An article on Singapore Math

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/education/01math.html
It has a single image with it.

In the comments, some people questioned the need for a "pictorial" stage in between "concrete" and "abstract". "Isn't drawing 25 pennies the same as holding them?"

As other articles make clear, they're drawing visualizations slightly more complex than that.

And another article linked to in the comments. The first one is under the cut!

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Um....

Glenn Beck: Slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas" and then "the government began to regulate things"

I haven't actually watched the video, so maybe this quote was taken wildly out of context. I'm not sure what context that could possibly be, but if there's any form of justification for this, somebody braver than I am can point it out to me. I refuse to risk my precious brain cells.