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Steven, the exact causes that make people drop out of school are usually not related to the school system itself. It is either an economical decision or a family problem, none of which the governor can control. It has also been reported that the education system in Texas is similar in performance management system to the Chicago system so it is very hard to say it is the governor's fault when such disparate places as Texas and Illinois have the same performance. Also one has to recall that education Read More...

I am also mystified by how the leaders we elect are unable to actually lead or even think. Note that most of the influence on politics comes from the well connected and the wealthy, even though they are a small scale business ideas minority of the population. Also, I believe the governing body is not just concerned about their current position as say a representative, but also future benefits from having been a representative. I think too, that your cry for more individual responsibility will not Read More...

Ah Terry, but you forget that our founding fathers gave us a framework where through education, hard work and ingenuity any member of the bottom 8o% that you reference could migrate and join members of the top 20% or even the top 1%. However, with layer upon layer of regulation and bureaucracy that our current government is implementing, the net effect is that government is erecting more and more barriers to entrepreneurship that will prevent such migration from the bottom 80% to the top 20%. Thus, Read More...

..and its my right to protest when my newspaper publishes something substandard. Even my Asian mother didn't raise me that compliant. ...and No!! Mr Chan, I am Indian, grew up in India. Fact is -Chinese mothers have most well adjusted communists on the face of the earth. Fact is- Jewish mothers do a much better job without singing such self esteem activities praise, humility is another thing that makes a human more endearing. Don't confuse that with the low self-esteem of a Chinese kid now, humility Read More...

So you would be willing to waterboard a fellow countryman but not the mastermind of 9-11. If it came out tomorrow that the Teleprompter had authorized waterboarding, it would then be peachy to you folks. Under Bush, Gitmo was a hellhole filled with innocent people framed by tribal leaders of tomorrow with scores to settle. Under the Teleprompter, it is a necessary prison for terrorists. Same with wars in Arab nations. Military atrocities under Bush? Front page news. Under the Teleprompter? Barely Read More...

Its unfair to give Tebow all the working tax credit calculator. The Bears - Lovie Smith and Mike Martz - should get some credit for the disaster yesterday as they became too conservative and ran a prevent defense that suddenly gave life to Tebow. Maybe God is on Tebow's side. Maybe God takes sides in football games. But it seems to me that the Bears deserve most of the credit for yesterday. They made errors in the clutch - mostly coaching mistakes - that gave Tebow a shot to win. He did a great Read More...

Sell your assets and find out. That's how it works. If you think everyone's nuts now, hold them until calm is restored, and try again then. Unless we're talking depreciating assets like cars, waiting to sell will increase your strike price. MTM is like selling now, while everyone is hysterical, except we're talking about cash flow management-flow assets, not constantly depreciating assets like cars. Either way, it's not the kind of transparency that informs us of the long term value of the Read More...

Keep up the good listener work NPR. More people listen to you than Rush Limbaugh. As to the charge of liberal bias, it all depends on your personal viewpoint to start with. To my truly liberal friends, CBS news is conservative.. To my truly conservative friends, Fox News is getting too liberal lately. If you are consistent Fox news listener, NPR is automatically be perceived as liberal biased. If you are a regular listener of Air America, MSNBC and that other left wing pap, NPR is perceived as Read More...

Most of the great Soccer stars past or present came from dirt poor families. They were kids allowed to hone in on their skills on the streets playing all day if they wished with little encouragement from their parents to hit the books to try to be anything besides a great soccer player. Most grew up with soccer as their only ticket out of poverty. When poor kids in the ghettos in the US start looking at soccer as a way out instead of basketball or football then you'll see a US soccer star. But Read More...

Historically, no, most Wall Steeters are Republicans. At least most Wall Street political money is Republican. From 1989-2010, Finance / Insurance / Real Estate (FIRE) donated about $140 million dollars more to Republicans than to Democrats--about 20 percent more. They gave more to Republicans in every election cycle since the mid 1990s (including 2010 and 2012 tax brackets), except 2008. The payoff of lower taxes to people in high income brackets is huge, so it's rational for them to be Republicans Read More...