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This is not surprising. In fact, it was predictable. =============================== The downside of diversity: What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth? IT HAS BECOME increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength. From...

The UK exit threat is a shot across the bow of the EC-10-FTT countries, letting them know that there will be consequences for an FTT with extra-territorial reach. Unfortunately, many of the FTT proponents are such fanatics I doubt they'll even notice.

When I went to Berkeley in the 1980s, almost half the school was Asian. My math and science classes were often over 70% Asian (and most of the rest were Jewish). When choosing a school for our children, I made sure there was a large percentage of Asian and Jewish students. I want my daughters...

The question being raised by the OP is an important one: What are we getting for our money? If a poor family receives $60k in money and services from the government and is still poor, then the government has failed. When spending a lot of money yields a bad result, spending more money...

Twenty years ago Ross Perot asked the same question: If the average "poor" family is getting $40k per year in money and services (that's what it was back then), then how can they still be poor?

I disagree with Jon Stewart on most issues, but I enjoy his show because he's smart, clever and entertaining. Bill Maher is neither intelligent nor funny. He's just a crass angry guy.

No matter who wins the election there will be plenty of volatility. Problems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and here in the US will move the markets.

Exactly the opposite will happen. -- Romney will win the popular vote by a narrow margin. -- Obama will win the electoral vote by one or two states. (Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives and Democrats will maintain a slim majority in the Senate). Some people...

California is the worst... California has 12% of the country's population and 32% of the nation's welfare cases.

Great article about the California train wreck -------------------------------...

Standard procedure in this administration. =================================== http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/11/13/how-obama-s-alternative-energy-programs-became-green-graft.html In March 2011, for example, the GAO examined the first 18 loans that were approved and found...

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2012/10/employers-telling-employees-that-excessive-government-regulation-is-bad-for-business-shocks-leftists.html "... First, how is this different from a union telling its members how to vote? Or, for that matter, the UC system...

Most people just don't get it... Law-abiding citizens are the only people who obey gun laws -- and they're not the problem.

GUN CONTROL: The theory that a woman lying dead in an alley is morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got shot.

Gloria's pissed that Donald Trump was named "biggest media clown in America" and she wants to regain the title for herself.

Plus a set of Ginsu knives and a discount coupon for the Avatar 3d DVD.

At the ECOFIN meeting in June, Finance Ministers from the UK, Sweden and Denmark all said they opposed an EU-FTT, but would not block an EC-FTT as long as there was no extraterritorial reach.

"... Was this just someone who made a bad trade? Or was somebody trying to influence Intrade odds in order to sway perceptions of the race? And, if so, was it worth $1,250 to jolt the markets for less than 10 minutes?" By the author's own admisssion, there's no proof the buyer was trying to...

If you trade for a living, you'll vote for candidates that are strongly against the financial transaction tax (FTT).

I live in earthquake country -- California. We have some of the best earthquake scientists in the world here at Caltech and the California Integrated Seismic Network. They all say the same thing -- we can't predict earthquakes with any kind of useful accuracy. Italy has taken a massive step...