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One Florida lawmaker alleged that Common Core will "attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can. Common Core won't turn your kids gay or Muslim, as one activist suggested to me. Still, it is an ambitious vision--not the Marxist pipe dream that tea partiers have decried, but the brainchild of corporate-bred reformers such as Bill Gates. And it could consolidate power over public education in the hands of a small cadre who, along with the for-profit textbook and testing companies that lobbied for its adoption, stand poised to cash in. Yet what made Common Core such a potent wedge is that it mobilized not just the usual suspects, but also the suburban communities that sat out the last round of ed reform battles.

In the era of No Child Left Behind, reformers like Michelle Rhee in Washington, DC, would take charge of a poor, struggling, urban school district, earn plaudits for shaking things up, and leave behind shuttered schools, angry teachers, and a riled-up electorate. According to its supporters, what Common Core did, by applying a more rigorous testing standard across the board, was pull back the curtain on the problems that had existed everywhere else. It turned out that a lot of suburban schools weren't doing so well either, although the system didn't show it. They had been administering the wrong kind of tests and teaching the wrong kind of math, and now it was their students and teachers who would feel the heat of the "accountability" ethic implemented by a group of technocrats.

Now it was white suburban parents who felt betrayed by their elected officials. And now, finally, politicians were listening. But the standards are the more immediate creation of two men, David Coleman and Jason Zimba. They met as Rhodes Scholars in the class of , and afterward Coleman headed to McKinsey while Zimba became a physics professor at Bennington College where Coleman's mother happened to be president. In , they reunited to launch the Grow Network, an organization that helped large school systems make sense of the flood of data derived from No Child Left Behind-inspired tests. They found no shortage of clients. Maybe they have less triangles," Bill Gates quipped.

In , Coleman and Zimba unveiled an ambitious plan for overhauling education in an essay for the Carnegie Corporation. In reading, for example, they said schools should deemphasize literature and rely more on "informational texts"--speeches, magazine articles, government reports. As Coleman would later put it, "It is rare in a working environment that someone says, 'Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood. Coleman and Zimba determined that most K math lacked real-world applications, too.

They wanted the focus to be on real learning rather than rote memorization. These were not groundbreaking theories; they were distilled from years of thinking among educators, but many states had neglected to incorporate those ideas. Instead, states would simply add new concepts to existing standards, which became so unwieldy that it was a struggle to cover everything in the course of a school year, let alone in a test with any real merit. Washington, DC's standards had swelled to the point where 80 percent of the math concepts students were tested on were superfluous, by Coleman's estimation. Fixing education meant doing less, not more: America, he said, needs "an eraser, as well as a pen. Coleman and Zimba weren't alone in seeking a fix. Adding another layer of complication, under No Child Left Behind, each state's tests and standards were different, making it hard to determine who was really improving, and frustrating colleges and business leaders who wanted to be sure of what their applicants knew.

Coleman and Zimba's plan attracted widespread support within the commissioners' group and the National Governors Association. The two organizations decided to work together to devise "a common core of internationally benchmarked standards in math and language arts for grades K"--something that could put the United States on the same level as the fabled Scandinavians. It wasn't a curriculum: For, say, statistics, Common Core would suggest a standard like "use random sampling to draw inferences about a population"--and leave it up to schools to figure out how to get kids there.

But the reformers soon realized that as cash-strapped states confronted the Great Recession, funding a sweeping education initiative would be nearly impossible. For Gates and his wife, Melinda, it's not hard to see why the idea of achieving uniformity would have a unique appeal. Gates has built his fortune by taking a standardized platform--Windows--and crafting a platter of services to fit it.

He compares Common Core to the electric socket--under the old system, it was as if appliance makers had to make a different plug for each state. Maybe they have less triangles," Gates quipped to an audience of teachers in DC this past March. Gates, who had already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into public education, bought in, and his foundation began spreading grants around to think tanks that could get the ball rolling politically, as well as to the governors' and state school officials' groups. Obama and his secretary of education, Arne Duncan, liked the Common Core concept and wanted to aid the implementation process by offering states major incentives to sign on.

The program awarded extra credit to states that tracked students' development from kindergarten through high school. No Child Left Behind had, for the first time, collected a huge amount of data about schools, but Duncan wanted schools to drill down deeper, zeroing in on individual students as they progressed through the education system. Common Core itself did not call for data collection it was the federal Race to the Top Program that incentivized it , but the standardization it sought was a major goal for educational number crunchers.

In the previous decade, studying student data had been a bit like comparing stats in a basketball league in which all the hoops were a different height. Common Core would ensure the rims were at the same level across the board. In the name of innovation, the data would also be made available to for-profit companies seeking to peddle a variety of educational products and services to school districts. This spring, inBloom was scrapped over privacy concerns. With the education industry on board, the governors and school officials got to work. At a joint meeting in , the two groups tapped Coleman and Zimba to lead working groups of math and language arts educators who would draft the new standards.

