Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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New Manufacturing Institute Coming to Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn will announce today in his State of the State speech that the Urbana-Champaign school, in partnership with its National Center for Supercomputing Applications and private companies, will be forming an Illinois Manufacturing Lab likely to be located in the central area of Chicago. The facility will be a somewhat smaller, more applications-based…
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Quinn’s Motto: Move Your Business Out
Today’s Local Bad News: Illinois companies warned in January that they may lay off as many as 1,200 workers in the next two months, according to filings with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. viaChicago Tribune. The economy sucks and the media doesn’t want to talk about it. Manufacturing in Illinois is on…
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Cook County Keeps Crazy Judge
A Democratic Party-backed judge who won re-election in November while facing battery charges was found not guilty Monday — by reason of insanity. … Bar associations have recommended since 2000 that Brim be tossed from her $182,000-a-year job, but voters have kept returning her to the bench. Experts have said Brim’s case highlights the difficulty…
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Lincoln Quote
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and…
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UNO Charter Schools Engaging in Graft & Corruption
Kudos for the Sun-Times for shedding light on this. Business as usual. The friends of the friends get rich on the backs of the taxpayer.
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Crain’s Propaganda on Illinois vs. Indiana
My comment on a brainless story: Since when is Crain’s the new PR mouthpiece for Quinn and Rahm? Except for the graphic this piece is nearly 100% opinion. So Indiana spent $300k on a campaign and got 20 or so companies to move. Those companies may provide several millions worth of tax base; yielding a…
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Feds investigating finances of former Ald. Sandi Jackson: sources – Chicago Sun-Times
A federal financial probe of the once-politically powerful Jesse and Sandi Jackson has evolved into two separate investigations, with federal authorities taking an independent look at former Ald. Sandi Jackson, sources close to the probe told the Chicago Sun-Times.Included in the scrutiny of Sandi Jackson, who resigned from her 7th Ward aldermanic position last month,…
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Obama Admin Claims it can Kill Americans
Think about this for just a second. A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to…
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Immigrant Knows More About US than Most Citizens
Kudos to this guy!! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2JR92Scmk]
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Gun Laws and Common Sense
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death. For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of…
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