I’m old enough to remember when Barack Obama’s association with Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground member, gave some people the idea that Obama was a dangerous radical who couldn’t be trusted in office. Add to the list of people who agree that Obama is a dangerous radical one Bill Ayers. Ayers is basically incapable [...]
Associated Press Another week, another awkward remark about pregnancy from a Republican lawmaker. Last week, it was Rep. Trent Franks’ comments about the frequency of pregnancy from rape, the validity and meaning of which have been subject to a tediously hair-spliting debate. This week, it’s Rep. Michael Burgess, a Texan, with this: Watch a sonogram [...]
Gary Cameron/Reuters John Boehner wants immigration reform to pass. To get it done, the House speaker will have to capitalize on the widening gap among conservatives, and he’s preparing the groundwork to do it. The rare split inside the conservative wing of Boehner’s Republican conference offers him an uncommon opportunity to bring a bill to [...]
President Obama at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders during the 2011 APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Larry Downing/Reuters) Back when he was first seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, Barack Obama often questioned free-trade agreements like NAFTA. By the end of his first year in office, however, President Obama had already notified Congress that the [...]
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker polls near the bottom of would-be presidential contenders. Unlike potential rivals, you won’t find him on the cover of Time magazine or slow-jamming the news with comedian Jimmy Fallon. But he’s a conservative Republican who won election in a blue state, survived a brutal recall campaign, and now posts [...]
Congress “in effect signed off on” the NSA’s surveillance programs, according to Dick Cheney, who defended the Bush-Obama counterterrorism policy on Fox News Sunday. How does he figure? A transcript: We set up this program back in the weeks after ’01. We briefed members of Congress, chairmen and ranking members of the intelligence committees. We [...]
Reuters How is it that President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who appeared on Fox News Sunday defending the NSA’s vast surveillance program, find themselves on the same side of so many highly controversial national security debates? They subscribe to different ideologies, belong to opposing political parties, and differ dramatically in background and [...]
Demonstrators rallied outside of the Supreme Court during oral arguments in Shelby County vs. Holder in February. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) Civil rights are on the nation’s docket in a major way. Sometime this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide an important voting-rights case, Shelby County v. Holder, in addition to another case involving racial [...]
Marco Rubio and Ralph Reed (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press) Ever since Republicans got clobbered in the last election, some have suggested they dial back some of their hard stances in the culture war. The College Republicans, for example, commissioned a study that concluded that young voters see the party as fusty and old-fashioned, and urged it [...]
Reuters Edward Snowden has so raised the hackles of members of Congress and political commentators, it’s worth taking a minute to try to understand why. It can’t just be his leaks — no similar reaction greeted revelations by Thomas Drake and William Binney, two recent NSA whistle-blowers who also sought to publicize post-9/11 intelligence overreach. [...]
GEOFFERY CANADA – Education – TED Talk – millions of children lost per year
GEOFFERY CANADA IS MAD… BECAUSE EDUCATION IS FAILING ITS STAKEHOLDERS I’m a little nervous, because my wife Yvonne said to me,she said, “Geoff, you watch the TED Talks.” I said, “Yes, honey, I love TED Talks.” She said, “You know, they’re like, really smart, talented — “ I said, “I know, I know.” (Laughter) She [...]
It’s all about the flow – says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (TED Video)
TED TALK – SECRET TO HAPPINESS? Why you should listen to him: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living [...]
Deny Deny Deny!!! Peter Mansbridge – as unplugged as he gets… Meh!
From CBC.CA Website / The Mansbridge files… Meh!!! Again By Mark Bulgutch and Peter Mansbridge You don’t even have to have a particularly sharp nose to pick up the whiff of scandal these days. It’s all over the news. Every news cycle seems to bring a fresh angle to an on-going scandal, or gives birth [...]
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