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Costa Rica Trip
This is a Costa Rican frog. His name is Green.
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Salman Rushdie talks about Quichotte
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Unemployment Rate – Democrats wrong again
The always insightful Aparna Mathur of the American Enterprise Institute explains why they’re wrong (my emphasis): Despite the steady positive news in the monthly jobs report, a recent talking point, oft-repeated, is that too many people are holding two or three jobs in order to make ends meet. Rep. Tim Ryan brought this up during the recent Democratic debate arguing that “the economic system…now force(s) us to have two or three jobs just to get by.†In the earlier debate, Senator Kamala Harris suggested that the low unemployment rate is not cause for celebration since for many Americans, this still meant working “two or three jobs†in order to make…
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One Nation Under God
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