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Something to keep in mind while watching those who are exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble being handcuffed and taken to jail:"The federal government is on track to file just 1,365 prosecutions for financial institution fraud in fiscal year 2011, according to a new report from a watchdog group. That would be the lowest number of such prosecutions in at least two decades....The falling number of fraud prosecutions is striking given what many claim...

The embodiment of class meets the embodiment of a useful idiot:"Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate candidate. The man, who said he'd been unemployed since February 2010, objected to Warren's expressed affiliation with the frustrations of Occupy Wall Street."Unemployed since 2010? Maybe he should be at a  Scott Brown speech asking him why he voted...

When I was in school, the portion of history that fascinated me the most was intellectual history. I called it the history of ideas. I am big believer in the fact that ideas really can and do change the world. At the basis of every history is the story. All stories have protagonists and antagonists and there is always some liberty taken with the facts. Most people don't trust details you know.At the center of...

I ran across something interesting and rather provocative recently - a website called www.ghettophysics.com.It came through from a "What the Bleep" link that I've had for a while, so if this kind of quantum physics, one-world, personal accountability, make-it-happen-yourself philosophy isn't for you, then you may be on the wrong blog. :-)Ghetto Physics aligns pretty well with the Occupy movement that is going on right now. As a matter of fact, if you're participating in...

From rumproast:<br />"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.You built a factory out there--good for you! But I want to be clear.You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.You didn't have to worry that...

Republican Texas State Representative Wayne Christian says that cuts to family planning agencies by the Texas legislature are about birth control as well as about abortion.(Above--Wayne Christian on the left with Texas Governor Rick Perry. These men are concerned that Texas women have access to birth control.)Here is what Representative Christian said---"The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage...

http://this-small-planet.com/2011/can-government-really-create-jobs-of-course-it-can/#more-427...

Here's my TV viewing schedule for this evening. Seinfeld re-runs on TBS from 6 o 7, followed by Saints-Packers pre-game on NBC at 7, followed by the kickoff somewhere around 7:30. No speech. Why bother?By all accounts, President Obama's jobs speech before a joint session of Congress tonight will just be more of the same old, same old, Republican-lite, warmed over policies on unemployment--tax cuts. If I'm going to get yadda yadda yadda, I'd rather...

I received a 3-page letter this time. 3 pages, albeit small ones. Other than a required paper for college, I'm sure that's the most my son has ever written in one sitting. I know that as of the first two weeks he was in, I had already received more letters from him than I had in the preceding almost-21 years. You may not be surprised to learn, however, that this is a young man who...

On this, the anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech, I would like to suggest that we take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished since 1963, and the work that we still need to do. We are still not at the point where "content of character" means more than anything else, so I would say we still have much to strive for.I would also like to talk about a dream of...