Forty-eight governors agreed to participate in the development, with only Texas' Rick Perry and Alaska's Sarah Palin holding out. Even the American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation's largest teachers' unions and a frequent skeptic of high-stakes testing, hailed the project as "essential building blocks for a better education system. Far from reassuring Quackenbush, Common Core's bipartisan backing only made her more suspicious. She brought up George Soros, the liberal financier; Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and possible Republican presidential candidate, who has made the standards a central mission and has a financial stake in them through his education ventures; and Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and social-conservative icon, who was an early supporter.

Their fall, even if partly reversed, was so sharp and so quick as to unsettle plans and assumptions in many governments. That includes Mr. The price drop, said Edward N. Luttwak, a longtime Pentagon adviser and author of several books on geopolitical and economic strategy, "is knocking down America's principal opponents without us even trying. Iran has been hit so hard that its government, looking for ways to fill a widening hole in its budget, is offering young men the option of buying their way out of an obligatory two years of military service. Venezuela, which has the world's largest estimated oil reserves and has used them to position itself as a foil to American "imperialism," received 95 percent of its export earnings from petroleum before prices fell.

It is now having trouble paying for social projects at home and for a foreign policy rooted in oil-financed largess, including shipments of reduced-price petroleum to Cuba and elsewhere. But inflation in Venezuela is over 60 percent, there are shortages of many basic goods, and many experts believe the economy is in recession. But the biggest casualty so far has probably been Russia, where energy revenue accounts for more than half of the government's budget. Putin built up strong support by seeming to banish the economic turmoil that had afflicted the rule of his predecessor, Boris N. Yet Russia was back on its heels last week, with the ruble going into such a steep dive that panicked Russians thronged shops to spend what they had. Russia's troubles have rippled around the world, slashing bookings at ski resorts in Austria and spending on London real estate; spreading panic in neighboring Belarus, a close Russian ally; and even threatening to upend Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, which pays players in rubles.

Luttwak said, referring to Russia, Iran and Venezuela. As for the impact of low prices on US shale, Levi says, even if the market figures out a breakeven price for American producers which is hard, because it varies from well to well , that's going to change in two years and even more in five years, as the technology continues to develop. All of the above said, Levi cautions against thinking of Saudi Arabia as some sort of mastermind of the global energy story. It's unclear how many steps ahead the Saudis actually are.

In Idaho, the number of people who signed up for Medicaid has jumped by In Georgia, it's up In North Carolina, the rate has climbed None of those states opted to expand their Medicaid programs as part of the Affordable Care Act, but all have seen substantial enrollment increases in state health insurance. The explanation for the change is a phenomenon sometimes called the woodwork effect or the "welcome mat effect. That's what appears to have happened with the Affordable Care Act. Even though state policy wasn't changing everywhere, all the talk about new health insurance options and the resources devoted to helping people sign up led to a surge among people who had always been eligible for the program.

Altogether, enrollment in the nonexpansion group of states has increased by 6. Of course, the increases in states that have expanded Medicaid are more extreme. In Kentucky, the state with the biggest increase, the Medicaid rolls have grown by 71 percent. Overall, states that expanded Medicaid saw substantially larger reductions in the number of people without health insurance. The son of a welder and teacher, MacMillan's childhood included study of piano and trumpet. He began composing at an early age, and by secondary school already had a penchant for the sounds of Renaissance church music. Eventually making his way to undergraduate work at Edinburgh University, he passed on the opportunity of the more focused conservatory life for the broader experience offered in the university setting.

This early choice is indicative of MacMillan's interest in a wider appreciation of the language of music, a trait which informs much of his writing. Like his British predecessor Benjamin Britten, he composes compelling vocal melodies with rich choral arrangements with ease. And like Debussy, he possesses an evocative musical vocabulary which allows him great latitude in his compositional structures. Perhaps not coincidentally he shares with both of those composers an enthusiasm for the sounds of the East Asian hammered-bell instrument called the gamelan, which sometimes overtly, other times more subtly, finds its way into his music.

That is not to say that his music shares the trance-like meditative quality of much of the music of East. He infuses an intensity into his scores, one which reflects the fundamental struggle between good and evil inherent in the human drama. Though his early writings include Marxist leanings from liberation theology, MacMillan admits in his more recent interviews that he is a "lapsed lefty. Perhaps it was this struggle which allowed him, from the earliest stages, to compose more freely and with less concern for being blown by the whimsical winds of the avant-garde.

