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For the past few years I have charted the trends in American education spending and performance (see below). The goal is to see what the national data suggest about the productivity of our education system over time. Clearly, these data suggest that our educational productivity has collapsed: the inflation-adjusted cos... |
The analysis on this page is being published shortly before the end of 2009, and at the date of first publication (Dec 31) is missing the final two weeks of the year. Figures displayed in blue are dynamic and will be updated from the IBC database as the remaining days are added. With this analysis IBC is introducing ne... |
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Last year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner began with a very special introduction from one of the few members of Congress most Americans could identify by sight: Francis Underwood, the ladder-climbing sociopath played by Kevin Spacey in Netflix’s House of Cards.... |
Jefferson Co. poll workers failed to ask voters for IDs
Traffic drives past dozens of election signs at the Theodore R Johns Sr Library on Friday. Early voting will continue through October 31. Photo taken Friday, October 24, 2014 Guiseppe Barranco/@spotnewsshooter less Traffic drives past dozens of election signs at ... |
Money. Music. Machines. When you think of the big players that make software and hardware solutions for musicians and DJs you might think of Ableton, Akai Pro and Native Instruments. The later have just shifted the goal posts in the industry to the tune of €50 million ($59 million) thanks to an investment from EMH Part... |
Michael Knutson - Symmetrical Fields January 5 - February 18, 2017
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SYMMETRICAL FOUR-LAYERED OVOIDS & LATTICES II, 2015
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 23-year-old white Baton Rouge man arrested Tuesday was accused of killing two black men and firing on a black family in a string of attacks that police say may have been racially motivated.
A law enforcement official said they had found a copy of an Adolf Hitler speech at the home of Kenneth ... |
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has removed the core of its Arak heavy water nuclear reactor and filled it with cement as required under a nuclear deal signed with world powers last year, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Monday, citing an informed Iranian source.
A general view of the Arak heavy-water project, 190 km... |
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Every outdoor adventure attracts some type of douchebag that challenges everything you find sacred about the wilderness.
This guide won’t help you handle yourself in such situations but it will help you identify the type of douchebags that you may encounter in the wilderness, and give you a fighting chance at he... |
Ahh, Monday morning.
The weekend is over, the bus to work is packed, and – if you’re like many people I know – you’re stoked on dreading the next 5 days ahead. I remember waking up Monday mornings with a pit in my stomach, always feeling anxious about the week to come. Truly, I had nothing to fear and there were never... |
Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter informed fans at Comic-Con that the show’s final ride will be too bumpy for Bobby (Mark Boone Junior) to take a timeout for another gig as an Elvis impersonator. But here’s a consolation for those wanting to hear Boone sing again—and it’s for a good cause.
Timed to the premiere of t... |
The British Royal Navy sailors accused of assaulting a Dallas police officer in a drunken brawl last weekend will not be allowed to leave the country.
The Navy members wanted to leave the country with the understanding that they would return when needed to answer to the assault charge, but now it won’t happen. Vickers... |
Whether they constitute a trend or not (and I say not), these cases represent mere footnotes in the annals of employment law compared with the potential impact of Dukes. Writing in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, professor Suzette M. Malveaux explained well last week in accessible language precisely what's at stake:... |
Milan lead Italy in Money League
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The annual Football Money League report, published by Deloitte, shows that Milan are still Italian football’s top earners.
Real Madrid are the game’s biggest cash generating force after they amassed revenue in excess of €500m in 2011-12. Barcelona are second,... |
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A top newspaper group in Alabama is urging the state’s voters to write in another Republican in Tuesday’s special election rather than vote for embattled GOP nominee Roy Moore.
“Voting for Roy Moore just because he has an ‘R’ next to his name, ignoring his record of personal and official misconduct, is neither wise no... |
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Donald Trump is aiming to pull off one of the greatest political comebacks in history.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is what’s known in the business as “hedging your bets”. Yes, CNN, the Clinton News Network, is absolutely all in for Crooked Hillary. But at the end of the day, there are bills to be paid, and ... |
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Kristal Kerley’s hands were shaking before kickoff Monday at Levi’s Stadium.
