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Michelle Obama gives George W. Bush the bear hug we all need
Times are hard and confusing, but Michelle Obama gives a hug that could cure all ills. At the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Saturday, the First Lady enveloped President George W. Bush in an embrace for the ages. He seemed to enjoy it, and the whole affair did not escape the internet's notice. Decide for yourself whether Bush deserves tha
Uber makes itself part of the public transport route in Australia
In its quest to make itself indispensable, Uber is keen to slide itself into your daily commute. On Monday, the company announced a partnership in Australia with the travel planning app TripGo, which lets users request an Uber ride to the closest ferry terminal or train, bus or tram station in time for the next departure. SEE ALSO: Where you can hail self-driving Uber cars The new service is avai
Russian Warships Destroyed Western/Israeli Operations Site in Aleppo Province
Russian Warships Destroyed Western/Israeli Operations Site in Aleppo Province by Stephen Lendman Obama’s naked aggression on Syria represents a seminal struggle of good refusing to surrender to pure evil, headquartered in Washington - a malevolent force unparalleled in human history, wanting dominion over planet earth achieved by brute force. Score one for the good guys. Fars News cited Sputnik N
Despite record hottest year even a loaded vague climate survey shows 61% don’t agree with experts
After the hottest ever El Nino year with relentless propaganda on Australian media, even a loaded survey finds that only 39% of Australians agree that humans are the major drivers of the climate. The survey is being painted as a success by obedient “journalists”. But this is not skyrocketing support, it’s more likely last gasp noise. The results will be down again next year (with the weather). It
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High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history
German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war The German writer Norman Ohler lives on the top floor of a 19th-century apartment building on the south bank of the river Spree in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Visiting him there is a vertiginous experience. For one thing, he works – and likes to entertain visitor
The Four Donald Trumps You Meet On Earth
Donald Trump has said repugnant, insulting things about women—over and over and over again—for as long as he’s been in the public eye. He has called various women crazy, flat-chested, pigs. He refers to them as “ pieces of ass .” He said pumping breast milk was “ disgusting .” “Women,” he told New York magazine in 1992. “You have to treat them like shit.” Trump’s misogyny is shocking because it’s
Did the Vikings help bring cats around the world?
The largest genetic study of cat DNA from specimens from 15,000 years ago to the 18th century suggests that the felines accompanied early mariners on boats, spreading across the world with seafaring civilizations like the Vikings.
China Hunts for Scientific Glory, and Aliens, With New Telescope
The telescope, which officially began operating on Sunday in a majestic but poor part of Guizhou Province, embodies China’s ambitions as a scientific power.
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China begins operating world's largest radio telescope
The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in space and its pursuit of international scientific prestige.
Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip
High-end, custom-built "field programmable gate arrays" will run Bing, Office 365, and Azure. The post Microsoft Bets Its Future on a Reprogrammable Computer Chip appeared first on WIRED .
MIT's flea market specializes in rare, obscure electronics
Once a month in the summer, a small parking lot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's campus transforms into a high-tech flea market known for its outlandish offerings. Tables overflow with antique radio equipment, some of it a century old. Visitors can buy a telescope that's the size of a cannon. One man has hauled in a NASA space capsule he owns.
Acidity in atmosphere minimized to preindustrial levels
New research shows that human pollution of the atmosphere with acid is now almost back to the level that it was before the pollution started with industrialization in the 1930s. The results come from studies of the Greenland ice sheet.
