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...absence of the stimulus. "You can't answer these questions without a compared-to-what," says Jared Bernstein, economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, who is overseeing the stimulus. "We can have good arguments about the baseline, but a critique that doesn't evoke the baseline is useless." (See the top 10 Joe Biden gaffes...
Symbolic, useless two-year stints on the Security Council will not bring representation for much of the world. Expansion of permanent membership, however, would be a timely and productive measure to consider. Brazil, one of the new visiting members, would be an interesting choice to consider, as it exerts great strategic influence in South America, both militarily and environmentally (a growing global-security issue). Most clearly, however, Germany and Japan must be considered for permanent membership. The Security Council’s post-1945 composition obviously does not include those defeated Axis powers—Germany was not even...
...real show on Spike TV called “Deadliest Warrior”—I had nothing to do with its creation, of course, but hey, at least its existence means my ideas can’t be all that bad. Many of them are useless for sure, but you only need one great thought to make all of this collecting worthwhile...
...sheriff says he is keeping the peace, but it seems as if he is doing just the opposite - a useless, reckless churning of fear and unrest." - (New York Times editorial, April...
...down to eat your meal and stop whining,” another e-mailer jibed. When students objected that they had not been consulted before the decision, a third replied, “Decisions that benefit everyone don’t need to be put up to ridiculous and useless debate...