Her husband, wide receiver Jeremy Kerley, was about to make his 49ers debut, 15 days after he’d arrived in a trade. It was ... |
(NaturalNews) The mainstream media have been tireless in their recent efforts to discredit and demonize those who dare question the safety or efficacy of vaccines, and particularly those who choose not to have their children vaccinated.What seems obvious now is that an honest dialogue on the subject seems nearly imposs... |
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Some common causes of ladder injuries include: A ladder is a structure designed for climbing that consists of two long side-pieces joined at uniform intervals by rungs or steps. It's important to use the right tool for the job, and that includes ladders, which come in... |
1 When you say apocalypse’, you immediately conjure visions of an end to the world as we know it. It’s a part of our culture, our media and of course, it is in large part, a product of both science fiction AND fact. As in business, one must be prepared: you speculate to accumulate. And so in science, the best way to be ... |
Given such a singular vintage, it may be hard to draw conclusions about the region in general. Nonetheless, it’s clear that, as in California, a new wave of Oregon producers is striving to make wine in a lighter, more restrained style. Although this has been true for several years, a vintage like 2011 certainly played ... |
The controversy over Kathy Griffin holding up a bloodied severed head of Donald Trump — an action which has led to her removal from CNN's New Year's Eve programming — reportedly spilled into the President's family when TMZ reported that the Trumps' 11-year son "Barron was in front of the TV watching a show when the new... |
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office on Wednesday said the minority leader doesn’t have any dirt on Newt Gingrich.
Pelosi has suggested in two interviews that she knows something that could prevent Gingrich from becoming president, but her office said the California Democrat doesn’t have any secrets about Gingrich, who has shot... |
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Republicans are looking at the debt limit issue and the waning government funding as leverage to push deficit-reduction plans.
The GOP-controlled House is pushing through a stop-gap federal funding bill to avoid a shutdown, but it includes measures to gut ... |
Leninism is the political theory for the organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party and the achievement of a dictatorship of the proletariat as political prelude to the establishment of socialism.[1] Developed by and named for the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Leninism comprises socialist political and econ... |
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Anthem Blue Cross should reimburse California man for transplant, jury says
The insurer had refused to cover the liver surgery after Ephram Nehme decided to go out of state to face a shorter waiting list. Panelists in L.A. also say Blue Cross should pay Nehme's legal fees.
The jury, which included at least three memb... |
As a graduate student in the 1960s, I joined Irven DeVore and Richard Lee in a multifaceted study of the !Kung San, then still hunter-gatherers, in northwestern Botswana. Some anthropologists were persuaded that such studies would shed light on human origins, and some psychologists were convinced that infancy research ... |
Celestin wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday. Using the internet he purchased a few cosmetic products from China for a value of $36. His Chinese counterpart explained to him that the package would be delivered by DHL in about 10 days with an extra cost of about $100.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — At 6-foot-6, 318 pounds, Andrew Norwell is a difficult person to miss.
And yet, that’s precisely what happened during the 2014 NFL Draft — when all 32 teams passed on the college prospect.
Now, there’s absolutely no way to overlook Norwell, who emerged as a star at left guard last season for the Car... |
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Smoking is a health hazard for anyone, but for people with diabetes or a high risk of developing the disease, lighting up can contribute to serious health complications.
Researchers have long known that diabetes patients who smoke have higher blood sugar levels, making their disease more difficult to ... |
Donald Trump said he was open to meeting Kim Jong-un in the appropriate circumstances
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North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese air f... |
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Last weekend, my friends and I went camping at a private spot in Big Sur that has the only fresh water swimming hole in the area. It’d previously been off-limits, but thanks to a new service called Hipcamp, anyone can now book it online. How... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is leaving open the possibility that a special counsel could be appointed to look into Clinton Foundation dealings and an Obama-era uranium deal, the Justice Department said Monday.