Whatever the case, MacMillan's solid grounding in classical compositional structures have provided him a freedom in blending styles and moods into a synthesis which is historically contiguous with past masters. He draws from a broad palette of influences to paint portraits and landscapes upon which he stages powerful musical dramas. Dramatic tension and resolution are major components of his writing. His brief "After the Tryst" for violin and piano is the perfect example, contrasting a sudden violence intermittently giving way to a delicate and poetic accompaniment. His orchestral work, "Brittania" pairs folk-like melodies with explosive intrusions.

Clearly MacMillan is not interested in lulling the listener to sleep. Because his works include a considerable number of instrumental pieces, he is able to bridge the sacred-secular divide in a way that is more difficult for those trying to challenge the standard guards of opera or theater or even much of today's choral music. In , he collaborated with another young and upcoming Scot, renowned deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie, in a concerto for percussion and orchestra called Veni, Veni Emmanuel. From a formal musical standpoint the minute piece draws on 15th-century French plainchant for its harmonic content while a tense conversation plays out between soloist and orchestra. But as the title suggests, there is a theological underpinning to the work, not only of Christ's nativity, as one might guess, but also hints of his death and resurrection.

To the casual listener if there can be such a thing for music of such passion it is a simply a dramatic work for percussion, challenging the soloist through a tremendous range of virtuosic passages and a variety of instruments. For those more attentive, and certainly for the composer himself, the work evokes the tension of the great Labor of Love of the Creator entering his own creation.

MacMillan describes the work as an attempt to mirror in music "the promised day of liberation from fear, anguish, and oppression Not surprisingly this theological approach informs much of his vocal writing as well. His earliest musical memories are of the ritual of the Mass and the balance of his considerable list of works leans heavily toward sacred choral, and often specifically liturgical, music. He has composed prayers and cantatas, motets and Masses with a brilliant use of harmonic tension and resolution.

I can recall countless moments in "Jesus movies" that have touched, taught and inspired me. The movie is not really about what mankind did to Him, but about what He did for us. I concede that there is no scene showing George hearing the Gospel and responding to it, so I'm making an assumption. That's another magic of the medium: the best movies let us project our sensibilities onto a film's theme. But when you analyze the consistency of George's caring nature that puts others first, is it really difficult to see him as a man of faith? Some may not consider my film choice worthy of the title "Best Film" due to my least favorite element in the story -- the goofy angel.

Clarence is good for a couple of laughs, but what impresses me with each viewing is the nature of the protagonist. George is a real person, one with faults and foibles as well as nobility. We're allowed to see him struggle with frustration "Why do we have to have all these kids! He's not a saint, but neither is he the average guy. George is a complex fellow. While he dreams of adventures, again and again, he sets aside what he wants in order to serve other people. Something has impacted him throughout his life, some element that causes him to continually see the value in others. What makes a man do that even during the depth of self-despair? Even during a clouded moment when he considers the proposition that he's worth more dead than alive, he abandons his suicidal choice to rescue a drowning stranger.

Suddenly, his convictions remind him of life's sanctity. Is this "Hallelujah" one of the best Christmas songs ever? Jeremy Lott, December 15, , Rare. One month before Jeb Bush was sworn in as governor of Florida, he was already musing about bold plans to reduce the size of the state government. Bush wrote to two aides in an email in December Labor has huge potential to be reduced, possibly in half. The Saturday after he was inaugurated, Mr.

Bush forwarded that message to another aide and asked, "Can you make this happen? When Mr. Bush left office in after two terms, the state government in Tallahassee had been transformed by his hard-charging and driven style. And while he did not slash the number of state employees by half, he did privatize thousands of public jobs. In an email to a friend who was close to a teachers' union leader about his effort to institute higher-education standards, Mr. Bush instructed his friend to tell the union leader "that a reformed system will be a better one for dedicated teachers. Bush said in March , referring to the union, the United Teachers of Dade. Troops that landed on the beach later in the day encountered an incongruous sight: grievously injured soldiers propped up against the base of the cliffs of Normandy who were reading books while waiting for the medics to arrive.

In her new book, Manning charts the efforts of the American public and the US government to provide books to the service members fighting overseas. In the summer of , Stephen was finishing his doctoral studies at the University of New Hampshire, and had room available on a Web server, so he put up a home page, featuring content by the two brothers. Prior to that, he was stationed in Bosnia, as an officer in the Army Reserves. Orrin says, "I sent him boxes of books to read during his rather considerable down time. At about the same time The Modern Library had just come out with their Best Novels of the 20th Century, and since Orrin had already read many of them, he decided to read them all and then review them.

