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Flynn: no lawyers in his multiple FBI interviews
Hillary!: nine lawyers in her one FBI interview, no notes by FBI allowed

Flynn: failed to register as a foreign agent while he was a private citizen
Hillary!: made millions via Clinton Foundation from Russia while she was Secretary of State approving Uranium One deal.

Flynn: going to jail
Hillary!: Free despite setting up a private email server, almost certainly hacked by multiple foreign intelligence services, and putting classified data on it. Free despite having her uncleared maid handle top secret information. Free despite directing subordinate to remove classification markings and send classified data via her insecure email.

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Brazil’s new president plans to plunder the Amazon
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A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames : California’s forests emitted more carbon than they soaked up between 2001 and 2010

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https://www.nytimes.com/2010/0...
https://phys.org/news/2011-05-...

No it was actually under Bill Clinton. The Feds withheld Highway funds from states that did not raise the age to 21.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/0...

No, bitch, this is 100% Pelosi puppetry. She's owned by Hollywood. The democrats say nice shit, but notice what fraction of their funding comes from the media cartels. Notice how much free advertising they're getting, every day.

Now, ignore that Hollywood is now working for the Chinese propaganda machine.

Don't you worry about clean water - the short-fingered one is on that too: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1... .

I am going to call bullshit on this. The proposed regulations were still on a path that was behind China, India, the EU, Japan, Korea, etc. The Obama regulations were still pretty weak compared to the world. Trump has knocked us down from being a C- student to a straight F.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Interesting chart but I think it is meaningless. US CAFE standards are about the average fuel economy of cars produced for sale in the US. If the standard isn't met there is a low penalty per vehicle sold. In effect it's a tax on autos.

So in effect the US taxes autos less than some other countries do. What else is new?

I am going to call bullshit on this. The proposed regulations were still on a path that was behind China, India, the EU, Japan, Korea, etc. The Obama regulations were still pretty weak compared to the world. Trump has knocked us down from being a C- student to a straight F. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Consider this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1.... If he is using a high-level figurehead as a bargaining chip to force China to let those folks out, more power to him.

She committed crimes in the US involving a US company:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

How has she not broken the law?

Skycom = Hong Kong company. Hong Kong ruled by China. China has no sanctions against Iran. If American banks were involved and didn't do due process to realize funds were coming or going from Iran then the banks are at fault.

This is 100% about politics and 0% to do with her breaking any laws.

She committed crimes in the US involving a US company:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

How has she not broken the law?

It doesn't matter that she's not American, she committed crimes in the US (which involved American companies), and is thus legally subject to arrest there and in places that have extradition treaties with the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

There are an awful lot of people who doubt that California's high speed rail project will ever be completed. The original bond was for $10 billion, when the estimated cost at completion was $40 billion. The other $30 billion was supposed to have come from private investment, which has failed to materialize. Today the estimated cost to complete is $100 billion, and is expected to grow even more. More information here.

Who spreads this nonsense? There aren't people being killed or maimed in the US for racist nonsense.

Really?

Really?!

"You're so vain / You probably think this [comment] is about you / You're so vain / I'll bet you think this [comment] is about you / Don't you? / Don't you?" - slightly adapted from Carly Simon

A lot of people would take my argument and use it to say that's why they would not visit the United States. I would argue that their concerns about arbitrary arrests are unjustified, but apparently my comment hit an authoritarian nerve -- you instead argued that the Chinese people would live up to all the stereotypes of a totalitarian state.

If China does not want their international-criminal citizens to be arrested and subjected to good-cause hearings to be extradicted for their crimes, maybe they should keep those criminals at home instead of complaining that they are being "kidnapped" when treaties about nuclear sanctions are used.

It's also richly ironic that China complains about a suspected criminal being arrested when they are still holding hostages to lure a fugitive back into their clutches.

Oh it has to be a CEO and not one of the dozens of students that have been arrested this decade? I guess you win. We should roll over until things escalate to some imaginary line you have drawn.