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, which is holding an oversight hearing Tues... |
Man Clearly Yelling Gibberish During Sing-along Part
CHICAGO – Fans of popular hardcore band Without Mercy were outraged this weekend when they discovered that a man was clearly just yelling gibberish during a popular sing-along part of the band’s hit song, “Time to Die,” multiple heavily tattooed sources confirmed.
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The second half, devoted to the guerrilla campaign in Bolivia in 1967 that ended in Guevara’s death, is equally rigorous in its depiction of a failed revolt. Though Guevara tried, in a new context, to apply the strategic lessons of the Cuban revolution — concentrate on the countryside; cultivate popular support; mainta... |
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Mar-28-2009 14:17 TweetFollow @OregonNews President Obama -- Out of Touch, or A Hypocrite? When I think about the vast numbers of people who are serving time for nothing more than marijuana possession, and the havoc incarceration wreaks on them, their families, and everyone ... |
Tiny "walking" proteins could be used to investigate mechanical deformations in soft materials according to Hokkaido University researchers.
The researchers employed a concept that is a part of the transportation network in cells. "Walking" filament-shaped proteins, such as kinesin, carry cargo on one of their ends wh... |
Six-time Olympic medallist Clara Hughes told an audience in Thompson March 16 that she thought winning her first Olympic medal – a bronze medal in cycling at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta – would quiet the feelings she had carried inside her since childhood, the idea that if she was the best at everything it would cure ... |
There are numerous examples of schools punishing students for seemingly innocuous online activity. In 2012, after a Minnesota student wrote a Facebook post saying a hall monitor was “mean” to her, she was forced to turn over her Facebook password to school administrators—in the presence of a sheriff’s deputy. The schoo... |
It is a nightmare that Dayna Herroz must live with the rest of her life.
In July 2006, Dayna's 22 year old daughter Tori Vienneau and Tori's son Dean, were found strangled inside their Southcrest apartment.
Dean was hung by his neck in his crib with a cord on the same day that he turned ten months old.
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Microsoft is integrating Skype directly into Windows 10, and the result looks a lot like Apple's iMessage service. While the company unveiled some of its Skype integration at a special Windows 10 press event in Redmond yesterday, the software maker didn’t show its new Messaging app on the PC version of Windows 10. This... |
Berkeley High water polo player investigated for mid-game assault
Boys high school water polo match between Greenwich High School and Brunswick School at Greenwich High School, Conn., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Brunswick defeated Greenwich 6-5. Boys high school water polo match between Greenwich High School and Brunsw... |
Dec. 23 was original deadline for enrolling on exchange to ensure coverage beginning Jan. 1.
Susan Rider, an insurance broker in Indianapolis, says the wait time have improved but glitches remain on HealthCare.gov. (Photo11: By Karl Ahlrichs) Story Highlights High demand, multiple time zones prompted extension through... |
Washington (CNN) -- The battle over health care reform reached another milestone Thursday as top House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation that includes a highly controversial public health insurance option.
The nearly 2,000-page bill -- a combination of three versions passed by House committees -- would cost $894... |
Arc System Works announced that they would be releasing "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator" for the PC. They are distributing the flashy fighting game through Steam and should be available on Dec. 14, 2016.
As reported by Gematsu, "Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator" for PC will retail for $49.99 together with a launch discount of 1... |
What can we learn from the 12 teams who ascended to the College Football Playoff in its first three seasons?
From a scheduling standpoint, each of the dozen reached the end of the regular season with a 12-game resume to present to the Playoff committee. In each case it was enough to earn them a coveted place in the br... |
Italian politicians and the public are fuming over a “disgusting” satirical cartoon published by controversial French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which made fun of the victims of an earthquake that left nearly 300 people dead and obliterated entire towns.
Charlie Hebdo, which made headlines in 2015 after a terrorist attack ... |
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There's something insanely glorious about buying expensive phones and immediately trying to break them.
