Thursday, July 04, 2019

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  • The Supreme Court Thursday blocked the Trump Administration’s request to place a citizenship question on 2020 census. The court said the administration’s explanation for...
  • The city of Los Angeles is quickly descending into a cesspool of decay and disease.  With bubonic plague now likely present amongst residents, the city and the state of California...
  • Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she would be in favor of decriminalizing illegal crossing of the U.S. border, the latest call for open borders by a 2020...
  •   Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and House Permanent Select Committees on July 17 in an open session. The announcement comes after...

    • On Monday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was criticized for pushing photos of herself seemingly intended to help quell the blowback she’s received...

  • Atlanta’s City Council has voted in favor of changing all 7.1 acres of vacant space just south of Lakewood Browns Mill community, where a third of the population lives just below...
  • The Western world has evolved, and Chakras have become widely known and accept among many of us. Chakras are spiritual energy points placed on different parts of our spinal column...

    • People mistake Spirituality for Religion and visa verse. It is often mistaken for some mysterious supernatural occurrence or a sect. When, in fact, spirituality is not mystic, nor...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • The glycemic index (GI) scores foods according to how quickly they raise blood sugar. This scoring system can help people with conditions such as diabetes make positive dietary choices...
  • Scientists have shown that programming bacteria to help the immune system fight cancer can shrink tumors and increase survival in mice.

    • Working with animal models and analyzing human genetic information, researchers discover how one gene may be key to the development of autism.

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • Today, the Charter School Office at the Delaware Department of Education released the final report for the formal review of Odyssey Charter School.  While Delaware media covered...
  • Originally posted on Transparent Christina 2.0: So, Paul is trying to modify school board members’ terms from 5 to 3 years and pay them $100 per meeting. Yeah, that didn’t go so...

    • Another year, another Charter school transportation slush fund discussion. Given Odyssey Charter School’s misappropriation of funds, followed by a plethora of other charter...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetHave You Heard heads to Michigan to learn about a lesser-known part of the state’s free market education experiment: inter-district school choice. More than 100,000 Michigan...
  • TweetAcross the country, white residents are moving into areas they’ve long stayed away from. They’re arrival is driving up housing costs and displacing the neighborhoods’...

    • TweetFrom Bernie Sanders on charter schools and segregation to Cory Booker stating, once again, that he is a believer in public education, to higher pay for teachers and free-er college...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy has created a less stable world by Dr.Fareed Zakaria https://fareedzakaria.com/columns/2019/5/16/trumps-america-first-philosophy-has-created-a-less-stable-world...
  • Malaysia’s Greatest Crisis: Loss of National Pride and Unity   May 13, 2019 by Murray Hunter Malaysia’s Greatest Crisis: Loss of National Pride and Unity Love him or hate him...

    • National service can mend the country The following column is adapted from Fareed Zakaria’s commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2019. It’s graduation season...

      Chicago Boyz



  • (WSJ: Bernie Sanders Won the Debate)   —- The 20 candidates in the Democratic debates on June 26 & 27 accepted Sanders’s fundamental vision of Democratic Socialism. Bernie...
  • It’s useful to review how to fix conditions of overcrowding in a facility. There are two fixes available. 1. You build more capacity 2. You increase training and oversight of the...
  • Street Games

    a day ago

    • I don’t imagine that any sentient human of the center-conservative bent has escaped hearing about how a reporter for the centrist-academic website Quilette had the snot beaten...

  • Project Veritas with an undercover employ of Google describes Viacon Analysis and ML Fairness which are a way to control output of searches to promote a social justice world view. ...
  • Political Islam Published on Jul 2, 2019 -Who is Bill Warner -Islamophobia -Islamic State -Future of Britain -Mohammed, the warrior -Sharia Law -Civilizational war...

    • Re Posted from the Canada Free Press, July 3, 2019 By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—July 3, 2019 Cover Story | Comments | Print Friendly | Subscribe | Email...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • “Until we are all free, we are none of us free. ” --- Emma Lazarus * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics...
  • Independents Day!

    a day ago
  • Hey Guys! We'll be down for a few days to take advantage of a long weekend for a much needed break. Don't let Trump take over your 4th of July celebration! (He'll probably get rained out...

    • It's been a rough week in the federal courts for Donald Trump. Even the Republicans' stolen U.S. Supreme Court failed to grant at least one victory to the Administration in its loss...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • (This translation of the original eighteenth century document into twentieth century American English was written by Henry Louis Mencken in 1921. It has been ever so slightly...

  • Happy Independence Day

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    • It’s the birthday of the American actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, playwright, and producer George Michael Cohan (1878-1942). His parents were traveling vaudeville performers...

  • The false claims that nuclear power can address the climate crisis were dealt another blow last week as France faced the possibility of having to shut down its nuclear plants due to...
  • Efforts are underway in Congress to push back on the Trump administration's move to classify uranium as a "critical mineral" essential for national security. Here is the statement...

    • Fairewinds has created this two-minute animation to show why building new nuclear power plants is a lost opportunity for humankind with precious time and money wasted on the wrong...

  • For the first time, researchers have eliminated HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from the genomes of living animals — a major accomplishment along the path to freeing the world of...
  • Boeing said on Wednesday it would give $100 million to communities and families affected by two crashes on its 737 MAX planes that claimed 346 lives. The company described the sum as...

    • Leaders of Sudan's protests have agreed to hold direct talks with the ruling military generals after the African Union and Ethiopian mediators urged both sides to resume stalled...

      Research Digest



  • By Lucy Maddox. This new research adds to a body of evidence that takes the blame off the nurse and squarely places the responsibility on the system to do better...
  • By Emma Young. Getting better at a new language doesn’t have to mean hard hours on lists of vocab and the rules of grammar.

    • By Bradley Busch. The findings offer a new way to get kids to choose broccoli over cake.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Opened at the Mixcoac subway station, the Metro Museum displays the history of the Collective Transportation System (STC) via a collection of objects, paintings, designs, and photos...
  • New York City would hardly be the place it is today without towns like Chadron, Nebraska. John Jacob Astor’s sprawling American Fur Company relied on trading posts throughout North...

    • This pair of tombs was created after two mummified bodies were discovered in the 16th century. The mummies were believed to belong to the legendary “Lovers of Teruel.”  The story...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Mark Rice-Oxley points out the observations of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Health as to the stress and mental illness caused by austerity...
  • This and that for your mid-week reading.- Rick Salutin discusses the needed rise of left-wing populism in the U.S.' presidential campaign (and elsewhere). - Ed Finn highlights how...

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