a bit. Then we do it again. It’s like a scale – back and […]
Bush administration bungling allowed Bin Laden to get away the left coaster by Turkana September 13, 2010 … For Osama bin Laden was identified as the one man most responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and Osama bin Laden got away. Two wars, hundreds of thousands dead, trillions of dollars wasted, and the man deemed most […]
The segment, Computer Exceptionalism, in Slate‘s The United States of Inequality concluded "… before computers we witnessed technological revolutions brought on by the advent of the automobile, the airplane, radio, television, the washing machine, the Xerox machine, and too many other devices to name. Most of these earlier inventions had much the same effect as […]
Another installment of the series in Slate [The United States of Inequality] was posted last night. It’s more intuitive than statistical. We all know that the Labor Unions, once a powerful force in our country, have fallen on the wayside. These days, most of us don’t think about them much unless there’s a rerun of […]