Thomas L. Friedman, columnist for the New York Times:

According to research by Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research associate at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, more than half of Silicon Valley startups were founded by immigrants over the past decade. These immigrant-founded tech companies employed 450,000 workers and had sales of $52 billion in 2005, said Wadhwa in an essay published this week on BusinessWeek.com .

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008734461_opina12friedman.html 

 

 

 

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"It feels like Stalin-era Russia, like the administration set themselves up to decide what's allowable science and what isn't," says a high-ranking staff scientist at the EPA, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Until the recent economic crash, this has been such an anti-regulatory administration. One of the ways to undermine regulations is to undermine the science behind them. It's absolutely shocking what's going on."

John P. Avlon
The Wall Street Journal

The new mainstream in American politics isn’t Democratic or Republican, said John P. Avlon. It’s the independent voter. Independents

now make up about 40 percent of the electorate, and the millions of registered independents in key states such as Pennsylvania,

Ohio, and Florida will probably decide this election. In six states, independents already outnumber Republicans and Democrats. Why

have independents become so numerous? As the two major parties became more polarized, “centrist voters felt politically homeless,”

alienated from both big-government liberalism and intrusive social conservatism. Independents do not fit in the traditional boxes:

They are fiscal conservatives who favor a strong national defense, low taxes, and balanced budgets, but who are, at the same time,

socially progressive. They support same-sex civil unions, but not gay marriage; back legal abortion in most—but not all—cases; and

are disgusted by Washington’s partisan gridlock. In other words, they’re pragmatists, not ideologues. “The next president can unite

the country even in difficult times if he understands this truth: Americans are not deeply divided—our political parties are—and the

independent voter is a direct reaction to this disconnect.”