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I think the original constitution speaks for itself, with its rules about counting the slave population, and its lack of voting rights for women. But to be honest, I haven't studied in detail the views of the Founders about race. I find it hard to believe anyone coming here from Europe would have believed in the inherent equality of blacks and indigenous peoples to whites. That's an idea that even today is having a tough time being Read More...

I believe companies make it sometimes to easy by having all the personal finance data at a single location. I also feel companies like to collect more data then they need to operate a service. They like that additional information to sell to targeted advertising companies or for their own targeted advertising. Keep personal data separated over several businesses and/or clearing houses and reduce the amount of personal data required Read More...

I am with the Germans on this one. It looks like they are being punished for their success. They have done well during the recession, managing organizational change even to lower their chronically high unemployment. Germany actually makes things people want to buy and they have not shot themselves in the foot by sending a large part of their manufacturing overseas. America's problems are of America's creation and Democrats and Republicans Read More...

The most viable way to solve the problem is collaboration not termination. As founder of a nonprofit coalition which strives to create purchasing power and other forms of cooperative action it is clear that cost savings can be obtained through collaboration. Most nonprofits focus on funding and refrain from adopting a child business like processes which can help them cope with the lower funding. Funders want to know that the recepients Read More...

War is hell. English would be a dead language if we hadn't intentionally starting a home business killing civilians by the tens of thousands in WWII. Far from being sanitized, war should be required to be a full-out battle to the death, like WWII. No one comes home until the war is won. And the citizens should be burdened by full pay-as-you-go taxes to pay for the wars, and subject to conscription and rationing. The problem, my Read More...

More clueless, new age dietary nonsense. This slow food fad will fade away just like all the rest. If you cut out animal products, especially the fats, and eat a bunch of carbohydrates, you will be starving. You may lose weight from starvation, but you won't enjoy the process. And no one can stay on a starvation diet, so all these people will fatten right back up when they get home and resume the stadard American diet of 60 percent Read More...

Let's see, (AB)(pi)/N+G+P=Good teacher, where A=class average qualities of a good teacher test score 1; B=class average of test score 2; N=number of students; G=the teacher's age; and P=teacher's college grade point average. Yes. I think that will about do it. If a teacher gets below 70%, it's pink slip time. Perfectly logical to me. But what if a good teacher has lousey students and a bad teacher has good students? Hm-m-m. Maybe Read More...

I'm not sure if you read closely enough. Many companies were voluntarily doing this even before the legislation. Do I think having legislation for this is ridiculous? Yes. Might companies move to try and avoid this? Probably not. The cost to at least get visibility into one's own supply chain strategy chain is significantly less than picking up and moving manufacturing sites to places where they don't care about this. Also, I'm Read More...

A set-up does not have how to get a girl to kiss you involve many people at all. My pet theory is that he thought she was a call girl, dressed as a maid, and promised to him by the hotel for some rough lovin. If so, setting him up would have been so easy. They promise him a call girl and then just order the real maid to clean his room. Why, Sarkozy must be high-fiving and backslappin' all his henchmen over such a coup. But if this Read More...

Isn't this just making excuses for the 'process' vs. 'product' focus of liberal thinking? If the teachers unions still run education on a 'seniority' basis, then what is the encouragement of a capable young person to enter the profession? The profession gets what it looks for - hacks that know they will be protected and, as with other unionized jobs, the 'lowest' common denominator is what gives the union its strength. Anyone who Read More...