The attempts by China to silence American citizens by imprisoning family members in interment camps is well known

It's possible. But is it only that? Can't it also be boosted by other agents? Couldn't it be like with Black lives matter: the Russians spot a legitimate wedge issue and flare up the internet using it, with real life destabilizing consequences...? Check out this explanation here. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

You are writing apps that people like me would approve of (not sending data back to a server), whereby you're not mining people's data - thank you. Hearing your argument of this situation actually gives me hope.

But that's not the case for every developer, and certainly not the case for most corporate entities:
iPhone
Android
Huawei

If our privacy laws here in the US were comparable to those of the EU, I'd be more relaxed about AI everywhere. In the meantime, we'll have to depend on developers and corporate entities to have the same morals as you appear to have. It's just that they don't have a good track record of having any morals whatsoever.

This is a distraction from the breaking story about possible GOP election fraud scandal coming to light in North Carolina.

The allegation is that someone on the GOP payroll was hiring people to go door to door and collect absentee ballots. This is illegal under NC law.

Additionally, those ballots passed through unknown hands, and may have been culled, substituted or otherwise altered in the process.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog...

https://www.mediamatters.org/b...

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

https://www.politifact.com/nor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

You should link the response as well. The way you phrase it, "caught red handed," might suggest that this was some sort of nefarious conspiracy.

"if they were smarter they'd make them add-on bundle products, ..."

Exactly! I'm seeing many, many examples of Amazon managers not being smart.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "briliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?

Commercial nuclear in France is a basket case, reliant on government support just to survive and keep the lights on. Too big to fail, continually writing off assets and downgrading valuations.

This is the first I've heard of this. There's a lot of talk in the US about how France is the model for a successful nuclear energy program.

1. Military ban
2. Medical practices from DHHS
3. Adoption Laws
4. Asserting they aren't covered under the 1964 Civil Rights Act
5. Considering rollback of protections under AHCA

6. That took 2 minutes of effort and I ignored a lot. Seriously, this isn't hard.

No, it's easy enough to argue that racist voters in the South stayed with the Democratic Party and those who voted Republican were the ones who moved in from the North, the new wealthy suburbanites and those who were younger, all groups which were the least racist. A couple of professors wrote a whole book analyzing the change in voting patterns and disproved your myth.

The South also turned Republican starting with the least racist states first, not the other way around, the opposite of what you'd expect if it were racist voters doing the switching.

Naw, the whole southern strategy thing is a complete myth. When actually studied, the voters in the south who voted Republican were the ones who moved in from the North, the new wealthy suburbanites and those who were younger, all groups which were the least racist. The South also turned Republican starting with the least racist states first, not the other way around, the opposite of what you'd expect if it were racist voters doing the switching.

If you give it a second's thought, the idea that the racists in the Democratic Party, who stayed racist in the South for a long time past the Civil Rights bills, would be left by racist voters in favor of Republicans who were the party of abolition and who voted for the Civil Rights bills much more is silly. People don't switch to the opposite party because that party is known to be less-aligned with their views....

The tax cuts reduced revenue. Deficits have doubled.

Tax revenue is up, not down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

Deficit is up, but nowhere near "doubled".
https://www.usgovernmentspendi...

They need to cut spending to cut the deficit.

Restaurants in some cities are already charging a cancellation fee. You can't make a reservation without a credit card. Here is an article from 2015. The practice of making reservations "just in case" will increase if you don't have to talk to the people you're going to stand up. People will also try restaurants where they have an extremely slim (i.e. non-existent) chance of getting a reservation and wouldn't bother to call if they had to do it themselves. You can just call all the restaurants where you want a table and stop when you get in. It's no effort, for you. The call load will absolutely certainly increase, even before we get to actual spam calls. We can argue examples all day, but the simple fact of the matter is that anything that is free but has value will be used excessively. This will kill voice telephony. Google Duplex is a parasitic technology which will kill its host.

Okay for anyone wanting the whole story. Here is the story on the left. And then here is the story on the right. Now the story on the left is based on this paper.

I highly suggest folks read the paper and then read the stories. This side by side that's being presented as "Oh look, they're contradicting themselves!!" Is massively deceptive and smart people shouldn't fall for it.

Okay for anyone wanting the whole story. Here is the story on the left. And then here is the story on the right. Now the story on the left is based on this paper.

