Following on recent Nobel prizes for key breakthroughs in behavioral economics, a new Duke study meant to provide insight into autism accidentally provides the biological basis for the entire porn industry. As reported::
“A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms. The [...]
Our earlier post about progress in eliminating racial economic disparities the U.S. received a boost today when the Los Angeles Times reported that the highest percentage of college freshmen in 28 years thought that racial discrimination was not a problem in the U.S., and the fewest — under 30% — thought that “helping to promote [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This blog will not often agree with the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, but today we get to use our January quota. An earlier post discussed how teacher’s unions in San Diego are seeking to get that school system’s reformist superintendent fired. Today the Times surprisingly editorializes against the L.A. union’s attempt to [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In the few short weeks that the Independent Sources blog has been active, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in traffic–granted starting from a rather small base. Now that we know that people are starting to read our posts, you’ll see us continue to tighten up our editorial by citing and linking to more sources and [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Further to our January 26th “Crisis, What Crisis?” posting on Social Security, a few more factoids should be interjected into the discussion. First, the Social Security payroll tax has been raised 20 times since it was imposed in 1937. It was originally 2%, a nominal amount that was unlikely to adversely affect hiring. However, after [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)ScrappleFace offers a better solution to the Social Security problem: Social Security Unveils Color-Coded Alerts
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)NPR’s “Day to Day” show reported Monday morning 1/24 that nearly 60% of Americans would not torture a suspect if they believed the suspect knew the location of an attack — even if it involved a nuclear weapon! Eric Winer lead his story with:
There is something called the “ticking bomb scenario” and it gets to [...]
Would you go to a Christmas Party if the Federal Government paid you $840 to do so? Well, this is just one of the questionable payments made to the boyfriend of a senior Housing Authority figure found by a recently completed Federal Audit as reported by the Los Angeles Times. Just another example of your [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)As anyone who can read a census report knows, Social Security is in trouble. See Independent Sources posting on this very issue. Unfortunately the Los Angeles Times is not yet fact checking against census data (or the Independent Sources blog) before going to print. Case in point, their 1/23/05 article by James Flanigan that included [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)There was an excellent op ed in Wall Street Journal (1/20/05) written by Treasurey Secretary Snow on social security. Mirrored some of the comments found in our own posting on the subject. Below are some excerpts from Secretary Snow’s piece:
Quoting the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan “Some of us are Republicans and some are Democrats: some [...]
Sadly similar to Area Man’s earlier post about the firing of Reed Hastings from the California State Board of Education, the Progressive Policy Institute’s Eduwonk reports on pressure to fire San Diego’s superintendent of schools Alan Bersin. His sin? Allowing several underperforming schools to move toward charter status, with the support of parents and (in [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)It is no secret that health costs have spiraled out of control for years to the point that it has become a significant drain on the country’s economy, not to mention individual pocket books. Every constituency has their own theory. Doctors blame insurance companies, insurance companies blame lawyers, liberals blame the profit motive, and so [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Other than in Robin Cook novels, hospitals are supposed to help people not kill them. However, deep in the center of Los Angeles is one of the worst performing medical facilities in the country. Even the normally apologizing Los Angeles Times did a multi-day series on the hospital’s fatal shortcomings. Articles with titles like “Deadly [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported that “about 1,500 nurses marched on the Capitol behind black coffins and a New Orleans jazz band playing a death march. They were upset about Schwarzenegger’s emergency edict cutting back on the number of nurses required by law in hospitals and emergency rooms.”
This writer does not know what the [...]
Watch out a Tsunami is coming! Consider this your early warning.
This time, it won’t be waves rushing to our shores, but it will be a tidal wave of political and marketing metaphors capitalizing on the disaster.
One could disagree with this prediction by citing the fact that people/companies are doing exactly the opposite–that is dropping their [...]
