Thursday, August 09, 2018

9 August - iGoogle Portal Tab 9



  Washington's Blog


  • Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Such important reality as is shown in this picture is virtually unpublishable in mainstream U.S. ‘news’media, because...

  • Best National Government in North America: Mexico

    16 hours ago
  • At least that’s the hope of those who elected Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, aka Peje, on a platform of sweeping out the corruption — a platform promoted in Obrador’s...

  • Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?

    18 hours ago

    •  Hear me out. While Saudis have threatened Canada with a 9/11 attack, the U.S. has moved on to blaming 9/11 on Iran. Al Qaeda, despite being Saudi in origins and ideology, was easily...

      The Vintage News



  • In spring 1921, USS Conestoga, a tugboat assigned to the United States Submarine Force, went missing somewhere in the Pacific, while on its way to American Samoa. The tugboat steamed...

  • Candy Wars: Did M&M’s Steal their Concept from Smarties?

    a day ago
  • At the start of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), twenty-seven countries signed a non-intervention treaty. However, it soon became clear that international elements were supporting...

  • Hollywood’s First Scandal: Fatty Arbuckle and the Party that Ended his Career

    a day ago

    • Back in 1921, Hollywood tasted the flavor of its first big fatty scandal. It roared from the front pages of newspaper magazines and concerned one Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, the...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!



  • Originally posted on Families Commissioner Blog: The ‘Three Strikes’ law exists because a majority of Members of Parliament want it, although there is no evidence which exists...

  • Kim Workman’s @ScoopNZ reply to my @DomPost op-ed: gangs are social clubs too! @sst_nz

    4 hours ago
  • At http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1805/S00199/jim-rose-on-gangs-analysis-without-context.htm about https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/104107156/extra-prisoners-are-nearly-all-gang-members–thats-hardly-a-crisis...

  • Criminal Tweets: Trump Critics Should Not Respond To Acts Of “Fake News” With Fake Law

    5 hours ago

    • Originally posted on JONATHAN TURLEY: Below is my column in the Hill Newspaper on the latest “smoking gun” of obstruction in the form of Trump tweets.  There continues to be a...

    The Truthseeker



  • Incisive analysis of the Alex Jones banning from the Saker. Who warns: we are witnessing an attempt to seize control of the only media our rulers do not control...

  • Alex Jones Makes NYT Headlines!

    6 hours ago
  • Brother Nathanael asks: Are tech giants using "hate speech" terminology to blur the distinction between legitimate opinion and actual libel?

  • Will South African Farmers Have the Last Laugh?

    6 hours ago

    • Call it destiny but, as Irish Savant writes, banks and financiers may be about to reap a karmic harvest in South Africa. WARNING: graphic image

      TARPLEY.net



  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Missouri Voters Rout GOP Union Busters, Reject Prop a with Historic Landslide...

  • All Eyes on Ohio 12 to Measure Rate of GOP Collapse and Chances for Imposing Congressional Checks and Oversight

    a day ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Nixon Resigned Forty-Four Years Ago This Week; Musk Toys with Taking Tesla...

  • At Ohio Rally, Trump Lionizes Jim Jordan, Implicated in Ohio State Athletics Scandal!

    2 days ago

    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, August 6, 2018 GOP in Trouble in Ohio 12 Special Election, Where Democrat O’Connor Now Leads...

      Sustainable Pulse



  • A Brazilian judge has suspended the use of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, a widely employed herbicide for soy and other crops in the country, according to legal...

  • Trump Administration Reverses Partial Phase Out of GMOs and Neonics in US Wildlife Refuges

    6 days ago
  • The Trump administration has stopped a partial phase out of the use of neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically modified crops on national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted...

  • Center for Food Safety Sues Trump Administration over GMO Labeling Delay

    6 days ago

    • On Wednesday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for failing to abide by the mandatory deadlines Congress set in the 2016 genetically...

      sunshine hours



  • July 2018 USA – 1936, 1934 and 1901 (tied with 2012) Are Still the Hottest (Maximum) in USA. 2018 is 19th. I’m using Maximum Temperature. Not Average.  ...

