The ABCs of Social Justice (Occupy Wall Street, anyone?)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| "...the social thought and political economy program (STPEC)... with its emphasis on theory and practice and ethnic, gender, and race studies, is unique in the country... it has 150 majors and approximately 1,000 alumni. Core courses and electives are designed to prepare students to be change agents..." |
Social Security Won't Be There, So Why Not Be Rich? (Occupy freeloaders don't get it)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Social Security Won't Be There, So Why Not Be Rich?By Donald Pennington | Yahoo! Contributor Network 8 hrs ago COMMENTARY | How many times has a politician used the fear of losing Social Security as a ploy to persuade voters? More times than I can count. The concept of a safety net for those who lack financial planning skills has been an effective vote-grabber since 1935. And while all wage-earning Americans are required to pay into the program, people my age and younger will likely never see a return. **SNIP** Participants in the recent Occupy Wall Street boondoggle complained... |
FEDCO Seed Catalog "Yes, We Are Entitled to What is Rightfully Ours. (Leftist Mind Cloud)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Yes, We ARE Entitled to what is rightfully ours An element in the readjustment of our financial system more important than currency, more important than gold...is the confidence of the people. FDR Mar. 12, 1933 Last years economics columns resonated with some readers, evoking both support and outrage. This year I am moved to consider so-calledentitlements such as the Social Security and Medicare programs.These days, when denoting such programs, too many pundits and politicians use the word entitlement as a pejorative as in how dare some citizens feel entitled to these benefits that are bankrupting our country? Even our President... |
Reparations, A Fundamental Issue Of Social Justice (Ogletree)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| My own interest in the reparations movement started in the 1970s when my teacher and mentor at Stanford, Dr. St. Clair Drake, arranged for me to attend the Sixth Pan-African Conference in Dar es Salem, Tanzania. These conferences were held to focus on efforts to end colonial rule in Africa and to promote economic and political development within the African nations. I traveled as part of a delegation of over two hundred African Americans, but the member of our delegation who had an enormous impact on me was Audrey Moore, affectionately known as Queen Mother Moore. Viewed by many as... |
The Major Issue is Not the Economy but the Lack of Integrity and Morality in Our Leadership
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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Many Americans, conservatives among them, have been voicing the opinion that social issues have no part in campaign debates, are criticizing Rick Santorum for placing them in the forefront of his campaign, and are branding him as unelectable as a result. I take issue with those points of view for two reasons: Firstly, social issues, when considered in their broadest sense, should play a major role in any campaign and none other than our Founders cautioned us to demand that they do. Secondly, it is not Rick Santorum who is declaring that social issues are the entire focus of his...
Ron Paul on Social Conservatism: 'I Think It's a Losing Position'
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas.), who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that social conservatism is "a losing position" for the Republican Party. "Do you--are you uncomfortable--certainly Rick Santorum is the one who has been in the forefront of some of this talk on social issues, but there have been others in the race," Crowley asked Paul. "Are you uncomfortable with this talk about social issues? Do you consider it a winning area for Republicans in November?" "No," said Paul. "I think it's a losing position. "I mean,...
1 in 3 Florida retirees who receive Social Security survive solely on government checks
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| A third of Florida's nearly 3 million retirees, 65 and older, now rely entirely on Social Security, according to an analysis by AARP. "Folks have spent down their assets," said Jeff Johnson, AARP interim director in Florida. More Floridians are likely to end up only on Social Security than retirees in the rest of the country: A quarter of U.S. retirees, 65 and older, have only their monthly checks as income, Johnson said. Many of the most strapped are Florida's oldest, he added. Florida seniors, 80 and older, are about three times as likely to depend |
Amazing: Democrat President Demands Cut in Social Security Funding
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| I'm talking about the direct constitutional, virtue-of-the-law way that Social Security's paid for is with that one deduction on your paycheck, FICA. I don't remember what it stands for and it doesn't matter. Now, my point about this is, here you have a Democrat president, who wants to cut the payroll tax by 4%, he wants that large a tax cut in the payroll tax, which would blow a $250 billion hole in Social Security funding at a time when everybody knows that we're short on being able to pay all the obligations now. We have reached the tipping point.... |
'Right-Wing Social Engineering'- Now WHY Would Newt Go and Say a Thing Like That?