He says he was perplexed by some of the Modern Library's choices. As I reviewed the books from that list I was struck by how many of the books were neither enjoyable nor edifying. It really seemed to me that to make a list of the Top a book should be at least one of those things, preferably both. Act as true partners to value-based providers. Most payers today are piloting new economic models that pay providers not for the services they provide but for the value they create. Most, however, are neglecting a key opportunity: helping providers change their operating model. To succeed in value-based care, providers need data, analytics, smart clinical-care teams, and managerial support. Insurers are well-positioned to provide all this. They can also help providers become more efficient and assist them in navigating the tricky financial transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value economics.

Most important, insurers can help the very best provider organizations succeed by using them as the core of attractive, competitively priced insurance products. Explode the PPO model. Today the gold standard for health insurance is a preferred provider organization, a huge collection of doctors assembled to provide something for everyone but no special benefit to anyone. Insurers can do a better job for consumers and create real value by developing hassle-free mass customization. In this new model, consumers can choose from lifestyle-based curated options that offer trade-offs across risk level, health-savings options, primary-care models, alternative networks, network breadth, coaching and navigation programs, rewards programs, contract length, and incentive structures.

Transparency tools and crowd-sourced reviews will spotlight value and multi-modal coordinated care delivery think care teams that seamlessly work with telehealth providers, health coaches, and retail clinics will help cut costs considerably. Consumers will be able to trade their own health engagement into benefit dollars and rewards that they can use seamlessly. For example, Maxwell Health, a new private exchange platform, presents a beautiful interface with lifestyle-focused packages that make product selection simple and tailored for you.

Sell convenience and personalized service. Most health care could hardly be less convenient. Now that consumers have unprecedented purchasing power rise of public and private exchanges and bear unprecedented costs mounting high deductibles and premiums , they expect iPhone-like service. There is tremendous opportunity for payers to make the health care experience simpler and more supportive with online appointment scheduling, clear data and reviews, personalized suggestions, navigation apps with predictive decision support, reward programs, peer-to-peer support, and many other tools. Making the consumer experience better is smart for payers too. They can build stickier consumer relationships and generate new opportunities to address consumers' growing health and lifestyle needs.

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Then you should definitely consider switching to energy-efficient LED light-emitting diode lights. The advantages of an LED bulb over an incandescent bulb really add up:. Creativity for Creationists : An evolutionary creationist evangelizes to Christians about science. Forty percent of Americans are evangelical Christians, and many of them reject evolution. Jeff Hardin, chairman of the University of Wisconsin's zoology department, takes this personally. Hardin is an evangelical, but much of his evangelism is directed at his fellow believers. He wants to persuade them that evolution and Christianity are compatible. Hardin didn't grow up in a Christian household.

His father was an engineer. As an adolescent, Hardin had a religious experience and joined a church. Christianity spoke to his heart, but it didn't change the love of science he had learned from his dad. When Hardin became a biologist and met students who thought they had to choose between faith and science, it tore him apart. He wanted to help them stay whole. Today, Hardin speaks for an emerging school of Christian thinkers. They call themselves evolutionary creationists. They believe that God authored the emergence of life and humankind but that evolution explains how this process unfolded. One of the more fascinating bits of insight we learned from the email release, thanks to the Washington Post, is just how much Bush was directly emailing with constituents, even angry ones.

One man wrote Bush, "politicians make me sick, you make me sick. Have a nice day. He then added a smiley face, showing he wasn't just an early adopter of email, but emoticon use, as well. In another exchange, a woman wrote to him inquiring about the date of his wife's birthday, and he quickly replied. In the short period of time since Bush announced he will "actively explore the possibility of running for president of the United States," there has been some backlash from the more conservative wing of the GOP.

It's not a surprise and will likely become much louder when, or if, he officially gets in the race. The emails show it's nothing new for Bush and he has been dealing with angry members of his own party judging his conservative bonafides since he was first elected. In one exchange, Bush was going through emails after 10pm and he forwarded an angry one to top aides. He wrote to his advisers, "Kind of scary and I am very tired. Bush wrote back and told the conservative activist he had not known about the lawyer's history and the attorney had "received recommendations from many people who I respect.

Bush then added that the activist "appears concerned about the perceived lack of opportunity to provide input. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that he is confident that a lasting agreement can be struck with world powers over his country's disputed nuclear program. Never again, in ? Here's a simple thought experiment : we know the Nazis are running extermination camps at full capacity, but don't know where they are. We capture a member of the high command who refuses to tell us where they are. Is the moral position to allow the Holocaust to continue unabated rather than waterboard him? In football, one of the essential elements of the game -- tackling -- just doesn't get a whole lot of practice time anymore.