And given that the bendability of the iPhone 6 Plus is very likely being discussed at the highest levels of government today, we need to garner as much evid... |
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The Bitcoin Price has increased by 1300% so far in 2017, rising from $434 on 01/01/2016 to $6,080 on 22/10/2017. This has led to mass speculation of just how successful Bitcoin can be. The Bitcoin Price Calculator allows you see quick... |
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As avid Inhabitat readers know, BPA is a nasty substance. The organic compound, found in everything from reusable water bottles to soup cans, is thought to cause both hormonal and neurological issues. But the anti-BPA movement is growing strong — so strong, in fact, that Canada just moved to ban... |
At the start of the first world war, razor-sharp Marxist organizer Rosa Luxemburg described the world around her as existing within a turning point: it would be socialism or barbarism. She wrote, “either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degene... |
This is how I’ve decided to prepare for summer this year: 1. Buy tiny madras shorts and aviator sunglasses for the toddler. Like I could resist. 2. Let fear of bathing suit season convince me to let a friend drag me to my first Pilates class, ever, and not even a beginner class. Ow. I’m pretty sure I should have resist... |
While I am doing significantly better than I have been, I am not as confident and self assured as I really should be. My mood has improved, now I just need to convince myself that I am confident, able, and worthy. It’s not an easy task. I feel like I am transparent to everyone else; that they can see that I am sick and... |
Manitoba drivers who hit and kill a cyclist often end up simply paying a fine.
A Global News investigation found multiple cases where the driver was never criminally charged. Instead the person was charged under the Highway Traffic Act (HTA) and the offence often resulted in a few thousand dollars fine.
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Plans were revealed the other day showing Hillwood building a 70-story office tower near the Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas. The structure designed by British “starchitect” Sir Norman Foster would be just a few stories shorter than Bank of America Plaza, the city’s current tallest building, which has 72 flo... |
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.~ John Muir
To care for their healt... |
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is set to pick up one of his biggest endorsements yet Thursday from the powerful Communications Workers of America union, sources told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
The group represents some 700,000 workers nationally, making it by far the largest union to back Sanders yet. CW... |
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Sevilla dominated against the Croatian champions Dinamo, with the confidence that comes from having won every home game this season. They found it tough at first, but slowly the chances came. Steven N’Zonzi’s glanced header was pushed on to the crossbar and soon after birthday-boy Vitolo had ... |
That’s a massive amount of money and speaks to both the complexity of the U.S. corporate tax code and the extreme lengths companies will go to lower their tax bill. Apple, for instance, uses a subsidiary known as Apple Operations International (AOI) to hold most of its offshore profits, as a report from the Senate Perm... |
DETROIT - Protesters blocked all four lanes Friday morning of southbound I-75 near Mack in Detroit.
Michigan State Police eventually pulled them over just before the I-375 split and helped direct traffic.
The protesters have been on area freeways before rallying against Detroit's emergency manager. The cars drive slo... |
The Labour lie about food banks – that their growth has been due to the callousness of the coalition government – is simple and has become familiar by the amount of airtime the BBC has given it over the past four years. Countering that message has been hard as the truth, as so often, is more complicated.
Anyone who ha... |
Ten people reported missing in the Crimea, believed to be on political and ethnic grounds Thursday, September 29, 2016 10:30:00 AM
According to a statement issued by the press service of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ten people are reported missing on political or ethnic grounds in the Crimea.... |
ISRAEL blackmailed President Clinton with phone-tapped tapes of his steamy sex talks with Monica Lewinsky, a blockbuster new book charges.
The price Clinton paid for the silence of the Mossad spy agency was calling off an FBI hunt for a top-level Israeli mole allegedly installed at the White House.
The allegation app... |
This is a list of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords as published by Mexican federal authorities on 23 March 2009. According to a BBC Mundo Mexico report, the 37 drug lords "have jeopardized México national security."[1][2] As of 8 January 2016, 25 drug lords have been captured, eight have been killed and four remain f... |
The House passed a massive $662 billion defense bill Wednesday night after last-minute changes placated the White House and ensured President Barack Obama's ability to prosecute terrorist suspects in the civilian justice system.
