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  • Article itself has racial bias

    Shame on the authors. The article itself reeks of racial bias. The article goes into great detail of how the blacks allege discrimination. Only into Part 3 of the series, halfway down, do we find the white's position. At this point, I've read two and a half pages of arguments related to the black's struggle. Only a pittance is allocated ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by swmspam` on June 26, 2009

  • Boston Globe

    This week Boston Globe employees took a 23% pay cut. What will be next? 50%?
    Posted to Press Box by david wayne osedach on June 11, 2009

  • Public Health Care in Increments

    If public healthcare is so great, perhaps we should run an experiment. Right now, the federal civilian employees are covered under ''private healthcare'' (BlueCross, et al) similar to corporate healthcare plans. We can expand Medicare (or whatever ''public healthcare'' they're planning) to cover the federal employees, and see how they fare under ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by jimmbswu on April 16, 2009

  • Free enterprise in good and bad times

    It seems we only like free enterprise when it works. When it goes bad we like government help and sympathy from consumers that we need another chance. This appears to be what the big three want. They don't like government telling them what emmisions can come out of their cars. But they will take several billion any day. As for the unions, they are ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by jescott418 on February 21, 2009

  • Unions and knowledge workers? Hah!

    While I'm a lifelong Dem and an ardent Obama supporter, I disagree wholeheartedly. The last thing the Internet economy needs is the inflexibility of unions getting involved. Unions are a friction in the economy except in instances where there is structural power that industry has over employees that cannot be counterbalanced through mobility and ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by garbanzo314 on February 6, 2009

  • Fair And Balanced

    I have been a huge Bruce Springsteen fan for years. I guess, I am down on him right now because of all the negative things he said about George Bush. I didn't hear any of his preaching to President Obama last night. Why doesn't he ask Obama to stop playing politics and do the right thing for the middle class??? His comments about Wal-Mart ...
    Posted to The Dilettante by Boston Teaparty on February 2, 2009

  • Educational fads and credentialism

    Excellent post by Sara Mosle on teachers' unions. The two big problems with education today are 1) plain old lack of funds and 2) credentialism and expanding bureaucracy. Unions are on the right side of the first issue and the wrong side of the second. The way to do education right is to hire smart teachers, as many as possible per student, and ...
    Posted to XX Factor by sugar_k on November 13, 2008

  • Re: Bridging the gap

    It's true that there are certain differences between the public and private sectors. But in a charter as in many other non-profits there is a zealotry that thinks that anything done for the cause is justifiable. Firing teachers on a whim is one of them. I spent a year teaching due process to sophomores and didn’t receive it myself. Instead ...
    Posted to Schoolhouse Rock by phltr1 on September 15, 2008

  • Makes Me Laugh -- Elites With Furrowed Brows AT LAST - -

    So, the FDIC Chairman is a female children's book author from Massachusetts, who started her new job running security for our Nation's bank deposits since 2006? How fortunate for her. I am a Massachusetts/New Hampshire working guy going back to 1990, originally from the Midwest, with some college but no degree, and I have been ''getting ...
    Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard1 on July 18, 2008

  • When moms have the freedom

    I am so happy my husband supports my desition of staying with my child at home. I just couldn't leave him in childcare. I tried 3 different center after I actually visited like 15. It was just so devastating. I came home to cry all evening for leaving my child with who know who... We couldn't afford for me not to make money, we need my income. But ...
    Posted to Number 1 by ptiffany on May 10, 2008
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