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This Italian Village Was Dying … Until the Refugees Came | National Geographic
Centuries-old Italian villages were becoming ghost towns. Refugees were fleeing conflict and seeking new homes. The needs of each have come together in Camini, a 12th-century town whose population has dwindled to about 280 people—a quarter of what it once was. In hope of breathing new life into deserted neighborhoods, Camini has welcomed more than 80 refugees and immigrants from Africa and the Mi
Growing our Trusted Flagger program into YouTube Heroes
YouTube has always allowed people to report content they believe violates our Community Guidelines and we often hear questions about what happens to a video after you’ve flagged it. When a flag is received, the reported content is always reviewed by YouTube before being removed. We have internal teams from around the world who carefully evaluate reports 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days
Lipstick | Ingredients With George Zaidan (Episode 2)
Ground-up bugs? Rust? There might be some unexpected ingredients in your lipstick. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get updates and tweet episode ideas @georgezaidan ➡ New episodes every Thursday About Ingredients: Join MIT-trained chemist and science educator George Zaidan as he tries to recreate everyday household products like toothpaste, lipstick, or shaving cream using only natur
6-Year-Old Chef Kicha Cooks with Ellen
Kicha came all the way from India to share his delicious recipe with Ellen! Watch and learn, people! From: TheEllenShow
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THE CORBETT REPORT35 unread articles  //  actions

Interview 1212 – From Anthrax to Iraq with Graeme MacQueen
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-09-23%20Graeme%20MacQueen.mp3"][/audio] The theory that Iraq had some connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks was abandoned almost as soon as it was floated. The blatant lies told about the origin and composition of the anthrax was quickly exposed as just that: blatant lies. Soon even the US government itself had to admit that the anthrax
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THE ENVIRONMENTALIST28 unread articles  //  actions

Chromium-6: ‘Erin Brockovich’ Chemical Threatens Two-Thirds of Americans
New report finds 200 million people exposed to toxic drinking water
7 Popular Foods That Might Disappear Because of Climate Change
Search is on for ancient or near-extinct crops that might be better suited for this new reality
Pesticide Manufacturers’ Own Tests Reveal Serious Harm to Honeybees
Bayer and Syngenta criticized for secrecy after unpublished research linked high doses of their products to damage to bee colonies
It Takes a Village
In Fiji, saving coral reefs is a community affair
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Spesifikasi Daihatsu Sigra Harga Terbaru 2016
Spesifikasi Daihatsu Sigra Harga Terbaru 2016 | Mobil daihatsu sigra merupakan salah satu tipe mobil keluarga murah yg diproduksi oleh daihatsu motos, mobil daihatsu ini merupakan salah satu tipe terbaru dari mobil daihatsu yg dapat anda miliki sebagai mobil keluarga anda. Meskipun mobil daihatsu sigra ini memiliki harga yg termasuk murah, namun spesifikasi daihatsu sigra sendiri tergolong
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In a Universe next door...
Things to come. Handley Page H.50 Heyfords escorted by Westland Pterodactyl Vs, somewhere over the North Sea. Painting by Daniel Bechennec, Fana d'Avation magazine cover, April 2010
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ACTIVIST TEACHER5 unread articles  //  actions

Dear Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
as I posted earlier to Facebook... Dear Chinese Premier Li Keqiang: On your visit to Canada, please make a point of publicly reminding Prime Minister Trudeau that Canada needs to be far more attentive to its international human rights obligations. As you know, Canada's jails are overcrowded with citizens. The bail system systemically denies constitutional rights. Physical isolation that
US “sue Saudis for 911 law” would be a geopolitical tectonic shift because…
New law approved by Congress on September 9 violates international law, would destabilize the US regime By Denis G. Rancourt
Must Watch video::: The real reason that Donald Trump is "unelectable"
Truth about US criminality in the Middle East is spelled out by Donald Trump. Source: LINK.
Will York University in Toronto go along with this latest attack by organized groups?
York U staffer under investigation for anti-Semitic posts Toronto police investigate teacher’s comments at Al-Quds Day rally I am very concerned by these and all such select attacks against employees, especially in the education sector, based on an employee's expression outside of work. I have reviewed the posts of Nikolaos Balaskas, which are the pretext for this particular attack,
The Queen of War
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World Peace Message From Keeper Of Secred White Buffalo Calf Pipe
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations, asks us to understand an Indigenous perspective on what has happened to America but also offers a very important message about a solution to turn around these terrible times including justice for the Palestinians. His words should be heeded for they are in essence the same as mine ~ Peace begins with me ~ go within and find you
Biden Dellivers Message To Turkey ~ It'S Not Personal , It'S Strictly Business
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand It was a scene straight out of the Godfather as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Turkey to announce that we would directly support NATO member Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, while in July Turkey's President Erdoğan barely survived a military coup, which is widely believed to have enjoyed US support. Biden’s reversal was at the same
Singing Your Own Song / A Source Of True Joy And Belonging
The Robin doesn't sing because it's happy ~ it's happy because it sings. And this is the true source of my deepest joy ~ that I am singing my own song, as well as being in service and empowering others to sing their own song. In singing my own song, I have integrated with a universal chorus and we are all making a difference on this planet. In that sense, standing alone and singing your song is r
Sioux Standing Rock Pipeline Rebellion Touches Deep Ancestral Roots
T he Sioux pipeline rebellion is touching deep personal native American roots for I have been told my great great grandfather was a deeply loved and respected native American chief and the great joy and freedom of riding my paint horse Scout in the Sonoma hills brought me back to memories of a previous lifetime on the great plains ~ where the love of nature was the law of the land and obeying its
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General Election Prediction
Neil Kinnock is not a fan of Jeremy Corbyn : Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has given a stark warning about the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn. Speaking to the BBC’s Panorama programme, Lord Kinnock said: “Unless things change radically, and rapidly, it’s very doubtful I’ll see another Labour government in my lifetime.” At the last election, Labour got 232 seats, 98 less than the Tories who got
Mother Theresa Was No Saint
Instead she was a sadistic religious fanatic .
