Geoff Knauth commented on an article : No Survivors Found as 2 Aircraft Collide
I am a pilot who has flown this VFR corridor three times, in 1980, 2007 and 2009. The rules are pretty straightforward. Stay on the right side of the river and over it, remain below 1100 feet, keep a...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth commented on an article : Rio Wins Bid for 2016 Olympic Games
I hope this will put a stop to the IOC expecting presidents to come begging. The fact that some in the IOC think Obama could have spent more time with them makes me sick. I don't want to see any...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth commented on an article : Heckuva Job, Barack
Presidents rehearse making quick decisions before sunrise regarding response to crisis and attack on our country. Until now, making a nuanced polite refusal to a Nobel committee when its representative...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth commented on an article : Comcast Gets NBC From G.E., Reshaping...
Just what we need, more concentration of power, less choice.
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Copenhagen pedal-powered smoothies - http://bit.ly/4XpdlR
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an editorial : The Court’s Blow to Democracy
With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has thrust politics back to the robber-baron era of the 19th century. Disingenuously waving the flag of the First Amendment, the court’s...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an article : Will You Be E-Mailing This Column?...
Sociologists have developed elaborate theories of who spreads gossip and news — who tells whom, who matters most in social networks — but they’ve had less success measuring what kind of...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an article : America Is Not Yet Lost
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an article : The Lean Years
Financial crises stink. In their wake, public debt explodes. Nations default. Economic growth falters. Taxes rise. Unemployment lingers.
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended a blog post : Finding Your Roots
Steven Strogatz on math, from basic to baffling.
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an interactive graphic : The Shrine Down the Hall
Seven years after the beginning of the Iraq war — and with U.S. troop deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeding 5,000 — a look at some of the bedrooms America's young war dead left behind.
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an interactive graphic : Faces of the Dead
Each United States service member who has died in Iraq or Afghanistan and been identified by the Defense Department is represented.
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an interactive graphic : House Vote - H.R.3590: On...
Keep track of congressional roll call votes and members' most recent positions on roll call votes.
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an article : Financial Reform 101
Let’s face it: Financial reform is a hard issue to follow. It’s not like health reform, which was fairly straightforward once you cut through the nonsense. Reasonable people can and do disagree...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an article : Relax, We’ll Be Fine
According to recent polls, 60 percent of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. The same percentage believe that the U.S. is in long-term decline. The political system is...
View ArticleGeoff Knauth recommended an article : Jon Stewart’s Punching Bag, Fox News
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone. Fox News Channel is Jon Stewart’s new enemy No. 1.
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