- Oct 2016
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fivethirtyeight.com fivethirtyeight.com
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The president is not a prime minister — it’s an individual making decisions, sitting atop an entire branch of government.
So, Prime Ministers don’t make decisions, sitting atop an entire branch of government?
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www.azcentral.com www.azcentral.com
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SB 1070, the 2010 “show me your papers” law that earned Arizona international condemnation and did nothing to resolve real problems with undocumented immigration.
Public opinion matters.
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Endorsement: Hillary Clinton is the only choice to move America ahead
Hillary Clinton: Not a Loose Cannon Shooting Verbal Spit Wads.
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www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
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USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'
Strong (written) language. In the video, the paralanguage makes things sounds quite a bit more difficult. Fear of reprisals? Unwilling shift to clickbait?
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- Aug 2016
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rbms.info rbms.info
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VISITS
I'm not sure exactly where this would fit in, but some way to reporting total service hours (per week or other time period) would be useful, esp as we start gauging traffic, volume, usage against number of service hours. In our reporting for the Univ of California, we have to report on services hours for all public service points.
Likewise, it may be helpful to have a standard way to report staffing levels re: coverage of public service points? or in department? or who work on public services?
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www.debates.org www.debates.org
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Federal Election Commission ("FEC") regulations require a debate sponsor to make its candidate selection decisions on the basis of "pre-established, objective" criteria. After a thorough and wide-ranging review of alternative approaches to determining who is invited to participate in the general election debates it will sponsor, the CPD adopted on October 28, 2015 its 2016 Non-Partisan Candidate Selection Criteria. Under the 2016 Criteria, in addition to being Constitutionally eligible, candidates must appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning a majority vote in the Electoral College, and have a level of support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate as determined by five selected national public opinion polling organizations, using the average of those organizations’ most recently publicly-reported results at the time of the determination. The polls to be relied upon will be selected based on the quality of the methodology employed, the reputation of the polling organizations and the frequency of the polling conducted. CPD will identify the selected polling organizations well in advance of the time the criteria are applied.
an official statement of the 15% threshold for being included in the US presidential debate
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- Jul 2016
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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With the presidential election cycle coming to a close in November
Surprised by the US focus of this piece, from the start. But this phrase is particularly awkward, coming from a UK publication. Sounds a bit like people from the US coming to Canada and talking about “the country” in reference to our southerly neighbours. Feels strange, especially from those who teach here.
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- Apr 2016
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blog.enkerli.com blog.enkerli.com
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true liberal democracy
A “well-informed citizenry” require journalistic assistance. Which is why US elections are such a neat context to discuss literacy, public opinion, agency, representativeness, and populism.
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- Jan 2016
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constitutioncenter.org constitutioncenter.org
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the spring of 1787.
What happened at this time in US history?
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- Dec 2015
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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I’m sorry, but this sort of quasi-mystical garbage debases the very notion of education and harms Knewton’s brand in the process.
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www.perfectionlearning.com www.perfectionlearning.com
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This is a sample annotation.
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- Sep 2015
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wiki.mozilla.org wiki.mozilla.org
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Chattanooga 2014-2015 Funded Projects
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careers.mozilla.org careers.mozilla.org
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Mozilla Community Gigabit Fund
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blogs.edweek.org blogs.edweek.org
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dissatisfaction with curricula offered by commercial providers
Maybe the model from commercial textbooks isn’t the one we need to follow?
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- Apr 2015
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www.ianwelsh.net www.ianwelsh.net
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The children who thought that having a black president, despite the fact that he was, on domestic policy, worse than EVERY other democratic nominee, are why the US is so fucked right now.
Wow. Hadn't heard it put so bluntly before.
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- Jan 2015
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newleftreview.org newleftreview.org
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It seemed clear to me that this framing of Internet freedom as a pillar of US foreign policy threatened to undermine whatever potential the new tools and platform had for creating an alternative public sphere
But what is that potential, does it really exist?
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- Feb 2014
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s3.amazonaws.com s3.amazonaws.com
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The U.S. social contract establishes a utilitarian basis for protection of intellectual property rights: protection as a means of encouraging innovation.
The social contract of the US Constitution provides a utilitarian basis for protection of intellectual property rights.
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As intellectual property lacks scarcity, and the protection of it fails the Lockean Proviso, there is no natural right to intellectual property. As such, the justification for intellectual property rights arises from the social con tract, and in the case of the United States, the Constitution.
The justification for intellectual property from the social contract established by the US Constitution; it otherwise has no justification by natural right because it fails the Lockean Proviso.
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As such, the conclusion is that intellectual property is not ‘property’ in the Lockean sense. If it were, then intellectual property protections would deserve no mo re policy debate than whether police ought to chase thieves. As it is not, the justification for intel lectual property must be sought in the social contract. As noted above, the social contract for the United State s, the Constitution, specifies in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 that Congress may pass laws “ To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respec t ive Writings and Discoveries.” This background clarifies the discussion considerably : • There is no natural law basis for intellectual property rights • Thus, intellectual property rights must be provided for by the social contract. • The U.S. social contract as elucidated in the Constitution specifies a utilitarian basis for intellectual property rights (“to promote the progress... by securing for limited times...")
There is no natural law basis for intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights must be provided for by the social contract
The US Constitution as a social contract specifies a utilitarian basis for intellectual property rights.
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U.S. intellectual property law originates (as law) from the Constitution: Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution makes copyright and patent law possible (“To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: POLICY FOR INNOVATION 4 respective Writings and Discoveries”) ,
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 makes copyright and patent law possible.
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U.S. property policy remains largely fixed in its establishe d mindset of defending intellectual property rights for their own sake, instead of as a means to encourage innovation.
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The U.S. policy response followed an established pattern of defending intellectual property holders’ rights with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
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The U . S . Co nstitution firmly grounds the proper role of intellectual property policy as utilitarian .
Identify where/how this ground is established.
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- Aug 2013
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dealbook.nytimes.com dealbook.nytimes.com
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U.S. Seeks to Block Airline Merger
airline merger
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