Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party.
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey From North Korea to Freedom in the West
Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West” by Blaine Harden
Republicans’ budgets imply deep cuts in programs helping the poor
That’s left them with one option: deep cuts to programs for the poor. That’s what you see in House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget.
Tinderbox : How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
Just a few months ago, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a leading firebrand of the global AIDS movement, Stephen Lewis, said at a conference that the money given to Africa by the U.S. global AIDS initiative called PEPFAR and by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria amounted to “partial reparations” to the continent. Africa, he noted, was giving the world thousands of health-care workers whom it had educated, saving the West billions of dollars annually.
To make a lot of money, be a crony in crony capitalism
If you want to make billions of dollars from deal-making, don’t head to Wall Street.
Better public schools require a stronger safety net. School segregation by class is the norm in the United States
Many American kids are getting a fine education these days, but plenty more are stuck with lousy schools. This disparity shouldn’t come as a shock, because that’s the way our society is designed.Given that nearly half of public-school funding is derived from local property tax revenue, rich kids attend good schools while poor kids get stuck with struggling schools. Middle-class children often go to mediocre schools, but since the middle class is now shrinking so speedily, their schools are headed down a slippery slope.
The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America
A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades.
Have we really achieved goal one of the Millennium Development Goals?
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Timing of Stop Kony campaign suspicious
As anyone who regularly utilizes the mixed blessing that is social media now knows, an internet campaign to “#stopkony” has exploded in popularity within the last few days.
Starving Iran won’t free it
THERE’S an old saying, attributed to the British Foreign Office in colonial days: “Keep the Persians hungry, and the Arabs fat.”
