Carl Bloice

Is there any hope for the unemployed? Apparently not. Many, says Chrystia Freeland, global editor-in-chief of Reuters news, are people “on the wrong side of history.” The comment came last Saturday during one of CNN’s innocuous chats about the state of the economy where people of note sit around and try to spell out what…

There is little doubt in my mind as to what prompted the sudden attention to the minerals beneath the ground in Afghanistan. It’s a rather blunt message to those amongst us who recently bought an IPod, Blackberry or Pirus: hold on, give the military more time; there’s is no light at the end of the…

The crisis in U.S. public education is beginning to read like something out of the theater of the absurd. Now they are getting rid of summer school. The Associated Press reported Sunday: “Across the country, districts are cutting summer school because it’s just too expensive to keep. The cuts started when the recession began and…

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Obama Administration Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in Peoria, Il last week expressing alarm that some cities and states, facing a financial crunch are reducing ” or contemplating reducing – the school week to four days. He also bemoaned the fact that nationwide as many as 300,000 teachers could be out of their jobs when…

“Why So Glum?” Floyd Norris asked on the front page of the New York Times. After all, he wrote, the “Numbers Point to a Recovery.” “The American economy appears to be in a cyclical recovery that is gaining strength. Firms have begun to hire and consumer spending seems to be accelerating,” he said in his…

Amidst the drama of the passage of a new healthcare measure and the wigging out of the tea party people and their Republican Party sponsors, there has been an interesting sideshow involving the contortions of the pundits who consider themselves moderates or part of something they like to call the political “center.” Of course, that’s…