Of Financial Capital and Human Capital: Why We're Bailing Out Wall Street While Allowing Our Schools to Get Clobbered
(tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Our preoccupation with the immediate crisis of financial capital is causing us to overlook the bigger crisis in America's human capital. While we commit hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to... More
Submitted 1 day ago by robertharding on Economy | 0 Comments |
Immigration Reform Trapped in Political Dualism
(news.newamericamedia.org)
Editor’s Note: Obama’s appointments to positions that would affect immigration policy have drawn praise from advocates. But NAM contributor Roberto Lovato sees contradictory messages in the team... More
Submitted about 24 hours ago by robertharding on Immigration | 0 Comments |
Strengthening PEPFAR: A Plan for Immediate Action
(www.rhrealitycheck.org)
On January 20, President Obama will inherit many challenges, among them the global AIDS epidemic. He will also inherit the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program often cited... More
Submitted about 10 hours ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
Michael Moore: Saving the Big 3 for You and Me
(airamerica.com)
I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. And now for a decades-old story, retold ad infinitum by tens of millions of Americans, a third of... More
Submitted about 24 hours ago by robertharding on Economy | 0 Comments |
Weekly Pulse: Bush awarded medal for combating AIDS?
(www.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Monday marked the 20th annual World AIDS Day. And to "commemorate" the occasion, President George W. Bush received a P.E.A.C.E.medal from mega-church Pastor Rick Warren for his work combating the... More
Submitted about 22 hours ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
Walgreens harasses woman buying Plan B
(www.feministing.com)
Consumerist brings us a story out of Oxford, MS, where a woman buying Plan B - which is sold over-the-counter to women over 18 years old - was harassed by the pharmacy staff when she tried to purchase... More
Submitted about 11 hours ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
NZ columnist: Women would stop getting beaten if they'd just stop having abortions
(www.feministing.com)
Garth George, columnist for The New Zealand Herald, says that the main cause of violence against women is abortion. That and equality - but I'll get to that in a second. I have said it before... More
Submitted about 11 hours ago by cdoherty on Healthcare | 0 Comments |
Jhumpa Lahiri is an Accidental American
(www.racewire.org)
Born in London and raised in Rhode Island, the author of Indian descent traveled regularly to Calcutta while growing up. Lahiri has written about...
Submitted about 11 hours ago by cdoherty on Immigration | 0 Comments |
Chambliss got help from Focus on the Family, as well as Musgrave
(coloradoindependent.com)
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has generated plenty of attention for finally conceding — at least in a robocall to Georgia voters — that she lost her reelection bid to Democrat Betsy Markey in Colorado.... More
Submitted about 11 hours ago by cdoherty on GeorgiaRunoff | 0 Comments |
Why Should We Have Private Ratings Agencies?
(www.prospect.org)
Related to the last post, here's a question that's been bugging me: One of the key protections that failed was the bond rating agencies. Individual investors or managers knew little about the... More
Submitted about 11 hours ago by cdoherty on Economy | 0 Comments |
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