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Through the Prism (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
A review and overview of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas , by Matt Miller: As with any writing about economic and political policy, the author's beliefs and values influence his interpretation of history and the conclusions he draws about the current situation. I'm sure a large part of the reason I enjoyed this book so much is that I'm coming from a very similar place as Miller and he confirms my thinking...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Citizens of the US are tyrannized by "dead ideas," Matt Miller insists. One dead idea is that taxes damage the economy. With taxes, long-term advantages can be created for the economy when the government invests in the infrastructure. Businesses should carry out dead idea assessments. The economic elite should focus on the prosperity of the US, not its own profit.
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Idaho Nature Notes (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Can monkeys save a village? Can armadillos help a family through years of darkness'Colombia is a country notorious for its violence, but in many parts of the country, that dark past is history.Colombia is also the country with the most bird species, with seemingly endless grasslands and beautiful colonial cities.Join The Nature Conservancy's Matt Miller in two presentations as he shares the
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Public Musings (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
And Things, They Are Not WorkingCatching up on a Thanksgiving weekend Left, Right, and Center Podcast on the way to work today. Matt Miller spoke about a meeting he had with business leaders who feel particularly gloomy about the state of the country. This echoes an article Peggy Noonan wrote the other week. The spirit, right now, of America's elite, is down. Too many problems seem insoluble
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
By guruek. Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Carol Massar about the prospects for the U.S. economy. Read more » »
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Idaho Nature Notes (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Turkeys, turkeys, everywhere. From coast to coast, turkeys trot, strut and scratch in just about every suitable habitat.But at one point, wild turkeys were indeed endangered.How have their populations recovered so successfully'Read the answer--and what it means for wildlife conservation--in my blog at Cool Green Science. --Matt Miller
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SmartPhone Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/...=col1;post-2641 "I understood that Windows Mobile 6.5 was going to be a fairly minor update to bridge the gap between WM 6.1 and 7, but as I stated in my Windows Mobile 6.5 review I found too many things still missing from the update that I expected to see even with this understanding. Given the experiences I had with 6.5, I was expecting the same issues...
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The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
When Democrats can't even agree to debate the health care bill, the president is no longer in charge of his party. Matt Miller on why Obama needs to crack the whip. The beltway consensus was that Harry Reid's ability to get wavering Democratic...
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SmartPhone Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Once again, it's Mobius time! Mobius is an invite-only event, hosted by Microsoft, where the invited guests are shown what Microsoft is doing in the mobile space. Full disclosure: Microsoft generously covers our flight and hotel expenses, and keeps us well fed during the event - though there are some attendees that pay their own way to get here, and pay for their own hotel. I'm not one of those people...
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Idaho Nature Notes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say'That's the premise of Ignite Boise, a fun event tomorrow night--Thursday, November 12--at 7 pm at the Egyptian Theatre in downtown Boise.The Nature Conservancy's Matt Miller will be one of the speakers, with his presentation "How Eating Guinea Pigs Can Save the World (or at least part of it)," based on his experiences in South America.While the...
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jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The folks behind Firefox are still hard at work on Fennec, the mobile version of the popular browser. A new beta version 1.0b5, known officially as Firefox for Maemo, is out for the Nokia N810 and N900 and our buddy Matt Miller is taking it for a test spin. It sounds like the most significant [...]