Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

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    The birth of a child called Prose

    For an author, the job of being the parent of Prose means a never ending job.

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    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Under President George W. Bush, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) increased the Department of Education’s (DOE) budget from $46 Billion to $60 Billion (In 2012, the budget reached $68.1 Billion). For a comparison, under Bush, the Department of Defense (DOD) budget went from $308.9 Billion in 2001 to $729.6…

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    The Next Best Thing, an authors’ Blog Hop

    Authors usually have to promote his or her work to find readers, and all I knew about authors Blog Hopping is that it’s sort of like a chain letter where participants answer questions and/or write posts on his or her Blog linked to other authors taking part …

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    Is it better to have disposable cities or disposable armies fighting one war after another as in the United States? What do I mean? I mean to say that if we are going to spend money so people have jobs, rebuilding cities may be a better choice than waging wars as the United States has done in Vietnam, Iraq and…

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    National Debt Info-Graphic by President 1945 – 2012

    As tax rates dropped for the wealthy, unemployment went up and GDP went down (on average).

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    The Evolution of a National Burden – Part 1/7

    The US was born in debt and every war added to the debt until the Reagan era when deficits exploded.

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    Originally posted on InsideTimsHead: As the election drew near, many political and stats junkies (like me) became fans of Nate Silver, aka @fivethirtyeight, the shrewd political number-cruncher and blogger for the New York Times. His way of aggregating the most reliable presidential polls into megapolls, and factoring in those polls’ historical accuracies, was considered by some to be as revolutionary…

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    Wars and Unbridled Capitalism Cause National Bankruptcies—not socialist policies!

    Mitt Romney’s economic policies may lead to a national bankruptcy.

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    The Need for Health Care Reform

    If that happened, I would have to watch those who I love suffer and maybe die when they didn’t have to. That is one BIG reason why I will not vote for Mitt Romney.