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Sarah Palin’s (Empty) Rhetorical Style

The heart of Sarah Palin's appeal is –
Wait, did you see that? There! She did it again: wrinkled up her nose in a way that either looks like a sneer or is adorably reminiscent of Samantha from "Bewitched." Depending on whom you talk to.
Style: Examining Sarah Palin’s Rhetorical Style. Libby Copeland, Washington Post
Governor Palin reminds [...]

“What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”

At this point, McCain should be embarrassed to even say that tax cuts for the rich help the economy. Tax cuts for the rich help the rich, they don't help the economy. It's that simple.
This economic catastrophe was many years in the making. There is no painless way to recover from the collapse of the [...]

The Real Class War Again: In Class

Nearly every child in America hopes to become a college graduate. Her ambitions are at least partly realistic—rates of high school graduation and college-going are very high. But the chances she will succeed in college are more modest: Less than 60 percent of students entering four-year institutions earn bachelor’s degrees, and barely one-fourth of community [...]

The Dream of (Canadian) Centralization

A Gartner analyst thinks Canada’s natural resources and cooler temperature can help it take advantage of the growing cloud computing trend to provide services and Web applications.
The country has an estimated server installed base of more than one million units, and in the next five years, the market will demonstrate incremental growth typical of a [...]