Principled Progressive returns on Monday SCIENCE FINDS ANOTHER REASON WE SHOULD TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE: MASS EXTINCTIONS OF EVEN “COMMON SPECIES” ACROSS THE GLOBE News that the Earth’s atmosphere is now more laden with carbon dioxide than probably at any other time in human history is further proof of the inexorable nature of [...]
(SOMEBODY’S) “WAR GAMES” BEGIN IN SYRIA—BUT WHOSE GAMES AND TO WHAT PURPOSE? These are questions without definitive answsers as devastating air strikes hit targets near Damascus. Syrian officials, noting that only Israeli forces would have the firepower in the area to deliver such blows, accuse Israel of perpetrating them, though Israel officially denies this. [...]
COLLEGE STUDENTS: FORGET ABOUT THAT DUMB PROFESSOR WHO GRADES YOUR ESSAY EXAMS; ED-EX OFFERS YOU AN “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” TO DO THAT JOB FOR YOU. ” EdEx” is a creation of Harvard and MIT which machine-grades essay exams as “objective” tests have long been graded. Proponents praise the system for the “instant feedback” offered students [...]
JIM CROW GOES TO PALESTINE. Israel is practicing against its Palestinian minority the same repressive apartheid-maintaining measures that kept blacks in “their places” (literally) in the U.S. in the years leading up to the civil rights movement. The walls that attempt to separate Jews and Muslims are the equivalent to the “red lining” in [...]
”UNLESS YOU CAN AFFORD TO PARTAKE IN OUR CUSTOMS AND CONVENTIONS, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.“ Damien Shannon describes this as the operative “policy” of Oxford University in England. He was rejected for admission because he could not raise 12,000 pounds a year in personal income available to support the “customs and conventions” which [...]
DON’T WORRY. THOSE PESKY AGGRIEVED WALMART EMPLOYEES WON’T HAMPER YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING SPREE… ` The mega-retailer faces its largest labor protest to date as union groups and frustrated current employees vow to organize a nationwide walkout at Walmart stores on the day after Thanksgiving. So-called “Black Friday” is the most important day of [...]
“KINDNESS HOLDS A PLACE ON A PAR WITH INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENT.” This admonition, given to incoming freshmen at Harvard University as they are required to take an oath to exercise “sensitivity” in their public utterances and demonstrations, highlights a tendency across the country for students on college campuses to be restrained in their “speech” [...]
PROBLEM OF THE DAY FOR PARENTS OF 350,000 CHILDREN IN CHICAGO: HOW TO GET THROUGH A MONDAY WITHOUT SCHOOLS. Chicago Teachers Union begins a strike today as negotiations between school board and teachers breaks down. There is bitter acrimony between the Mayor, Rahm Emanuel and the head of the CTU, Karin Lewis, who calls [...]
“ITS BEHAVIOR RISKS FUELING A SPECULATIVE BUBBLE AND CONTRIBUTING TO HUNGER AND POVERTY FOR MILLIONS OF THE WORLD’S POOREST PEOPLE.” Some of the world’s largest and most influential banks and financial institutions have set their sites on the global food supply as the latest target of their ruthless quest for profits, turning the basic [...]
AMERICAN PRIORITIES: MORE MONEY FOR PRISONS, LESS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. An alarming trend that has taken hold in the United States is a startling divergence in the amount of public money earmarked for the sustenance of the nation”s system of higher education versus that spent on incarceration. America is now a place where [...]
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