TheHill.com reported that House Minority Leader John Boehner told a conservative radio talk show host on Thursday: “There is really no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the tea party activists believe in.” Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Boehner had made a pitch to Democratic contributor James Dimon, the chairman [...]
No matter if you played or not, everyone remembers the Mario Bros. and Tetris. Online Education has collected some stunning facts about the average gamer and games in the United States and abroad.
January 15, 2010 | Posted in
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The year was 1983, and it shares more in common with 2009 than one could imagine. The first and most glaring similarity is 10.2% unemployment, a high-water mark for this ‘great recession’ we are currently in the vast middle of. Without making this so much of a doom and gloom narrative of our ailing economy, [...]
December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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Part of the problem with political discourse today is that the conversation is framed for us. For example, millions of Americans go back and forth every day arguing over the public option or whether healthcare reform is even necessary. But that is because the question was framed for us as “Do we need healthcare reform, [...]
November 30, 2009 | Posted in
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“Capitalism: A Love Story” Movie Review — Like every Michael Moore movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story” is supposed to make you mad. Like every Michael Moore movie I have seen, it made me mad for some reasons he didn’t intend. The frustrating thing is that I agree with Moore on a lot of the populist points [...]
October 25, 2009 | Posted in
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As Google Books reaches a fork in the road in Europe, they begin their way to another in the World. It seems that authors and their respective governments have rallied together, from the CWA (Chinese Writers Association) to the Bavarian State Library in Germany. Dan Clancy, engineering director for Google Books, is at the forefront [...]
October 25, 2009 | Posted in
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It was one full year ago that the DOW JONES plunged 777 points, setting a single-day loss record. Despite that phenomenal accomplishment by the suits on Wall Street, the rest of the blue collars and day traders in the US are still left picking up pieces to the mess. As the collective scalp of America gets [...]
October 24, 2009 | Posted in
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