Republicans Are Literally Willing To Let People Die To Decrease Our Debt

Unfortunately, this is a choice which MANY Americans are faced with.

Republicans seem to believe that the biggest problem in our country is our debt. Despite the fact that people die because of lack of healthcare. Despite the fact that people are dying because of lack of food. Despite the fact that people are killing themselves because they don’t feel like they can go on living with the problems they face.

To reduce our debt and deficit the Republicans want to gut programs like Medicare. What happens when you cut access to healthcare for poor people, and people who couldn’t regularly afford it? People die..... more
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Publisher to MPs: Read This and Stop Ignoring Climate Change

When Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Accord at the Durban Conference on Climate Change, Orca Book Publishers figured our politicians needed some educating on the realities of climate change. So the company sent copies of “Generation Us – The Challenge of Global Warming” to all 308 Members of Parliament.

Orca’s publisher, Andrew Woolridge, said in the company’s press release:

We’re concerned that too many of our politicians see climate change as a political problem, not the threat that it is to the very survival of future generations. Hopefully the book will provide a more complete analysis of the problem for at least some of our elected representatives..... more
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Can Apple Revolutionize the Textbook?

It’s rare to find a student who doesn’t have an iPod these days. Apple revolutionized how we acquire and listen to music with its iTunes software and iPods. Gone are the days of having to buy an album whether or not you like all the songs on it; now you can buy whichever songs you wish, listen to them in whatever order you choose and all without going to a store. Is Apple seeking to create a similar revolution in the realm of textbooks, so that educators can customize books and students will no longer turn dog-eared pages muddled through by previous generations, but learn their geometry on iPad, with 3-D diagrams, videos, audio, colorful graphs and many more features?..... more
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Can Apple Revolutionize the Textbook?

It’s rare to find a student who doesn’t have an iPod these days. Apple revolutionized how we acquire and listen to music with its iTunes software and iPods. Gone are the days of having to buy an album whether or not you like all the songs on it; now you can buy whichever songs you wish, listen to them in whatever order you choose and all without going to a store. Is Apple seeking to create a similar revolution in the realm of textbooks, so that educators can customize books and students will no longer turn dog-eared pages muddled through by previous generations, but learn their geometry on iPad, with 3-D diagrams, videos, audio, colorful graphs and many more features?..... more
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