Posted July 17th, 2009 by editor
In a blow to the notion of meritocratic government, applicants to the Justice Department’s internships and Honors Program were widely rejected if their resumes included the names of liberal groups on a departmental blacklist, the Washington Blade reports.
Source:http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/report-bush-admin-blacklisted-liberal-groups/
Tags: bush, honors program, internships, justice department, liberal groups, notion, resumes, washington blade
Posted July 16th, 2009 by editor
President Obama, Governor Schwarzenegger and other esteemed politicos may routinely distance themselves from the potential windfall that would accompany legalizing and taxing cannabis, but amid California’s latest and deepest financial crisis the state Board of Equalization has tagged a whopping revenue figure to such a notion.
Source:http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/taxing-pot-would-generate-14-b/
Tags: board of equalization, cannabis, financial crisis, governor schwarzenegger, notion, obama, pot, revenue figure, state board of equalization, windfall
Posted May 22nd, 2009 by editor
Sometime in the last few months, the notion of legalizing marijuana crossed an invisible threshold.
Long relegated to the margins of political discourse by the conventional wisdom, pot freedom has this year gone mainstream.
Source:http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=992503
Tags: conventional wisdom, freedom, legalizing marijuana, mainstream, margins, notion, political discourse, pot, threshold, tipping point
Posted March 4th, 2009 by editor
Cardinal William Levada said that while the Vatican did not exclude any area of science, it did reject as “absurd” the atheist notion of biologist and author Richard Dawkins and others that evolution proves there is no God.
Get the low-down here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29484902/
Tags: atheist, author richard, biologist, cardinal william levada, evolution, notion, richard dawkins, science, there is no god, vatican, vatican official
Posted December 17th, 2008 by editor
John Forbes Nash Jr., Ph.D., winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, discusses the need for gold standard or other standard capable of fighting inflation & blames Keynesian economic theories which have sold the public on the notion that inflation is acceptable, leading to bad mortgage loans which led to the economic [...]
Tags: economic meltdown, economic sciences, economic theories, forbes nash jr, inflation, john forbes nash, john forbes nash jr, keynesians, mortgage loans, nobel economist, nobel memorial prize, notion
