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Coulter, we won't defend you this time: columnists Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 8:09AMSometimes we feel like we're in an amusement park funhouse as we participate in the present conservative movement's battle to confront our culture: The mirrors are distorted; the corners are dark; and a new shock is waiting around every corner.
Former Drug and Alcohol Addict Tells His Story Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 11:43AMFiled under: Interviews , Profiles , Race and Civil Rights Last time, I discussed depression and its effects on the black community . This time my panel and I discuss how and why drug and alcohol abuse continues to be a major blight on the black community. According to statistics by John Hopkins University School of Medicine : African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and Alaskan Natives ...
Market Data: Power, War, and Man Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 5:49AMCritics condemn economic theory for disregarding the role that power plays in real life. Real man, they say, is not free to choose and to act: it is not his value judgments but the forces of power that determine market phenomena. These objections are no less spurious than all other statements of the critics of economics.
An estimation problem for math teachers [Dot Physics] Tuesday, August 3, 2010 @ 10:47AMYou thought I was going to talk about a problem that math teachers could use, didn't you? Well, maybe math teachers can use this. (note: when I say "teachers" I really mean "learning facilitators") It all started when I read this valedictorian speech from Erica Goldson. Here is part of it: "I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience ...
Protesters call for criminal charges Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:05AMMeanwhile, Woods Services has reinstated one of the counselors who supervised a day trip with four clients, including a 20-year-old man who later died after he was left in a van.
Protesters call for charges, closure of Woods Services Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 12:14AMMeanwhile, Woods Services has reinstated one of the counselors who, during a day trip, supervised four clients, including a 20-year-old man who later died after he was left in a van.
Survey: Many Christians don't go to church Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 9:22PMBrian Rauber grew up in church, slacked off during college, then stopped going to church altogether. He stayed away for 10 years.
Survey: Christians might reject church but many retain faith Friday, June 4, 2010 @ 6:53PMBrian Rauber of Kansas City grew up in church, slacked off during college, then stopped going to church altogether. He stayed away for 10 years.
Writing from outside the Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 9:29PMIn reply to Why Unis Shouldn't Play The Economics Card : Writing from outside the university, but with a very old degree and a child who is the third of three children to go through three different universities over a period of 25 years, for me this whole debate misses the key point. To the vast majority of the population, the key role of a university is to teach young people well so that they ...
I realise Alexburns is Monday, May 17, 2010 @ 9:29PMIn reply to Why Unis Shouldn't Play The Economics Card : I realise Alexburns is giving very helpful information for the current situation, but my problem is with the kind of mindset that has led to an absurd amount of time and money being spent both quantifying and justifying research. If the current regime had been in place between the 1950s and 80s, I doubt if Manning Clark would/could have ...
So why is Kevin Rudd suddenly the problem? Sunday, May 16, 2010 @ 8:24PMRudd's appeal to voters has collapsed as spectacularly as Labor's vote. Part one of Bernard Keane 's special report into what's really behind Labor's plummeting poll numbers.
About Us Sunday, May 16, 2010 @ 3:10AMI went to hear a young Irishman called Pete Rollins give a talk above a pub a few nights ago. In the world of edgy religious thought, he's a bit of star. He has just been on a speaking tour of the States, where he is based now.
Namibia : Neoliberal Institutionalism Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 4:11AMIn the empirical study of Politics and International Relations, one begins to realise that the world is all about ideologies and theoretical persuasions. This is perhaps difficult to understand since we are engulfed by a social campaign against the role of theory in our daily lives.
They seemed confused Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 9:14PMAt exactly 9:45 am, the protesters had gathered in their thousands at the rendezvous waiting for a marching order from the convener of the rally.
US revives Asia trade agenda Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 2:12AMPENANG - A speech by United States President Barack Obama in Tokyo has elevated the status and prospect of the little-known Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, known by many observers as the P4, to the center stage of regional economic cooperation.
Looking Back on Year, Decade in Theater Thursday, January 7, 2010 @ 9:14AMAt the end of the season, it’s a wry task to talk about what happened last year in theater, something that progresses by seasons more than by calendar years, in a kind of reverse order, like everything on stage seems to be: where life is turned upside down, inside out—so we can look (and laugh or cry) at it.
Ross Douthat: Obama the realist walks a fine line Tuesday, December 29, 2009 @ 12:56PMEvery presidency is the subject of competing caricatures. But almost a year into his first term, there’s something particularly elusive about Barack Obama ’s political identity. He’s a bipartisan bridge-builder — unless he’s a polarizing ideologue. He’s a crypto-Marxist radical — except when he’s a pawn of corporate interests. He’s a post-American utopian — or else he’s a willing tool of the ...
Books: 'Bodies' the perils of bad body image; 'The Godfather Doctrine': A Foreign Policy Parable.' Saturday, December 26, 2009 @ 6:43PMAn examination of body image; What 'The Godfather' can teach us about foreign policy and others.
