You have to hand it to Putin. He and his cronies may be autocratic and corrupt, but he is achieving two things that Russian Tsars sought to achieve, and is doing so simultaneously – in Syria. By supporting Assad, brutally and without concern for the massive destruction and death, Putin has achieved a permanent warm …
“Anything carried to excess can cause unhappiness”. (Michel de Montaigne). An Epicurean bon mot.
The Washington, D.C-based Migration Policy Institute released “An Analysis of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States by Country and Region of Birth.” It’s based on U.S. Census Bureau data. Some of the findings may not surprise you. Mexicans represent 56 percent of the total. 15 percent come from Central America and 14% from Asia. The …
I am posting this in view of the developments in the US Presidential debate. One in 5 women and one in 71 men will be raped in the United States in the course of their lives. (Centers for Disease Control).The CDC is a very reputable and reliable source, not given to casual carelessness. (RAINN, an …
The very size of the endowments of top US universities should be a political issue, because these endowments make inequality worse and their sizes become ends in themselves. Harvard has a tax-exempt endowment of $35 billion, Yale $26 billion. The endowments and fees paid to money managers are tax deductible. The per student annual taxpayer …
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