Wikipedia is 10 years old this Saturday. It is the fifth most visited site on the internet. Some 400 million people use it every month. I bet most readers of this column are among them.
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and both the elder and younger George Bush all found the third and fourth years Of their presidencies harder than the first and second. The nation and the world grew tired of their speechmaking.
Vice President Biden was in Afghanistan yesterday to repair damange he himself had caused to the war effort. You may recall that in December, as the White House was renouncing its deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistana in July 2011, Vice President Biden was telling Mee
Like many a critic of No Child Left Behind, I do not believe that test score performance is what really counts. Graduating from high school and then pursuing a college diploma or acquiring a skill for a promising career is vastly more important.
So here are the first two elements of the Human Rights First report card, how I would recast them, and the grades I would assign. HRF’s initial element reads:
The traditional bookstore is doomed by e-readers and online sales of hard copy books. I use the word “doomed” in the same sense that online digital sales of movies and music have doomed movie rental stores, movie theatres, and stores that sell albums of music.
President Obama’s signing statement to the Defense Authorization Bill – which objected to the GTMO transfer provisions on policy but not legal grounds – is unsurprising,
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