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A Reason to Think, and Think AgainTED Tuesday: Private Investment in Public Programs?
This TED Talk demonstrates a working plan for people to invest in social programs with a return if it saves the public (government) money. It's called a "social impact bond" and actually gives a return if it works, and if not, the taxpayers don't get burned....
Please Don’t Politicize Christmas, Especially at Home
A rerun of Thanksgiving, Michelle Obama is urging people to use Christmas Dinner as the place and time to "educate" relatives on the virtues of [[Obamacare]]. A rerun of Thanksgiving counter-measure "survival tips", conservatives from FreedomWorks are telling us, "If...
TED Tuesday: See People Before Ideology
In what I would suggest is the most needed TED Talk promoted on our site for 2014, a "progressive lesbian talking head on Fox News" shows us that "emotional correctness" is more important than being politically right -- a lesson that equally applies to those of all...
Put Defense Spending Under the Scrutiny Microscope
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, April 13, 2011} Two cheers for the Republicans. After the disastrous spending policies of the Bush administration, they are finally showing signs of taking America’s budget and debt problems seriously. Thanks to pressure...
Proposed “Knockout” Law Is a Crime
{Published in the Buffalo News, November 29, 2013} The game of “Knockout”, where unruly youths dare each other to randomly punch someone in public hard enough to put them unconscious, is taking the course of all our fears. First it starts obscure, perhaps even...
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