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On Ron Paul: Every man is a prophet, until he faces a Congress.

It is not enough to simply proffer Paul as a protest candidate.One must fully imagine the import of a Paul presidency.

If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? Paying teachers 10 per cent more results in 5-10 per cent higher pupil performance

Figure 1 above provides an insight into the relationship between teacher salaries and pupil outcomes, showing a clear statistical association between higher relative teachers’ pay and higher standardised pupil scores across countries.

'M-A-S-H' star Harry Morgan dies at age 96

Harry Morgan never planned to be an actor, yet he spent 10 years on one of the top TV series of all time, made 50 films and appeared on Broadway. He became one of the best-known character actors in Hollywood.

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Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Mother Jones

Another one bites the dust.

Reaganomics Author Sees The Light: Bruce Bartlett's Call For Higher Taxes On The Wealthy | Addicting Info

That’s not just anybody. Bruce Bartlett called for tax increases on the wealthy. Bruce Bartlett! Bruce Ron-Paul-Staffer Bartlett. Bruce Supply-Side-Author Bartlett. The man wrote one of the first books advocating Reaganomics. Advisor to President Reagan.

Study: Paul Krugman most accurate pundit predictor, liberals more accurate than conservatives

Op-ed columnists and TV’s talking heads build followings by making bold, confident predictions about politics and the economy. But rarely are their predictions analyzed for accuracy. Now, a class at Hamilton College led by public policy professor P.

Kindle and Nook readers bash high e-book pricing with angry one-star reviews

Kindle and Nook users share one thing in common: a number of them are rather upset about high e-book prices and are voting their displeasure in their user reviews.

A flowchart to help you determine if you're having a rational discussion - 22 Words

As one of the commenters said, I don't think any discussion has ever successfully made it through this flowchart, but man wouldn't it be nice if they did?

Hatch Endorses Affordable Care Act!

Orrin Hatch explains why he supports the Affordable Care Act:

What if we're not broke?

"We're broke."

Leading conservatives openly support a Terrorist group, then call America's opposition to it an "embarrasment"

Imagine if a group of leading American liberals met on foreign soil with -- and expressed vocal support for -- supporters of a terrorist group that had (a) a long history of hateful anti-American rhetoric, (b) an active role in both the takeover of a U.S.

Good TARP News Doesn't Fit; Media Are Flummoxed By The Fact That TARP Cost Much Less Than Expected And May Even Have Turned A Profit

What do we do with the end of TARP? And what do we do with the news that TARP will not have cost anything like the $700 billion we thought it would? What if it really cost $50 billion, or less?

Alan Grayson's GOP Opponent Directly Tied to Christian Group That Wants Permanent Subordination of Women

So how close is Republican Congressional candidate Daniel Webster, running against Democratic Representative Alan Grayson for Florida's 8th Congressional District, to evangelist Bill Gothard? That question is now politically salient because of Gothard's participation in a rad …

GOP violates "Pledge to America" less than 48 hours after publishing it

I'll have a lot more to say about the recently released GOP "Pledge to America" either tomorrow or on Monday, but for now I think this perfectly illustrates what a meaningless political stunt this is. On page four of the pledge, which was leaked early yesterday, we have this:

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Shhh... The Health Care Bill is Working (Just Don't Tell Anyone)

One of the first provisions of the PPACA to come into effect was the establishment of a set of high-risk insurance pools across the country.

The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond

But today, as the United States ends combat in Iraq, it appears that our $3 trillion estimate (which accounted for both government expenses and the war's broader impact on the U.S. economy) was, if anything, too low.

Charlie Brooker | Buzzwords for blowhards | Comment is free | The Guardian

Conservatives, generally, are far more adept at politically reframing concepts by giving them snappy-but-misleading nicknames than liberals. "Loony left". "Boom-and-bust". "Flip-flop". "Ground Zero mosque". All simplifications or outright lies – but they worked.

A president's praise for Islam

Republican president George W. Bush was a huge proponent of the Islamic faith. Here are some of the copious words of praise he heaped upon the Muslim religion in the days, months and years after 9/11: "Islam is a noble faith." "Islam brings hope and comfort."

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1st Artificial Life Created as Scientists Create Genome From Scratch and Cell Lives and Replicates

Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first synthetic living cell. More Articles

New developments in the Texas textbook massacre: 11th-hour amendments to social studies curriculum

All those earlier amendments you thought were extreme? They were nothing compared to these. [...] ...the staunch conservative and young earth creationist [Don McLeroy] has proposed a flurry of amendments including:

Of microorganisms and man: First large-scale test confirms Darwin's theory of universal common ancestry

"There have been major advances in biology over the last decade, with our ability to test Darwin's theory in a way never before possible," said Theobald.

POLL: Tea Party Timing, Obama, and G. W. Bush

Coming on the heels of the recent CBS News/New York Times poll on the Tea Party movement, I found these two diametrically opposed articles particularly interesting: Obama’s race and the tea parties

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'Tea party' activists: Do they hate liberals more than they love liberty?

Many of the attendees seemed to hate liberals far more than they loved liberty. A CBS/New York Times poll conducted in April showed that two-thirds of tea party members have a favorable opinion of Sarah Palin, and 57 percent have a favorable opinion of George W. Bush.

Self-starter: Life got going all on its own

IN THE beginning there were Ida and Luca. The initial Darwinian ancestor - Ida - and the last universal common ancestor - Luca - assembled themselves from the spare parts sloshing around on the early Earth.

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