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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Not just some offhand comment... GOP court-jester Ron Paul is now working the remark hard in Iowa as he attempts to sow doubt in the hearts of Newt-intenders... while the rest of us scratch our heads and wonder what ever possessed Gingrich to put it out there in the first place. After seeing the Ryan budget's approval rating tank in the polls for a month, Newt came out in mid-May stating he didn't find 'right-wing social engineering' any more palatable than ObamaCare's 'left-wing social engineering'. The former House Speaker then attempted to nuance that criticism of Ryan's Path to Prosperity in...
F. A. Hayek on Social Evolution and the Origins of Tradition
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| In this exclusive video, Nobel-laureate F. A. Hayek discusses the evolution of morality and social norms, arguing that they result from unplanned, emergent processes. He contrasts this conclusion with other philosophical accounts of law and morality. |
Groups to picket at Social Security offices
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Social Security advocates are planning to protest Thursday at Social Security offices around the county. Thousands of American Federation of Government Employees Social Security employees, along with the Alliance for Retired Americans, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and the Strengthen Social Security Campaign are protesting recent proposals from Congress that would cut the Social Security Administration's operational budget. |
Jobss Philanthropic Record Is The Subject Of Debate
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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For one of the nations most famous billionaires, Steve Jobs kept a low profile as a charitable donor. Unlike fellow tech leaders Bill Gates of Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, he did not sign the Giving Pledge, the effort under which the nations richest individuals commit to giving at least half of their wealth to philanthropy. His name is absent from the list of gifts of $1 million or more maintained by Indiana Universitys Center on Philanthropy. And it wasnt until after an unflattering media report aboutJobs on the subject over the summer that Apple in September initiated a...
She's Baaaaack!
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| She's Baaaaack! No sooner does Noman think he's done with Elizabeth Warren than she leaps into the fray with yet more provocative material. This woman is a living, breathing blog-op. It's worth taking time to address her for several reasons. First, she's a walking compendium of Liberal certitudes whose cocksure righteousness causes her to effuse pristine formulations of Statist credal beliefs. Secondly, she's a Chaired Harvard Law Professor, which attests to her position at the top of the profession's food chain, and highlights the beliefs that animate the nation's preeminent reservoir of legal wisdom. Finally, she's a perpetual menace to... |
Saudi Arabia gives women the vote... but not until 2015
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Women are to be allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia. K ing Abdullah bin Abdulaziz announced the change yesterday and also said women would be allowed to run in elections. However, the new law will not come into force until 2015. In a speech, the king said the move was in accordance with sharia law. |
Paul Krugman identified Social Security as a Ponzi Scheme in the late 1990's.
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| I like Freeman's idea of providing each individual with a trust fund when young rather than retirement benefits when old, but we had better realize that this is a significant change in the character of the social insurance system. Social Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out depends on what you put in. So it does not look like a redistributionist scheme. In practice it has turned out to be strongly redistributionist, but only because of its Ponzi game aspect, in which each generation... |
Why I didnt participate in last nights social justice demonstration
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| I didnt participate in the mass social justice rallies last night. I wanted to, sort of. But inertia and washing the post-Shabbat dishes grabbed center stage. Moreover, Im still conflicted about whether or not I fully support whats going on outside on our streets. Nehemia Strasler put it best in an article in todays Haaretz. Strasler, an economics writer for the paper, compared the two main voices of the protest movement: that of Daphni Leef, who started the whole thing on Facebook, and Itzik Shmuli, head of the National Student Union. Leef tends to get most of the press ... |
Motorcyclist dies after rescue workers drop car on him
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| A college student pinned under a car that had crashed into his motorcycle in Brooklyn died yesterday after rescue workers struggling to free him from the wreckage dropped the vehicle on him in a tragic accident. Karam Rampersaud, 21, of Brooklyn, had been on his way to classes at City College when he collided with a Ford Taurus at 8:45 a.m. on Loring Avenue and Forbell Street in East New York. Seconds after cops and firefighters started to lift the Ford with a jack, things went horribly wrong. The car was about four feet up, said witness James Selder, 41.... |
