April 26, 2008

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
Reviewed by Denise Noe
John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor, is understandably dismayed at the widespread ignorance of his subject, an ignorance which he calls “innumeracy.” He is also dismayed by the fact that so many of his fellow Americans are math-anxious and math-averse and that [...]

On Wednesday, US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced a new federal strategy in the fight against international organized crime that will address this growing threat to the US security and stability.
The Law Enforcement Strategy to Combat International Organized Crime was developed following an October 2007 International Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOC Threat Assessment) [...]

April 22, 2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently ran an article about how panhandling in Atlanta is getting worse. It quoted a beggar who has “grown weary of being solicited by other beggars” as saying that “The City Too Busy to Hate” should adopt “Brother, can you spare a dime?” as its next slogan.
The same article noted that [...]

April 18, 2008

It used to be that becoming a millionaire was regarded as a huge achievement. In today’s dollars, however, it is fairly trivial. According to the Department of Labor’s inflation calculator, $1 million today was worth only $183,285 in 1970. But $1 million in 1970 had the same buying power as $5,456,005 today.
That’s the new rich: [...]

April 16, 2008

-By Warner Todd Huston
Well, it was just April 15th and we all know what that means. It was tax day, the day when we must pay tribute to the Lords in Washington. And on that day, The New York Times published a new spendaholic, high taxing idea to fool America’s taxpayers into accepting more tax [...]

April 15, 2008

Since 2001, Congress has provided the Department oons in support of the Global War on Terrorism.
DOD’s reported annual obligations for GWOT have shown a steady increase from about $0.2 billion in fiscal year 2001 to about $139.8 billion in fiscal year 2007. To continue GWOT operations, the President requested $189.3 billion in appropriations for [...]

March 31, 2008

Dr. Laura recently aroused some hackles when she speculated about marriages like the Spitzer in which the husband is unfaithful that his straying is because his wife is not doing her duties to attend to him psychologically and/or sexually. Glenn Sacks has in turn defended Dr. Laura on this count.
I think it is important to [...]

March 19, 2008

There has been much debate about how advertisers portray men and fathers in the media. For sometime now men’s rights and father’s rights groups have been creating awareness and engaging in protests campaigns in an effort to derail the common default logic that the best way to reach the male consumer is to portray [...]

March 17, 2008

The Newspaper of Claremont Street by Elizabeth Jolley is about a person, not a publication. The title refers to the well-deserved nickname of its unique protagonist. A maid to the affluent Claremont Street families, the Newspaper, or Weekly for short, is a walking record of her employers’ travails and joys. Weekly knows [...]

March 14, 2008

March 17 is a very special day, honoring the richness of Irish history, traditions, and customs. It is especially appropriate that, of those groups outside of the Emerald Isle itself, we in the United States of America should pay special attention to St. Patrick�s Day. Over nine times as many people of at least partially [...]