The Obama Way Saturday, December 26, 2009 @ 7:23AMPresident Obama baffles observers because he’s an ideologue and a pragmatist all at once, and he prefers cutting deals to walking away from the negotiating table.
Without Ideology or Order Friday, December 25, 2009 @ 3:01AMThe greatest achievement in Russian foreign policy over the past 20 years has been the renunciation of messianism as Russia abandoned attempts to impose its own model of social relations on other countries.
Latinos scramble to ensure a ride after licenses canceled Monday, December 21, 2009 @ 2:17AMThe signs are popping up at Latino markets throughout Columbus.
Latinos scramble to ensure a ride after licenses cancelled Sunday, December 20, 2009 @ 9:32PMThe signs are popping up at Latino markets throughout Columbus. "Necesitas ride?" one asks in a mix of English and Spanish. "I'll take you wherever you want."
Ghana : Winner-Takes-All Upheld Despite Weaknesses Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 8:58AMallAfrica: African news and information for a global audience
Latin American countries hail agreement in Honduras Friday, October 30, 2009 @ 11:50PMLatin American countries on Friday hailed the agreement reached between de facto Honduran leader Robert Micheletti and ousted President Manuel Zelaya on Thursday night to solve the Honduran political crisis. The pact includes a power-sharing government and a congressional decision on Zelaya's brief reinstatement ahead of a presidential election slated on Nov. 29. The Mexican government issued a ...
President, Know Thyself Tuesday, October 6, 2009 @ 8:04AMThere are lots of ways of thinking about foreign policy: not just political labels of recent vintage like “neoconservatism” and “liberal interventionist,” but bona fide, academy-approved approaches like world-systems theory, functionalism, and rationalism.
Zelaya returns with soldiers' help, says Honduran ambassador Friday, September 25, 2009 @ 1:42AMOusted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's surprise return Monday was made possible with help from certain sectors of the armed forces, the country's ambassador to Panama, Juan Alfaro Posadas, said here Thursday. A sector of the Honduran armed forces begins to shift their loyalty to Zelaya, who appeared in Brazilian embassy in Honduras Monday, the ambassador told a press conference. "They are ...
Laura Carlsen: Coup Catalyzes Honduran Women´s Movement Friday, August 21, 2009 @ 6:43AMOn the morning of June 28, women's organizations throughout Honduras were preparing to promote a yes vote on the national survey to hold a Constitutional...
EISIP helps people stay safe at home Tuesday, August 18, 2009 @ 1:06AMTo access information on eligibility requirements, contact EISIP coordinators, Colleen Monty, at 565-4649 or Martha Gulley at 565-4666. PLATTSBURGH — Doris Bolia will be celebrating her 100th birthday in October.
They did not elect me president to restore capitalism in Cuba or to surrender the Revolution. I was elected to defend, ... Monday, August 3, 2009 @ 2:39PM• Speech given by General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, during the 3rd ordinary session of the 7th Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, at the International Conference Center, on August 1, 2009, "Year of the 50th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution."
Justice and the world Monday, August 3, 2009 @ 12:32PMIf the reliance on public reasoning is an important aspect of the approach to justice, so is the form in which questions of justice are asked.
Cuba strengthens its institutionalism Monday, August 3, 2009 @ 7:24AMDURING the plenary session of the National Assembly of People's Power, Cuba’s parliamentary deputies discussed issues of supreme importance for the country’s future, and ended by passing laws on the National Museum System and Comptroller General of the Republic.
Honduras and the "twin-track" policy of the United States Tuesday, July 7, 2009 @ 6:12AMUNTIL Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is returned to Tegucigalpa with all of the powers established in that Central American nation’s Constitution, we must be wary of the "twin-track" policy.
Simon Duffy quits as head of In Control Sunday, July 5, 2009 @ 1:40AMFounding member and chief executive of the social care reform organisation has walked out after a boardroom clash Social care pioneer, Simon Duffy, has walked out on the organisation he founded to promote the use of personal budgets. His sudden departure from In Control comes at a critical time, when personal budgets are about to be pilot-tested for the first time in the NHS, giving control of a ...
Zanu PF focus on power consolidation Friday, July 3, 2009 @ 7:50AMIT IS structural issues whose manifestation has tended to negate the purpose and intention of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in Zimbabwe.
Social care pioneer Simon Duffy quits as head of In Control Tuesday, June 30, 2009 @ 3:44AMSocial care pioneer, Simon Duffy, has walked out on the organisation he founded to promote the use of personal budgets.
Popular business directory searches Thursday, June 4, 2009 @ 8:16PMPhil G. Busey Sr. The Edmond Sun EDMOND — Did you dream we would own a part of GM as American taxpayers? The bankruptcy of GM, the largest in corporate history, marks an end of a dynastic era and the beginning of one we have no chart to navigate.