A Texas Prosecutor Faces Justice - NYTimes.com

We have too many ambitious prosecutors in Texas who will convict anybody they can for crimes and hide crucial evidence that could exonerate them. It has happened again and again and again. These lying, obfuscating, obstructionists should themselves be put in prison. I think a good rule would be a year of incarceration for the DA's for every year they put away an innocent man or woman for.

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False Promises at For-Profit Colleges - NYTimes.com

Something needs to be done to stop these criminals running fake diploma mills.
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No, ‘Obamacare’ isn’t ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart)

No, ‘Obamacare’ isn’t ‘the largest tax increase in the history of the world’ (in one chart):

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Public-sector austerity in one graph - The Washington Post

"There is something historically different about this recession and its aftermath: in the past, local government employment has been almost recession-proof. This time it’s not. Going back as long as the data have been collected (1955), with the one exception of the 1981 recession, local government employment continued to grow almost every month regardless of what the economy threw at it. But since the latest recession began, local government employment has fallen by 3 percent, and is still falling. In the equivalent period following the 1990 and 2001 recessions, local government employment grew 7.7 and 5.2 percent. Even following the 1981 recession, by this stage local government employment was up by 1.4 percent...

Without this hidden austerity program, the economy would look very different. If state and local governments had followed the pattern of the previous two recessions, they would have added 1.4 million to 1.9 million jobs and overall unemployment would be 7.0 to 7.3 percent instead of 8.2 percent."
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Soldiers Deck of Cards - YouTube

Soldiers Deck of Cards - YouTube:
If you can watch this without getting misty eyed you are stronger than I am.

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Gingrich’s Health Care Policy History at Odds With G.O.P. - NYTimes.com

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Mika Brzezinski's Meltdown Over Newt's OWS Remarks.mp4 - YouTube

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Ex-skeptic tells US Congress climate change is real

Ex-skeptic tells US Congress climate change is real: "Physicist Richard Muller, director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, whose two-year research was funded in part by a foundation formed by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers, said he could find no bias in other studies.
"We confirm that over the last 50 years, temperature has risen 0.9 degrees Celsius, or 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the same number that the IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says."
Muller told the House Committee on Natural Resources that while he remains cautious about the extent to which humans have played a role, he now hopes other climate skeptics will come on board with his findings.
"As they read and study our papers, I am hoping that many of them will reflect my belief that they are open-minded and come to agree that yes, climate change temperature increase certainly has happened," he said."

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Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows

Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows:

We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find. Now you know it's not just you. 'via Blog this'