It's like a baseball infielder who doesn't take grounders before a game, or a hockey goalie who never faces mph shots until it counts. The reasons for that are understandable. Tougher restrictions on full-contact drills have taken hold at all levels of football, mostly spurred by a heightened awareness of the devastating long-term damage that concussions can cause. From high schools to colleges to the pros, the impact of that change is noticeable to everyone -- especially those who are trying to avoid getting tackled.

For pro teams, where the top players are making millions of dollars and rosters are limited to 53 players plus a small practice squad, one of the primary goals during the week is just making sure everybody is healthy for the game. Hitting in practice is simply not feasible, especially at this time of year when most teams are all beat up. The overall PCE price index, the Fed' s preferred gauge, fell 0. US-led airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 1, jihadists in the past three months, nearly all of them from the Islamic State group, a monitoring group said Tuesday.

A veritable miracle: fine tuning without a fine tuner Rowan Forster, 24 December , Online Opinion. Graham Phillips began with this observation: "If some of the laws that govern our cosmos were only slightly different, intelligent life simply couldn't exist. It appears the universe has been fine-tuned so that intelligent beings like you and me can be here. To write off the fine-tunings as mere coincidences seems far-fetched.

But atheists need not have feared that Dr. Phillips was heading down a path towards intelligent design. After noting that "some take fine tuning as evidence that God created the universe", he added: "You can imagine physicists' horror at the thought! Their contributions included the following, and each was delivered with a perfectly straight face:. Charlie Lineweaver. Sean Carroll. Brian Greene. We still have life as we know it, I've got my wife and kids, it's fun!

I'm just going to live it as if it were real! Greene again. We've never lived in such peaceful times. To be sure, adding up corpses and comparing the tallies across different times and places can seem callous, as if it minimized the tragedy of the victims in less violent decades and regions. But a quantitative mindset is in fact the morally enlightened one. It treats every human life as having equal value, rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic. And it holds out the hope that we might identify the causes of violence and thereby implement the measures that are most likely to reduce it.

Let's examine the major categories in turn. Worldwide, about five to 10 times as many people die in police-blotter homicides as die in wars. And in most of the world, the rate of homicide has been sinking. The Great American Crime Decline of the s, which flattened out at the start of the new century, resumed in , and, defying the conventional wisdom that hard times lead to violence, proceeded right through the recession of and up to the present. Violence Against Women. The intense media coverage of famous athletes who have assaulted their wives or girlfriends, and of episodes of rape on college campuses, have suggested to many pundits that we are undergoing a surge of violence against women. But the U. Bureau of Justice Statistics' victimization surveys which circumvent the problem of underreporting to the police show the opposite: Rates of rape or sexual assault and of violence against intimate partners have been sinking for decades, and are now a quarter or less of their peaks in the past.

Democracy has proved to be more robust than its eulogizers realize. A majority of the world's countries today are democratic, and not just the wealthy monocultures of Europe, North America, and East Asia. Governments that are more democratic than not scoring 6 or higher on the Polity IV Project's scale from minus 10 to 10 are entrenched albeit with nerve-wracking ups and downs in most of Latin America, in floridly multiethnic India, in Islamic Turkey, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Even the autocracies of Russia and China, which show few signs of liberalizing anytime soon, are incomparably less repressive than the regimes of Stalin, Brezhnev, and Mao. In a historically unprecedented development, the number of interstate wars has plummeted since , and the most destructive kind of war, in which great powers or developed states fight each other, has vanished altogether.

The last one was the Korean War. Today the world rarely sees a major naval battle, or masses of tanks and heavy artillery shelling each other across a battlefield. For all the world's obsession with the Israel-Palestine conflict, it has been responsible for a small proportion of the total human cost of war: approximately 22, deaths over six decades, coming in at 96th place among the armed conflicts recorded by the Center for Systemic Peace since , and at 14th place among ongoing conflicts. That does not mean that the violence is acceptable, only that it should not be a cause of fatalism or despair.

Worse conflicts have come to an end, not least ones that have embroiled Israel itself, and a peaceful settlement to this conflict should not be dismissed as utopian. While the Kurds have been semi-independent since , with their own government, militias and foreign policy, this is the biggest step yet toward Washington allowing them to have a state of their own. To understand the significance, recall that for the almost the entire Barack Obama presidency, the Kurds and the U.

In Obama's first term, the White House asked the highest-ranking Kurd in Iraq's government, President Jalal Talabani, to resign his post in favor of Iyad Allawi, the secular Arab whose party won the most parliamentary seats in the election. Talabani declined. Obama's diplomats consistently acceded to the sensitivities of Iraq's Shiite-led government and refused to send promised equipment and weapons directly to Kurdish fighters. When the Kurds tried to fend for themselves by selling oil on the international market, U. Kathrin Winter carefully hangs a Christmas decoration on a fir tree standing in a pot in the corner of her store. But the plastic stars and Christmas balls hanging on the tree are somewhat special.