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 218 – 2018

    2 days ago
  • South / North

  • Cage Match: Volcano vs Hurricane

    3 days ago

    • Hurricane hector is bearing down on Hawaii where there is an active volcano. Which will win?!!!! Who will lose? https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2018-08-04-hurricane-volcano-what-happens...

      Stumbling and Mumbling



  • Despite Jo Michell’s criticisms of him, I fear that Richard Murphy raises an important point here. To see it, let’s assume Labour were to take power today. There is a pressing need...

  • Ownership in question

    2 days ago
  • What is the right form of ownership of a company? This is the question raised by Stan Kroenke’s proposal to buy all the remaining shares in Arsenal – a move described by the Arsenal...

  • The robot paradox

    3 days ago

    • “More than six million workers are worried their jobs could be replaced by machines over the next decade” says the Guardian. This raises a longstanding paradox – that, especially...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft



  • As unpredictable as Trump can be, several of his key foreign-policy decisions suggest that his administration is pursuing a coherent vision aimed at reviving America’s global...

  • The Modi Phenomenon and the Remaking of India

    5 days ago
  • Brahma Chellaney, Panorama Journal, Vol. 01/2018 In the four years that he has been in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has animated domestic politics in India and the country’s...

  • Pakistan’s sham election reinforces India’s challenge

    6 days ago

    • Why India shouldn’t rush into engaging with the new Imran-led Pakistan Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times, August 4, 2018 It has taken the Pakistani military a full year to complete...

      Socio-Economics History Blog



  • PressTV Published on Aug 8, 2018 China and Germany have defended their business ties with Iran in the wake of US sanctions on Tehran. The Chinese foreign ministry said, in a statement...

  • The Debate: Saudi – Al Qaeda – USA Deal

    8 hours ago
  • PressTV Published on Aug 8, 2018 Strange alliances or perhaps not so strange afterall, Associated Press has uncovered the very close relationship between Saudi and Emirati forces...

  • Israel Conducts Fresh Attacks on Gaza Strip

    8 hours ago

    • PressTV Published on Aug 8, 2018 Israel carries out new attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli drones bombed several targets across the region while warplanes fired missiles...

      Socialist Economic Bulletin



  • By Tom O’LearyThe multi-faceted attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party continues to include unjustified attacks on his economic policy. The liberal press...

  • The crisis in the NI economy never really ended

    14 days ago
  • By Tom O’LearyThe latest release of key data for Northern Ireland (NI) has had business organisations wringing their hands about the weakness of the economy. The CBI said the economy...

  • Economic lessons from the left governments in Latin America – and a comparison to China

    17 days ago

    • By John RossNote:This article is based on Marxist economic theory and macro-economic study of Latin American countries combined with two primary direct experiences:· The author...

      Ramani's blog



  • They were aware that,to influence Hindus,it is necessary to gain the acceptance of the Brahmins,who are revered in Hinduism. So they targeted Brahmins...

  • Jewish Tribes From India DNA Points To South India

    2 days ago
  • Two of the oldest Religions of the world are, Judaism and Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism. References to Jewish people and Judaism are found in Ancient Hindu texts. When Dwaraka sank after...

  • Nine Ocean Temples Nava Samudra Sthalas Tamil Nadu

    7 days ago

    • Five Elements Temples, (Panchabootha Sthalas), Panchakrosa Sthalas, Pancha Peeta Sthalas, Pancha linga Sthalas, Shakti Peeta Sthalas, Pancha Asana Sthalas(Five Seats) Tri(three)Sthalas...

      Diane Ravitch's blog



  • There are very few unionized workers in Missouri, but nonetheless voters rejected a law passed by the Legislature to cripple labor unions. The legislature passed the law in 2017...

  • Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education Who Pays No Attention to Evidence and Never Learns from Experience

    19 hours ago
  • Politico reports that Arne Duncan stubbornly clings to his belief that teacher quality can be measured by test scores and lashes out at those who disagrees. This despite the fact that...

  • Should Republican Billionaires Pick Democratic Candidates? Attention, Politico Morning Education.

    20 hours ago

    • In the education world, we have become accustomed to the intrusion of billionaires into local and state school board races, bundling money for candidates committed to privatizing—not...

      P U L S E



  • Guest post by Dr. Mary Ellsberg, a Professor of Global Health and International Studies, and Founding Director of the Global Women’s Institute of the George Washington University...

  • Morbid Symptoms: A Conversation with Gilbert Achcar

    20 days ago

    • Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Lebanese scholar Gilbert Achcar for a conversation about the complex situation in the Middle East and various myths about the...

      Pasco Phronesis



  • During the week in question, a topic for many late night shows was a paper in Science suggesting a lake of liquid water on Mars.  As Stephen Colbert noted in his monologue (jump to roughly...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of July 16

    13 days ago
  • For the second week in a row, Kate the Chemist is the name of note.  She appeared on the July 20 edition of The Wendy Williams Show.  However, as best as I can tell, the July 20 episode...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of July 9

    19 days ago

    • Even if there weren’t a lot of repeats, the highlight the week of July 9th-13th in late night was certainly the July 13th edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.  He did science...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT



  • By Paul Homewood   https://chinaenergyportal.org/2018-q2-electricity-and-energy-statistics/   Anybody who thinks China is rapidly shifting to renewable energy needs...

  • Tornado Trends

    a day ago
  • By Paul Homewood     https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/tornadoes/201713    As I’ve often commented, NOAA keep insisting on publishing charts of total tornado numbers, even...

  • Hothouse Earth

    2 days ago

    • By Paul Homewood Latest crap from the warmist establishment, gleefully blown up by the BBC     Climate change: ‘Hothouse Earth’ risks even if CO2 emissions slashed It may sound...

      NoTricksZone



  • Using data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Japanese skeptic blogger Kirye just tweeted how Arctic sea ice volume has surged to the 3rd highest level in 16 years. Data...

  • Business Daily Handelsblatt: German Wind Industry In “Serious Crisis”, Could “Implode”…Consequences “Could Be Fatal”!

    2 days ago
  • About a week ago I reported here how Germany’s “Solar Valley” spectacularly crashed into the wall of reality, turning into an industrial Death Valley, as almost the entire...

  • US Instrumental Records Indicate More Heat Waves Occurred In the 1930s Than Today

    3 days ago

    • During the 1930s, when the atmospheric CO2 concentration was about 100 ppm lower than today (310 ppm vs. 410 ppm), United States heat waves were just as if not more common than recent...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day



  • Gadfly on the Wall Blog: Top 10 Reasons You Can’t Fairly Evaluate Teachers on Student Test Scores I’m a public school teacher. Am I any good at my job? There are many ways to find out...

  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Channel One?

    2 days ago
  • Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Whatever Happened to Channel One? What is Channel One and when did it begin? Founded by Knoxville (TN) advertising executives...

  • OurFuture.org: “Portfolio” Boosters Want to Privatize Public Schools

    3 days ago

    • OurFuture.org: “Portfolio” Boosters Want to Privatize Public Schools Remember when Democrats, at the urging of their progressive base, defeated an attempt to privatize Social...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers



  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review No doubt Russia must be watched for its chronic efforts to sow more chaos in American elections — despite Barack Obama’s naïve assertion...

  • The Elites’ War on the Deplorables

    3 days ago
  • Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Recently Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta...

  • Victor Davis Hanson on The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton on Sunday August 5, 2018

    3 days ago

    • Republican lawmaker from Wisconsin seeks to prohibit members of Congress from fundraising while in session. Watch the full video here.

