healthcare-reformQuestion #1 during much of the Health Care Debate was: “Why the rush?”.

I should have seen it at the time, but now, it is clear to me just how important it was for Democrats to pass Health Care Reform,

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davidl on March 6th, 2010

What is the value of a diploma?   It is not what the issuing institution, nor the recipient feel it is worth.  Rather a diploma is worth as much as a prospective employer perceives it to be worth.   So how much

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davidl on February 20th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

International Atomic Energy Agency pulls head out.  There as been a change at at the head of the IAEA.  Wereas the old head, Mohamed ElBaradei, had his head buried whee ithe Sun never shines nad by the way is

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davidl on January 14th, 2010

The Obama administration has confirmed one of  the most controversial assertions of The Bell Curve.   Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published TBC in 1994.   From a summary of TBC, by Brian Beatty et al:

Raising Cognitive Ability

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davidl on January 11th, 2010

Sarah Palin has signed with Fox News, from  Jim Rutenberg, New York Times:

Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel.

Sarah Palin The network confirmed that Ms. Palin would

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