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January 6th, 2015 - 1:42 am § in Misc.

HarperCollins omits Israel from maps for Mideast schools, citing ‘local preferences’

Where’s Israel?  (adapted from the Washington Post and the American Thinker) The book publisher HarperCollins UK learned a valuable lesson on the dangers of trying to appease in the modern age of instant communications.  The company literally wiped Israel off the map by omitting Israel on their[...]

January 6th, 2015 - 12:14 am § in America, Hypocrisy

Taxpayers Pay 3 million dollars to football coach?

    Does the University of Michigan’s New Football Coach Need Food Stamps? Dean Baker, Huff Post:  It turns out that the taxpayer subsidy to Jim Harbaugh is equal to an awful lot of food stamps, which are a useful reference point here, since Republicans have tried to vilify the program. If[...]