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In the comments section of one of Rick’s posts , a debate about global warming was started.
Anthropogenic Global Warming Revisited | Wizbang
Those of you who don’t keep up with Edinburgh’s literary world through Twitter may have missed the recent spate of mysterious paper sculptures appearing around the city.
Mysterious paper sculptures - Central Station Blog post
The Tax Foundation - No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S.
During my recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee ( found here ), I cited an OECD statistic that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system among industrialized nations. [1] This prompted one Senator to point out that if the richest 10% of taxpayers earn the most of any OECD country, shouldn't it make sense that they bear the largest tax burden of any country? The answer can be found in the OECD table below. This table shows the share of taxes paid by the richest 10 percent of households, the share of all market income earned by that group, and the ratio of what that 10 percent of households pays in taxes versus what they earn as a share of the nation's income.As Americans, we’re often taught that trusts and monopolies are the product of big business and are bad.
Follow the Money: What the Wisconsin Education Association Isn’t Talking About | RedState
The Long Reach of Teachers Unions : Education Next
When the Florida legislature, on April 8th, passed a bill that sought to replace teacher tenure with merit pay, the Florida Education Association (FEA) sprang into action, organizing members and community activists to lobby Governor Charlie Crist to veto the measure.The U.S. and Afghanistan have agreed to a deal that will put Afghan troops in charge of deeply unpopular night raids on local homes by special forces in Afghanistan. FULL STORY
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At EWG, our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.