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By what metrics are you comparing Texas to California?

Hey, look at this: http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70 A fiscally conservative budget that raises taxes (and reforms the tax code), makes reforms to healthcare entitlement spending, and cuts military spending! A very serious plan for those who are not using the budget...

1) The tax rates in this country will have to go up. Tax cuts do not pay for themselves, and we've seen an increase in the level of Federal debt due to the Bush tax cuts. This is not a radical concept, even Adam Smith was all for a heavier tax burden upon the top. Probably because he lived in...

Perry has done well in Texas because we're a defacto one-party government and he can avoid debates and media and still win on a straight ticket win. Texas really is that stupid. Perry has no credible economic case. He has continually balanced our budget on federal stimulus dollars (and...

1) By showing himself to be a nationalist, and to pull back and run counter to some of the positives (or compromises) of the Bolshevik takeover. You see in the 20s, a willingness to compromise and expand freedoms (such as empowering women unions), but this may have been to play factions against...

Last year, teaching World History, we spent maybe three days on the Middle East. 1) We went over the story of Mohammed and the founding of Islam. This was part of our greater religions unit that covered the Abrahamic religion founders, Siddhartha (Buddah), and the Eastern Philosophy...

I actually drive away from the city when I commute to work, and thus there is a lack of public transportation. Even if I was using public transportation to go into the city... I'd need a car to get to the Metro station in the first place. Thats not including all the other errands that...

Apparently hes a reservist who volunteered for the tour in May. He can ask the army to revoke it upto the day he is supposed to deploy. In other words, hes an agitator and probably set this up as a political stunt.

I'm going to go into teacher mode and make the point that of all the methods of cultural change, war tends to be the quickest. Yes, the North, galvanized by the blood spilled on Fort Sumter went to war with the South. They wanted retribution... but two-three years down the road they've...

Heck, I'd say for a lot of people going into the war, it was going to be a grand ole time. Life on the farm was boring. You got up and worked from 6am to 6pm and nothing ever happened. The most you could expect was to goto a town social or go drinking with your neighbors/kin once a month in...

Heres a little insider history (and Im not digging through my source books, so take this up with Professor Neff at Ole Miss if Im not to be believed), but the steam ships involved and their pilots could not figure out the currents of Charleston bay to enter into the waters. Yes, the ships...

The Civil War was fought over slavery. Its not as simple a matter as that statement would insinuate it is, but all roads (economic, political, social) lead to slavery. Economic: Lets put ourselves in a 19th century Southern planter. You bought and paid for your tools and seeds at the...

I'd be interested in hearing what was going on in the factory. This reminds me of an anecdotal story in the 30s' in a brick factory in Moscow. The Soviets set a price-cap on bricks that was below the costs involved to produce them. The workers went unpaid and bricks did not get made, or...

So instead of religion imposing dietary standards, it will be scientific study?

TFA is nothing more than a cheap form of labour for school districts that allow them to circumvent their own subpar pay scales by bringing in some blind sucker who wants to make a difference and has not come to terms with the utter failures and unrealistic expectations of the education system...