Bill Could End Kansas Civil Service Protections For Many
This bill proposes to upend almost a century's worth of civil service tradition in the Sunflower State. In 1915, Kansas was
View ArticleStudent Journalist's Story on Same-Sex Wedding Spurs Backlash, Pulitzer...
Bush is still surprised by the reaction. Bush also had to deal with some personal attacks. As she told The Student Printz
View ArticleStudy: U.S.'s Inter-Generational Mobility Limited
It's not entirely a hereditary aristocracy and hereditary serfs; but the circumstances, genes, and connections that a person is born with do have a marked impact in this country.
View ArticleA Bitter Moment in Obama's Presidency
Ending the sequester cuts would require virtual political suicide for whichever party caved, because there really is no achievable middle-ground here, not within a million miles.
View ArticleState Department's Keystone XL "Study" Now Doubly Exposed as a Hoax
America's "news" media are not reporting the truth about this "State Department" "study": It's a horrid and dangerous hoax
View ArticleIs The RNC's Outreach Plan In Line With Minority-Important Issues
The Republican Party might run into some problems with their "outreach" if they push too hard against Perez, who is a Latino
View ArticleObama's Disastrous Failure To Use The Bully Pulpit
What we needed when a new President was sworn in on 20 January 2008 was another Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What we got was just mush.
View ArticleFor African Youth, Informal Sectors Jobs Are Normal
Informal sectors jobs would be instrumental in providing opportunities for growing young population in Africa. That's why, Devarajan said, countries should understand that "informal is normal."
View ArticleAre Private Labs Overcharging Medicare?
The refusal of the two labs - Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp -- to give Medicare what is known as a "best price," as required
View ArticleWhy Obama Will Probably Be Low-Rated By Historians
Obama is turning out to be perhaps the best Presidential partner that congressional Republicans have ever had - of either Party.
View ArticleAtlanta Federal Reserve Report: Obama Administration Is Failing 'Marginally...
This report presents a new chart that compares the economy now (the blue line) against both the economic peak in late 2007
View ArticleObama Finally Lays His Cards on the Table
This way of paying for the ongoing bailouts of Wall Street was Obama's plan even before he had entered the White House.
View ArticleWhy Obama Wants Cuts In Social Security Benefits
The name of the Social Security System has always been "Old Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance." This is what it was designed to be, and this is what it still remains: an insurance plan, not an...
View ArticleRebranding The Republican Party And KFC
Spokesman Rick Maynard said, RNC Chairman Reince Prebius said the GOP would reach minority voters by creating a $10 million
View ArticleHow the U.S. Performs in Recent International Rankings
The U.S, overall, is very far from being #1 - not really in contention, at all, for the top spot. The individual rankings suggest instead that this nation is sinking towards the Third World.
View ArticleA Progressive's View: Obama Doesn't Much Care About the Public's Welfare
Obama is a moderate Republican who merely wears the verbal garb of a "Democrat." That's the reason why, increasingly, it
View ArticleThe Scandal that's Discrediting All Conservative Economists
The reason that the CRS report was squelched wasn't reported by the Times. This reason was that without supply-side theory
View ArticleThe Philosophical War Between Democrats And Republicans
On April 15th, Luke Johnson headlined "Rob Woodall: Mitt Romney Was Right About '47 Percent' Statistic," and he reported
View ArticleThe Vision & Mission Of Bob Edgar (Video)
Bob Edgar, the president and CEO of Common Cause, has passed away at the age of 69. Bob was active and on point up to the
View ArticleNepal Should Not Be Considered A Lost Cause
Nepal, along with seven other fragile countries, already has met the MDG goal to decrease the number of people living on
View ArticleFirst-Ever Study of Global Economic Inequality: Richest 8% Earn 50% of...
Wealth-inequality is always far higher than income-inequality, and therefore a reasonable estimate of personal wealth throughout the world would probably be somewhere on the order of the wealthiest 1%...
View ArticleGallup Poll Shows Republicans Are More Manipulable Than Democrats
A 2 October 2003 survey, "Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War," from worldpublicopinion.org (formerly "PIPA," or Program
View ArticleGlobal Warming Will Be Hell, Dramatic New Data Indicate
Already the hottest countries - the ones nearest to the equator - are overwhelmingly the poorest countries, averaging only about 2% of the per-capita annual incomes of countries like in North America,...
View ArticleWhere Has All the Info Gone, Long Time Passing?
Joel Sucher, a filmmaker with Pacific Street Films in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. is working on Foreclosure Diaries, a documentary
View ArticleThe Overwhelming Majority of the Earth's Poor Live Near the Equator - the...
The overwhelming majority of the Earth's poor live in places like that, not here. However, our grandchildren will live there, too. As for the grandchildren of the people who now live there: they'll be...
View ArticleHow the World Bank Engages With Youth
To end poverty by 2030, helping youth reach their potential will be instrumental. Last week I spoke at YouthTalks, the annual
View ArticleWhy Were We So Jubilant And Despondent After The Zimmerman Verdict?
Becuase of these facts, I find it difficult to understand how anyone can be celebrating over the events that have transpired
View ArticlePoll: Obama Now Overwhelmingly Distrusted Even By Democrats
Americans are finally finding consensus on something important: they don't like the people whom Americans have elected to federal office.
View ArticleGlobal Warming Is Greatly Increasing Crime and Other Conflict
Page 13 of this article presents graphs showing clearly that, as the temperature rises, there are proportional rises in: "Violent
View ArticleObamacare Already Starts Collapsing Into Medical-Industry Feeding Frenzy
This is how America's "free market" works. But it is also how Americans spend twice as much per person and receive inferior health care, as compared to other industrialized countries. And now, with...
View ArticleIs The Obama Administration the Most Corrupt in U.S. History?
-------- Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican
View ArticleHillary Clinton's Two Foreign-Policy Catastrophes
Who, at the State Department in "Washington," had "buck stops here" authority and power? Hillary Clinton. An American visitor
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