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America is not TX. Perry didn't even win 40% of the vote last time he ran. TX voters in general differ greatly from the average American voter. This is a national election that is going to be decided by independents. There is some information I looked for but cannot find, maybe someone else knows it. The gender breakdown Independent voters % Men %Women) % of pro-life women / % of pro-choice women % of pro-life men / % of pro-choice men % of pro-life men married women looking for men More

Schools and their structure are a failure., Period. Youngest is special needs, IQ 50, Simple education goals, Balence a checkbook, read/Write at a newspaper level. The schools are a failure. Oldest was homeschooled, attended Community College for 12th grade. Calc 2, Calc physics 1, 2 etc... This semesters she is striking fear of failure into her sociology and macroeconomics teachers by questing their mantra they shovel onto the minds of students. It only took 1000.00 US dollars per More

Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan has a catchy name, and yes, a consumption (sales quotes) tax is far more fair than an income tax, isn't it? It hits those who consume the most, not those who earn the most, what's fairer than that? My problem with it is that by opening the door to a National Sales Tax, we'll wake up 30 years from now with personal and corporate income taxes right back up where they are now, and a National Sales Tax hovering around 20% and federal government that consumes 40 More

If Mr. Beckley is correct that Cuba previously quarantined (or currently quarantines) individuals with AIDS, then data exist to compare education (US approach) against quarantine (Cuba approach) to determine which approach has the better prevalence and/or incidence rates. I am not aware of such a study. I suspect that the latency of the HIV virus (delay between infection and development of AIDS) would make such an approach ineffective. It is also unclear how to approach girls the CDC's More

As a former military Officer with an MBA, I actually experienced a bias against military experience during some interviews when coming out of school. There are those who have seen too many movies and expect veterans to become Rambo or R. Lee Ermey in stressful situations. It wasn't until I let the military experience on my resume keywords' speak for itself and talked about experiences in the civilian world (even though the level of responsibility was far below what I had in the military), More

My wife got accepted by Harvard and Princeton and turned them down to go to Cornell. She still is successful and life would not be much different if she went to HU anyway. Different friends and experiences, but choose your career and place in career would be the same. Harvard undergrad is overrated - tough to get in, but not bad once you are there. I know plenty of people who went to Harvard and regretted it. That said, the grad schools are different and as someone pointed out More

Dear James: I agree. The way politics at work has been misplayed for most of life demonstrates the truth of your statement. There is, however, an end to the rope that can be used. I suspect that Obama has come to the end of the National rope, and whatever happens in the next decade or sooner will demonstrates politics without statesmen, politics without honor, politics without integirty, politics without a clear understanding of the world [not fantasy] is itself unstainnable. The deficet More

There is a fundamental difference in the card processing system in the US and the rest of the world. The legitimate credit repair companies card companies through their lobbyists on the hill made it illegal for retailers to offer discounts to those not using credit or debit cards (i.e., paying cash). Instead of regulating the transaction fees (basically the retailers lobbyists and the bank/credit card lobbyists fighting each other) let the market work it out. Remove regulation both More

Ah Kurt. Because it is clear to me you lack the critical thinking skills thinking skills necessary to take what I have said and make the next logical inference, let me do all this work for you. As an African American, Herman Cain would be able to challenge Obama for the Black vote - which, for all intents and purposes, would in the vast majority vote for Obama if there was a white GOP nominee. Therefore, being deprived of one of his most stable voting blocks, Obama would not simply More

I hope the courts uphold the Confidentiality Agreement. Hurd may have boosted HP's stock price short-term, by slashing expenses and morale, but he left a shell company of HP's former self. He finished the disastrous job Carly had started. His flip-chart cost-containment single-skill-set mgmt style won't work at Oracle, where costs are already low employee moraleest in the industry, margins double any competitor's, and employee pay and benefits below market. Perhaps that was needed at More