Coldest, Driest, Calmest Place on Earth Found - Yahoo! News
Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code - WSJ.com
“Big rare bug found alive in remote mountain island.” — World’s Rarest Insect found on Rocky Spire - Boing Boing
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“The community needs to be careful what it asks for,” McCray said. “It asks for the district to be run like a corporation. This is what happens in corporate America.”
Mary McCray (President of Charlotte’s Association of Teachers) lamenting that low performing teachers were let go in cashed strapped county. The “Star” teachers let go were double dipping: Pension + Salary. That quote tells you everything you need to know on the state of public education and accountability…
” — Loss of ‘stars’ stuns schools | CharlotteObserver.com“Our philosophy of progressive Conservatism – the pursuit of progressive goals through Conservative means – aims to reverse the collapse in personal responsibility that inevitably follows this leeching of control away from the individual and the community into the hands of political and bureaucratic elites.” — A new politics: We need a massive, radical redistribution of power | David Cameron | Comment is free | The Guardian
Specter, Bank of America, Chrysler: A Bad Week for Business - BusinessWeek
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“‘I asked how many employees work at USDA, and nobody really knows,’ Tom Vilsak, US Agriculture Secretary” —
and we think the government is capable of running health care? The government can’t even run the government.
RealClearPolitics - Obama’s Budget Follies
I’m all for high speed rail having to endure the NJ Transit rail commute daily. However, the administrations plan to put rail anywhere outside of the NE corridor is insane. How can rail compete with air transportation when it’s both slower and more expensive in the mid west? Plus, city density in the mid west doesn’t lend itself to public transportation, so it’s more than a little inconvienet to drop a passanger in the middle of Tulsa. Why not just get it right in Phili, NYC, DC, Boston and move out from there once the model is proven?
Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail - WSJ.com
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“Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, this has been simple: produce more with less. (“Productivity,” in economic jargon.) Mass markets developed for clothes, cars, computers and much more because declining costs expanded production. Living standards rose. By contrast, the logic of the “post-material economy” is just the opposite: spend more and get less.” — Robert Samuelson on why Obama’s economic plans won’t work. RealClearPolitics - Articles - Obama’s Economic Mirage
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“The people in the administration are surrounded by a galaxy of unknowns, and yet they see this economic crisis as an opportunity to expand their reach, to take bigger risks and, as Obama said on Saturday, to tackle every major problem at once.” — Op-Ed Columnist - The Big Test - NYTimes.com