I highly suggest folks read the paper and then read the stories. This side by side that's being presented as "Oh look, they're contradicting themselves!!" Is massively deceptive and smart people shouldn't fall for it.

Also, the tax code is really stealing from the rich to appease the poor. When you look at how much the rich pay in taxes, it turns out that they pay MORE of the taxes than the poor do, with the top few percent paying over half of all taxes collected.

It's actually stealing from the middle class. The top few percent make most of their income from capital gains, paying a lower tax rate (or in some cases, they are able to pay 0%).

For citations, see Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Is that fair?

Billionaires avoid paying taxes by borrowing. You, my friend, pay much more in taxes than many rich people.

You're asking for the President of the United States to be assassinated. Given that there are a number of constitutional and legal means to dump him, I think that would be a low - although not a new one.

There's Trump quote for every occasion. Back in 2016 he said this about Hillary

“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”

source (first link on google search)

Declaring "this costs too much, so there must be massive corruption!!" is not the same as that actually being true.

It took me literally 2 minutes to find some recent quotes from the famously right-wing NY Times:

hundreds of mechanic positions have been cut because there is not enough money to pay them — even though the average total compensation for subway managers has grown to well over $200,000 a year.

Efforts to add new lines have been hampered by generous agreements with labor unions and private contractors that have inflated construction costs to five times the international average.

They stripped a combined $1.5 billion from the M.T.A. by repeatedly diverting tax revenues earmarked for the subways and also by demanding large payments for financial advice, I.T. help and other services that transit leaders say the authority could have done without.

They pressured the M.T.A. to spend billions of dollars on opulent station makeovers and other projects that did nothing to boost service or reliability

Public officials who have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions from M.T.A. unions and contractors have pressured the authority into signing agreements with labor groups and construction companies that obligated the authority to pay far more than it had planned.

"It’s genuinely shocking how much of every dollar that goes to the M.T.A. is spent on expenses that have nothing to do with running the subway,”

While many politicians have contributed to the decline of the subway over the years, the problems reached a fever pitch under Mr. Cuomo, who as governor appoints the M.T.A. chairman and effectively controls the authority. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who is expected to seek a third term next year and is also seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2020

Even in the face of the financial crisis and budget shortfalls, the M.T.A. has given concession after concession to its main labor union.

Members of the Transport Workers Union got a total of 19 percent in pay raises between 2009 and 2016, compared with 12 percent for the city’s teachers union over the same period.

The labor contracts also gave members lifetime spousal health benefits and free rides on the Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road. (They already were allowed to ride the subway for free.)

According to a former union president, John Samuelsen, the organization has secured better deals over the past eight years than any other public labor group in New York.

Subway workers, including managers and administrative personnel, now make an average of about $155,000 annually in salary, overtime and benefits, according to a Times analysis of data compiled by the federal Department of Transportation. That is far more than in any other American transit system; the average in cities like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington is less than $100,000 in total compensation annually.

The pay for managers alone is even more extraordinary. The nearly 2,500 people who work in New York subway administration make, on average, $240,000 in salary, overtime and benefits. The average elsewhere is less than $115,000.

Union rules also drive up costs, including by requiring two M.T.A. employees on every train — one to drive, and one to oversee boarding. Virtually every other subway in the world staffs trains with only one worker; if New York did that, it would save nearly $200 million a year, according to an internal M.T.A. analysis obtained by The Times.

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I don't think so. Which states allow the use of deadly force to protect property?

Colorado, at least.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/0...

Different states interpret the castle doctrine differently.

> Vanity press has little to no quality threshold for publishing and advertises as such.

The same is true for some journals, particularly those involving "grievance studies". See https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1... .

You mean those organisations that have fully repaid the emergency loans, making the government a significant profit?

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...

and especially remember that Lehman Brothers has paid all its debts

https://uk.reuters.com/article...

The decision to fail to support Lehman Brothers was driven by ignorant politicians and caused major problems for no good reason.

You can choose to believe in some mythical all-destructive force that always seems just around the corner but never arrives - or you can choose to live a life not lived in fear, making choices that are truly good for the environment and not made out of fear, but love.

