The Loss of Upward Mobility in the U.S.
By Josh SanburnJan. 05, 2012RELATEDHarder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs The New York TimesEconomic mobility is becoming a more prominent issue in the 2012 Republican presidential race, and...
View ArticleWant To Chase The American Dream? Move To Canada
Time was an industrious American with true grit and a little moxie could pull him or herself up by his or her bootstraps, starting off with nothing but ambition in the mailroom and advancing all the...
View Article"Our Big Fat Advantage: American Exceptionalism"
Dear Fred,Thanks for the National Review article. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343499/america-s-big-fat-advantage-victor-davis-hansonIt is engagingly written but as specious as Smirk's...
View ArticleMan freed after 23 years in prison, cleared of killing N.Y. rabbi
David Ranta kisses a family member after being freed in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn, New York. He spent more than two decades behind bars before a reinvestigation cast serious doubt on evidence...
View ArticleArgentina's Bishop Angelelli, Killed By Conservative Thugs For "People's...
"The people do not oppress.The people struggle against oppression.""With one ear listening to the peopleand the other listening to the Gospel."Bishop Enrique AngelelliEnrique Ángel Angelelli (17 June...
View ArticleRand Paul Defines Chasm Between Reason and Limbaugh-Coulter Wing Of GOP
The U.S. - Mexico border is 1969 miles longhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border***Rand Paul On Immigration: 'I've Got A News Flash' For Ann Coulter Video at...
View Article60 Minutes: American nuns struggle with Vatican for change
Watch the Segment »WILL POPE FRANCIS CHANGE THE WAY THE VATICAN HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THE LARGEST U.S. NUN'S ORGANIZATION?HTTP://WWW.CBSNEWS.COM/VIDEO/WATCH/?ID=50143019NMarch 17, 2013 7:02 PMWill Pope...
View ArticleDrought that ravaged US crops likely to worsen in 2013, forecast warns
Hotter, drier conditions are predicted across much of the US, including parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Drought that ravaged US crops likely to worsen in 2013, forecast warnsNoaa predicts tough...
View ArticleGOP: A Party of Diversity
The black guy is always front and center.(So you'll be sure to see him.)***Republican Party is ‘full of racists,” Colin Powell’s chief of...
View ArticleThe Republican Plan To Replace Obamacare
If free market capitalism is the solution to healthcare,why wasn't the problem solved when free markets ran healthcare?***Pope Francis:"Free markets are tyrannical."***Pax on both houses: Pope Francis...
View ArticleGOP and Demographics
Hey! It's a democracy!According to the original Greek, Demos Kratos means "Rule by the needy."http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/aristotle-on-democracy-rule-by-needy.html***"Earth to GOP: The...
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