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Buddha's foundational teaching of interconnection and interdependence, or co-arising demands that we live in balance with the environment. If we are just as apart of a towering tree as it's leaves, then to recklessly destroy our forests, rivers and oceans is to slowly but exponentially kill apart of ourselves.
has decided if he can't win in Alabama to try his hand @ winning the country and formed an exploratory committee to run for president. An interesting note is that he now has the backing of one of Mike Huckabee
's -08 state chairs (former state legislator Danny Carroll) in his quest:Carroll is the former board chairman of the Iowa Family Policy Center, which is now part of Bob Vander Plaats’ Family Leader organization. Carroll is currently a paid lobbyist for The Family Leader at the State Capitol. He is accompanying Judge Moore on a 25-stop, weeklong Iowa tour.VIDEO LINK
“The Judge has asked me to help him with an Iowa organization and I’m honored to be a part of that,” Carroll said during an interview with WHO Radio’s Jan Mickelson on Monday. “I’ve been impressed with the judge’s stand for some time and I’ve particularly been impressed with his qualifications and experience as we look at the upcoming Iowa Caucuses. More to the point, someone who has the intimate legal knowledge and understanding of the Constitution of the United States of Iowa.” (Yes, Carroll said “United States of Iowa.”)
did an extensive interview with prospective Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
and it does nothing but continues to beg the question of how can anyone take this man seriously?
The price of oil is likely nearing a top and will fall beneath $100 a barrel by July 4, Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski told CNBC this morning.
Consumers will put the brakes on car travel when gas reaches an average $4 a gallon, he said. At that price, it costs drivers about $50 to fill a gas tank, he noted, and that psychological level is the tipping point. The national average for the price of gas is currently $3.83.
"At these prices, and especially over time, people carpool, they bundle their trips," Petrowski said. "We're starting to see it at all our 3,500 locations."
He also said world demand for oil is slowing. There are signs "this market is peaking out. I think we will see the peak, if we haven't seen it already, in the next three to four weeks."
To see the full interview, click here.
HB 2177, the "birther" bill, "creates significant new problems while failing to do anything constructive for Arizona," Brewer said.Governor Brewer has probably spared her state a costly legal battle that they would probably lose by vetoing this nonsense. I must say I am a little surprised, but tend to think that she was leaned on pretty heavily by the national party to make this go away.
The bill would have required presidential candidates to present their birth certificates or other birth records to be eligible to be on the ballot.
France, bureaucracy, Picardie, 2006. Pascale Hoornaert (b. 1952) works
Lee, New Hampshire (population 4,145) Board of Selectmen, January 27, 2003
This is the poster advertising an upcoming workshop I have been invited to take part in on April 30th. The event is hosted by Robert Hariman (No Caption Needed) at Northwestern University. The other presenters are photographer Brian Ulrich (Not If But When) and bloggers Michael Shaw (BagNewsNotes) and John Lucaites (No Caption Needed). This is pretty impressive company and the workshop should be fun. The plan is for us each to talk a bit about what we do with our blogs as the basis for discussion with students in the morning and then have sessions with students in the afternoon to discuss their own work.
magazine Rep. Barney Frank
(D-MA) apparently made some interesting comments with regard to Newt Gingrich
's (possible) 2012 presidential bid. According to CNN he had the following to say:“We Democrats have not lived lives sufficiently pleasing to God to have Gingrich be the Republican nominee in 2012,” Frank told Playboy.
Earlier this spring the University of Rochester where I teach announced that it is inaugurating an undergraduate major in business. (UofR is not alone. At the same time SUNY College at Brockport where Susan teaches is launching a business school.) Many of my colleagues in the Arts and Sciences take what might be called a dim view of this initiative. Proponents of the initiative tend to depict this as typical snottiness on the part of over-educated, left-leaning elites. In case you think that the skepticism is just that, you ought to read this article from The New York Times Magazine. Actual research finds that Business majors study less and less hard than their peers who major in other subjects and, unsurprisingly, they seem to get less from their education as a result.* And then we set them loose to make decisions that impact the lives of others in fundamental ways. And, of course, the article suggests that what the best undergraduate business programs provide is essentially - yes, you guessed it! - a typical liberal arts education in science, social science or humanities.
"cocktail". This is significant as the last domestic maker of the drugs ceased production recently and most states order the drugs from overseas: The ban will mean US prisons will no longer be able to get hold of pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride, the drugs used in executions.
In November, Britain also blocked exports of the sedative sodium thiopental following a legal challenge from a human rights group.
This morning while listening (yet again) to "Today" on the way into work, they interviewed John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde. He number crunched that if we had AV in the last election, there could have been a Labour led Coalition government. Presumably, at the expense of Tories MP’s .