To me the constant Global Warming Boogeyman is the lefts version of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, supposedly pulling strings related to any bad weather phenomenon and projecting phantasms of possible horrible futures.

An especially clear example of this is todays NYT feature on Scary Global Warming, How much hotter is your hometown.

In my cases since 1960 the number of days of temperatures over 90 degrees has risen by exactly one - from six to seven. The graph shows a wildly wandering line just to get there.

Then as you scroll down you see projected temperatures, and by 2100 I'm supposed to see a total of *22* days over 90. The graph wanders along on a crazy course but basically a straight line, until magically rocketing up starting in a. year or two.

Come on. We were supposed to see that exponential growth in heating many years ago, maybe even a decade at at this point. At what point does everyone take a step back and re-adjust to the very obvious fact that we will not see exponential warming occur?

I would LOVE to see a serious discussion on climate at some point. But this government report is not doing that, it will be just another hammer used to bludgeon the populace until they comply.

So until then, I choose to live a happy life - not a life of fear. I choose to look at trends that are actually occurring and think how to adapt to them, not taking wildly different future predictions as gospel just because some authority claims they know the future even though the've always been wrong in the past.

You don't use anonymous sources because they can't be fact checked by third party sources which means you could just make it all up. They do that all the time now.

You're wrong on both accounts. Anonymous sources are sometimes the only key to unlocking that big story, throwing back the curtain on corruption, fulfilling the journalistic missions of watchdog on the government and informant to the citizens. Think "Deep Throat" and Watergate.

And contrary to your claim that use of anonymous sources is on the rise, it looks like the opposite is true: “Over the recent decades, quality news organizations have been less and less inclined to use anonymous sources, and more and more inclined to set guidelines for reporters and editors about these decisions,” - Ivor Shapiro, Associate Dean at the Ryerson school of journalism.

To Libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers, there is little doubt what occurred: a well-known group of local Islamist militants struck the United States Mission without any warning or protest, and they did it in retaliation for the video. That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as members of a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence.

..... and then....

United States intelligence agencies have reserved final judgment pending a full investigation, leaving open the possibility that anger at the video might have provided an opportunity for militants who already harbored anti-American feelings. But so far the intelligence assessments appear to square largely with local accounts.

If the day after an event the CIA tells you what it's initial opinion is, and you give that to the press as the INITIAL opinion of what happened.... you're basically doing what's you're supposed to do. Now, i understand... worthless little piece of shit republicans like you are too fucking stupid to understand that, but that's more of an indictment of your fucking stupidity than anything else.

It was the result of a series of decisions by both Republican and Democratic politicians â" governors from George E. Pataki to Mr. Cuomo and mayors from Rudolph W. Giuliani to Bill de Blasio. Each of them cut the subwayâ(TM)s budget or co-opted it for their own priorities.
They stripped a combined $1.5 billion from the M.T.A. by repeatedly diverting tax revenues earmarked for the subways and also by demanding large payments for financial advice, I.T. help and other services that transit leaders say the authority could have done without.

That and what follows is what killed your public transit.

To add this this...
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York.

An accountant discovered the discrepancy while reviewing the budget for new train platforms under Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.

The budget showed that 900 workers were being paid to dig caverns for the platforms as part of a 3.5-mile tunnel connecting the historic station to the Long Island Rail Road. But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.

“Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs transit in New York.

Wait meddling in foreign elections is an act of war? They why aren't we already at war with Russia with meddling in THEIR elections in 1996 https://www.theguardian.com/co... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

You know doing something bad and wrong is still something bad and wrong. We need to stay the hell out of other peoples elections too. If politicians want to vocally say they support someone and why. Fine. That is free speech. But no bullshit. It is also fair game to point out if we see someone else interfering, providing we point out everyone we see interfering and don't pick and choose.

I don't see why this is complex. Wrong is wrong. You can't build a fair and just world on a string of moral compromises. It's like building on sand.

Thank goodness the President's daughter has no kind of official role in the Administration, otherwise you might look like a pillock who's attempting to be disingenuous by leaving out pertinent facts that even those with only a passing acquaintance with American politics are already aware of.