    The Moderate Voice



  • Republicans may be panicking over Ohio’s special election results Ohio Democratic candidate Danny O’Connor, left, and Republican candidate Troy Balderson. AP Photo/John...

  • Generation Z, Ready To Change the World

    12 hours ago
  • "When you are young, your political views are being molded, and the things that really stick with you tend to have an echo over time." - Soltis Anderson, GOP pollster. The post Generation...

  • (UPDATE II) Why The Trump-Mueller Interview Standoff Will Lead To A Big Kaboom

    a day ago

    • A speeding drunk driver plows into a crowded school bus, but the drunk’s lawyers tell investigators he won’t agree to an interview if it includes questions about the accident...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • The full title is Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals.  I have been working on this book for about twenty years, and I recommend...

  • Carbon taxes and food security

    5 hours ago
  • By Tomoko Hasgawa, et.al. in Nature: Food insecurity can be directly exacerbated by climate change due to crop-production-related impacts of warmer and drier conditions that are...

  • The Flynn Effect in China??

    5 hours ago

    • Data are reported for intelligence of children in China assessed by the Combined Raven’s Test in 1988, 1996 and 2006. The IQ of the samples increased by 15.0 IQ points over 18-year...

      Lloyd Lofthouse



  • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A blogger who identifies as “democracy” posted this comment, with which I agree. The bottom line is that Trump has lots and lots of Russian...

  • The Taste of Joy and the Sound of Winning

    a month ago
  • The winning roar from thousands of voices is a powerful force. Continue reading →

  • Thank You, Wealthy Robber Barons, for the Freedom to be a Free Rider!

    a month ago

    • Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog:   ? Wow! I now have a real choice when it comes to my union! ? At least, that’s what the email I got from the Mackinac Center says! ? Now that...

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  • Under the guise of “security,” government schools are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars to become even more like prisons.

  • Colleges: A Force for Evil

    12 hours ago
  • Many of the nation's colleges have become a force for evil and a focal point for the destruction of traditional American values.

  • Failed Predictions of Climate Alarmists Make Future Predictions Suspect

    14 hours ago

    • Certain scientists have been predicting climate doom for the Earth, some of which should already have been happening. But absolutely no such evidence has been produced yet...

      MintPress News



  • For such an ugly and bizarre international fistfight to spring full-blown from a single critical tweet strains credulity. Underlying the Saudis hostile anti-Canadian actions...

  • Democratic Socialist Rashida Tlaib Poised to Become First Palestinian-American Congresswoman

    17 hours ago
  • Tlaib is running in the reliably blue 13th District for the seat formerly held by longtime Democratic Rep. John Conyers, who retired in December following a series of sexual harassment...

  • Palestine Ambassador to UK: Israel’s Actions Against Flotilla are Piracy

    18 hours ago

    • "The flotilla was attacked in international waters. It was not in the Israeli territorial waters, which means that this is piracy par excellence.." The post Palestine Ambassador...

      Marginal REVOLUTION



  • Substitutes are indeed everywhere: This paper examines the association between television ownership and coital frequency using data from nearly 4 million individuals in national...

  • Monday assorted links

    3 days ago
  • 1. The gender gap in American politics. 2. Research papers from the Center for Innovative Governance. 3. The sociology of podcast listening (NYT). 4. Joe Lonsdale on the value of Western...

  • Middle-aged man for rent

    3 days ago

    • He allows himself to be hired by anyone, for nearly any purpose — not involving physical contact — as long as they pay his hourly wage: a mere 1,000 yen (about US $9). And he loves it...

      Made from Truth and Lies



  • Middle-aged men for rent in Japan (tags: men japan ) BBC websites blocked in China after security change (tags: security china censorship ) EU may force iPhone to switch from Lightning...

  • Interesting Links for 07-08-2018

    2 days ago
  • OpenAI's bots just thrashed some of the world's best Dota players (tags: games ai ) French ports cut out of EU trade route after Brexit (tags: france uk europe trade shipping ) It's Looking...

