Speed of Life

A Powerful New Video From President Obama's Campaign You work hard, stretch every penny, but chances are you pay a higher tax rate than him: Mitt Romney made $20 million dollars in 2010, but paid only 14% in taxes—probably less than you.  Now he has a plan that will give millionaires another tax break and raises taxes on middle class families by up to $2000 dollars a year. Mitt Romney's middle class tax increase: he pays less, you pay more. More From Nate Silver: Obama Extends Electoral College Advantage And A Must Read In The New York Times From UCLA Professor Jared Diamond on Mitt Romney's Misappropriation of Diamond's Important Book - Guns Germs & Steel : " Mitt Romney may become our next president. Will he continue to espouse one-factor explanations for multicausal problems, and fail to understand history and the modern world? If so, he will preside over a declining nation squandering its advantages of location and history." - Jared Diamo...

By Gregg Chadwick "The university was controlled by and had to fight for intellectual purity against the Church, then it had to fight against the crown, and now it's against the corporation." Gordon Davies, Director of Virginia's Council of Higher Education 2002 Since the University of California System was founded in 1868, generations of Californians have built the UC System into the world renowned institution that it is today through their taxes, gifts, and hard work. The UCLA Anderson School of Management proposes to take a program, buildings, and facilities built with public tax dollars and student tuition and without public, student or governmental oversight turn public property into a private entity. This move would abandon the University of California Charter, give away the equity of generations of Californians, load students with ever increasing tuition bills, effectively deny the Californian middle class access to a school built by Californians for the Cali...