Pertinent fact like this is old news from the beginning of Trump's administration? And that Ivanka only used her private email address "occasionally", stopped using it when informed it wasn't proper, and never lied about it?

At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts

Sept. 25, 2017

WASHINGTON — At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday.

The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administration’s first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone. Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief White House strategist, and Reince Priebus, the former chief of staff, also occasionally used private email addresses. Other advisers, including Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts, officials said.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter, who is married to Mr. Kushner, used a private account when she acted as an unpaid adviser in the first months of the administration, Newsweek reported Monday. Administration officials acknowledged that she also occasionally did so when she formally became a White House adviser. ...

Yeah, that's so much like a full cabinet Secretary setting up a private email server, using it for classified communications, and lying about it.

Ivanka got a speeding ticket.

Hillary drove a suicide truck bomb into a kindergarten.

Other than that, the two are exactly alike

Hillary has been ordered to testify under oath about her email server.:

Hillary Clinton must answer more questions under oath regarding her emails...

One could almost say that dragging up year-old news that Ivanka used a private email address a few times but stopped when told and never lied about it is merely whataboutism from the media, still trying to cover for Hillary:

Sept. 25, 2017

WASHINGTON — At least six of President Trump’s closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday.

The disclosures came a day after news surfaced that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, used a private email account to send or receive about 100 work-related emails during the administration’s first seven months. But Mr. Kushner was not alone. Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief White House strategist, and Reince Priebus, the former chief of staff, also occasionally used private email addresses. Other advisers, including Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts, officials said.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter, who is married to Mr. Kushner, used a private account when she acted as an unpaid adviser in the first months of the administration, Newsweek reported Monday. ...

Wait meddling in foreign elections is an act of war? They why aren't we already at war with Russia with meddling in THEIR elections in 1996 https://www.theguardian.com/co... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

you are one triggered snowflake. Why can't trumptards be consistent for a split second? hillary can burn in hell for all I care, but to be outraged about her usage of a private e-mail server, and then to immediately downplay ivanka's? you're making my job too easy; i don't have to do any work at all to point out your hypocrisy. it's always feels > reals from your corner though. the trumps don't give a flying fuck about keeping classified info safe. don't forget that trump is using an unsecured phone that is almost certainly being listened to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1... . fuck off with that kys bullshit, you're a degenerate coward.

Let's not forget that Trump literally gave classified information directly to the Russians.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip

Ivaka using private email.
Hell Comey had some private email.

1) Ivanka Trump
2) Jared Kushner
3) Steve Bannon
4) Stephen Miller
5) Reince Priebus
6) Gary Cohn
At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts

7) Mike Pence
Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked

Ivanka is also named in this lawsuit filed by New York over massive abuse by the Trump foundation, and criminal referrals were also made to the IRS. It certainly doesn't stop here.

I was unaware also that Ivanka Trump is the Secretary of Stare much less an elected government official.

She's a federal employee, adviser to the President, and may have access to classified information. If she has done anything wrong in that role by using personal email in place of government email, then she should be tried, convicted, and punished. You do realize I never specific even said Ivanka committed a crime, right? I was speaking to the many politicians (Bush and Palin spring to mind) which clearly violate respective laws in their fields of government for either "losing" email or simply not using government email to avoid scrutiny.

But, keep spinning those wheels.

no backups Wow

Just one phrase: Bookie Flash Paper.

"The days of guys writing bets on flash paper so they could burn everything when the cops busted in are long gone," But I guess that was before most of y'alls time.

Believe it or not, there's are times where you WANT to lose your data.

Oh, and speaking of old phrases, does anyone remember: "If anyone says they're from the government and here to help you, run"? Now-days it seems more like a demand rather than a joke.

The article you linked to makes a terrible mistake in that it looks at funding per student instead of the overall cost. I'd suggest this article in the NY Times which does a good job of explaining the flaws in the reasoning in the article you've presented. I'd link to other articles, but you have a tendency of dismissing the source without bothering to read it so you get the Times, which if you could successfully dismiss as "right wing" would constitute such an amazing display of mental gymnastics that even the fucking Russian judge would have to give you a 10.