If President Obama is an ungodly socialist, as some people think, what is Pope Benedict? The pope this week decried the “scandal of glaring inequalities” in the world economy and supported the redistribution of wealth. He also argued that “lowering the level of protection accorded to the rights of workers, or abandoning mechanisms of wealth redistribution in order to increase the country’s international competitiveness, hinder the achievement of lasting development.” The pope disagreed with those who believe that the economy should be free of government regulation, and he supported “a political, juridical and economic order” that can help “manage the global economy.”
Jim Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, received a lot of attention for his claim that the Bush administration was censoring his views supporting man-made global warming. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Republican officials are calling for an investigation into whether Alan Carlin, a senior analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency, was 
Why is tuition going up from 3.9 to 8.5 percent at Kansas regents universities while Oklahoma froze tuition increases at its state schools? “The short answer is that the Oklahoma legislature treated its higher education system better than the Kansas Legislature treated its system,” the Lawrence Journal-World 
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