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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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Grandfather Federal Government Debt Report by MWHodges - Information on the National Debt, including who the money is owed to, how much worse it is than ever before, how the budget surplus is fake, and how the debt is still growing.
Meta Description: [ National debt per person soaring, and the highest ratio in 40 years. I am concered for the economic future of our youth, compared to prior generations. ]

A Better Auction Mechanism, And Why Governments Should Sell Futures Rather Than Debt - Paper outlining the need for governments to stop selling debt through their current, primitive methods, and a suggestion for a replacement.
Meta Description: [ A new auction mechanism for the sale of government debt, using ‘auctionettes’ ]

Budget Explorer: The Complete U.S. Federal Budget - Explore the entire U.S. Federal Budget quickly and easily. Find solutions to reduce the National Debt. Learn how others have balanced the budget, and how your Federal taxes are spent.
Meta Description: [ Explore the entire US Federal Budget quickly and easily. Balance the budget to reduce the National Debt. Learn how your Federal taxes are spent. ]

404 CCER National Budget Simulation - This is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget. Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also.

404 Debt Clock - A Java-based national debt clock, calculates the Debt, including your own portion of it and many similar things, every second.
Meta Description: [ Real time display of the U. S. National Debt and current Fiscal Spending. ]

404 Deficits, the National Debt, and Economic Growth - A new, optimistic view on an old subject. This website emphasizes the importance of economic growth and seeks to dispel some myths about deficits.
Meta Description: [ The national debt is the wrong enemy. Debt is harmless, even desirable, when it funds growth. ]

FAQ About the Budget and the National Debt - The U.S. Treasury's Office of Public Correspondence tries to answer some of the safer questions on the National Debt.
Meta Description: [ US Treasury Learning Vault including Biographies, Secretaries, Treasurers, Duties, Functions, Treasury History, Tours, Treasury Building, Frequently Asked Questions, FAQs, Fact Sheets, For Kids, Ask a Question, Public Correspondence, and Important Events ]

Federal Budget Spending, National Debt, Deficit - Is there a budget surplus? You can find out for yourself. If the National Debt is increasing, then the Treasury Department is borrowing, and there must be a deficit.

Flashback - The Balanced-Budget Debate - The Atlantic Monthly's review of its own century of articles takes a look at Federal deficits and debt. As always, they lean toward the Liberal viewpoint, but Conservatives should find also it fascinating nonetheless.

The Mechanics of Inflation - A detailed analysis of the mechanics of the great modern government swindle known as inflation.
Meta Description: [ A detailed analysis of the mechanics of the great modern government swindle known as inflation ]

The Public Debt To the Penny - The United States public debt--to the penny
Meta Description: [ The United States debt--to the penny ]

U.S. National Debt Clock - Another National Debt clock, this one not in Java, with many useful links, and a National Debt FAQ.