The vote was 283-136 and reflected the strong support for annual legislation that authoriz... |
Breaking: After Tens of Thousands of Emails Leaked, Second HRC Email Regarding “Yoga” is Found
In March 2015 Hillary Clinton held a presser at the United Nations. She said she released all of her work emails to the State Department.
She then said she deleted her 33,000 private, personal emails.
“Emails about plannin... |
NYT columnist: 'Demoralized' Republicans fleeing RNC will make McCain 'lonely guy' in Minnesota David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Friday August 15, 2008
Print This Email This Suspected cause of defections is fears of Bush-McCain baggage More than one in five Republican senators have said they won't attend the... |
The activists pushing Senate Democrats to resist Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat Republicans robbed from Barack Obama recognize that Neil Gorsuch has no business replacing the late Antonin Scalia. Will Senate Democrats come to the same conclusion?
The case against confirming Gorsuch is the same as th... |
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Apple suppliers like NXP Semiconductor have struggled over the last few months. The risks of falling iPhone ... |
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There comes to a point where a player has reached a certain level that they cannot plateau any higher. Now they are desperately doing worse, ... |
Richard Cordray has been rumored to be considering a run for governor of Ohio, but he gave no indication Wednesday of what his plans are. | Pete Marovich/Getty Images Cordray to resign from CFPB, clouding future of watchdog agency
Richard Cordray, the embattled director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wil... |
I complain a lot on this blog about traditional approaches to teaching music theory. Fortunately, there’s a better alternative: Everyday Tonality by Philip Tagg. Don’t be put off by the DIY look of the web site. The book is the single best explanation I know of for how harmony works across a broad spectrum of the world... |
An extraordinary thing happened in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday . A member of the seven-strong Backbench Business Committee burst out laughing at the suggestion that MPs should be allowed to debate a range of gender issues including domestic violence, suicide and premature mortality rates.
In an age when offend... |
By Marilyn Frye
From The Politics Of Reality: Essays In Feminist Theory (The Crossing Press 1983)
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White feminists come to renewed and earnest thought about racism not entirely spontaneously. We are pressed by women of color. Women of color have been at feminist conferences, meetings and festivals and speaking up, ... |
(ANTIMEDIA) — With numerous distractions unfolding on the newly released reality TV show that is “Keeping Up with the Trump Administration,” it may surprise readers to learn that the U.S. is using the terror group ISIS as a pawn in its depraved foreign policy.
Video footage obtained by Al-Masdar appears to show convoy... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten months after the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, Obamacare’s federal health insurance exchange is still dogged by cost overruns and technology delays that could hamper enrollment when it resumes in November, a U.S. watchdog said.
The total cost of HealthCare.gov and its supporting systems... |
The illustrious motor vehicle manufacturer reveals in a press release that it plans to concentrate its efforts to develop land-based control centres and the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous and remote-controlled shipping in the roughly 175,000-resident city in South-west Finland.
Rolls-Royce on Wednesday a... |
Headline:
"One child is holding something
that's been banned in America
to protect them.
Guess which one."
The ad is by a group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
The explanation, via babble:
"The Charles Perrault version of Little Red Riding Hood, the one that was banned by two California schoo... |
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A new study has shown a link between low intelligence and people who fall for "pseudo-profound" quotes.
Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, found that people who are impressed by intellectual-sounding "bullsh**" are likely to be less reflective with lower verbal intelligence. They are also ... |
Despite doomsday warnings from the White House and lawmakers on both sides that hundreds of thousands would lose their jobs as a result of the sequester, it turns out the budget cuts have only led to one job being lost among 23 federal agencies.
Now Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is demanding answers as to why the Obama ad... |
Mr. Friedman and Ms. Epstein have been civilly divorced since April and share custody of their daughter, but they are still married according to Jewish law. And without a get neither he nor Ms. Epstein can remarry within the faith. She is considered an agunah, or chained woman.
Although the majority of men in Jewish d... |
If you’re a regular reader of this blog and its comments section, you’re probably more than a little worried about two bits of climate science in particular:
Our understanding of past climates (paleoclimate) and 5-6 C long term climate sensitivity.
