Fareed Zakaria: Margaret Thatcher's reforms would not work in 2013
92CommentsMoreExcerpt: "Would a further round of deregulation do much? Would cutting taxes from around 40 percent unleash growth, especially when it would mean even larger deficits? The Simpson-Bowles...
View ArticleThink the Planet Isn't Warming? Check the Ocean
APR 11, 2013 // BY KIERAN MULVANEYA recent article in The Economist stated that “over the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have...
View ArticleThe Gold Standard and The History of Economic Development
Love the twinkle. It's all you get...***The U.S. economy was in recession 52 percent of the time from 1874 to 1933, when the U.S. abandoned the gold standard. Since then, the economy has been in...
View ArticleOverwhelmingly, Mass Murders Are Committed By White Men
5000+CommentsMoreBy Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress, Published: March 29, 2012Charlotte and Harriet Childress are researchers and consultants on social and political issues. They are the...
View ArticleBarack Obama and George W. Bush: Total Vacation Time
“Republican Party Is Full Of Racists,” Colin Powell’s Chief Of Staffhttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/republican-party-is-full-of-racists.html***President Obama took 131 vacation days in his...
View ArticleSingle Payer Healthcare Draws Near
Government-coordinated universal healthcare is the only way to provide high quality healthcare at half the per capita cost that prevails in the United States....
View ArticleAmerican Energy Preferences, Gallup Poll
The SunIt's "forever.""Free" for the taking.***76% of Americans want more emphasis on the development of solar power and 71% on solar power. 46% want more emphasis on the production of oil and 31% on...
View ArticleAmerican Capitalism, Victoria's Secret and Relentless Promotion of "The 7...
Beth CapriottiRepublican Columnist***Having poked their own eyes out, American "conservatives" are stone blind to Cowboy Capitalism's dependence on the ferocious promotion of The Seven Deadly Sins."...
View ArticleBob Rogers Cartoons (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Obama's Benghazi. Reagan's Beiruthttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/cover-letter-to-beirut-bombing-mass.htmlTwice!***Historians will record that Ronald Reagan's declaration that "Government is...
View Article"Reading God's Mind: Does Jesus Really Love Me?" (The story of Jeff Chu's...
Jeff Chu“How many nights have I spent sweaty and panicked and drained of tears, because I thought I would go to hell — for being gay, for being me?”***Reading God’s MindBy FRANK BRUNIPublished: March...
View Article"The House I Live In" - Jarecki's Documentary About The War on Drugs and...
"The War on Drugs has never been about drugs."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_I_Live_In_(2012_film)***The House I Live In: Interview with Director Eugene Jarecki and Brad...
View ArticleElwin Wilson (1936 - 2013): The Klansman Who Apologized To His Victims
2009: Former Klansman: 'I'm sorry'STORY HIGHLIGHTSElwin Wilson apologized for beating Rep. John Lewis at a bus station some 50 years agoHe died Thursday at a hospital in South CarolinaWilson is...
View Article"Land of the Free, Home of the Poor" - Income Disparity and Our Wildly...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/04/the-hard-nut-of-economic-inequ-1.html***Viral Video Examines Gap Between Super Rich And Everyone Else. (Great Graphics!...
View ArticleFollowing Argentina's lead, Uruguay approves gay marriage bill
Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesUruguay gay marriage law advancesArgentina legalises gay marriageUruguay profileHomosexuality has been legal in Uruguay since the 1930s10 April...
View Article"Catholic Online" Posts Irresponsible Global Warming Interview
If Aquinas were aware that Catholic Online had posted the opinions of a non-scientist to “clarify” a matter of scientific inquiry, he would spin in his grave with enough rotational force to supply, in...
View ArticleEvangelical Dictator Efrain Rios Montt Guilty Of Guatemalan Genocide
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, accused of ordering the execution of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans in the 1980s, arrives at his trial in Guatemala City. It's "the first time,...
View ArticleGoodbye Fluorescent Bulbs, Welcome LEDs
Acura's New Jewel Eye Headlightshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0EWPIBbTk(It seems like "just yesterday" when "conservatives" were pissing and moaning about The Tragic Loss of their precious...
View ArticleTom Toles Cartoon: GOP Re-Visits Grover Norquist
Grover NorquistPiece Of Work Par Excellence!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher: Friend of Pinochet, Enemy of Mandela
We are known by our friends.The Assassin of Britain's Industrial CapacityandChile's Most Brutal Murderer Ever.***
View ArticleCrested Black Macaque, Humphead Wrasse, Humpback and Blue Whales
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