Government treats religion as just ‘fairies, goblins and imaginary friends’
Baroness Warsi complains : Religion is still viewed in government circles as little more than a parade of “fairies, goblins and imaginary friends” despite claims that it would now “do God”, according to Britain’s former minister for faith. Baroness Warsi said there is still misunderstanding and hostility towards religion in “ever secular” Whitehall circles, despite efforts to change the culture.
Thoughts on Health Care
The NHS is supposedly running out of money, so much so that one NHS body has decided to withhold treatment to obese people and smokers : The Vale of York clinical commissioning group (CCG) will make people wait for up to a year for treatment for non-life-threatening conditions such as hip and knee replacements if their body mass index is 30 or higher. adult smokers will have elective surgery post
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NOLA October 1: Solitary Gardens Unveiling with Albert Woodfox and others
Solitary Gardens Unveiling Plant the future. Honor the past. WHEN: ​ Saturday, October 1st 5-6:30pm WHAT: ​ Please join Albert Woodfox, Malik Rahim, Nana Sula, Vaku and jackie sumell for the 3-year commemoration of Herman Wallace’s freedom after 41-years of unjust captivity. Project unveiling, tree planting ceremony, special guest speakers and presentations. WHO: ​ SOLITARY GARDENS is a public ar
Albert Woodfox speaking in Chicago IL on Sept. 18 and 21
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2pm at Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 West 95th Street, Chicago, Wright Chapel Wednesday, Sept, 21 at 6pm, at Gallery 400, at 400 S. Peoria Street. For more information, see flyer above and visit the event's Facebook and Eventbrite pages.
Albert Woodfox in San Francisco on Sept. 7 and in Chicago on Sept. 21
September 7: Albert is speaking in San Francisco, California on Wed. Sept. 7, 7pm at 2969 Mission St. For more information, please visit the ANSWER Coalition website . September 21: Albert is speaking in Chicago, Illinois at 6pm, at Gallery 400, at 400 S. Peoria Street. For more information, see flyer above and visit the event's Facebook and Eventbrite pages.
VIDEO: Albert Woodfox recieves Arthur Kinoy Award from National Lawyers Guild
2016 #Law4thePeople Convention Keynote Address (8/4/16) from National Lawyers Guild on Vimeo . On August 4, Albert Woodfox received the Arthur Kinoy Award from the National Lawyers Guild at the organization's convention in NYC . In this video, Albert is introduced at 26:00 and then comes onto the stage to receive the award and begins to speak at approximately 33:00
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Missing a Wonderful Artist and Friend Michael 'Freestylee' Thompson | Graphic Art News
Missing a Wonderful Artist and Friend Michael 'Freestylee' Thompson | Graphic Art News
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For any of those who think that Colin Kaepernick is some kind of a traitor and/or a disgrace to America, read the real truth below. It exposes a little known event in American history which took place when the young United States decided to grab Canada from the British Empire. It is something never mentioned in U.S. schools.
Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem is a Celebration of Slavery Before a preseason game on Friday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” When he explained why, he only spoke about the present: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people
Paul Craig Roberts explains the origins of Labor Day versus what it is today. Most Americans know little of the story ...including the blogger, who hopes you will also visit his preceeding post with an additional little known story of U.S. history.
Labor Day June , 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Paul Craig Roberts Labor Day—what is it? Perhaps not many Americans any longer know, so here is my explanation. In my time Labor Day was the unofficial end of summer, because school began after Labor Day. Today school begins almost a month before. When I was in school that
Bill Bonner is a rich guy. But you wouldn't believe it from his Dairy, which he provides free of charge. If you, like me, are educated and happy enough with your cashflow, reading his Dairy is like a conversation with a close friend. The only difference is that Bill tells you things that will help you make out in today's economy. The one I reproduce today really hits the things you would want to know in today's economic conditions. What should you do with your savings? How safe is the stock market? Bill has the best anwers.
