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  • At Washington and Lee University, George Washington and Robert E. Lee find themselves in some heat. Some people believe the old adage that insists if we do not remember and heed our...

  • In Photos: The Weirdest Mummies of the World

    14 hours ago
  • Mummies of the world are some of the most powerful images of ancient history. Practiced by some cultures even today, the act of wrapping a body in bandages is best-known thanks to the...

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Unlucky Son Witnessed 3 Presidential Assassinations

    2 days ago
    • Abraham Lincoln’s death was a shattering blow to the United States. His first born son Robert Todd Lincoln (b. 1843) wasn’t there that fateful night at Ford’s Theater, Washington...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!

  • Originally posted on BBC Watch: The role of the BBC’s Middle East editor is to provide “analysis that might make a…

  • LATEST UBER NEWS

    2 hours ago
  • Originally posted on No Punches Pulled: 1) Third quarter loss of US $1.3 billion. 2) License to operate in London cancelled. (14,000…

  • More on @paulkrugman forgetting the literature on financial crises

    6 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, November 25, 2019 Newly Leaked Documents Show Horrors of Xi’s Concentration Camps in East...

  • As Beijing Communist Regime Escalates Violence Against Democracy Protesters, Appeaser Trump Must Sign Bills Extending U.S. Protection over Human Rights in Hong Kong; Reject Xi’s Insolent Attempt to Dictate U.S. Policy!

    3 days ago
  • House Democrats Begin Drafting Articles of Impeachment; but Schiff Does Not Rule Out Additional Witnesses; Public Demands to Hear from Mulvaney, Giuliani, Bolton, Pompeo, Pence...

  • Five Days of Televised Impeachment Hearings Leave Trump’s Strongman Myth Shattered and GOP Defenses in Shambles; Sondland Testimony Is Watershed Event in Current History; Clintongate Prosecutor Ken Starr Wonders When GOP Senators Will Urge Imposter to Resign

    5 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, November 21, 2019 Fiona Hill of NSC Confirms Bolton Sought to Distance Himself from Giuliani...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Diamond & Diamond, a national personal injury law firm in Canada, is spearheading a $500 million class-action lawsuit against various Roundup makers, including pharmaceutical...

  • Pesticides to Blame for Insect Decline that Threatens Life on Earth

    12 days ago
  • A new report, Insect Declines and Why They Matter, commissioned by an alliance of UK Wildlife Trusts in the south west, concludes that drastic declines in insect numbers look set...

  • The Battle for the Future of Food in Africa

    12 days ago
    • Last month in Ghana, Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, congratulated an illustrious group of corporate and government leaders for...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 327 – 2019

    2 days ago
  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 326 – 2019

    3 days ago
    • South / North

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • US President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build a rules-based and democracy-led order in the Indo-Pacific, but seems to have no idea how. If it doesn’t find the answer...

  • Stuck in a haze: New Delhi’s smog is the cost of environmental neglect

    18 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, The Globe and Mail Just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel reached New Delhi last week on a state visit, noxious smog blanketed the Indian capital, forcing a shutdown...

  • China is weaponizing water and worsening droughts in Asia

    22 days ago
    • Its dams are provoking regional tensions, so Beijing needs to reconsider its policy. Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita...

      Ramani's blog

  • Nelspruit Nature Reserve. An ancient Hindu worship site which dates back 1,800 years, and is still in use today.

  • Muslim Offering To Tirupathi Balaji 108 Golden Lotuses Arjitha Seva Origin

    a month ago
  • But sir, several decades ago my paternal grand father had made a vow to himself that he would place 108 Golden Lotus Flowers at the holy Lotus feet of our Sri Varu for...

  • What is The Gotra If You Do Not Know

    a month ago
    • There is also a practice of assigning Vishnu Gotra to people who belong to Kshatriya Varna and Jambu Maharishi Gotra to Vaisyas.

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • Staff and parents of students in the remaining public schools of the Chester-Upland district in Pennsylvania, are planning a rally to protest the charter proposal to take over all...

  • Reader Defines “Grit”

    7 hours ago
  • Reader C.H. Rubinstein eases into the debate about GRIT. Oy, where have we heard this song & dance before? Grit is something your mom used to yell about, such as when you were playing...