30 arrested at Bel-Ridge home (Yes We Can Social Club)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| BEL-RIDGE St. Louis County Police arrested 30 people at a Bel-Ridge house last week while they were executing a search warrant to look for evidence of prostitution, alcohol violations, drugs, and weapons. The house, in the 8800 block of Snowhill Court, was raided early Friday morning by the county's tactical operations, K-9, and special investigating units. The address is listed as the location of the "Yes We Can Social Club" on the Missouri Secretary of State's website. It was incorporated in January for the purposes of "recreation" and says that assets from the corporation would be given "to another... |
A Tottering Technocracy
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Here and in Europe, the financial meltdown exposes the hollowness of our elites. We are witnessing a widespread crisis of faith in our progressive guardians of the last 30 years. These are the blue-chip, university-certified elite, employed by universities, government, and big-money private foundations and financial-services companies. The best recent examples are sorts like Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Robert Rubin, Steven Chu, and Timothy Geithner. Politicians like John Kerry, John Edwards, and Al Gore all share certain common characteristics of this Western technocracy: proper legal or academic credentials, ample service in elected or appointed government office,... |
Social media users successfully face down Nasrallah on Facebook
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| "We will fight Amalek on every front," says the Jewish Internet Defense Force. An Israeli politician and pro-Israel advocates succeeded in reducing Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's social media presence, as Nasrallah's fan page - which boasted about 9,000 supporters - was removed Monday from the social networking site Facebook. The battle against the fan page was waged by former internal security minister MK Avi Dichter (Kadima) and the Jewish Internet Defense Force, which fights anti-Semitism and terrorism on the Web. Facebook has rules about pages that are hateful and promote terrorist behavior, so Dichter implored his Facebook supporters to... |
Sisters suing to get Social Security numbers (Never got 'em at birth)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Sisters suing to get Social Security numbersThe sisters, who live in Laurel County, say their parents never sought birth certificates, vaccination records, or Social Security numbers for them. Posted: 11:04 AM Aug 4, 2011 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Raechel Colleen Schultz and her sister, Stephanie Marie Schultz, are looking for recognition by the government. The two women, who live in rural Lily, Ky., were born at home. They were home-schooled and their parents never sought birth certificates, vaccination records or Social Security numbers for them. Now, 29-year-old Raechel and 23-year-old Stephanie have sued the Social Security Administration in an effort... |
Obama Dedicates Another $95 Mil To Social Equity Program
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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While Congress raises the nations debt limit by trillions to accommodate President Obamas manic spending spree, the commander-in-chief keeps hurling big chunks of taxpayer dollars at new government programs that aim to bring social equity to underserved communities. Among them is an imaginative multi-agency project (Partnership for Sustainable Communities) that helps low-income communities improve access to affordable housing, transportation options and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment. Less than a month ago the administration celebrated its second anniversary by bragging that three federal agencies have doled out more than $2.5 billion in assistance to promote equitable development while addressing...
170 Jewish Social Justice Leaders to Meet With Obama Administration
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Friday, July 29th, 170 representatives of organizations that are part of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable (JSJRT) will travel to the White House for a policy briefing to exchange ideas on housing, healthcare, food justice and education. The JSJRT is a group of 21 nonprofit organizations promoting economic and social justice as a core tenet of Jewish life. "Many people think the Jewish community has only one message to bring to Washington and it's about Israel," said Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, director of the Jewish Life and Values Program of the Nathan Cummings Foundation,...
(no budget) Reid: Would consider entitlement cuts in big deal ('grand bargain' has tax increases)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| Reid: Would consider entitlement cuts in big dealJuly 12, 2011 WASHINGTONSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he would consider cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security if they were part of a "grand bargain' that includes tax increases. Tweet Be the first to Tweet this!.ShareThis .Reid defined a "grand bargain" as a plan that reduces future deficits by $4 trillion, the number used by President Barack Obama. Republican leaders oppose tax increases, so negotiators are focusing on more modest proposals. Reid has resisted cuts to the major benefit programs, and previously said that Social Security should not be part of... |
Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3
Sunday 27th of May 2012 04:10:31 AM
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| President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News. The Obama administration and many economists have |




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