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May 18th, 2014 - 10:58 am § in America, Religion

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: A Higher Authority Rules on Hot Dogs

New York – Lawsuit Over Hebrew National Hot Dogs Is Revived   Today 01:30 PM  New York –  A year after ConAgra Foods Inc won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming that its Hebrew National hot dogs were not kosher, a higher authority has given the case new life.  A federal appeals court[...]

May 15th, 2014 - 12:56 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges

UT Austin shows that income disparity is the major obstacle to kids success in college

University of Texas ..               Are the Top 7% from low income schools as able as the 7% from high income schools? (Cross Post from The-Ave.US) This is a phenomenal article on an effort at the University of Texas to assist students from economic, as opposes to racial, minorities. M[...]

May 15th, 2014 - 4:11 am § in Politics

Is Rubio Chanelling Mr. Spock?

Rubio: I am Ready To Be President, Climate Change Caused by Man, Clinton Mrs.  Gets an ‘F’ By LUCY MCCALMONT | 5/11/14 12:00 PM EDT Article Comments (0) <span class=”mceItemHidden” data-mce-bogus=”1″> &amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://ad.doubleclick.ne[...]

May 11th, 2014 - 3:23 am § in America

Happy Mothers Day!

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May 8th, 2014 - 12:02 pm § in Hypocrisy, Jews

Why Brandeis Was Wrong

Brandeis reneged on an honorary degree to Ayan Hersi Ali because she has asserted that her former religion, Islam, has a real problem that goes beyond bigotry to abuse of women, slavery, and terrorism against non muslims. Ayan’s story might be read in comparison to the story of   Yousef Al[...]

May 1st, 2014 - 6:34 pm § in The Ave Scene

Socialist in Seattle, Kshama Sawant

Kashama’s comments on Huff Post Live are interesting. She does not come across as wild eyed, merely unsatisfied that  she did not get more from the Mayor.  I do hope she is not going  going through with an effort to fight the Mayor with a ballot initiative.  She would lose and likely hurt[...]

April 24th, 2014 - 8:26 am § in America

Is Clive Bundy Working for Putin?

Two Rebels   Ponomaryov, “people’s mayor” of Slaviansk,  is cagey about his Cold War military service and his business affairs, even his age, but shows greater authority over the gun-heavy separatists who have taken effective control of the entire city. Long feared by officialdom[...]

April 23rd, 2014 - 3:56 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene

AAUP: Universal Scholarships?

Last week, over n the AAUP listserv. Robert Wood referred to an NPR article describing a program in Michigan where philanthropists in Kalamazoo fund universal college tuition. Rob asked, “Imagine if we were able to set one of these funds up statewide in Washington? How much would it cost?  [...]

April 21st, 2014 - 9:09 am § in America

SOUTH CAROLINA: Why Would Anyone Choose to LIve There>

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April 14th, 2014 - 6:02 pm § in Uncategorized

Why Should You Care If Other People Are Bigots?

Because they might shoot you, that’s why. Yesterday, a bigot murdered two Methodists and a Catholic because he thought they were Jews.  In August 2012 a bigot shot ten Sikhs, killing six and wounding four, because he thought they were Muslims.  On Christmas Eve of 1985, a bigot murdered the [...]