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When most non-Montanans think of Montana, they think of "A River Runs Through It" ΓΆβ;¬" they don't think of the central front in the war on anything (except, maybe trout, if you consider fly fishermen "warriors"). But for the last week, this sparsely populated state has been the central front in
The mother of a kindergartner was charged with assault Thursday and banned from school after officials said she walked into the child's classroom, pointed a toy cap gun at students and pulled the trigger several times.
Majority Think Life Has Gotten More Difficult For Middle Class
How do we stop the credit industry's predatory business model and get Americans out of debt when incomes aren't rising as fast as the costs of healthcare and housing? Last week, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve Board were forced to remind the nation's bankers to verify their customers' incomes -- adding that it might be a good idea to determine whe
An interesting legal angle on the question of whether medical marijuana patients are being denied their rights under the Americans with Disabilities act.
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the main multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit filed by Enron investors against the defunct energy company's banks and lawyers.
WASHINGTON - It was a novel class exercise: Ask a room full of Montgomery County high school students to take turns chewing the same piece of gum. To demonstrate how sexually transmitted diseases are spread, a visiting speaker invited students to share gum in health classes at four county high schools in December and last month.
On Jan. 31, President Bush headed to Wall Street and acknowledged for the first time that income inequality exists in America: "The fact is that income inequality is real. It has been rising for more than 25 years." But apparently, he's not quite ready to do anything about it. Bush's 2008 budget cuts crucial aid for America's middle class
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Once prized as a leafy haven from the social ills of urban life, the suburbs are now grappling with a new outbreak of an old problem: poverty.
In early February, the president has a historic opportunity to submit a federal budget to a Democratic-controlled Congress that will expand the middle class, reduce the enormous gap between the rich and the poor and lower the poverty rate. But don't hold your breath.
The nastiness of modern American politics isn't the result of a random outbreak of bad manners. It's a symptom of deeper factors - mainly the growing polarization of our economy. And history says that we'll see a return to bipartisanship only if and when that economic polarization is reversed.
The Democratic majority that took control of Congress in January is inheriting a class society. Today in America, one's birth largely determines one's future.
By Daniel Gross - What's hot for 2007 among the very rich? A $7.3 million diamond ring. Safari in Tanzania. Oh, and income inequality. Sure, some leftish, Democratic-leaning billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years. But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to fret about incom
Not long ago, the expansion of free trade worldwide seemed inevitable. Over the last few years, however, economic barriers have started to rise once more. The forecast for the future looks mixed: some integration will probably continue even as a new economic nationalism takes hold. Managing this new, muddled world will take deft handling, in Washin
The corporatizing economy of the U.S. is racing far ahead of its being understood. Analysts have barely begun to figure out the consequences of this seismic shift of capital structures. It's class warfare in reverse; the super rich and their corporations against the workers are redistributing the workers' wealth into their own pockets and coffers.
By the end of tomorrow the average Briton will have caused as much global warning as the typical Kenyan will over the whole of this year.
Oprah Winfrey's poke at the short-sighted materialism of some low-income students has delighted conservative commentators, but that doesn't mean she's wrong. Liberals love to "speak truth to power," but the powerless need to hear the truth, too. Knowledge, after all, is power. Don't keep it to yourself, I say. Spread it around. That
Democrats are not ruling out raising taxes for the wealthiest people to help pay for tax cuts for middle-income families, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
The film's bleak vision of a world divided between shanty-towns and trailer parks at one end, and unimaginable luxury at the other, is not far off the mark.
hackdiary: Using Omnigraffle to visualise Rails model associations

The cool thing about this is the ruby code at the bottom. It's amazingly dynamic. Check it out.