  • How much do I despair of the world (by percentage)

    3 days ago

    • After I posted the original analysis, a couple of people asked for "FFS by month, as a percentage of all tags".Some more calculation later, here it is:Clearly the world _is_ getting...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research suggests that 'mechanoceuticals' may be the treatment of the future against chronic pain. Magnetic force can reduce pain signals in neurons...

  • Medical News Today: Can gripe water or gas drops treat colic?

    17 hours ago
  • A baby with colic can cause distress for caregivers, and many turn to home remedies to soothe a baby’s discomfort. Gripe water and gas drops are two popular home remedies for colic...

  • Medical News Today: Why are my fingers pruney or wrinkled?

    19 hours ago

    • Pruney fingers are a common experience after taking a long bath, swimming, or washing dishes. They may be more likely to happen in warm water than cold water. In this article, learn...

      Brian M. Lucey


    • Good old Ray.  He keeps the IREXIT pot stirred, even when its boiled dry.   Below, a fisking of his latest brexity irexity musings in the Belfast Newsletter. The Irish government...

      Jon's Text



  • Practically demonstrated 2013 at my church hell health group. 1 minute of high intensity ultrasound to each breast. ½ minute to the lower and upper surfaces of each breast.Using...

  • cancer pain relief

    2 hours ago
  • So criminal! Every Dr. on earth has pledged to use best medicine. In 2002 the Moffitt cancer centre used High Intensity UltraSound to clear cancer. One session. No biochemistry, or...

  • Massage your cancer away

    14 hours ago

    • In 2002 American medics published the use of high intensity ultrasound to clear cancer at one session. 1 minute of 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound clears all 200 types of human cancer.You can buy...

      InvestmentWatch



  • UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) – The Pennsylvania Republican Party wants an investigation into a promotion by Fayette County Democrats at the recent county fair to get people to register...

  • Historic Government Spending Spree Underway

    14 hours ago
  • via nextgov: A combination of factors will see federal agencies trying to spend as much as 40 percent of their budgets in the final two months of the fiscal year. A ... Read more...

  • James Dobson Issues Dire Warning…Be Ready America!

    14 hours ago

    • For More Information See: www.charismanews.com/opinion/… www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-0…

      www.gurukalehuru.com



  • The world of information is an ocean deep, an ocean wide swim for all you’re worth, but you will never reach the other side This was my response to a Facebook friend who said “I can ...

  • Home

    2 days ago
  • We are home, we made it, the trip is over and I,  for one, count it as a raging success, one of the  best vacations we’ve ever had.  I loved the time spent in the water, I loved all the...

  • Ljubljana

    3 days ago

    • Every city has something to see, but we really hit it out of the park with our whirlwind tour of Ljubljana and Celje today.  The drive in to Ljubljana was lovely, all steep, green mountains...

      Fragments from Floyd



  • I am reading the NYT special called “Losing Earth. The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change.” If you want a video summary, here is an interview with the author, Nathaniel Rich...

  • Common But Commonly Overlooked: Horsehair Worms

    7 days ago
  • The FB post a few days ago about the Siberian worms (nematodes) that revived after 30k years in permafrost made me remember, back in my teaching days, of seeing similar-looking horsehair...

  • Plant Ballistics: Mountain Laurel’s Explosive Pollen Bullets

    21 days ago

    • The intricate design of the Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) was a marvel for me in 1970 when I was a student on a field trip to the Smokies from Auburn University. Systematic Botany...

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    9 August - iGoogle Portal Tab 8


      Eyes on Trade



  • Contrary to Donald Trump’s claim last week that he has reduced the trade deficit by $52 billion, the United States is on track to post a record high goods trade deficit for the first...

  • Will the U.S. and EU Revive the Damaging Pro-corporate, Anti-people TTIP Agenda?

