But when I analyze how I choose political candidates, my analogy with “Dancing with the Stars” breaks down. Mike Pence isqualifiedto serve in government, but his positions (banning abortion, curbing LGBT rights, promoting coal over clean air, and funding vouchers for charter and religious sch...
This is why we had the Helsinki Accords in 1975. This is why we had the 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe. This idea that we had to overcome it. This was also George Kennan’s main argument when the decision was to expand NATO. He said, why are we...
How much do you have to invest before you're ready to sell? I've tried businesses that involve a lot of upfront investment. Try starting a luxury scuba diving charter boat business in New Zealand! Or property renovations for on-sell. Both of those require large investments upfront before ...
1.) The Presidents answered in a robotic and noncompassionate way, as if they didn’t expect to have to answer such questions. It didn’t help that the Republican questioners were bullying, demanding simple “yes or no” answers to a complex question. As we see above, sometimes itisagains...
West Virginia’sSenate Bill 619— which would, if enacted, allow “[t]eachers in public schools, including public charter schools, that include any one or more of grades Kindergarten through 12, [to] teach intelligent design as a theory of how the universe and/or humanity came to exist”...
We follow the evidence wherever it leads. Might it take us somewhere we wouldn’t like to be? Yes it may. Might it take us to some uncomfortable truths? Ya it might do. Might it lead us to question assumptions that we’ve accepted all our lives? Might we have to change some of our...
Until 1898, Brooklyn was an entirely separate city from Queens. A transit company would therefore need to get a separate operating charter from the state if they wanted to operate between counties. This was made all the easier when the City of New York consumed the City of Brooklyn and Count...
the Pacific Gas & Electric utility has beencharged with twelve felony criminal violationsof something called the US Pipeline Safety Act (PSA). If convicted, the company will not face execution for those deaths, or incarceration, or lose its corporate charter birthright. No executives or workers wi...
In global health, we know that if children receive the measles vaccine, they will be protected against the disease, which means they’re more likely to survive. But there’s no consensus on cause and effect in education. Are charter schools good or bad? Should the school day be shorter or...
Human Rights charter like they worship the Bible today. Doing so would take us away from the woo-woo of religion and towards the rigor of secular reason, where we can logically discern the differences between good and evil. But in practice, no matter how much we’d like it to be otherwi...