1st February 2011
Heck, forget the wealthiest two percent–the top one percent are pretty much pulling the wagon, as the Blogprof shows with this chart. The top one percent pay more income taxes than the bottom 95 percent.
We are rapidly reaching the point where a large majority of Americans are free riders. Whether democracy can survive under that condition is a wide-open question.
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1st February 2011
It is very ironic that one of the only mainstream news-media reports I have read about the plight of Coptic believers in Egypt was in the Baltimore Sun and it centered on the insights of people in — wait for it — Baltimore.
So it seems that the Copts are news in Baltimore, but not in Cairo. Go figure.
The Copts are what’s left of the original inhabitants of Egypt, displaced and suppressed by Arabs over the last 1400 years.
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1st February 2011
GOOD LUCK getting anything past government regulators.
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1st February 2011
Little more than a year ago, Google first allowed netizens to upload any file to Google Docs, a move that transformed the service into something not unlike the oft-rumored but never delivered “GDrive”. And now the company is going a few steps further.
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