America Is More of a Club Than a Family
Over the course of the last 15 years or so, there’s been an explosion in the number of charter schools around the country. According to the latest figures (from 2012), some 2.1 million students are enrolled in schools run by private groups awarded public ...
Excerpts: Scott Brown to Lay Out Vision for Strong America Post-Shaheen in Foreign Policy Speech
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Former Sen. Scott Brown, who’s running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to be New Hampshire’s next U.S. Senator, will deliver a foreign policy speech here midday Wednesday during which he’ll hammer ...
John Oliver's Devastating Takedown of Miss America Has a Local Angle [VIDEO]
Sunday night, John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, eviscerated the Miss America competition for its misogyny and misleading claims about the amount of scholarship money it doles out to women. Though Miss America officials claim to make $45 million ...
Apocalypse then and now: Why Iraq is America’s greatest quagmire
This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know, a déjà-vu-all-over-again kinda thing.
Bank Of America Is Well Positioned For Rising Rates
Yesterday, I took a look at Bank of America's (NYSE:BAC) return on assets and the company's earning asset base as a way to assess any progress that had been made since the financial crisis. In doing so I concluded that BAC's asset base is still far ...
Miss America Kira Kazantsev denies reports she aggressively hazed pledges as sorority girl
According to a report recently filed by Newsday, Kira Kazantsev, the newly crowned winner of the annual Miss America contest, has denied reports that she was obsessed with hazing young pledges at her sorority. Miss Kazantsev was a former member of the ...
"I have heard of one Mr. Adams but who is the other?"
JOHN ADAMS David McCullough This expansive and exhaustively researched biography of America's second President won its author his second Pulitzer Prize. Much of the books charm is how much it reads like a novel, such that even though we know the general contours of the story's ending, tension hangs ...
Waiting on Wednesday: Pyramid: A Novel by David Gibbins
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Pyramid: A Novel by David Gibbins Expected publication: November 6th 2014 by Headline ...
Οι σουνίτες συζητούν για ένα «αραβικό ΝΑΤΟ»
Με τις «ευλογίες» του Μπαράκ Ομπάμα και με πρωτοβουλία της Σαουδικής Αραβίας, γίνεται προσπάθεια μετεξέλιξης του Συμβουλίου Συνεργασίας του Κόλπου (GCC) σε ευρεία οικονομική και αμυντική ένωση, με πρώτο στόχο την επί του εδάφους αντιμετώπιση του «Ισλαμικού κράτους». Της Μαργαρίτας Βεργολιά από την Ε ...
NCIS Season 12 Episode 1 Recap: To Russia, Without Love
Can't anything ever be simple for Leroy Jethro Gibbs? We guess not, huh? That would make for some pretty boring television. On NCIS Season 12 Episode 1, our hero and McGee traveled to Russia to take in a contact with valuable computer intel. No problem, right? Until there were lots of problems. Watc ...
The obvious relationship between climate and family planning — and why we don’t talk about it
Several years ago, Bill Gates keynoted a breakfast for Seattle-based Climate Solutions, a nonprofit focused on advancing the clean energy economy and driving practical, profitable solutions to climate change. Gates opened his speech with an equation. To paraphrase: Our carbon problem = persons x ser ...
Interesting Links for 24-09-2014
“You Are Listening To”: Ambient music mixed with police radio scanners makes for a trippy listening experience (tags: Music Weird ) Brave New Phone Call — Medium (tags: Communications Collaboration phone ) The Astonishing Story of the Federal Reserve on 9-11 (tags: America Money Disaster ) How to St ...
New comics (and some graphic novels) - 16 September 2014 - Part 2
Harbinger: Omegas # 1 Infinity Man and the Forever People # 3 JLA: Salvation Run TP Justice League of America: Another Nail TP Magnus: Robot Fighter # 5 Multiversity # 1 New 52: Futures End # 13 New 52: Futures End # 14 New 52: Futures End # 15 New 52: Futures End # 16 New 52: Futures End # 17 New A ...
Trivia for 9/24/2014
The most popular dog breed in North America, this short-coated Canadian dog comes in black, chocolate, and yellow. 1. Golden Retriever 2. Cocker Spaniel 3. Labrador Retriever 4. Newfoundland Solution |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The Art Of Optical Illusions
AFRICANS SHAPING THE GLOBAL FASHION INDUSTRY, ACCORDING TO BOF.COM
THE FOUNDERS OF THE KENYAN-SOUTH AFRICAN LABEL LALESSO ARE CONSIDERED BY BUSINESS OF FASHION AS GLOBAL FASHION INDUSTRY SHAPERS Lupita Nyong’o, Johann Rupert and his daughter and owner of Merchants on Long Hanneli, the Lalesso duo and Nigeria’s Omoyemi Akerele are among the 13 people of African desc ...
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Непредвзятости CNN хватило всего на один вопрос В интервью с постоянным представителем Российской Федерации при Евросоюзе Владимиром Чижовым ведущая американского телеканала CNN Кристиан Аманпур призвала прекратить обвинять друг друга в связи с ситуацией на Украине. Однако уже во втором её вопросе п ...
