I loathe presidential election years. Let me count the ways. 1. Everything is subject to partisan spin. If pollen triggers hay fever, flaks din that the other party did it. The media echoes the act. (The story of O is getting an extra loud yodel!) Worse yet, so do boots on the ground. Hitherto charming [...]

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What hath Drudge wrought? Or maybe I should say Breitbart: Heh…Wonder why the press didn’t find this five years ago. America’s watchdog seems to be at sleep at the wheel, and the fact that a two bit blogger found this public photo in at least two places suggests a major problem with mainstream American news [...]

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On Wednesday, May 16th, 2012, a jury returned a guilty verdict for the charges on Steven Powell which were 14 counts of voyeurism. Powell’s son Josh Powell was the husband of the missing Utah woman, Susan Powell. The charges against Steven stemmed from an investigation in Susan’s disappearance, when a search warrant was issued to [...]

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 Part I of this article is here: No Wizard of Oz For Indian Economy. Here is the concluding part. Irrespective of uncertainties of Greece or Euro-zone, both would recover. However without capacity creation, India seems to be going nowhere. And that job of creating the huge shortfall of capacity increasingly gets difficult. Economic turmoils elsewhere, [...]

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There was (or is?) one Dr. Manmohan Singh, an economist Prime Minister in India. In his cabinet, and also among his policy-advisors, he had many other noted economists, many educated from Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge et al. Unfortunately, what his cabinet did not have is one Dorothy. And that happened to be the root of all [...]

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Heh. The Honorable Senator Emmanuel D, Pacquiao, Aka the world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, aka Pacman, who recently found religion, is now under attack. Why? Well, it s seems that he has made a remark against gay marriage, and his website has some Biblical phrases that imply promiscuous gay sex is wrong. Since Pacman has [...]

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