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Undernews For 19 January 2009
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 12:23 pm | Undernews
Lemon socialism - the unstated but dominant American economic principle that capitalism is king except when it can't make money - has reached new heights with the notion of an "aggregator bank." After Wall Street received the biggest pork barrel giveaway ... More >>
Undernews For January 8, 2009
Friday, 9 January 2009, 1:28 pm | Undernews
Standardized testing is the worst thing that could have happened. You're producing scientists that think every experiment has perfect answers. - Reid Walker, Colorado biology teacher More >>
Undernews For January 7, 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 5:03 pm | Undernews
Every time Israel doesn't something mean, cruel or stupid you can almost hear the sound of liberals and progressives rushing for a place to hide. Strip away the rhetoric and the excuses and the problem basically comes down to the fact that people don't ... More >>
Undernews For January 5, 2009
Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 10:45 am | Undernews
Undernews For January 5, 2009 The news while there's still time to do something about it More >>
Undernews For December 15, 2008
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 1:46 pm | Undernews
From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded... The shackles, therefore, . . . will be made heavier ... More >>
Undernews For December 11, 2008
Friday, 12 December 2008, 1:38 pm | Undernews
THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #381 Washington DC 20003 202-423-7884 Editor: Sam Smith More >>
Undernews For December 11, 2008
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 2:11 pm | Undernews
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw More >>
Undernews For December 9, 2008
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 11:51 am | Undernews
One of the problems with hiring a Harvard Law School graduate as president is that you're likely to find someone steeped in precedent and shallow - even skeptical of - possibility. More >>
Undernews For December 8, 2008
Monday, 8 December 2008, 10:36 am | Undernews
Watching Barack Obama's bait and switch left me with an indefinable sense of deja vu until the parallel finally dawned. The personalities were so different that they obscured a common technique. More >>
Undernews For November 30, 2008
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 11:08 am | Undernews
Sam Smith, Progressive Review - There is something wrong out there. The fiscal crisis is supposedly primarily due to the collapse of sub prime mortgages. This argument places the blame squarely on the backs of stupid borrowers and predatory lenders. ... More >>
Undernews For November 25, 2008
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 10:50 am | Undernews
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, ... More >>
Undernews For November 24, 2008
Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 9:54 am | Undernews
Al Jazeera Bolivia's president has suspended the work of agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration, accusing them of spying inside Bolivia. Speaking in the coca-producing region of Chimore in central Chapare province on Saturday, Evo Morales ... More >>
Undernews For November 24, 2008
Monday, 24 November 2008, 9:44 am | Undernews
Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine - GOP President Dwight Eisenhower, 1954 More >>
Undernews For 19 November, 2008
Friday, 21 November 2008, 10:23 am | Undernews
I've been uplinked and downloaded. I've been inputted and outsourced. I know the upside of downsizing; I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech lowlife. A cutting-edge, state-of-the-art, bicoastal multi-tasker, and I can give you a gigabyte ... More >>
Undernews For November 15, 2008
Monday, 17 November 2008, 2:59 pm | Undernews
Looking over the seven page questionnaire that the Obama organization has for prospective appointees, several thoughts occurred: More >>
Undernews For November 12, 2008
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 12:33 pm | Undernews
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln More >>
Undernews For November 10, 2008
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 10:57 pm | Undernews
Patricia Cohen, NY Times - Three sets of researchers recently concluded that professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students. If there has been a conspiracy among liberal faculty members to influence students, ... More >>
Undernews For November 7, 2008
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 6:29 pm | Undernews
Telegraph, UK - Local authorities have ordered employees to stop using the words and phrases on documents and when communicating with members of the public and to rely on wordier alternatives instead. The ban has infuriated classical scholars who ... More >>
Undernews For November 6, 2008
Friday, 7 November 2008, 11:48 pm | Undernews
In 1991, Larry Summers - now reputed to be high on Obama's appointment list - signed a memo when he was vice president and chief economist of the World Bank concerning the handling of pollution in less wealthy lands. When an excerpt of the memo was ... More >>
Undernews For November 6, 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 2:57 pm | Undernews
Over the past few weeks I've been a good boy. I've placed everything having to do with the real Barack Obama into a futures file and spent my time on the far grimmer matter of the real John McCain and Sarah Palin. More >>
