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I've felt for a long time that statistics ought to be taught from the earliest levels of the US educational system. A large part of the way that people get cheated, fail to make good decisions, and get duped by politicians and propagandists is a basic lack of understanding of statistics. To that end, and to help my own education, I've decided to start ...
A proposed South Carolina state budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes nearly $70,000 in funding cuts for two public colleges that assigned books addressing gay and lesbian themes. State Representative Garry Smith (R) originally advocated the measure that would take away $52,000 from the College of Charleston and $17,142 from the University of South Carolina Upstate. The House passed its full $24 ...
It won't be your usual auction, when the military vehicle collection of the late Jacques Littlefield comes up for auction this summer. Littlefield, who died in 2009 at the age of 59, had an assortment of some 200 wheeled and tracked weapons of war at his ranch in Portola Valley, Calif. Among the vehicles are a Russian T-72 tank used by the army ...
Meet Toby Harmon, a onetime drug dealer who found Jesus in jail, and his wife and three homeschooled kids who regularly join him outside Oklahoma abortion clinics in protest. Harmon is the co-founder of Abolish Human Abortion, a new, uncompromising anti-abortion group that is growing in presence around the country. Harmon and his associates call themselves "abolitionists," with all slavery comparisons explicitly intended. ...
Eight companies--including General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, and Gap--did not answer the reporter's repeated emails, phone calls, and social-media queries over the course of several weeks. Nine other companies--including Chrysler, McKinsey & Co., and Citigroup--responded only to say they would not comment. Eleven companies--including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Ford--claimed that they do not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, but they don't provide ...
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States frantically trying to compensate for the recent cuts in food stamps were accused by Speaker John Boehner Thursday of "gaming the system" by boosting home heating assistance to trigger additional food stamps for residents."It's not a sexy issue--and people don't like to think they live in a country where one in five children go hungry. Those of us who are living fun ...
Authorities in Kyiv have accused Moscow of provoking a deadly gunfight between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian activists in the eastern city of Kharkiv At least two men were killed and five others wounded in the overnight clashes. Rival groups both blamed each other for the violence, with Ukrainian authorities saying they feared Russia might use the trouble as a pretext to invade. Accusing pro-Russian ...
Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared in a news conference that the plane had been deliberately diverted from its planned route a week ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and then flown as much as seven hours to an unknown destination. The prime minister, Najib Razak, said in a news conference ...
(RNS) Evangelist Franklin Graham is praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggressive crackdown on homosexuality, saying his record on protecting children from gay "propaganda" is better than President Obama's "shameful" embrace of gay rights. Graham, who now heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association started by his famous father, praises Putin in the March issue of the group's Decision magazine for signing a ...
Obamacare opponents have already run more than 30,000 television ads attacking the health law and Democratic candidates who support it, according to the media tracking group CMAG -- a staggering 12-fold increase from four years ago. Many of the ads are being run in states with high uninsurance rates where hundreds of thousands of poor people could benefit from the Affordable Care Act, ...
The atheist writer S. T. Joshi, 55, born in India, raised in Indiana and now living in Seattle, has written or edited more than 200 books, including a novel of detective fiction, a bibliography of writings about Gore Vidal and numerous works about H. L. Mencken. He edits four periodicals, including Lovecraft Annual, the major review of scholarship about the horror writer H. ...
Published on Feb 10, 2014 In pop-music circles, Suzanne Vega is known almost entirely for two songs from the late 1980s: the child-abuse ballad "Luka" and a song that launched literally dozens of dance remixes, "Tom's Diner." But Vega has been making vital, inventive music the entire time -- much of it folk-based, though her sound has taken many smart detours along the ...
17-year-old Dylan Schumaker caught national attention when he cried in the courtroom while being tried for murder after he shook his girlfriend's baby to death after the child wouldn't stop crying. But was his crying genuine? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. read more here
Another Bundling of Holding containing one of my games! And good company I'm in, too! Adventurer! The fellowship of The Undauntables brings us a fine collection of indie tabletop roleplaying games of heroic action in many exotic settings. These DRM-free .PDF rulebooks will take you into savage lands of fact and fantasy, of space and sky, and of primeval myth. For just US$6.95 you ...
WELLINGTON -A citizen board member in Wellington is facing criticism after she likened the village's planning director to Adolf Hitler during a public meeting last week. Marcia Radosevich gave the Nazi dictator's one-armed salute and said "Heil Hitler" while the board was discussing the powers of village staff members during the monthly Planning, Zoning & Adjustment Board meeting March 5. The gesture was ...
"If a plane breaks up at altitude, the parts float down, so you find wings and rudders and horizontal stabilizers falling flat," Marks said. "If there was an explosion, you can find burn damage." A loss of pressurization could put the crew and passenger to sleep, as happened with golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet, which crashed in October 1999 in South Dakota after the ...
For many years the hallmark of a well maintained home was the golf course green trimming of the yard and paved walkways surrounded by meticulously trimmed bushes in geometric patterns. Flowers and plants were selected based on carefully conceived color coordination with garden furniture and it seemed that the goal was to make the lawn look as artificial as possible. This look was ...
I am unimpressed by his neutrality. IMHO he needs to step up and speak for the independence and strength of the oversight panel. The agency must be seen and be forced to act under, not apart from that authority. I'm no fan of Dianne Feinstein, but I'd like to see Obama watch her back for the sake of checks and balances. I must admit ...
he Cana­dian Press is re­port­ing that Olivia Chow re­signed her seat in Par­lia­ment ear­lier to­day and is ex­pected to for­mally launch her bid on Thurs­day to be­come the next mayor of Toronto. More: Russ Campbell's Blog: Chow Declares Her Candidacy; Let the Games Begin
The College of Charleston, a publicly-funded university in South Carolina and one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the US, has seen its budget cut by the state legislature in retaliation for selecting a gay person's memoir for a freshman lit course: insidehighered.com Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame) suggests giving to the College, in support of its "The College Reads!" program, ...
It makes me wanna dance. -- From a FZ interview about some music he had composed (on the synclavier). It was written in 17/35 (or something like that).
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