  • Paul Waldman Remembers When Republicans Thought Trump Was a Charlatan and a Kook

    8 hours ago
    • Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected.   On Friday, the president of the United...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • As is often the case, The Daily Show came through this past week.  Former Microsoft CEO and Founder of the USA Facts website Steve Ballmer came by on the November 14 episode.  The website...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of November 4

    15 days ago
  • Last week’s leader in the clubhouse for science and technology content is the newbie on the block.  A Little Late with Lilly Singh has shown an early interest in booking guests with...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of October 28

    22 days ago
    • Last week was all about a robot movie where science and technology bookings were concerned.  The latest Terminator film premiered last Friday in the United States and its stars were...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood     One of the great delusions of Labour’s green policy is that it will create a million new “well paid, unionised” jobs.   The reality in Germany is a bit different...

  • Labour’s Green Revolution

    11 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood     Time to look at the new Labour Manifesto’s green strategy:     https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/a-green-industrial-revolution/       First, a few...

  • CEH Preliminary Report On S Yorks Floods–No Evidence That They Were Caused By Climate Change

    2 days ago
    • By Paul Homewood   https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/blogs/severity-of-november-2019-floods-uk-preliminary-analysis The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH)...

      NoTricksZone

  • This past weekend in Munich, the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) held its 13th annual climate and energy conference. According to EIKE, over 200 attended, making...

  • New Study: 6500 Years Ago The Western Barents Sea Was Ice-Free And 10°C Warmer Than 2015

    2 days ago
  • The Arctic’s western Barents Sea (Storfjordrenna) surface temperatures now range between 2-4°C. Sea ice persists in the region for 10 months of the year. A new study finds this...

  • Increasingly Powerful Headwinds Ahead: Germany’s Wind Industry Faces Extinction …”Several 10,000 Jobs Lost “

    2 days ago
    • Online site wind energy proponent site, Energiezukunft.eu here presents a commentary telling why Germany is seeing ever increasing resistance to wind energy projects and how the...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Curmudgucation: TN: Doubling Down on Bad Reading Policy Among the worst policy ideas of the past decades, we have to count third grade reading retention laws. These laws can sometimes...

  • Answer Sheet: Um, That’s Not What Warren Actually Said About Charter Schools

    a day ago
  • Answer Sheet: Um, That’s Not What Warren Actually Said About Charter Schools Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during an event to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2017...

  • Code Acts in Education: Platform Teachers

    4 days ago
    • Code Acts in Education: Platform Teachers Amazon has launched a new service allowing teachers to sell and buy education resources through its platform. Image by Guillaume Bolduc...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only… 1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine...

  • The Impeachment Clock

    5 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry is incoherent. Given the impossibility of a senatorial conviction, the only strategy is to taint the...

  • The Wages of Trump Fixation

    6 days ago
    • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in...

    The Moderate Voice

  • the amorality of a political consultant like Mark Penn seems startling in a nation that so prides itself for wearing its ideology on its sleeve. There are -- seemingly --now only about...

  • Is the United States ‘Starting to Look Like Ukraine’ Did in the Past?

    a day ago
  • "I cannot in good conscience obey an order that I believe violates the sacred oath I took …to support and defend the Constitution of the United States." Resigning Navy Secretary...

  • OUR TOWER OF BABEL

    2 days ago
    • Thanksgiving is my favorite ritual meal. The myth surrounding this celebration is uniquely American. Its sacraments are pluralism and tolerance of others. It contains the catechism...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • 1. “Ancient coin designs encoded increasing amounts of economic information over centuries.“ 2. “Powell will serve 10 years in prison, Davies will do 8½ years and Wicks will...

  • William Shatner on mortgages

    7 hours ago
  •   Ok math whiz: a $85k 30 year mortgage with 12% interest in 1985 actual total cost was $315k. A $315k 30 yr mortgage today at 3.8% is $525k total. $315,000 in 1985 is equivalent in purchasing...

  • Wealth by Generation and Age

    13 hours ago
    • Kurt Andersen made the following arresting tweet Fraction of all US wealth owned by Boomers & Gen-Xers when the average member of each was age 35: Boomers, 1989 21% GenX, 2008 8%...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Paul Waldman of the Washington Post went down memory lane with prominent Republicans who called out Trump as a phony before he was elected...

