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Is Eric Cantor Trying To Kill The Proposed Ban On Congressional Insider Trading?

Why economic inequality leads to collapse

The lesson of the Great Crash was that unequal enrichment provokes asset bubbles, excessive demand for debt and, finally, economic failure. Now we are painfully learning that again

Makes a number of good points but I counted a couple of problems with the argument and wasn’t looking too hard.

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You are a white man aged 30 without a college degree. Your grandfather returned from World War II, got a cheap mortgage courtesy of the GI bill, married his sweetheart and went to work in a factory job that paid him something like $50,000 in today’s money plus health benefits and pension. Your father started… Continue reading Untitled

Are high-tech classrooms better classrooms?

the nonprofit I-News Network recently reported that students attending the state’s “full-time online education programs have typically lagged their peers on virtually every academic indicator, from state test scores to student growth measures to high school graduation rates.” Stanford University researchers found similar results in their separate study of online schools in Pennsylvania. And after its exhaustive national investigation of the trend, the New York Times concluded that “schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut budgets and lay off teachers, with little proof that this approach is improving basic learning.”

Schools are willing to anything to improve education, except increase teacher salary.

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I imagine that the halftime show people explained the Super Bowl to Madonna as the Straight Oscars.

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Pythons Eating Through Everglades Mammals at “Astonishing” Rate?

Since the giant constrictors took hold in Florida in 2000, many previously common mammals have plummeted in number—and some, such as cottontail rabbits, may be totally gone from some areas.

Yet another reason not to visit Florida.

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Hackivist group Anonymous has announced that not only have they decimated the websites of avowed White Supremacist group American Third Position (A3P) during Operation Blitzkrieg but, in the process, they claim to have accidentally uncovered close ties between the racist group and Ron Paul. Not just the Ron Paul campaign, but Ron Paul himself. Ron… Continue reading Untitled

NYT Senate approves ban on Insider Trading by Congress

The only reason to do this on a Friday is to bury the fact that there are no restrictions on insider trading for Congressmen.