Etc.

The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Sandy is now at 90, with an additional 67 in the Caribbean.

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I've got a bridge to sell you if you think the UI rate is really at 7.9 percent.

There needs to be a better way to calculate jobless figures.

I suspect the vast majority of those 171k jobs are part time with no benefits.

In any case, those cooked figures bode well for Obama's re-election.

Which means people better be watching him closely to see if he sells the New Deal and Great Society down the river, as has been rumored.

Meanwhile, I am thinking about putting my "Rocky Anderson for President" bumper sticker on my car.
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Louisiana is determined to go further down the shitter in its education policies.

Can you imagine the nightmare of "merit raises" given how stupid most principals are? It boggles the mind.

Where are lawsuits down there over their charter/voucher schemes? At bottom this thing is racist.
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