January 31, 2014
Schiff vs. Ritholtz: Political Correctness vs. Law of Supply and Demand
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Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
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View article: Harris v. Quinn: A Mother Petitions the Supreme Court in Fight Against Parasitic Unions
The Economist, which has toed a pro-Thaksin line for years, eagerly penned, " Political crisis in Thailand: You go your way, I’ll go mine ," which claimed: Indeed, many red shirts say Bangkok is already lost.
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Three cheers for a group of nine California students who are fed up with tenure rules that protect not only incompetent teachers, but also sexual predators. Reuters reports California students challenge teacher employment rules in lawsuit . A group of nine California students will challenge employment rules they complain force public schools in the most populous U.S.
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.
Leaving aside religious debates on global warming, UC Berkeley professor B. Lynn Ingram says California water woes could be just beginning . As 2013 came to a close, the media dutifully reported that the year had been the driest in California since records began to be kept in the 1840s
I happen to like US treasuries on the basis the economy is slowing much more than anyone thinks. Short-term, who knows?
Next consider House passes farm bill, crop subsidies preserved . After more than two years of partisan squabbles over food and farm policy, the House passed and sent to the Senate Wednesday an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill containing a small cut in food stamps and preserving most crop subsidies. The measure, which the House approved 251-166, had solid backing from the Republican leadership team, even though it makes smaller cuts to food stamps than they would have liked.
