"If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you're planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you're planning for centuries, grow men." - Chinese proverb
The Philadelphia soda tax hasn't brought in as much money as they expected. Soda sales are down by more than 50%. That happens when people can escape taxes by crossing a street. Or by buying other, even less healthy things. Taxes often have unintended side effects. Although soda sales are down in Philadelphia, liquor sales are up.
Oh, well.
China retaliated against the Trump administration’s latest proposed penalties on Chinese goods, announcing 25% tariffs on critical American exports, including soybeans, airplanes and autos. As a result, American stocks were around the world, setting the U.S. stock market up for a fall at the opening bell.
The number of U.S. homeowners putting solar panels on their roofs declined last year after leading installers including Tesla Inc. abandoned aggressive sales practices that had helped drive breakneck growth.
FOX has a docudrama out on Chappaquiddick. I'm not sure that's necessary.
A Russian curler--yes, curler--has tested positive for PEDs. These people can not stop themselves.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of “multiculturalism,” the ideology of “diversity” adheres to certain tenets: (a) outcomes must be equal among racial and ethnic groups, except when they accrue to the advantage of a racial or ethnic “minority” (including women); (b) disparate outcomes among racial and ethnic groups represent some form of institutional bias to be rectified by the authorities; (c) all cultures are equal, except for that of the United States, which is eternally guilty of racism under (a) and (b) above; (d) the expression of views disagreeing with (a) through (c) must be suppressed or, if it cannot be suppressed, must be stigmatized as “racist.”--Scott Johnson writing about Penn Law professor Amy Wax
Who is...Imran Khan?
Philly spends more than $6,000 per child on school costs; Catholic schools charge less than $5,000.
There seems to be some momentum to do something symbolic to gun ownership. One of the failures of plebiscites is the difficulty most people have with cause and effect. And as suffrage broadens, the insightfulness curve broadens and flattens. When emotions rise there is the cry to do something, anything.
Strangely, people will argue that the increase in technology makes the Second Amendment impractical, but will never say that the same technology makes freedom impractical.
A book on the new companies by Berlin has a segment on Apple arguing that the youth and enthusiasm we all associate with these companies was considerably tempered and guided by a veteran of the semiconductor industry named Mike Markkula. She attributes much of the company's success to him.
Cryptocurrencies are classified as "collectables" and thus are hard to trace. Think laundering.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says that if you haven’t been looking for a job in the last 30 days, you are not in the workforce. Thus you don’t count as unemployed.
Really?
I can understand the anger with "thoughts and prayers" following a school shooting but is a lie-in in front of the White House that much better?
At least the prayerful guy doesn't think he's being symbolic.
Through the late 1980s, there were no more than five mass shooting events per year. Through the 1990s and 2000s, the rate fluctuated and occasionally climbed to as high as 10 per year. Since 2011, the rate has skyrocketed, climbing into the teens, and peaking at 42 mass shootings in 2015.
Mother Jones reports that of those mass shootings committed since 1982, 75 percent of the weapons used were obtained legally. Among those used, assault weapons and semi-automatic handguns with high-capacity magazines were common.
Between 2009 and 2015, more than half (57 percent) of mass shootings overlapped with domestic violence, in that the victims included a spouse, former spouse, or another family member of the perpetrator, according to an analysis of FBI data conducted by Everytown for Gun Safety. Additionally, nearly 20 percent of attackers had been formerly charged with domestic violence.
Police say a gun-wielding Ohio pastor and two family members robbed a Sunday school teacher at their church.
The guy with my favorite name, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, has married for the third time, his political party said on Sunday, confirming his marriage to a woman local media call a "faith healer". I looked for a picture of the bride but her face was covered with a red veil. A little startling. A picture on Pakistani TV has a women I suppose is she who looks exactly like every Madonna I've ever seen.
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U.S. Track and Field President Vin Lananna was placed on leave by the organization after being approached by federal investigators as part of a wide-ranging probe into alleged sports corruption.
In 2015, more than half of the 44,000 people who committed suicide did so using a firearm. 44,000!
“Despite strong empirical evidence that restriction of access to firearms reduces suicides, access to firearms in the United States is generally subject to few restrictions,” a 2013 study published in the American Journal of Public Health concluded. To purchase seemingly innocuous cold medications such as Sudafed, consumers must not only show photo identification, but also have the purchase logged in a database. In contrast, less than a dozen states and the District of Columbia require registration of some or all firearms.
Michael Rohana, 24, was charged last week for allegedly breaking a thumb off the left hand of a 2,000-year-old terra-cotta warrior on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
In China, he would probably be executed.
According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides, favoring Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein and Donald Trump, and almost never Hillary Clinton. We are outraged but in our political debates we hear the phrase "regime change" all the time as if it were quite benign. And we have an aggressive history there: The overthrows of Premier Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 and President Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon in 1963. And what about Allende?
Anyway, I can't wait for the U.S. to serve the warrant.
While African Americans make up 12% of the population, they accounted for 14% of ticket movie ticket sales in 2016. Analysts are looking at this "Black Panther" movie hard.
The only time in half a century that the budget has been balanced was in the late 1990s, when Bill Clinton was president and the Republicans ran Congress. We ran four straight budget surpluses from 1998 to 2001 and government spending dropped from about 20% of GDP to 17.6%.
A 53-year-old Illinois man who fell to his death in Yellowstone National Park last year was looking for a supposed hidden cache of gold and jewels that has inspired thousands to hunt in vain across remote corners of the Western U.S., according to a report by park authorities.
Billings, Montana, news station KULR-TV reports that Jeff Murphy of Batavia, Illinois, was looking for the treasure that antiquities dealer and author Forrest Fenn said he stashed somewhere in the Rocky Mountains several years ago.
Fenn has dropped clues to the chest's whereabouts in a cryptic poem in his memoir, "The Thrill of the Chase."
Heroes of Beslan report: About 50 young women remained missing Wednesday after Boko Haram extremists attacked a village in northern Nigeria that is home to a boarding school for girls, provoking fears that they may have met the same fate as those kidnapped from the town of Chibok nearly four years ago.
In Hidden in Plain Sight, Peter Wallison showed that by 2008 Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other government programs had sponsored 76% of all subprime debt – not “Wall Street.”
For you squash fans: Laila Samy ’18 highlighted the day for the Wesleyan women’s squash team as she was named the 2018 Betty Richey Award winner Feb. 18 at Harvard. The award is the most prestigious annual honor bestowed by the College Squash Association (CSA). With another win on Feb. 18, Samy concluded her dual-match season with a perfect 24-0 record. The senior concludes her collegiate career in dual-match play with an incredible 83-1 overall record. She is a three-time First Team All-American and was named the 2017 NESCAC Player of the Year. She will have her eyes set on an individual national title when she competes at the CSA Individual Championships March 2-4 at George Washington University.
Saudi Arabia joined Turkey and China in a move to block a U.S.-led attempt this week to place Pakistan on an international terror-financing watch list, according to officials involved in the process, in a rare disagreement between Riyadh and the Trump administration. (wsj)
In his second attempt at configuring a mock draft, ESPN analyst Mel Kiper Jr. still has the Steelers picking an inside linebacker with the No. 28 pick.
It's just not the same inside linebacker he had the Steelers selecting a month ago.
Kiper's prediction has the Steelers taking Boise State's Leighton Vander Esch. In his first mock draft, Kiper had the Steelers taking Alabama's Rashaan Evans. In this do-over, Kiper has Evans going to the Dallas Cowboys at No. 19.
AAAAAaaaannnnndddddd.....a graph:
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