betsyspage.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008
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Thomas Sowell ties together modern trends in education to resist the idea of accountability for failures to the attitude that those in business and government who make mistakes should be protected from the results of their mistakes. He notes how we postpone reality by passing along students who ...
openleft.com - 12/24/2008
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openleft.com —
In his column today, Thomas Friedman laments our
lack of infrastructure , and is upset that more...
GM executives have not been re-assigned despite the company losing seventy-two billion dollars: What has become of our infrastructure, which is so crucial to productivity? Back home, I was greeted ...
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Accountability For Thee, Not For Me
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/25/2008
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In yesterday's thread, there was some good discussion
on corporate accountability, but I want to more explicitly...
emphasize that not only are alternatives to traditional private shareholder ownership possible, but that they regularly are used in our ...
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Alternative Ownership Approaches for Corporate ...
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... in power — i.e., vest with the power of a quasi-sovereign government — a terrorist organization which thinks legitimate governing consists of bringing about the annihilation of its sovereign neighbor and, meantime, targeting the said neighbor's civilian population with bombing attacks. When you do that, you make yourself a target. There are worse things than war — like Hamas. They have to be defeated, just like al Qaeda had to be defeated in Iraq. Sowell, via Betsy: Detroit and Michigan have followed classic liberal policies of ...
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