    13 days ago
  • Trump promised a new approach on trade policy that would fix past damage to working people. But what his administration and European Union officials said this week in their joint statement...

  • Today’s D.C. Visit by Top Mexican Trade Officials May Reveal Whether a Renegotiated NAFTA Deal Can Be Signed in 2018

    14 days ago

    • Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Note: Today, the top Mexican trade officials of the current Peña Nieto and incoming López Obrador administrations...

      



  • We all need a push in the right direction. Every zodiac sign has its flaws, but we also all have the ability to learn and grow. Sometimes life can get us down and into places we never meant...

  • 5 Life Lessons To Learn From The Alchemist

    2 days ago
  • Reading is a skill that can help us dive into the minds of the greatest philosophers, historians, and generation leaders of all time. Paulo Coelho is one of those writers, and The Alchemist...

  • The Human Soul is Composed of NINE Parts According to Ancient Egyptians

    3 days ago

    • The complex religion that prevailed during the almost three thousand years of the Ancient Egyptian Empire considered that the human soul was composed of nine separate parts, which...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research suggests that 'mechanoceuticals' may be the treatment of the future against chronic pain. Magnetic force can reduce pain signals in neurons...

  • Medical News Today: Can gripe water or gas drops treat colic?

    16 hours ago
  • A baby with colic can cause distress for caregivers, and many turn to home remedies to soothe a baby’s discomfort. Gripe water and gas drops are two popular home remedies for colic...

  • Medical News Today: Why are my fingers pruney or wrinkled?

    18 hours ago

    • Pruney fingers are a common experience after taking a long bath, swimming, or washing dishes. They may be more likely to happen in warm water than cold water. In this article, learn...

      Desdemona Despair



  • By Adam Voiland9 August 2018(NASA) – In July and August 2018, towering plumes of smoke have risen from several fires in northern California. Though heavy rains ended the lengthy...

  • National Geographic: Half of the Great Barrier Reef has been killed by marine heat waves

    11 hours ago
  • By Lauren E. James8 August 2018(National Geographic) – Half of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached to death since 2016. Mass coral bleaching, a global problem triggered by...

  • Video: Albatrosses suffer agonizing deaths from ingested plastic

    11 hours ago

    • By Matthew Turner21 June 2018(Greener Ideal) – If images and videos of whales, dolphins, fish, seals, turtles, and other marine life consuming plastic wasn’t enough to make...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • In a historic first, a California Jury is now deliberating whether Monsanto's Roundup weed killer gave a school groundskeeper terminal cancer, after lawyers for both sides...

  • Unfriended! Democrat Drives to Man’s House and Shoots Him After Heated Political Disagreement on Facebook

    14 hours ago
  • A Facebook dispute boiled over into real life on Monday when a Democrat drove over to another man's home and shot him.

  • Breaking: Man at New Mexico Compound Was Training Children to be School Shooters

    15 hours ago

    • Several days ago, it was reported that eleven children were rescued from a compound in New Mexico which was being run by armed Muslim extremists. Today it was revealed that the father...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017



  • The Capital School District Board of Education will discuss a draft of a Certificate of Necessity tonight.  Included in this draft is a master plan to essentially rebuild the district...

  • Auditor Of Accounts Office Releases Very Questionable Report To News Journal’s Jessica Bies In Attempt To Interfere With Election & MERB Hearings

    a day ago
  • Jessica Bies with the News Journal wrote an article about State Auditor candidate Kathleen Davies and willfully withheld information provided to her that would have drastically...

  • Governor Carney’s Communications Director Jonathan Starkey On Susan Bunting: “No Comment”

    3 days ago

    • I just called Jonathan Starkey, Governor Carney’s Communications Director.  I asked him flat-out what Governor Carney is doing about the Susan Bunting situation.  I received...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetWhat will the Supreme Court’s recent Janus ruling mean for teachers unions? Jon Shelton, author of the recent (and excellent) book Teacher Strike! Public Education and the...