Instead of being made in a factory, Winter printed the ornaments herself on a 3-D printer in the 3-D store she owns together with her partner, Daniel Zimmermann. The store, called Mr Make, opened recently smack-dab in the middle of the high street of Karlsruhe, a city in Germany's southwest. So our idea is to make 3-D printing more accessible. George W. Bush's Graceful Silence Cass R.

In the domain of foreign affairs, has brought heated national debates on an impressive range of subjects: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Syria, Ebola, immigration policy and, most recently, torture, North Korea and Cuba. One of the more remarkable features of all these discussions has been the consistent grace of President George W. This month, Bush offered a rare comment on a public debate. Responding to the Senate's release of the CIA torture report, he said, "We're fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the CIA serving on our behalf. These are patriots and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base.

No one doubts that, on some important questions, Bush is in profound disagreement with his successor. Nonetheless, he has maintained silence. In March, he explained, "I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president; I think it's bad for the presidency for that matter. Public figures are ordinarily rewarded for what they say, not for what they don't. Grace is an underrated virtue; gracelessness is an insufficiently acknowledged vice.

For his understated remarks about the CIA and his continued silence about his successor, a salute to George W. Bush -- along with hope that, when he leaves office, Obama will follow the example. But is she really running? Ever since Obama was reelected, people have been asking, and Clinton hasn't been answering. Meanwhile, yet another Bush looks set to run, thrilling establishment Republicans. The name, the connections, and the money could make Bush so formidable in the primaries that he wouldn't need to pander to his party's right wing. There would be no repeat of the shenanigans of , with its anybody-but-Romney refrains and cast of crazy characters at each other's' throats, each at some point at the top of the polls.

And then, of course, would come the general election. The true-reds and true-blues will vote as expected. But those in the middle -- more pragmatic and less ideological -- will look for someone with whom they can feel comfortable. At this juncture, the moderate former Florida governor seems to fit the bill. Democrats should be worried. Even though Clinton now polls ahead of Bush in general election matchups, a different nominee -- Warren or perhaps Clinton pushed to the extreme -- would not have the same appeal to centrists.

Liberal stalwarts may not care, thinking ideological purity should trump crass concerns about winning. But the upshot might be a third Bush in the White House. A travel agency in one of Japan's most beautiful cities, Kyoto, has started organising bridal ceremonies for single women. The company's president, Yukiko Inoue, tells Kyodo she created the package "to encourage women to have positive feelings about themselves", but admits that "some people have said it would be 'lonely, miserable and sad' to use it". What such responses fail to recognize and what even the original First Things article fails to note is that divorcing religious and civil marriage is not retreat but reform. It is not a new idea, but a return to the way Christian marriage operated for 1, years.

And it is thoroughly orthodox, if the endorsement of no less a figure than C. Lewis in Mere Christianity carries any weight. It wasn't until the 16th or even 18th century in Europe that the government had any involvement in deciding who was or wasn't married. In early American history, too, marriage requirements were largely decentralized. Couples typically wed in church and were supposed to register their marriages with the government, but "common law marriages," a sort of automatic marital status based on long-term cohabitation, were widely recognized.

In the years after the Civil War, however, marriage laws in the United States changed dramatically, as marriage licenses were introduced as a racist method of social control. Nearly 40 states used marriage licenses to outlaw unions between whites and non-whites, legally reinforcing the racism of the day. Likewise, some states refused to grant licenses to prisoners, divorced people, addicts, and those deemed mentally ill. Thus, when the First Things article states that, "In the past, the state recognized marriage, giving it legal forms to reinforce its historic norms," it operates from a post-Civil War view of an institution which has existed for millennia.

And while First Things worries about allowing the government to "redefine marriage," I'd suggest that redefinition already happened -- and it started hundreds of years ago. What was supposed to be a covenant between two people, their families, and God has become a legal formality that can only occur with the state's permission. By putting marriage in the hands of the government, we've already said that God's perspective isn't the last word. By taking marriage out of the church and into the halls of Congress, we make a sacred covenant into a secular contract. And by legislating marriage in any way, we cede this holy ground to the state.

But theology aside, there is a strong political argument for re-privatizing marriage, which we libertarians have been making for years. If we take the state out of marriage entirely, we allow each side of the gay marriage fight to make their own decisions for their own lives. Neither side is required to recognize relationships they don't support. Neither side is able to tell the other what to believe. Neither side "wins" the culture war -- and neither side loses. On a practical level, this move would require decoupling marriage from the many legal shortcuts it boasts today, on issues like taxes, parenting, and hospital visitation.

