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[-Towleroad News- [#gay]] Obama to NAACP: Anti-Gay Discrimination Has No Place in America ...: Still, even if we do it all, the African-American community will fall behind in the United States and the United States will fall behind in the world unless we do a far better job than we have been doing of educating our sons and daughters. In the 21st century - when so many jobs will require a bachelor’s degree or more, when countries that out-educate us today will outcompete us tomorrow - a world-class education is a prerequisite for success.

[Sustainabilitank] SustainabiliTank: The Wall Street Journal Interviews U.N.'s Ban Ki ...: Clearly, the UN does not aim at having a lame-duck UNSG, so it is to nobody’s interest to say now that Asia might see the possibility to have like Africa had before it, a one term UNSG Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and then a two term UNSG in Kofi Annan. But if there is no change in perception of the job performance of the present UN Secretariat, we would not be surprised that in a year from now, the following article will be seen as the first major salvo in moves for a radical change in UN management in light with the increasing difficulties of the 21st century.

[The Realignment Project] After Public-Option: What (Could Be) Next « The Realignment Project: One of the most successful government interventions into the private sector market in American history was the Office of Price Administration in WWII, which successfully brought inflation to a standstill. One of the secrets of the OPA’s success was the 188,000 people (mostly housewives) who served on or volunteered for their local War Price and Rationing Boards (better known as “little OPAs”) who kept tabs on local merchants and stores, reported price violations, held businesses accountable for the quality of their products, made sure that people were obeying rationing regulations, and so forth.

[Pastor Dave Blog] The Legacy of the Crusades « Pastor Dave Blog: Feudalism was weakened because many knights and nobles who went as crusaders never returned and because many sold their lands to peasants or wealthy middle class townsmen to raise money for the Crusades. Cities controlled by feudal lords were able to centralize their control with the aid of the middle class, which favored a strong centralized nation-state under a monarch in order to provide the conditions of security so essential to business.[6]

[KeithHennessey.com] Scrambling for a macroeconomic message | KeithHennessey.com: This data point is significant and poses a challenge to the President and his team.  If it is the beginning of a new downward trend, then both the Administration’s stimulus policy and their message about the economy and economic policy need to change.  If, however, it is a random deviation from the previous trend, then the old policy and message still works, and they’ll just have to ride out the next few weeks until new data confirms that things are actually still on a gradual upward trend.

[Parts, Structures, Systems and Outcomes] Parts, Structures, Systems and Outcomes: Sounds of Angry Men ...: . Not so on Main Street. All indications are that in response to the crisis, consumers have embraced a new frugality, paring debt and cutting consumption they know had become excessive. Businesses are moving to cut back on dividends and stock buybacks they can no longer afford, trim frills and reduce prices and capacity to post-bubble realities. Contrast that with the approach to the crisis taken by members of Congress, who as far as I can tell, have changed nothing about how they go about their duties. Same leisurely three-day work week. Same bloated budgets for staff and security. Same unwieldy committees holding the same meaningless hearings. Same partisan posturing and gamesmanship. Same willingness to put narrow special or parochial interests over the national interest.

[Breaking News] Blanca weakens to tropical depression in Pacific, expected to ...: Carlos weakens to tropical storm over the PacificMEXICO CITY ”” Hours after being downgraded from a hurricane, Tropical Storm Carlos weakened further Sunday night as it headed west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean. Carlos had maximum sustained winds near 60 mph (95 kph), down from around 70 mph (110 kph) earlier Sunday, with tropical storm-force winds extending outward up to 60 miles (95 kilometers) from the eye of the storm, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Why Does Barack Obama Hate Our Economy?: Can you say GM, Chrysler, Morgage co’s and Banks ect…ect..Implementing a Gov run healthcare system payed for by companies with private Healthcare plans with huge tax penalties and draconian beurocracy that forces these large and small business’s to drop said private plans , thus forcing more citizens on the Gov health care plan that now is complety in control of literally your life.Next get a large group of radical organizers..oh let’s say ACORN..who Obama once worked for ,give them hundreds of millions of our tax dollars then behind closed doors put them in charge of the next census.You know that pesky thing that then is used to draw up political districts according to RACE,Socio economics ect.No chance of massive fraud there? NOOO not ACORN.Then with the Dems and The Big “O”

[Centurean2's Weblog] Fabian Socialists Gone Wild- Wake Up To Your UK Government ...: Fabian socialists are the link to communism and strange as it may seem it’s the international bankers, the elite puppeteers represented within the Bilderberg Group, the enormously wealthy Windsors, George Soros, David Rockefeller, the Rothschild/Warburg/ Schiff interests, the old royal money interests, Queens of Sweden and Denmark and those key, entrenched members of parliaments, congresses, former presidents and agents for current office holding presidents and country leaders – all oligarchs.

[Locust blog] U.S. Economy Trending Towards an Inflationary Depression ...:   Lincoln made the mistake of not backing US notes with gold and silver as required by our Constitution, an error that was confirmed as being a mistake by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the US notes that were used to fund the Civil War efforts of the North soon became worthless, triggering a long, hard, devastating depression in the 1870’s.  President Kennedy was assassinated before Executive Order 11110 could be implemented, and the Fed was allowed to continue on with its blatant criminality.

[Rutabaga Ridgepole's Blog] Obama Rolls Over for Coal | Rutabaga Ridgepole's Blog: I'm as cynical as anyone at times, but I believe it's a tribute to the Administration, the House that approved Waxman-Markey, possibly a Senate the NY Times believes may find 60 votes for it with some maneuvering, and a public willing to tolerate all this, when there is universal agreement that energy costs will rise. The only disagreement is how much.

[SWJ Blog] 23 June SWJ Roundup: Iranian riot police have fired tear gas to break up a new opposition rally in the centre of the capital Tehran, hours after a stern warning to protesters. Some 1,000 people had gathered on Haft-e Tir Square despite the warning from Iran's Revolutionary Guards against holding unapproved rallies.

[The Big Picture] Words from the (investment) wise July 12, 2009: “Using historical examples for his paper, New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt, Mr Laubach came to the conclusion that ‘a percentage point increase in the projected deficit-to-GDP ratio raises the 10-year bond rate expected to prevail five years into the future by 20 to 40 basis points, a typical estimate is about 25 basis points’.

[Opinio Juris] Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Honduras - Coup or Not? And What's ...: conjures images of a military junta seizing power by extralegal force and repressing all opposition akin to Argentina in the early 1980s. Defenders of the Honduran military action point out that this action was not extralegal and was, in fact, authorized by the legislature and the courts in response to Zelaya’s own illegal attempt to extend his power in an imitation of his international mentor, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Critics, however, believe that this is just a rhetorical shill to cover up some kind of bias against Zelaya’s leftist politics.

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