Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The mayor makes the fatal error of uttering a sentence in a structure other than noun-verb-9/11. Rudy Giuliani visits “Cavuto” at FOX Studios on September 23, 2014 in New York City. Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images When Rudy GiulianiaccusedPresident Obama of not loving America, was he expressing a form of racism? If not, whatwasGiuliani saying? Ihave…
date published 4:10 pm ET date updated 4:10 pm ETMaggie Haberman Photo Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired a firm with a history of deep research projects to help her react to possible attacks from potential campaign rivals.Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Images Hillary Rodham Clinton, the subject of intense news media attention and public scrutiny for the last…
Photo Charles Constance, 53, has been unable to find steady work. Until recently, he and his 9-year old son, Pablo, lived at a homeless shelter in New Orleans. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times The safety net helped keep Camille Saunders from falling, but not Charles Constance. The difference? Ms. Saunders has a…
While the world’s attention is glued to events in Greece, the real action continues to evolve quietly thousands of kilometers east, in China, where the near record surge in new loans remains unable to offset the dramatic slowdown in shadow banking issuance. And while China’s bubble-chasing, animal spirits have recently reoriented themselves from real estate…
Entry Text WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Monday that will temporarily prevent the Obama administration from moving forward with its executive actions on immigration while a lawsuit against the president works its way through the courts.The order, by Judge Andrew Hanen of the U.S. District Court in Brownsville, Texas, was…
The Reading Level of the State of Union Address is in Decline Feb 17, 2015 · 2,239 views Recently, the Priceonomics team released a tool that measures the reading level of any text. To achieve this, we use five of the most commonly used reading indexes — the Automated Readability Index, the Coleman-Liau Index, the…
<br /> It’s been a hell of a week for the Journamalism Department of Corrections, and it’s only Monday. First, we learned that contrary to a letter to the editor of the Lexington Dispatch, Barack Obama is not the antichrist, and now it turns out that he is also not a rape suspect who is lucky…
Uh-oh. Rand Paul is in hot water over the revelation that, as it turns out, Paul lied about having a bachelor’s degree. The Washington Post fact-checked some of the senator’s comments, and concluded that, despite having a medical degree from Duke University, Paul has seriously misled the public about his undergraduate history. First off, let’s examine a conversation…
google_ad_section_start Police in the Danish capital Copenhagen shot dead a man Sunday they believe carried out fatal shootings at a cultural centre hosting a debate on Islam and free speech and at the city’s main synagogue. Following is a chronology of jihadist attacks around the world over the past three years: – In DENMARK on…