Down and Out in London vs. Paris There will always be an England dear to the hearts of Americans who adore the quaint – especially where the natives speak in an intelligible tongue. The Brits high regard for the United States further warms the cockles of the Anglophilic heart. Imitation being the ultimate form of respect in today’s globalized culture, the vanishing England of old (from double-decker buses to bowler hats) diminishes our affection not a whit so long as it is replaced by pop entertainment, catch-phrases, and economic panaceas with the “Made In USA” seal. That assures Americans that the voices raised to hail “the land of hope and glory” really know just what land deserves the accolade. Ritualized affirmations of family ties crop up at random in unpredictable waves. Consequently, there is a long-standing tradition of reveling in whatever hard times France may be experiencing. France’s youth, we are informed, are particularly distraught. So, where lies Salvation? Surveying the Promised Land Fr: 4.8 UK: 6.3
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Libertarianism First published Thu Sep 5, 2002; substantive revision Tue Jul 20, 2010 Libertarianism, in the strict sense, is the moral view that agents initially fully own themselves and have certain moral powers to acquire property rights in external things. In a looser sense, libertarianism is any view that approximates the strict view. This entry will focus on libertarianism in the strict sense. Libertarianism is sometimes identified with the principle that each agent has a right to maximum equal empirical negative liberty, where empirical negative liberty is the absence of forcible interference from other agents when one attempts to do things. Libertarianism can be understood as a basic moral principle or as a derivative one. Although libertarianism could be advocated as a full theory of moral permissibility, it is almost always advocated as a theory of justice in one of two senses. Libertarianism is often thought of as “right-wing” doctrine. 1. 2. Let us now consider left-libertarianism. 3.
‘Stupid and Racist’: Video captures professor ranting against Republican Party A professor at the University of Southern California (USC) appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and “losers.” In a 15 min. video secretly captured by USC student Tyler Talgo, political science Professor Darry Sragow also appears to endorse the illegal suppression of Republican votes. “You lose their information on the election in the mail,” he suggested when a student asked him how to keep Republicans from voting. A teaching assistant (TA), who also appeared to work for the university, then seemed to suggest Black Panthers could be placed at polling stations to intimidate Republican voters. Rather than rebuking the TA, Sragow appeared to confirm the suggestion. “Yeah, yeah,” he said. Neither a spokesperson for USC, or professor Sragow, responded to multiple requests from Campus Reform seeking comment. “Romney tends to make shit up,” he said.
Fatigué du système, il ouvre les portes de son élevage industriel Vue par plus d’1 million d’américains en quelques jours, cette vidéo ne montre pas des poussins broyés ou des animaux maltraités pour vous prendre par les sentiments. C’est simplement l’histoire de Craig Watts, un fermier industriel qui va faire ce qu’aucun autre n’a fait avant lui : ouvrir les portes de son usine et montrer sa réalité. (Activer les sous-titres FR si nécessaire – Vidéo produite par ciwf.fr) Le cas de Craig Watts démontre que les exploitants agricoles ne sont pas forcément des monstres sans foi ni loi qui abusent des animaux. Beaucoup se sont simplement laissés entraîner par la machine infernale de la productivité à coup d’investissements qui engendrent de nouvelles infrastructures et de nouveaux investissements. « Il y a beaucoup de failles dans ce système. Après 22 ans à élever des poulets toujours plus vite pour une des plus grosses firmes du pays, il a voulu témoigner. Voir la vidéo de YouTube
Main Page - Academic Kids Platform Adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, NV Download as a PDF As adopted in Convention, May 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others. We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized. Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles. These specific policies are not our goal, however. We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.
Rotten to the Core: Conservatives spearhead drive at RNC meeting to stop Common Core « Thanks to grass-roots activism, limited-government think tanks, whistle-blowing educators and bloggers, vigilant local and state legislators, and tireless parents committed to protecting their children, the truth about federalized Common Core standards is spreading. Every voice counts. Glenn Beck and his team at The Blaze have done invaluable work exposing the corrupt, privacy-undermining Fed Ed scheme to a wider audience. Big Government Republicans like Jeb Bush (and before him, brother W. and father G.H.W.) have little regard for local control of education. Some stalwart conservatives inside the RNC get it. Here’s the full text of the resolution, via Shane Vander Hart at Truth in American Education. Exactly. Rotten to the Core series: Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form now available Rotten to the Core, Part 4: The Feds’ Invasive Student Tracking Database Rotten to the Core, Part 3: Lessons from Texas and the Growing Grassroots Revolt Previous: Fuzzy math: A nationwide epidemic
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to William Croft as William Cross. You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes! It’s an odd little speech. That’s because all of the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the four sentences are words that have descended largely unchanged from a language that died out as the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. A new study, however, suggests that’s not always true. A team of researchers has come up with a list of two dozen “ultraconserved words” that have survived 150 centuries. The existence of the long-lived words suggests there was a “proto-Eurasiatic” language that was the common ancestor to about 700 contemporary languages that are the native tongues of more than half the world’s people. They make up a diverse group.
8 Living Artists Every Educator Should Know By staying aware of artists who are working today, educators can invigorate their lives and their classrooms with new and expansive ways of looking at contemporary life and the world. Here are a few artists to get started, along with suggested connections that can be made to subjects and themes that you might be addressing with your students. Marina Abromivic Marina Abromovic is a performance artist based in New York. Connection: Abromovic makes us reconsider society's relationship to the body. El Anastui El Anastui is a Ghanaian sculptor who works with found materials that others might consider junk, such as bottle caps and rusted sheet metal. Connection: El Anatsui's work reminds us that materials can have purpose and carry an inherent beauty that goes beyond their designated use, and in that way his work turns our attention to human consumption and ecology. Edward Burtynksy JR is a French street artist and photographer of Algerian decent. Maya Lin Sarah Sze Kara Walker Ai Weiwei
A New Birth of Reason - Susan Jacoby Cover Story - Winter 2013 Print Robert Ingersoll, the Great Agnostic, inspired late-19th-century Americans to uphold the founders’ belief in separation of church and state Robert Ingersoll (Library of Congress/Brady-Handy Photograph Collection) By Susan Jacoby December 7, 2012 Why do some public figures who were famous in their own time become part of a nation’s historical memory, while others fade away or are confined to what is called “niche fame” on the Internet? Ingersoll emerged as the leading figure in what historians of American secularism consider the golden age of freethought—an era when immigration, industrialization, and science, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by means of natural selection, were challenging both religious orthodoxy and the supposedly simpler values of the nation’s rural Anglo-Saxon past. They knew that to put God in the Constitution was to put man out. In his lecture “The Gods,” Ingersoll proclaimed, The Agnostic is an Atheist.