These have become issues which, understandably, motivate much of the push for legalizing gay marriage. This is a significant project, certainly, but it should not be an overwhelming objection. Plus, those wishing to include a legal contract in their marriage could still do so; standardized, legally-binding forms would undoubtedly be just a Google search away. Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God. The renewed economic travails are eroding gains that accompanied President Hasan Rouhani 's surprise election 18 months ago.

Rouhani, whose political fortunes rest largely on an economic recovery, has been scrambling to contain the damage. In a recent address to parliament, he touted a radical but difficult plan to address what he called an unprecedented oil slump: cutting dependence on oil income by boosting industrial exports and hiking taxes. Iran's economic progress came after significant reforms, bolstered by a leap in optimism that the president would be able to get international sanctions over Iran's nuclear program lifted through an agreement with the West.

The rial lost two thirds of its value against the dollar in as banking sanctions tightened. President Rouhani continues to focus on nuclear talks. He advocated for a deal again in remarks carried by Iranian state media in recent days, directly challenging hard-liners who oppose any agreement with the West. Such an agreement would bring access to oil funds blocked abroad and foreign investment that "would largely make up for the oil slump," Mr.

Khavand said. It's the former Virginia senator Jim Webb, a Vietnam War hero, former secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration, novelist and opponent of endless wars in the Middle East. Late last month, Mr. Webb formed an exploratory committee. Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me. At that point she would find him much more complex than dealing with liberals. He's not a liberal, but a lot of what he says might appeal to liberals. He does not get carried away by humanitarian intervention. Webb's attacks on free trade and economic elites, coupled with a call for America to come home again, might well prove a potent combination in the early primaries, attracting antiwar progressives as well as conservative-minded Southern white men whom he believes the party can win back.

It will be important in the new Congress that Republicans advance a reform-minded conservative governing agenda that has bipartisan support. Before scoffing at this, consider that House Republicans have already passed scores of bills with Democratic support, only to see them die in the Senate. The GOP should set a bipartisan tone by taking these bills up again, starting with measures to help the economy.

For example, this past session House Democrats voted for a GOP measure expanding access to charter schools. Another House Democrats backed a Republican bill to end the expensive wave of junk lawsuits over patents. While Mr. McConnell says the Senate will first take up the Keystone XL pipeline, there are other opportunities on energy: 46 House Democrats voted with Republicans to expedite exports of liquefied natural gas, 28 to expand oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, and 26 to expedite infrastructure for the development of natural gas. Between 32 and 36 House Democrats also backed GOP measures to ban taxes on Internet access, to make it easier and less costly to invest in small businesses, to make government rule-making more transparent, and to stop an EPA proposal that would subject every stream, pond and ditch to federal jurisdiction.

Since Republicans want to move a comprehensive corporate tax-reform package, the fact that 53 House Democrats supported making permanent the immediate expensing of new equipment and software purchases, and 62 voted to make the research and development tax credit permanent, is a sign some Democrats will help make the tax code more growth-oriented. There's also evidence Democrats will help undo some of ObamaCare's damaging provisions, like its definition of full-time work as 30 hours a week and its employee and employer mandates.

A large majority of Americans support establishing diplomatic ties with Cuba, and even larger -- and growing -- majorities support an end to trade and travel bans to the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The national survey finds little erosion in public support after President Obama announced sweeping changes in U. Sixty-four percent support establishing ties with Cuba, similar to 66 percent in a Post-ABC poll asking whether the United States should do so. Sixty-eight percent support ending the trade embargo with Cuba -- up 11 points from -- and 74 percent support ending travel restrictions to Cuba -- a jump of 19 points from five years ago.

When President Francois Hollande unveiled a "super-tax" on the rich in , some feared an exodus of business, sporting and artistic talent. One adviser warned it was a Socialist step too far that would turn France into "Cuba without sun". Two years on, with the tax due to expire at the end of this month, the mass emigration has not happened.

But the damage to France's appeal as a home for top earners has been great, and the pickings from the levy paltry. It fired up left-wing voters and helped him unseat the incumbent. Yet ever since, it has been a thorn in his side, helping little in France's effort to bring its public deficit within European Union limits and mixing the message just as Hollande sought to promote a more pro-business image. The adviser who made the "Cuba" gag was Emmanuel Macron, the ex-banker who is now his economy minister. Not long after some grumpy administrative Grinch at the University of Maine warned employees against the placement of "religious-themed" decorations on campus -- including candy canes -- NASA announced that Christmas lights have become so bright that they are visible from outer space.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released satellite imagery, both still and video, to show how much U. This sort of brightness is important at moments of national gloom. Part of the secular significance of Christmas is to bring cheer. It's often as simple as that. Many people who decorate their homes aren't trying to spread a religious message. They just want to make their neighborhoods brighter. Last year, in the Connecticut town where my wife and I live, it seemed as though the decorations stayed up longer than usual.

