Dick Cheney’s Tax Cut
Nine years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney gave the wealthiest Americans an unneeded tax cut. To this day, America’s top income-earners — households making more than $250,000 a year — aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. Letting these tax cuts for the wealthy continue for another decade would saddle middle class Americans, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Revalorizing the Trades
For the 10th-anniversary issue of The Chronicle Review, we asked scholars and illustrators to answer this question: What will be the defining idea of the coming decade, and why? Camille Paglia Vanishing of jobs will plague the rest of this decade and more. Meaningful employment is no longer guaranteed to dutiful, studious members of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )From Bikinis to Burqas, the Feminist Politics of Clothing
Published on RHRealityCheck.org (http://www.rhrealitycheck.org) Home > Blogs > Sarah Seltzer’s blog > From Bikinis to Burqas, the Feminist Politics of Clothing By Sarah Seltzer [1], RH Reality Check How can so many American feminists have come out against a burqa ban in France (as they largely [11] have [12] this [13] past [14] month [15]) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Houellebecq vs. Wikipedia
The French novelist borrowed from the online encyclopedia. Is he in trouble? By Vincent Glad: Posted Friday, Sept. 10, 2010, at 12:43 PM ET French writer Michel Houellebecq has always loved to pepper his novels with long encyclopedic descriptions of personalities, locations, and scientific concepts. In his new novel, the excellent La carte et le [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Inside the World’s Deadliest City (Jeremy Gantz)
Juarez’s anarchy cannot be separated from American policy and addictions, says journalist Charles Bowden Sept. 1, 2010 (In These Times) — Drive across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, and you’ll enter the most dangerous city in the world: Ciudad Juárez, where more than 6,000 people have been murdered since 2008, including more than 1,700 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )From a Police Officer: Very Good Advice
Because of recent abductions In daylight hours, refresh yourself Of these things to do In an emergency situation… This is for you, And for you to share With your wife, Your children, Everyone you know. After reading these 9 crucial tips, Forward them to someone you care about. It never hurts to be careful In [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn’t Set in Stone
Recent discoveries require us to rethink our understanding of history. “The histories of the universe,” said renowned physicist Stephen Hawking “depend on what is being measured, contrary to the usual idea that the universe has an objective observer-independent history.” Is it possible we live and die in a world of illusions? Physics tells us that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Exodus: Is the Christian church losing critical mass?
Is Christianity facing an exodus of, well, Biblical proportions?
There are clear signs that the passion of Jesus’s followers is ebbing and the congregation is losing critical mass.
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