One of the things progressives often wonder is why average working Americans don't repudiate Republican political-economic policies that privilege the wealthy. One clear reason is that average Americans somehow do not manage to align either their assessments of, say, the actual distribution of wealth or the ideal distribution that they would like to see with what is, in fact, the distribution of wealth in the U.S.; the result is that there is a massive disconnect between motivation, assessment of possibilities and actuality. Is it possible to surmount that predicament? That is the first step in any hope for progressive politics. The second step would be to recognize that the data reported here suggest that the average American hardly is an egalitarian.
made the case yesterday in Foreign Policy for not cutting the state department's budget (in the interest of "soft" power or in other words the "carrot"). I don't think he is nearly in depth enough about the cost of undercutting our ability to influence foreign affairs non-militarily if he wants to make a serious case for the spending, but it is a welcome wake-up call and acts as a reminder that budget cuts do have consequences. Here is his conclusion:Nowhere is this more true than on Capitol Hill. While Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have spoken about the importance of soft power, they do not have to face the American electorate. As a friend in Congress once told me, "You are right about the importance of combining soft power with hard power, but I cannot talk about soft power and hope to get re-elected." The defense budget affects almost all congressional constituencies in the United States; the budgets for State and USAID do not. The result is a foreign policy that rests on a defense giant and a number of pygmy departments. For example, when Gates and Clinton recently agreed to transfer an aid program from the Pentagon to the State Department, the program's budget was cut in half. And now, Foggy Bottom faces cuts across the board.
Congress needs to be serious about deficit reduction, and it also needs to be serious about foreign policy. The events of the past week suggest it is serious about neither.
Trump plans to say on [the May15 broadcast of The Apprentice] that he will be holding a press conference a few days after the May 15th show. At that press conference in the Trump Tower in New York, Trump will be announcing his candidacy for the presidency.This report comes on the heels of a dismissal by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (video below):
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor cast doubt on the legitimacy of a Donald Trump presidency on CNN’s American Morning on Wednesday.What may be even more disturbing to the GOP is a potential Trump run as an independent if he does not secure the nomination. Something he intimated to the WSJ this past week:
“No, I don’t think he is really serious when we see a campaign launch on the ‘birther’ issue,” Cantor said when asked whether he would support a Trump candidacy.
“I think the Republicans are very concerned that I [may] run as an Independent,” Mr. Trump told the Journal, which published the remarks Tuesday. “I am very conservative,” he continued. “The concern is if I don’t win [the GOP primary] will I run as an Independent, and I think the answer is probably yes.”
when it comes out, blogger James Joyner (who was @ an extended screening @ C-PAC) makes the case against it. In fact he gives it a horrendous review, saying in part:Judging by the preview, I can fully understand why it took more than two decades to find a studio to produce the flick. This is quite possibly the most boring film ever made — and I include documentaries that are shown in grammar school so that children can request to view them backwards.Here is the full piece.
Put it this way: I simply do not know enough expletives to adequately express how truly horrible this film was. And I was in the Army. I would rather be subjected to the “Clockwork Orange” treatment than sit through one part of this. I might well prefer death to enduring the trilogy.
I was actually delivering Labour Party letters to the Old Barrowfield estate in West Ham early yesterday morning, while listening to the coverage on Radio 4 "Today" on the 50th anniversary of manned flight to space.
has a scathing blurb @ Foreign Policy that makes a quick case for closing the Air War College to save money:In a chapter in a collection titled Military Culture and Education, Hughes, a military historian specializing in the German military, charges that, "By and large, there are no real academic standards."
The Air Force routinely uses the college faculty, he charges, as a dumping ground for "colonels who are out of favor." Hughes, who served in Vietnam and went on to earned his PhD at the University of North Carolina, says they are not very good academically. "Many are of average intellect and have substantial weaknesses in speaking and writing. . . . They rarely publish." During his years there, not a single faculty member ever was promoted to brigadier general , he notes. The department chairs are particularly troubling, with little understanding of the differences between leading a military unit and overseeing an academic department. "They are truly amateurs."
Nor are the student contributions impressive . Most are there only to check a block necessary for promotion, he says. "The Air War College may be the only full-time graduate school in the country in which a large part of the student body does not wish to be present." He says the students don't read the assigned material, which is not a heavy load. Even so, in 2009, the college's war fighting department awarded grades of "A" or "A-" to 97 percent of the students in its core course. The following year, the dean required that no more than half of grades be "A" or "A-."
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Tom's bottom line: Hughes says it costs at least $300,000 a year to send an officer to the AWC. So this looks like a good place to begin budget cuts, Secretary Gates. Close the place and send the students out into the world of civilian academia, where they will be challenged intellectually and might learn something.
" or spikes have an affect on inflation
. The Chicago Fed has a new paper (.pdf) that says quite the contrary. For a quick perspective, here is a handy-dandy chart from the IMF
that tracks the correlation between the two:
Oil Price Information Service Chief Oil Analyst Tom Kloza, told CBS he thought price pressures had actually started to soften a bit.
He said the market had already made an adjustment for the Libyan conflict.
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, Dark Horse
, and The Gold Ring
, start with the War.) But before getting carried away in the merchandizing part, it's worth remembering that the Civil War was also one of the deadliest, costliest, and most painful events in US history -- accounting for more American deaths than any other War. 
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