Nancy-Ann Min was the first woman elected student body president of UT, now she is the nation’s new ‘Healthcare Czar.’

Coming Sunday: An East Tennessean at the helm of health care
Peers expected big things out of Nancy-Ann Min when she was a University of Tennessee student. In the late 1970s, the Roane Countian became the first woman elected student body president at UT, and she went on to receive a prestigious Rhodes scholarship.
Thirty years later, [...]

Bad news for the U.S. Dollar?

The following article by Michael Murphy, was originally posted, here:
The U.N. Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform, a specialist advisory committee that includes representatives from the U.S. government, will advise today that the world should begin to move away from the U.S. dollar as the world’s sole reserve currency. They will suggest either an [...]

Super Mario Theme on two guitars at once. nice.

Zack Kim playing the theme from Super Mario brothers on two Ibanez guitars…

and ‘Blue Bossa,’…

What does ‘One Trillion Dollars’ look like?

A friend of mine linked to this great depiction of exactly what we’re talking about when we say, One Trillion Dollars.  The site gives a great graphical representation of just how much money that is, which is quite stunning, and also points out that a trillion is a million million, or a thousand billion!
Click here, [...]

Illegal immigration in the United States in 2009, “It’s an illegal employer problem,” enabled by non-enforcement of federal labor and immigration laws, adds to problem of low wages and unemployment in the united states.

Published on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

Reclaiming the Issues: “It’s an Illegal Employer Problem”

by Thom Hartmann, author of “Screwed: the undeclared war on the middle class”

“….Encouraging a rapid increase in the workforce by encouraging companies to hire non-citizens is one of the three most potent tools conservatives since Ronald Reagan have [...]

Watching Ken Burn’s Epic history, “Civil War,” tonight. I think I love learning about history.

http://blueandgraytrail.com/event/Battle_of_Shiloh

“The dirty bomb that disappeared,” interesting and scary report from Maine…

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_%22dirty_bomb%22_that_disappeared

Anti-Bush camp giddy over Rove and Miers testimony to House investigative committee on 2007 firings of 9 U.S. Attorneys

So, the big news for the ‘Anti-Bush’ Army, (and those who hate politics of any ilk in their judiciary) yesterday is that top Bush Aides, Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, must testify to a  U.S. house subcommittee –(click to read New York Times article about it.) that is investigating the perportedly illegal 2007 firings of [...]