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11 CEOs bust through $30M-a-year barrier - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
Matt Krantz, USA TODAYimage (not from article) fromInvestors didn't see a big pay day last year since the stock market was flat. But some CEOs sure did.Eleven current CEOs of S&P 500 companies,...
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Recruiting Students Overseas to Fill Seats, Not to Meet Standards
By STEPHANIE SAUL APRIL 19, 2016, New York TimesImage from article: an ad by Global Tree Overseas Education Consultants, a recruiting companyBOWLING GREEN, Ky. — “Hurry Up!!!,” the online posting said....
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Picking up Trash in Rock Creek Park
In my daily forays (I call it "jogging," younger folks tell me it's "walking") in that jewel of USG national parks conservation, Rock Creek Park, I find that I can fulfill my humble duties as a...
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Pat Buchanan: Even If Trump Wins, The West Is Doomed - Note for a lecture, "E...
Alex Pfeiffer, dailycaller.comimage fromFormer presidential candidate and conservative author Pat Buchanan feels his views have been vindicated this election cycle, but his next prediction, if proven...
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This Is Your Brain Online
We live in the information age, yet we know less and less. We are manic about photographing our lives, but we remember less and less.Alan Jacobs, Wall Street JournalIt seems that one of the chief...
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Pretend you are reading the post-modern version of a 19th century novel, with each FB entry a paragraph in that very uneven magnum opus.
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A Nation at War With Itself - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
When FDR ran for an unprecedented third term, his outraged cousin Alice quipped that his initials stood for ‘Führer, Duce, Roosevelt.’Richard Snow, Wall Street JournalMarc Wortman’s engrossing book...
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Hillary’s Big Idea: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
Tom Egan, New York Timesimage fromExcerpt:Here’s the central conundrum for Clinton: A majority of people think the system is broken, and must change. But a majority also has an unfavorable view of...
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Republicans don’t like Kasich because he sounds like Obama - Note for a...
Catherine Rampell, Washington Postimage fromExcerpt:In a wide-ranging meeting with The Post’s editorial board this week, [Republican presidential candidate] Kasich answered many of our policy and...
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Trash Free Potomac Network - Connecting for a Trash Free Watershed
trashnetwork.fergusonfoundation.org; see also.image (not from below announcement) fromTrash Free Potomac Network - Connecting for a Trash Free Watershed2016 Extreme Cleanup - Calvert St and Rock Creek...
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Former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev on "Where is Russia Headed"
Kozyrev image fromOn April 20, 12:00 noon -1:30 pm, I attended a presentation at the Atlantic Council by former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. Over one hundred persons were in attendance....
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Found on the Web: No, the United States is not 2,014 years old today - Note...
By Craig Hlavaty, The Texican, on July 4, 2014 at 10:29 AMimage from articleTwo pop-culture news outlets have discovered that the math of some Americans is pretty fuzzy when it comes to the age of our...
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PROPAGANDA CAN MAKE US BELIEVE ANYTHING
Mark H. Teeter added 5 new photos. [Facebook entry]1 hr · "PROPAGANDA CAN MAKE US BELIEVE ANYTHING…It’s simply that the world today is so constructed that very frequently the television really is more...
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Queue? Obama’s use of British English makes Brits suspicious
Adam Taylor, Washington Post [original article contains twitter messages]image (not from article) fromPresident Obama was in London on Friday, where he delivered a passionate plea to Britain to vote to...
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The Dollar -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
, 4/25/2016Back StoryThe redesigns of the $5, $10 and $20 bills will be unveiled in 2020, about 500 years after the word “dollar” came into use.It comes from the German word “thaler,” derived from...
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In a switch, big food companies urge consumers to eat less
Hadley Malcolm, USA TODAY 2:29 p.m. EDT April 25, 2016image fromAfter spending years trying to convince consumers to buy more of their famous-name products, now some of the biggest players in the food...
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How Trump Killed Reaganism
There have been three GOP revolutions since World War II. No telling what’s next.By WILLIAM A. GALSTON, wall street journalApril 26, 2016 6:53 p.m. ETThe minute-to-minute coverage of the 2016...
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Hillary Clinton: ‘As a white person,’ I have to discuss racism ‘every chance...
Jessica Chasmar - The Washington TimesDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stands with Pennsylvania elected officials during a campaign stop, Monday, April 25, 2016, at City Hall in...
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Why Is America So Bad at Promoting Democracy in Other Countries?
Stephen M. Walt, foreignpolicy.com; via JM on FacebookThere’s no quick, cheap, or military-based way to bring peace to places like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Iraq. It’s time we changed our approach, and...
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Cognitive Dissonance: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
via BS on Facebook...April 22 at 12:28am · Meanwhile in Texas...
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