Posted in Fair Enough on May 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Today Norman Borlaug writes in the Wall Street Journal that Africa Does Not Have to Starve. Under current US policy adopted from the Farm Bill, the US government buys subsidized food from American farmers and ships the food to Africa on American ships. Sometimes Africans starve waiting for the food; ships have also [...]
Posted in Fair Enough on Apr 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday, the Project on Fair Representation sued the UT-Austin on behalf of a White high school senior after being denied admission.
The group claims that since the White girl isn’t top 10 percent of her graduating class, the university rejected her because of race. The top 10 percent rule would have automatically granted her admission to [...]
Posted in Fair Enough on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Long Island does too.
Posted in Fair Enough on Mar 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
So, Democrat primaries in Puerto Rico have been move to the first of June instead of June 7th. Leaving Montana and South Dakota to be the last states to have primaries — June 3rd.
I suppose its a good move for Clinton, she gets to know prior to MT and SD how many delegates she has [...]
Posted in Fair Enough, This is bullshit! on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Under law, union strike the teachers union did two weeks is illegal. So, the Governor stuck it to them and revoked their certification. Awesome!
However.
Tomorrow, the union goes to the appeals court to argue that their certification should be reinstated.
As much, as I despise unions, they are going to win this at some point because [...]
Posted in Fair Enough on Mar 12th, 2008 12 Comments »
National Review wrote a great piece on both candidates differences:
Obama:
Obama would rely much more on the heavy hand of government. Among other things, he would impose caps on insurance premiums and price controls on drug companies. He would have the government establish national practice standards for doctors. And, he would create a National Health Insurance [...]
Posted in Fair Enough on Mar 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
Test your own knowledge of current affairs against that of the broader public.
Take the Pew Research News IQ Quiz, it’s short and easy.
The quiz reveals that women really don’t know much about current events. Results show that women scored well below the national average of 50%.
The average man scored better than 56% of the public, [...]
Posted in Fair Enough on Mar 5th, 2008 4 Comments »
The ten-day teachers strike in Puerto Rico ended. The union will continue to demand higher wages and better working conditions.
Mainstream media keeps portraying teachers in the island as being paid low wages in comparison to mainland salaries but media bias won’t tell you the whole story.
I did a little research and look, what I found [...]
Powered by FireStats
Reuters
Powered by FireStats