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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

We're Number One! [In Low Wage Jobs]

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Here's an interesting and discouraging graph, courtesy of economist Mark Thoma.  He used the graph in a talk at University of Oregon M...

Figures Don't Lie - But Liars Figure

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At the Pentagon about budget time, cynical staff officers often observed, "figures don't lie, but liars figure." We see the ...
Monday, April 9, 2012

Titanic

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A hundred years ago, April 10, 1912, RMS Titanic departed from Southampton, England, stopping first at Cherbourg, France, then at Queenstown...

Election Preparations

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Voters don't need to know how much work goes into preparing for an election. They just need to show up and vote. It should be comforting...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Pacific War - April 8, 1942

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On this day seventy years ago, American and Filipino forces defending the Bataan peninsula on the Philippine island of Luzon surrendered to ...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Get Out And Register - Then Get Out And Vote

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Is voting a right or a privilege? By law, it is a right. Every American citizen has the right to vote. One can also view it as a privilege...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Seventy Years Ago - Army And Navy In Phillipines

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While US Army pilots were training at Eglin Field in Florida for the Doolittle raid, US Army and Navy units were fighting a rear guard actio...

Rights And Obligations

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Our public discourse might be greatly improved if each of us were to give greater effort and support to the rights of others than to our own...
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