Month: March 2008

Decoupling Education & Upward Mobility

Like some middle class kids in my generation, education was a high priority. In my house it was emphasized as the doorway to upward mobility. (The idea of learning for learning’s sake was something I discovered later.) If...

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Guess Who’s Hiring at Big Guvmint?

Do you know which part of our over-regulating federal government which all good Republicans keep trying drown in a bathtub suddenly just found itself with a large and growing tumor of staff hiring? FDA? Nope. EPA? Wrong again....

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UN: Rafik Hariri Assassinated by Criminal Network

. UN Investigator says Lebanese prime minister was assassinated by criminal network UNITED NATIONS: Former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by a criminal network that is linked to some other terrorist...

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Hurricane Katrina and Human Trafficking

. Indian workers protest inhumane conditions at Signal International   WASHINGTON (AP/Times of India) – Indian workers who say they were lured to move to the Gulf of Mexico coastal area by false promises of permanent...

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