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CBS News Anchor Flunked Math? Katie Couric & Her Idiotic ‘Jelly Bean Economy’...

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone (At this point in time, there is no reason to assume this is a contrived story, but since it is April Fools Day, it could well be. And if it is, and we...

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The DNC New Math: When 1 Equals 3… Must Be Taking Math Pointers from...

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone Is CBS anchor Katie Couric sharing her wacky “jelly bean economy” idea with the folks at the DNC? Because, while POTUS and the missus are frolicking...

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Happy Pi Day! Google Homepage Logo Tribute Today, Free Pie at Marie...

A few of you may be wondering, “What IS pi?” Rather than force you to dust off those brain cells that have atrophied since graduating college, pi is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a...

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Binary Day: Today Is 10/10/10 — Advertisers Jumping on the “10″ Bandwagon

  Today is October 10, 2010, written 10.10.10 in Europe or 10/10/10 in the United States and elsewhere. 10 10 10 — it’s binary, by golly! What does that mean exactly? For advertisers and marketers,...

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Education Fail: NY Grads in Poor Shape for College, American Students Do...

  Recent studies show that our American students are in dire shape for getting into college and solid careers — they are lacking in basic knowledge in history, math, and reading proficiency. I place a...

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Unemployment, Poverty, Debt: Do the Math Yourself, Mr. President (video)

  We’ve done the math on our national debt, falling home values, increase in national poverty, and record job losses, and have analyzed your record after 1,000-plus days in office, Mr. President. They...

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Florida High School Math Teacher Confesses to Selling Quiz Grades to His...

  Good grief, another “teacher being a terrible role model for students” story… this one is from Charlotte County School District in Florida. An investigation is being conducted into former high school...

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POTUS Does It Again: Barack Obama Bad Mouths America While on Australia Trip,...

  Crikey, is there ANYTHING Barack H. Obama likes about America or Americans? Besides breaking the presidential golfing record and flying around every bloody week on Air Force One? Last week, Pres....

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Christmas Sham: Obama’s Bogus 8.6 Percent Unemployment Claim (video)

  After months upon months in the 9 percent range, how did we suddenly jump to 8.6% unemployment? How, indeed. Excellent breakdown of the facts and exposure of Team Obama fallacies posted this morning...

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Pi in the Sky with Diamonds: “Rock Star” Albert Einstein’s 133rd Birthday &...

Happy birthday, Albert! National Pi Day, March 14, would also have been the 133rd birthday of the acclaimed “father of modern physics,” Albert Einstein. During his lifetime, Einstein published more...

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Obama Is Most Frugal, Least Spending of Presidents? HARDLY… WSJ Rex Nutting’s...

  Next thing you know, we’ll be hearing how poor little Barack trudged through 20 miles of snow in Hawaii, barefoot, uphill both ways, to get to his exclusive college prep school. Desperate Democrats,...

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Liberals’ Delight: Learning Arabic Is Now Mandatory at NYC Public School

  Last month, the New York City Department of Education outraged parents when it put out a list of 50 banned words and topics, which included “candy, “birthday,” “computers,” “dinosaur, “television,”...

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Krauthammer Debunks Team Obama’s Distortion of the Truth on Spending, Calls...

  Political analyst and Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer doesn’t mince words here on the current laughable claims that Pres. Barack Obama is the least spending, most...

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Google Honors 100th Birthday of British Computer Scientist, WWII Codebreaker,...

  Born June 23, 1912, Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist — today would have been Turing’s 100th birthday. In tribute, search engine giant...

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Krauthammer Says Paul Ryan Has a “Reagan Quality,” Democrats Will Rue the Day...

Political analyst Charles Krauthammer, in the interview below, predicts that Democrats will “rue the day” they actually thought that Rep. Paul Ryan, as the Republican vice president pick by Mitt...

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Not So Fast, Democrats: CNN Fact-Checks DNC Claims That Team Obama Created or...

  Looks like desperate Democrats are playing fast and loose with the jobs numbers again… just where are these elusive 4.5 million jobs? Believe it or not, CNN actually did its job to fact-check the...

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New Year’s Round-up of Memorable Barack Obama Quotations in 2012: Whoppers,...

  Leader in Grief: Few Barack Obama quotes made last year can top his thuggish, infamous 2008 utterance, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” nor his galling, clueless July 2012...

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Stunning: Nearly 80 Percent of NYC High School Graduates Entering Community...

  Hey, Mayor Bloomberg, instead of micro-focusing on and banning big sodas and Styrofoam containers and loud ear buds and food donations to the homeless, how about banning illiteracy in New York City?...

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Florida College Algebra Teacher Fired for Urging Her Math Students to Sign...

  This electioneering and harassment case may not be as cut and dry as the headline would suggest. However, we must accept that a tenured college algebra teacher in Florida didn’t notice, as she...

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Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein, & Happy National Pi Day (video)

Happy birthday, Albert Einstein, and happy National Pi Day, everyone. March 14 (or, 3-14, or π day) is a day of observance that holds a special place in many people’s hearts, since it commemorates the...

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