The American Enterprise Institute notes that many college students have a favorable view of socialism. It encourages parents to take advantage of summer break to reduce the intellectual acuity of their useless spawn.
"My wife is Cuban-American, he's holding a rally at a Hialeah (Fla.) lunch spot, so I thought, 'I'm going to bring a sign about Cuban coffee," Reynolds says. "It was perfect."
So it was -- at least until Romney's staffers saw the poster. Reynolds says he was promptly booted from the event with a staffer telling him: "Romney doesn't drink coffee. It's against his religion."
The president pondered the two messages. The first, from an African country's deposed president whom he did not know, was warm and supportive, offering to share assets that would otherwise fall to undeserving usurpers.
How could his African peer have known how close Lincoln himself had, again and again, faced the same risk of failure at the hands of rivals? There are connections between kindred hearts, he thought. Not just wires, but connections of a spiritual composition.
To many, America’s industrial heartland may look like a place mired in the economic past—a place that, outcompeted by manufacturing countries around the world, has too little work to offer its residents. But things look very different to Karen Wright, the CEO of Ariel Corporation in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Wright’s biggest problem isn’t a lack of work; it’s a lack of skilled workers. “We have a very skilled workforce, but they are getting older,” says Wright, who employs 1,200 people at three Ohio factories. “I don’t know where we are going to find replacements.”
The senator from New York, his breath smelling of whiskey and his stump smelling of wet rust and wetter babies, at last exhausted himself and took leave. The president was free now to peek in at Mrs. Lincoln and then to have an hour to review his comments for Pennsylvania.
A knife was requested and used by MCC Officers as the Protest Costume was cut from her body. The remaining severed costume was violently torn from her body while the protester herself was disgarded, semi-naked and crying on the ground as Vic police and MCC officers walked away with the costume.
"Many professors enjoy their work, finding it rewarding and helpful to their other professional duties, but if their books and essays do not find readers sufficient to justify the effort, the publication mandate falls short of its rationale, namely, to promote scholarly communication and the advancement of knowledge," Bauerlein wrote in the report. "To put it bluntly, universities ask English professors to labor upon projects of little value to others, incurring significant opportunity costs."
The same people who want your whole tax form to go on a tiny postcard have made registering to vote an onerous process in Florida. I've done voter registration drives here for decades, going back to the McGovern campaign, but this morning I had to take a class and be certified to register voters.
A retired county prosecutor was in my class, and even she was perplexed by the legal requirements and liabilities the new regulations place on volunteers and their organizations.
There is a camp here that believes Occupy Wall Street is not leading and not defining a vision. But we don't live in a totalitarian state that requires a revolutionary vanguard. Our chains are of our own making. So the value of OWS is not to lead, but just to say, "Hey, the emperor is wearing our clothes, and we are all naked -- and he made us believe we weren't!"
Heading to Occupy Miami and need my sign. Dan has a great concept with "Solidarity."
My blighted neighborhood, when I was young, was visited weekly by the library bookmobile. The rear wall of the bus was shelves of science fiction, and I grew up with the great themes of literature and myth retold in short story form as pulp SF compilations.
Man versus robots. The robotic servant turning on his masters. The retirement of humanity as robots ended human labor, and the dramatic consequences.
Change "robots" to "corporations" and the 21st Century prophesy is fulfilled.
Florida's unpopular tea party governor, Rick Scott, wants more of the state's youths to pick up college degrees... but only if the degrees are useful to corporations and don't teach students to question social norms.
"If I'm going to take money from a citizen to put into education then I’m going to take that money to create jobs," Scott said. "So I want that money to go to degrees where people can get jobs in this state."
"Is it a vital interest of the state to have more anthropologists? I don't think so."
Survey results are in. Of all the Forbes 400 billionaires, only eight (including Buffet) say they are willing to pay more. Three others indicated opposition; one said maybe.
Dickens describes the post-Bastille populace parading through the City of Light with the head of Louis XVI's finance czar, Foulon de Doué, on a pike.
"If those rascals have no bread, then let them eat hay," Foulon had famously said during a famine. Well-fed himself, he broke several ropes while being hung by the farmers and tradespeople of Paris, who resorted to a sidewalk beheading.
Use of guest workers in Palm Beach County draws fire
While Palm Beach County unemployment remains above 10 percent - higher for unskilled labor - country clubs and luxury resorts are importing foreign guest workers to fill hundreds of jobs that are listed as seasonal but last most of the year...
Just spent the morning phone canvassing for volunteers, with a few dozen other Obama supporters. Those of us making the calls had signed up online, so we were fairly hardcore. The folks we were calling were past volunteers and supporters from 2008. Our job was to see if they anybody is "in" for 2012, and to try to multiply our numbers by arranging one-on-one meetings for people to have a role in the ground game in my swing state.
It's been great this week watching people who condemned Bush for not killing bin Laden condemn Obama for doing it. I have really never seen so much silliness. Who was speaking out in concern for bin Laden's safety all these years when we knew he was targeted? A little too late now.
While the Republican Party collapses under its own idiocy, I guess that's the cue for us to walk out of the Dem Party in droves.
An unscientific survey by Hunch, a site that makes recommendations based on detailed user preferences, found that Mac users tend to be younger, more liberal, more fashion-conscious and more likely to live in cities than people who prefer PCs.
Florida House of Representatives tells the EPA what it can do with its obsession about polluted water. Bill is now in committee in the Senate.
The Florida House has passed legislation to prohibit state, regional and local government agencies from implementing federal water pollution regulations.
The bill (HB 239) won approval 90-27 after the House placated environmentalists by removing provisions that would have weakened current state regulations.
This summer I had the unique experience of managing a congressional primary campaign in a solidly Democratic district. My candidate was a sincere progressive, challenging a 12-term representative in a furiously anti-incumbent season. It was a long shot, but with projected low turnouts and the possibility that our opponent could be indicted at any time, it seemed worth trying.