  • The Problem with Fear-Based Education Reform

    22 days ago
  • TweetDid you hear the one about how schools should be run more like businesses? In the latest episode of the Have You Heard podcast, Jennifer and Jack are joined by business journalist...

  • What the Sordid Saga of a Silicon Valley Start-Up Tells Us About #EdReform

    a month ago

    • TweetWhile Have You Heard co-host Jack Schneider is off doing whatever academics do during months without an ‘r,’ Jennifer has been tearing through a blockbuster new book on...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • August 9, 2018 Proton 2.0  is a Mahathirian Egotistical Dream by P Gunasegaram http://www.malaysiakini.com Malaysia’s Nightmare and Dr. Mahathir’s Egotistical Aspiration...

  • Democracy: American Leadership in Crisis

    8 hours ago
  • August 9, 2018 Democracy: American Leadership in Crisis: Fix IT by Simon Tisdall@The Guardian Dark money, unchecked presidential power and a politicised supreme court are wrecking...

  • Mahathir and the new National Car Project

    10 hours ago

    • August 9, 2018 Mahathir and the new National Car Project–Doomed to Failure Again by John Berthelsen@www.asiasentinel.com In 1984, a young researcher at a prestigious Malaysian...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • New research suggests that 'mechanoceuticals' may be the treatment of the future against chronic pain. Magnetic force can reduce pain signals in neurons...

  • Medical News Today: Can gripe water or gas drops treat colic?

    16 hours ago
  • A baby with colic can cause distress for caregivers, and many turn to home remedies to soothe a baby’s discomfort. Gripe water and gas drops are two popular home remedies for colic...

  • Medical News Today: Why are my fingers pruney or wrinkled?

    18 hours ago

    • Pruney fingers are a common experience after taking a long bath, swimming, or washing dishes. They may be more likely to happen in warm water than cold water. In this article, learn...

      Fast Company



  • A gripping tech comeback story that began back in 2014 is now complete: Intel has completely beaten out Qualcomm to provide the modem chips inside of iPhones. Fast Company has reported...

  • Facebook stock hammered after earnings miss, slow growth forecast

    15 days ago
  • Poof. There goes a quarter of really impressive stock gains. Over the last month, Facebook’s stock reflected investors’ apparent lack of concern about potentially damaging...

  • These InfoWars videos banned by YouTube are still alive on Facebook

    15 days ago

    • YouTube announced today that it had removed four videos—which express hatred toward liberals, Muslims, and trans children—by right-wing bullshit artist (proper media reference...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Instapundit quotes Jonah Goldberg, writing about Sarah Jeong: [Joseph] Schumpeter predicted, before the massive expansion of higher education, that capitalism would breed a...

  • CON Does Seem Like an Appropriate Acronym

    4 days ago
  • Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia currently impose certificate-of-need (CON) restrictions on the provision of healthcare. These rules require providers to first...

  • The Dogs Don’t Like It

    5 days ago

    • The title of this post is the punchline to an old, old story about the limits of advertising; a story which may or may not be based on fact. The story goes that a big food-manufacturing...

      Centinel2012



  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 8, 2018 by sundance The most corrupt part of congress is the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).  The SSCI is the...

  • Arresting Development: California Police Chief’s Son Arrested for Attacking Sikh Man in Viral Video…

    11 hours ago
  • Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 8, 2018 by sundance A 71-year-old Indian Sikh named Sahib Singh Natt was attacked in California on Monday morning. The attackers...

  • Known Wolf – Son of Prominent Imam Was Training Children as Terrorists in New Mexico….

    11 hours ago

    • RE-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on August 8, 2018 by sundance This is very alarming.  In testimony and documents provided to a federal court the DOJ is outlining how Islamic...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • On today's BradCast: The Election Administrator's (and Election Integrity journalist's) Prayer was decidedly not answered on Tuesday, based on reported results in at least two...

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