  • 33 Writers: Please Stop Using Term “Quid Pro Quo”

    15 days ago
  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This letter appeared in the New York Times on ? To the Editor: A plea from 33 writers: Please use language that will clarify the issues at hand...

  • Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton Would Support Impeachment

    23 days ago
    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Ron Chernow, author of Hamilton, wrote in the Washington Post that Trump is the populist demagogue that Alexander Hamilton feared and...

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  • “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly,” goes the old saying. This applies to rules and social codes, too. And one bad standard that’s ever being enforced...

  • Chinese Communist Front Flips Virginia Blue

    5 hours ago
  • VIDEO - The New American’s Christian Gomez interviews anticommunist author and researcher Trevor Loudon about his recent article published by The Epoch Times entitled, “Virginia...

  • Warren Fibs Again, This Time About the Top One Percent

    6 hours ago
    • The latest in Warren’s long list of fibs, uttered during last week’s Democrat debate but largely missed by the leftist media, is that billionaires are “freeloaders.”...

      MintPress News

  • Fresh on the heels of commemorating the killing of Israeli icon Yitzhak Rabin, Israel launched a series of attacks and assassinations on Palestinians. The post Israel Commemorates...

  • Amnesty International Toes US Gov’t Line in Urging Unrest in Iran

    a day ago
  • The US gov't has long attempted to foment popular uprisings and hijack or manipulate protests in Iran, now rights groups like Amnesty International, seem to be parroting the tactic...

  • Establishment Dems Demands Trump be Impeached, but Not for War Crimes

    a day ago
    • UkraineGate has so far failed to capture the public imagination precisely because it does not go after Trump for his most egregious and impeachable domestic and foreign policies...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • Uber loses licence to operate in London after 14,000 trips taken with unlicensed drivers(tags:driving london taxi OhForFucksSake regulation )Tory minister admits extra nurses...

  • Interesting Links for 25-11-2019

    2 days ago
  • The Value of Everything: Reinvigorating the most important battle in economics(tags:economics )Leonardo da Vinci: Edinburgh to host major exhibition(tags:art history LeonardoDaVinci...

  • Interesting Links for 24-11-2019

    2 days ago
    • African Union urges Britain to cede Chagos Islands, end colonial rule(tags:UK empire Africa OhForFucksSake )The evolutionary reasons why farming is hard(tags:farming evolution...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Scientists have recorded a blue whale's heart rate for the first time. The findings may explain why no other animal has ever been larger than a blue whale...

  • Medical News Today: Sleep loss may contribute to heart disease in those with low incomes

    17 hours ago
  • Recent evidence suggests that insufficient sleep may mediate the link between a low socioeconomic status and a higher risk of coronary heart disease.

  • Medical News Today: 6 home remedies for obstructive sleep apnea

    20 hours ago
    • Sleep apnea is a common condition. Without treatment, it can lead to more serious health issues. Here, learn about the causes of sleep apnea and six home remedies for it...

      InvestmentWatch

  • As 2019 draws to a close, precious material investors around the world are wondering what the next year will bring in terms of buying and selling trends. Should you sell ... Read more...

  • The Impending End Of A Mania

    5 hours ago
  • by CRESCAT CAPITAL Read PDF Version An important ratio of commodity versus equity valuations just reached a fresh 50-year low resembling two prior significant cyclical US stock...

  • DIS news. Research firm Apptopia estimates that Disney+ has had 15.5 million downloads in the past 2 weeks, close to a million a day.

    5 hours ago
    • Their data does not include direct downloads from Disney+, but only takes into account Android and iOS downloads. They estimate just under a million downloads a day, and also estimate...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s blog today and I’m not sure I expressed myself with all the clarity I could have. This thought has been rattling around in my head for a while...

  • A Good Candidate

    a day ago
  • I find it kind of strange that the final impetus for impeachment was Trump trying to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine. They could have nailed him on the emoluments clause after the first...

  • Why Her Lying Matters

    3 days ago
    • It might be a trivial issue, because I believe if somebody’s got megabucks there’s nothing inherently immoral in their decision to send their kids to private schools, and it could...

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