The article was more about national problems where slavery is illegal, but seems to overlook international problems where slavery is ether condoned or allowed by law.

Reduce service to your customers when you are having financial problems? Of course, those are more related to pensions and health care than operations, but who's going to care that there letters will be intentionally delayed? What could go wrong?

Only the government thinks this way.

If it's the same project, you can the the project office to waive the requirement in the prior contract.

When I went to a state school in 1977, I had to work roughly 11 hours to pay for 1 credit hour. In 2011, a state school education costs on the order of 20-30 hours of labor depending on the school. That represents a decline in the real worth of labor; it’s not just currency inflation.

In the meantime, administration and professor salaries have gone up, a lot. Schools have nice new buildings with landscaping. Dorms are nicer and roomier than my first three apartments. Carpet has replaced linoleum tile and electronic white boards replaced chalk.

How was all this financed? Government subsidized student loans of course. The banks can make the long term loans at reduced rates of interest because the government subsidized and insured them. Of course, the government now OWNS STUDENT LOANS eliminating the middleman. How is that going to make an education any cheaper? It won’t. There isn’t any reason for a university or college to reduce anything. The money spigot is going to keep pouring dollars into the system.

People should remember that a student loan is a voluntary contract. You aren’t required to get a student loan to go to a school you can’t afford any more than you are required to buy a car you can’t afford. You can choose to go to a less expensive school or pay your own way by working or saving.

BTW, an earlier video cut shows the police warning the protesters that they were going to get pepper sprayed and the protesters agreeing to it. The occupy movement isn’t a civil rights movement. Berkley isn’t Atlanta.

This is called making a straw man and then beating him with his own arm.

The number of far Left Democrats on this commission made the commission's failure entirely predictable.

Realistically, they couldn't cut $200Bn a year from yearly spending that was expanded by more $1000Bn? President Obama has said that raising taxes during a resession is stupid and that's the only proposal the Democrats had! Wouldn't it have been nice if the Democrats raised the passed a budget or raised the debit ceiling wen they controlled the House, Senate and the Presidency? Harry Reid still won't pass a budget.

How many times did this commission actually meet? Where was Obama on this? The Democrats took money out of Medicare to fudge numbers on Obama care, now they have to pretend to fight to get it back just like they pretended to fight to cut the debt. The net result is that Kerry, Murrey, et all got a ton of special interest funding for being there and the American people got hosed.

Drat, they made me use Google again.

The FCC pushed this in the face of Congress and the courts. If this isn't about politics, why is Moveon.org and other political organizations so heavily involved?

One one side, you have the bandwidth hogs like non-evil Google funding organizations like Moveon.org and on the other side are the people who actually own the equipment.

On one side you have the politicos looking for control and litigation, and on the other side you have the technical types thinking that all packets should be treated equally.

Which game is the one actually being played here? Politics or technical? BTW, the article was incorrect: Net Neutrality was actively opposed under Powell in 2005 and 2006. It still isn't a good idea.

Is it real news that Obama and the Frenchman don't like an Israeli? We haven't treated enemies as badly as Netanyahu was treated when he visited the White House.

"Draining the pond to catch the fish." That's how the Chinese refer to the current political and business environment in China. There isn't any long term view in China, it's all get what you can while you can. I've often wondered it was a matter of faith or ethics, those people were removed from the population during the Cultural Revolution. How do people in a society develop a long term view on things in an environment defined by Communist rule since 1949 and the millions where removed who were simply inconvenient to the ruling class?

BTW, I don't believe that Sparta is a good model for a modern political or economic system. The tools that they used were relatively simple to manufacture and the gunmen are an inexpensive commodity in much of the world right now. China is short about 40 million girls due to the one child policy, so they have lots of expendable males.

And the answer is World War II of course. We didn't delcare war on PRK (Truman), Vietnam(JFK), Grenada/Panama(RR), Iraq 1(GHWB), Afghanistan/Iraq 2 (GWB), or Libya/Yemen/Pakistan/Somolia (BHO). The only one in the list to ignore the War Powers Act (while in force) was BHO.

The Freedom of Information act was passed in 1982 (under the Reagan administration) and did have limits on what could be requested. Is that what you are talking about? The current Administrations directive to the Department of Justice to allow them to not acknowledge the existence of documents wasn't like the restrictions that were in line with FOIA in 1982/83 and this current move sounds completely different from preexisting limits.

For example, would the Administration's delays and resistance to presenting documents to Congress on Operation Gun Runner/Operation Fast and Furious be enabled by the attempted new rule? If implemented, wouldn't this completely undercut Congress's Constitutional role in oversight?

Too long to list. Please see "American History in Black and White", I think you can still get it at any of the big book sellers. Start with the damage the welfare state has done to the Black family (all demographics, actually). Examine rates of illegitimacy from 1960 to 2007 and the absence of fathers in families largely sponsored by government policy. I work with these kids and it's tough on them.

Your argument is specious in that you have presented nothing in support of your allegations.

You forgot to mention Lyndon Johnson, the Senate Majority leader who held up civil rights legislation in the 50's only to sign it in 1964 when 80% of Republicans voting 60% of Democrats provided a veto proof majority to pass it. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have passed without the majority of Republicans voting for it, even though Democrats had a majority in the House and a super majority in the Senate.

One of my favorite pictures of all time is Robert Byrd in a Confederate General's uniform when he played in "Gods and Generals". It fit him well.

So the new Facebook business model is to sell your privacy and then lobby for more government favors? I think it would be a mistake for Facebook to turn into Facebook for Democrats. Competition and the "next new thing" will limit it's effectiveness and also the whole thing intensifies the "we are using you" image.