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Blog Entries by Alan Grayson from 02/2012

Worst in the World in... Math?

| Posted 02.03.2012 | Politics
Read More: Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, Math Education, Math, Public Education, Income Inequality, We Are the 99 Percent, Politics News

Why should we be surprised that the poor can't count? In Mitt Romney's America, they don't count.

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A Member of the "Professional Left"

| Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics
Read More: George Bush, Ilya-Sheyman, Robert Gibbs, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News

On Aug. 9, 2010, less than three months before the Democrats suffered their worst defeat in the House of Representatives in more than a century, White...

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Labor Is a Perishable Good

| Posted 02.10.2012 | Politics
Read More: Unemployment, Jobs, Unemployment 2012, Unemployment Rate, Unemployed Americans, Employment, Politics News

A “perishable good” is something that declines in value when it is not consumed. Like cranberries. Or football tickets. Or labor. An hou...

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One Percent. Actually, Half of That

| Posted 02.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mitt Romney, Politics, Election 2012, Grayson, Maine, Politics News

Mitt Romney won the Maine Presidential Primary with 2,000 votes. Not BY 2,000 votes. WITH 2,000 votes. In a state with 1.3 million people, exactly 5,...

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Pardon Me, Mr. President

| Posted 02.20.2012 | Politics
Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Alan Grayson, President's Day, Abe Lincoln Pardons, Abe Lincoln, Abe Lincoln Civil War, Abe Lincoln Stories, Abe Lincoln Birthday, Politics News

Today is Presidents Day. That makes it a good time to talk about one of the great anomalies in presidential history: Abraham Lincoln's mercy.

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