Author: JimF

Wisconsin Anti-labor Law Struck Down

LINK to AP story A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers.

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Big Thinking & Stinking

Thinking: When did you first run into Thomas Kuhn ? (1974, Philosophy of History, Prof. Godbout) Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look...

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Just a bunch of dots

Good for Business; Kids Not So Much While most education reform advocates cloak their goals in the rhetoric of “putting children first,” the conceit was less evident at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier...

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Take the quiz

Second Nature posted an interesting link to a Henry J. Kaiser Foundation PPACA knowledge quiz at Facebook. The health reform law promises to deliver big changes in the U.S. health care system. But, as with other sweeping pieces...

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Security Theater of the Absurd

I wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t been the former governor of Arizona. LINK The wife and a friend of former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro are calling for changes in Border Patrol procedures after agents recently...

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