NORMANDY, FRANCE – We continue our work with the bomb squad. Myth disposal is dangerous work: People love their myths more than they love life itself. They may kill for money. But they die for their religions, their governments, their clans… and their ideas. Great Cause Some people think that even an idea as abstract as “freedom of speech” is worth dying for. It was Voltaire who said: “I disappro
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Site C Licence of Occupation
In two days, the deadline for public input into BC Hydro's request to log crown land slated for Provincial Park status above the Site C dam will close. So why are you only just now hearing about this on a blog? Good question. According to the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative in an article in woodbusiness.ca, which you probably aren't in the habit of reading on a daily basis : "On
TPP - the TFW Program on steroids
The Human Resources Committee, HUMA - 6 Libs, 3 Cons, and 1 NDP - released its report on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program yesterday, after a month of hearing from 43 witnesses as varied as Lululemon and the Migrant Mothers Project. Industry complaints initiated the study. The committee was asked to find a balance between employers desperate for TFWs for jobs they are unable to fill with Canad
Dear Postmedia Editorial Board
This : is not an adequate response or apology for what was previously published in that same space by the Postmedia Editorial Board on August 24th : "[Elizabeth] May must renounce anti-Israel resolutions ". Excerpted : You are not RebelMedia. You are not some partisan advocacy organization that can pass off the blame for this appalling libelous attack on some hapless newbie book reviewe
Craig Scott's testimony at ERRE #23
Notes from his presentation at the electoral reform committee today because Kady didn't blog this morning's meeting and the ERRE committee is taking about two weeks to post transcriptions. Craig Scott - law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, former NDP critic for democratic reform 16 of 31 Liberals voted for MMP/PR electoral reform in the House in December. MMP is the best of
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Real Madrid XI Squad against Sporting
Zidane does a Wenger and rotates his goalkeepers, though the BBC all line up in Los Merengues’ front three. After Barcelona’s MSN took Celtic apart, it is their turn to show they are football’s deadliest trio. Real Madrid XI: Casilla; Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro, Modric, Kroos; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo. Subs : Yanez, Pepe, James, Kovacic, Vazquez, Morata, Danilo.
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DAMMIT JANET!9 unread articles  //  actions

On "Conscientious Objection," But Mostly on Pseudonymity
I was going to blog about a new commentary about "conscientious objection" in medicine. (Link to the full, very readable paper .) Authorities should bar doctors from refusing to provide such services as abortion and assisted death on moral grounds, and screen out potential medical students who might impose their values on patients, leading Canadian and British bioethicists argue in a pro
Waaaaah! Grifters Whine about "Prolife" Cheapskates
This is amusing. Fetus-freak grifters complain about anti-choice cheapskates . (Bold mine, italics in original.) The number of Americans who self-identify as pro-life is very high, and most of them are philanthropic. In fact, about sixty million adults who give to some sort of cause also share a pro-life worldview. However, only about one in six of those generous adults engage financially in effor
Small Mercy: There Could Be More Fake Clinics in Canada
According to Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada (ARCC), there are about 180 fake clinics, aka crisis pregnancy centres, in Canada. DJ! is committed to exposing them as liars, manipulators, and cheats. They exist solely to dissuade Canadians from excercising their constitutional right to bodily autonomy. They are discriminatory and seek to limit and stigmatize our legal right to abortion. We will
Fetal Gore Impact Study FAIL
Back here I promised to have at the "study" commissioned by the Fetal Gore Gang that tries to deliver on its long-standing claims that shoving gory images in people's faces does anything but make them recoil and occasionally toss chocolate milk . Here is the announcement of the study's birth. The study titled A Statistical Analysis on the Effectiveness of Abortion Victim Photography in P
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what i'm reading: your heart is a muscle the size of a fist, by sunil yapa
If only Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist could be required reading. Everyone who has ever scoffed cynically at protesters. Everyone who has ever seen a mainstream news report showing a burning car, over and over and over, but not showing tens of thousands of peaceful protesters, and looked no deeper. Everyone who has ever denied police violence against peaceful, law-abiding citizens, or
what i'm reading: the evil hours, a biography of post-traumatic stress disorder
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is an outstanding book -- meticulously researched, but written in a compelling, accessible style, and with great humanity and compassion. Author David J. Morris unearths the social and cultural history of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the fourth most common psychiatric disorder in the US. He surveys the potential treatments. H
labour day readers' advisory: books and movies that celebrate labour
I spoke to a customer yesterday who was visiting from Denmark. He described himself as a trade-unionist, and he came to the library, looking for me, to learn about our strike! He also said he had read a book he loved, and was looking for more like it. He described the book: "by a Canadian author, takes place in Toronto, about the struggles of workers building a viaduct". It is some measu
in which i test a bit of conventional wisdom and find out is in false: the mystery of roman tuna salad
I've noticed that ideas that I used to blog about, I am now posting on Facebook instead -- a combination of laziness and time pressure. I'm going to try to get the ideas here, first. Conventional wisdom has it that preparing food at home is less expensive than buying prepared food. I'm not talking about frozen or processed food, but freshly prepared food from a store like Whole Foods, or increasi
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Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students September 20, 2016 After readin...
Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students September 20, 2016 After reading the proposed Mexican American Heritage textbook for Texas students last week by Jaime Riddle and Valarie Angle, I can without hesitation state that it is obscene and extremely offensive. And beyond being unfocused, incoherent and a badly written book, it is also an intentional
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FORT MCMURRAY ADVENTURES6 unread articles  //  actions

Composers Behaving Badly
One of the things that has always fascinated me as I've delved further in to classical music and history is the disconnect between peoples' conceptions of classical music and the composers who wrote it and reality. To a certain degree, most people's ideas of the concert hall as being all staid and austere, where you dressed to the nines, sat board-stiff in your seat (and heaven help you if you da
Trump Jr.'s Asinine Refugee Analogy
For the most part I've done my best to ignore or at least not get too worked up over a certain election in a certain country south of the border. I have seen a certain analogy made by a certain candidate's son however that is so off base in terms of basic math and logic that I couldn't let it pass without comment. This internet meme isn't exactly new as its been around for a couple of years not a
Out of the Ashes
A stretch of rainy, windy and generally unpleasant weather had kept me cooped up inside for a few days so I jumped at the opportunity to head out yesterday to stretch my legs and enjoy what turned out to be a pretty decent day. One of my regular birding routes I follow takes me by a section a of a neighbouring subdivision that was hit hard by the fires back in May and while it felt great to be ab
Oompah Loompah Doompedee Do
The film adaption of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" came out not too long before I was born and has long remained one of my favourite childhood movies. (The 1964 Roald Dahl book is quite likely one of the first fantasy-type books I read when I was learning to read on my own.) Its main character was a quirky, blue-eyed figure who made a teachable moment without sounding preachy.
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GOVERNMENT AND TAXES3 unread articles  //  actions

Tax cut 26, Excise tax on petrol products should be reduced/abolished, not increased
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income." - Robert Half This bad tax measure has been proposed by the DOF and some legislators many years ago but never succeeded. This time, it looks different as the new Duterte government is hell-bent on having this become a law within the year or next year. "The exc
BWorld 80, Declining share of agriculture in GDP
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 18, 2016. A declining share of agriculture gross value added (GVA) in GDP (gross domestic product) is often viewed negatively by many sectors because it implies that a country is not prioritizing rural development and job creation. Is this a valid observation? Let us review some agriculture data of the Philippines and compare them to its neighbors
Energy 76, PEMC reply to my article on AEMO, WESM
The Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC) replied to my article in BWorld, Brownouts, coal power and electricity market , August 17, 2016, below. Dear Editor: We are writing in reference to a column written by Mr. Bienvenido Oplas published on 17 August 2016 entitled, "Brownouts, coal power and the electricity market". We note the persistent claims made in your column that Philippin
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GREG MANKIW'S BLOG9 unread articles  //  actions

Bank stocks are just as risky now as they were before the financial crisis
That is the most interesting thing I learned at the recent BPEA meeting. Click here to learn more .
Economics Teaching Conference
Economics educators may be interested in this upcoming conference . Frank Conway, founder of the Economic Rockstar , will interview me at the conference.
Wehner on Orwell on Fierce Modesty
I enjoyed this essay by Peter Wehner . It is not about economics, but the lesson should be heeded by anyone who engages in the national debate over economic policy.
We're number one!
Ec 10, that is . And another economics course is number four.

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