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Vote for the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership

October 16th, 2009

We would greatly appreciate your vote to help make Discovery Channel and Chevron the winners of the U.S. Chamber Business Civic Leadership Center 2009 Partnership Award. Click here to vote . An alliance that began in 2002 in Angola to build educational capacity destroyed by a 27-year-long civil war is today motivating teachers and students and improving educational outcomes in five countries, across two continents. Despite years of focus on education by the international community,

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The Failure of the UN Millenium Development Villages

October 1st, 2009

After a similar attempt resulted in civil war in Madagascar, the South Korean government bought 1,000 sq km of land in Tanzania for use in agriculture.  Mindfull of the politics involved, the South Koreans are setting aside half of that land for local development. To quote from a recent BBC article : Lee Ki-Churl, a corporation official, said he expected Tanzanians to benefit from the deal. “Some African countries export fruit and import fruit juice, or export olives and import olive oil,

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Michael B. Laskoff: A Case for Republican Secession (From Itself)

September 20th, 2009

As a country with a rather horrific civil war in its past, its no easy to thing to bat around a concept like secession. It’s filled with evil reminders of an unjust past that sought, amongst other things, to preserve slavery. And yet, sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today’s Republican Party. This is supposed to be the party of Lincoln, but its two l

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The Pit of the Pendulum, or How Republicans Can Be Gaining During a Conservative Civil War

September 4th, 2009

We appear to be living through an apparently paradoxical, though easily explainable, political moment. All signs are pointing preliminarily to a Republican resurgence in the 2010 elections, even as a growing number of political thinkers –many of them on the right–conclude that conservatism as we know it is verging on a self-inflicted death. How can that be? Easy: We have an electoral system rigged to the rafters by a two party cartel. Voters careen between tossing out the Montagues and Capul

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DOES OBAMA THINK YOU EXIST?

August 23rd, 2009

tothepointnews.com Written by Dr. Joel Wade Friday, 21 August 2009 There is a very poorly written work of fiction from 1912 titled Phillip Dru, Administrator. The book is about a brilliant young military man who gets incapacitated (by his own pride and idiocy), and has to retire very young. He then sets out to devise a plan to remake the United States into a progressive paradise. He leads the country into another Civil War, and winds up through his selflessness and self-righteousness be

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