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Jul 30 · With all the straw men being offered of late, enough to meet our energy requirements for the rest of the year if one were to ignite them, I thought I’d get out my lighter and do my part for king and country.
Now, put your seat belts on, because here we go.
While I didn’t share the level of euphoria some felt after Obama won in 2008, I was very happy that Bible Barbie was sent home to Wasilla, instead of D.C. That was a good thing. Obama was in my eyes a political neophyte with a preacher’
Jul 30 · Last week, this column took a week off, due to an extended trip into the desert for the Netroots Nation convention. But now, we turn our sights back on the Nation's Capitol region once again to examine what's been going on there in our absence.
Whoops! Looks like the first thing that's been going on is that the region -- the "DMV" -- amongst the hipster set (note: I fully understand that that use of "hipster" automatically disqualifies me from judging what is cool and what is not among tod
Jul 29 · He further said in his speech to the Urban League that it reflects "a comfort with the status quo." It appears he is going to back the policies of the DOE in education reform in spite of any criticism. His mind is made up.
I don't think he gets it. He appears to think that any criticism of his pal, Arne, is resistance to change and comfort with the way things are. I am quite sure he is much smarter than that.
He's a brilliant man, and he knows they are turning education over to bill
Jul 29 · /
July 28, 2010, 8:28 pm
We’re Number One!
I’ve seen a peculiar meme surfacing here and there lately — the assertion that people like me are exaggerating how bad our current difficulties are, that things were actually worse in the 70s and 80s. I wonder where that’s coming from — and I really do; it has the feel of one of those things being disseminated on talk radio or something, and I think I hear a faint chant of Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter! in the background.
Whatever. The truth is t
Jul 29 · Obama Administration In Danger Of Establishing "New Normal" With Worst Bush-Era Policies, Says ACLU
National Security
In the eighteen months since the issuance of those executive orders, the administration’s record on issues related to civil liberties and national security has been, at best, mixed. Indeed, on a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects, and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger that the Obama adminis
Jul 28 · Two days ago these seven civil rights groups called on Arne Duncan to do away with parts of his education reform plans.
They quickly appear to have done an about face.
From
Seven leading civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the National Urban League, called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to dismantle core pieces of his education agenda, arguing that his emphases on expanding charter schools, closing low-performing schools, and using competitive rather than
Jul 28 · Many ordinary Americans speculate about the “Powers That Be” (PTB), the unelected but powerful and shadowy elite who seem to exercise influence over national and world events far more than a lot of people realize. Yet because of their shadowy nature they are very difficult to talk about with much confidence.
Despite their often minimal visibility, they seem to have their fingerprints over much of our nation’s history. Their ultimate purpose and motives can only be guessed at, but two aspects
Jul 28 · Three related items follow in this post:
1) “.... if a Federal prosecutor isn’t filing or refraining from filing the cases you want, feel free to covertly conspire to get him fired."
Via Email from Gov. Siegelman:
Dear -,
In the spirit of keeping you updated on the developments in my case and related events, please read this insightful article by Roger Shuler.
REPORT ON US ATTORNEY FIRINGS READS LIKE A FARCE
After reading the report on the Bush Administration's involvement in t
Jul 28 · AlterNet / By John Kelly
Has the Most Common Marijuana Test Resulted in Tens of Thousands of Wrongful Convictions?
More than 800,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges each year in the United States, many on the basis of an error-prone test.
July 28, 2010 |
Raised in Montana and a resident of Alaska for 18 years, Robin Rae Brown, 48, always made time to explore in the wilderness. On March 20, 2009, she parked her pickup truck outside Weston, Florida, and hiked off the beaten
Jul 28 ·
{1} Bill Moyers: “You've said on other occasions that there has to be a spiritual change if we are going to face these environmental issues. What kind of spiritual change?”
Chief Oren Lyons: “We don't preach here in this, our country. You know, we don't proselytize. As a matter of fact, we try to protect what we have from intrusion. And yet at a meeting that was held in Hopi back in 1969 when we sat there with many Indian leaders from around the country, spiritual leaders, they talked abo
Jul 28 · Ernest Partridge
The Crisis Papers
In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough.
Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and enough refusal of service at restaurants and lunch counters.
“Screw this,” they said, and so they sat at Woolworth’s lunch counters anyway, where they were taunted, spat upon, beaten, and arrested.
The white restaurant owners resisted, most notably one Lester Maddox i
Jul 27 ·
The Race to the Top reform program have been criticized for promoting popular but unproven methods in public education. AP
President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver major speeches this week on their $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform program, pushing back against complaints that it promotes unproven methods and ignores long-standing inequities in public education.
Speaking at the National Press Club on Tuesday, Duncan is expected to name a list
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