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The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961

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Dead Aliens Tell No Tales

29 January 2016/in Life /by Brian Koberlein

By some estimates there could be more than 100 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy alone. While “potentially habitable” does not mean a planet is inhabited, if life arose on even a fraction of those worlds […]

The paranoid style in American politics

Excerpts from Harper’s Magazine Article – Nov. 1964 – By Richard Hofstadter

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage […]

Last year was a memorable one for the global economy. Not only was overall performance disappointing, but profound changes – both for better and for worse – occurred in the global economic system.

Most notable was the Paris climate agreement reached last month. By itself, the agreement is far from enough to limit the increase […]

by Richard – Jan. 22nd 2016

The U.S. Constitution spells out the process by which formal changes can be made to it via amendments, and at least two have been proposed since the last, the 27th was ratified in 1992. Many commentators have suggested specific changes that are necessary to keep the Constitution up […]

Bills Passed by the 114th Congress Jan 20015 – Jan 2016 and enacted into law.

For a rough idea of what actually happens in Washington, a simple declining balance perspective might help in evaluating the performance of Congress. The 114th Congress considered a total of 7,993 bills. Of these 6,732 were referred to committee, […]

Note: Please review the above chart to see when these mergers/acquisitions got going…1998…so what happened then…see my earlier post about GLBA, and the demise of Glass-Steagall. It is also instructive to see what happened to community banks following the 2008-2009 Depression -a large percentage basically disappeared to be replaced by one of the four […]

Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Other short titles Federal Home Loan Bank System Modernization Act of 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 Prime Act Program for Investment in Microentrepreneurs Act of 1999 Long title An Act to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for […]

via Quora – Dec. 2015

Stephen Lee, PhD, Modern European History, specialist in imperialism and revolutions.

There are two ways to interpret this question, beyond the metaphysical one. The first is, what do the courts have to say about it, and what was the content of the historical debate at the time of […]

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

by Mike Hearn – Jan. 14th, 2016

“I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, and the talks I’ve given have led directly to the […]