People didn't want the cheer to end. This function of Christmas is often missed by secularists like the unhappy soul who produced the memo at the University of Maine. The ban on ornaments, he suggested, would display the campus's commitment to diversity. One of those less-is-more moments, perhaps. Had anyone taken him seriously, the campus would probably have been less cheery. As it happened, the university hastily withdrew the memo as not consistent with its policies. The federal government shows no such delicacy about Christmas. The White House this year features no fewer than 26 Christmas trees. Obese heart-failure patients appear to live longer than people of normal weight who develop the disabling condition, a new study suggests. Researchers tracked nearly 1, heart failure patients, most of whom were overweight or obese before their diagnosis.

They found that 38 percent of obese and 45 percent of overweight patients died over 10 years, compared with 51 percent of normal-weight patients. But even if Rubio proceeds, mentor Bush presents major obstacles that underscore his status as the undisputed king of Florida Republicans. Bush would command the loyalty of top donors and the support of the political establishment. Florida -- and its 29 electoral votes -- is essential to Republican hopes to retake the White House, and two candidates competing in the same space looks improbable. It's not just capital. These are people who have worked with him, understand him, and feel his time is here.

Rubio, who at 43 is nearly two decades younger than Bush, enjoys loads of enthusiastic supporters among Florida's deep pool of elite GOP fundraisers, but few, if any, of those top bundlers prefer him over Bush. It's a simple fact of life for any Republican elected leader in Florida that even eight years after he left the governor's office, Bush overshadows all. I was his general campaign chairman when he ran for Senate," said Al Hoffman, a developer and former Republican National Committee finance chairman from North Palm Beach. For so many of us who got into this game, you don't forget the one who brought us to the dance. It's not personal. Bush ran for president in Not everyone will say it publicly, but among these veterans, almost everyone sees Bush, 61, as a nearly insurmountable obstacle to Rubio raising sufficient money to mount a strong campaign.

Petersburg developer and former Republican National Committee finance chairman who was a national finance co-chairman for Mitt Romney in Rubio's current seat is up for re-election this next cycle, complicating his future more. He has time to explore a presidential run but ultimately cannot do both because of state law and will feel pressure from a battery of ambitious Republicans who would love to take his place in the Senate. Bush's campaigns.

A Tampa Bay Times Florida Insider Poll of more than of the state's most plugged-in political players conducted after Bush's big step toward running found that 8 in 10 said Bush would be stronger than Rubio in the Republican primary, and nine in 10 said the former governor would be stronger in the general election. On the morning Bush announced his plans to explore a run for president, he called Rubio. It was a sign of their friendship, forged years ago when Rubio was a baby-faced politician from West Miami. Shale-oil production in places like Texas and North Dakota has boosted U. Dossary's October message signaled a direct challenge to North American energy firms that the Arab monarchy believes have fueled a supply glut by using new shale-oil technologies, said the people familiar with the session.

Saudi officials became convinced they couldn't bolster prices alone amid the new-crude flood. If Riyadh cut production alone, Saudi officials feared, other producers would swoop in and steal market share. Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi tested that conclusion just 48 hours before the Nov. As he suspected going in, he couldn't get an agreement, said people familiar with the meeting. The option left: Let prices slide to test how long, and at what levels, American shale producers can keep pumping. Pakistan has announced plans to execute convicted extremists after a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in response to last week's Taliban school massacre that killed over children.

North Korea is experiencing widespread Internet outages. One expert says the country's online access is "totally down. The White House declined to comment Monday. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that of the federal government responses, "some will be seen, some may not be seen. Doug Madory Muh-DOOR-ee , director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, said the Internet connectivity problems were discovered in the last 24 hours and have gotten progressively worse to the point that "North Korea's totally down. Enter the "10 'Non-Commandments' Contest," in which atheists were asked to offer modern alternatives to the famous Decalogue.

It's cute that they feel compelled to ape real religion, but, the reality is that the open mind always ends when it meets the closed fist, at which poing the believer suddenly finds the authority to dictate the behavior of the other. At trillion times the sun's mass, a mere million years old, and some 9. The theory that has received the most support from observation sets out a timeline in which so-called cold, dark matter initially gathered in small clumps as the universe cooled and settled into a stately expansion following the formative, sudden release of energy known as the big bang and a brief period during which the universe expanded exponentially.

The dark-matter clumps merged over time to provide the gravitational foundations for galaxies, galaxy clusters, and even larger structures. Dark matter earned its name because no one has yet directly detected it. Instead researchers infer its presence by its gravitational effects on matter astronomers can see. The question the new cluster poses is whether it's too massive given the the pace at which the universe's large-scale structure would have been forming 9.

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