And if you’re a frequent returner, you’ve probably figured out by now... |
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The value of U.S. homes grew on a monthly basis in May for the first time in nearly three years, according to 20-city index released Tuesday.
The month-over-month increase was 0.5%, according to the report from financial data company Standard & Poor's and economists Case-Shiller. It was the ... |
The past week all we’ve talked about is Sam Raimi writing Evil Dead 4, but now we’re shifting gears back to the rebooted franchise.
While the TriStar and FilmDistrict remake doesn’t hit theaters until April 5, director Fede Alvarez revealed to a sold out SXSW crowd that he’s already begun writing a sequel to his Evil ... |
School district official charged with torching truck on San Antonio highway resigns
Emilio Flores, 22, faces a charge of arson, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Emilio Flores, 22, faces a charge of arson, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Photo: Bexar County Sheriff's Office Photo: Bexar County Sherif... |
“The thing is we don’t have a leader in any of the parties. There is not anybody who we can look up to,” said Milton Cofresi Jr., a retired stockbroker.
So despite the urgency to revamp an economy, which has been contracting for nearly a decade, and resolve the island’s crushing $72 billion public debt, voters don’t s... |
By Cruz Serrano
Back when Barry Bonds’ hat size was still considered human, back when the only interleague series was in October, way back before baseball’s Summer of Love that saw Sosa and McGwire hammer their way past Roger Maris, the team of the 90s was hunting for their second straight World Series title. After wi... |
6 reasons there's no such thing as compassionate conservatism Paul Ryan is the latest Republican to feign concern for the less fortunate. Here's why it's always a sham
The word is out that Republicans are attempting to rebrand themselves as compassionate conservatives (again). “Compassionate conservatism” is a term th... |
On Nov. 6, 1968, the Black Student Union and a coalition of student groups at San Francisco State University known as the Third World Liberation Front began what would become the longest student strike in U.S. history. They wanted the university to institute an ethnic studies program.
Beyond simply teaching students n... |
QPR boss Harry Redknapp has played down the comments he made following Saturday's defeat at Newcastle.
After suffering his first loss at Rangers boss, Redknapp said some of his players earned "far too much for their ability and what they give".
But speaking before the Boxing Day game against West Brom, he said: "I wa... |
In this special episode of The Projection Booth, John Sayles talks about his new film Go For Sisters, lessons learned working for Roger Corman, and the state of independent film.In Go For Sisters, Bernice (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) grew up so close people said they could “go for sisters”, but time s... |
Share. Naughty Dog delivers a stellar sequel that impresses from start to finish, and that doesn't even include the multiplayer. Naughty Dog delivers a stellar sequel that impresses from start to finish, and that doesn't even include the multiplayer.
More than any other game to date, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune seems t... |
Practice brought to light in recent case out of Pierre; AG says it's not illegal
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Police in South Dakota are collecting urine samples from uncooperative suspects through the use of force and catheters, a procedure the state's top prosecutor says is legal but is cr... |
Sandra Day O'Connor frequently filed concurring opinions that sought to narrow the scope of majority rulings. | AP Photo Senate confirms first female Supreme Court justice, Sept. 21, 1981
On this day in 1981, the Senate unanimously confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor as the nation’s first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Co... |
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We live in strange Orwellian, Islamophobic, and eco-cidal times. A comrade from the great burning Northwest tells me the following story:
“I had a Sunday dinner a few weeks ago at the house of my dad’s and stepmom’s neighbors. The man and woman of the house are in their 60’s and both proud liberals. The man said h... |
All of this helps explain why internet use can arguably become addictive in the sense that some chemicals are addictive -- that is, we can develop a dysfunctionally strong devotion to the internet, a devotion that leads us to neglect obligations and responsibilities (such as getting a novel written). After all, the int... |
If you're anything like me, when you were a kid, you had trouble getting to sleep without first hearing at least a couple of stories of life, love and learning as told by a former NBA Defensive Player of the Year. In my case, that meant an awful lot of long-distance calls to very understanding Utah Jazz center Mark Eat... |