Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech
Hopefully, we’ll be telling our grandkids about this one.
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I should be going to bed but I wanted to direct whatever little bit of audience I still have to two related articles. The first, from The Nation (subscription required, but here’s the interesting bits) regarding a new Unicef report, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries:
Congratulations: Children in […]
Olbermann gives Condi a history lesson
While I’m posting videos from Countdown, here’s Keith Olbermann giving our Secretary of State a little history lesson on WWII.
On Sunday morning on Fox News, the Secretary of State said that if Congress were now to revise the Iraq authorization, “it would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change, […]
Proselytizing in Class Follow-up
Jews on First has a follow-up on the on the New Jersey teacher who got caught on tape proselytizing in class and then lied about it. The student is being harassed by the town while the teacher has gotten no punishment, although the superintendent did call him a “wonderful teacher”. Apparently no action […]
Proselytizing in Class
I’m a day late with this story, but it reminded me of something that happened when I was a student. A History teacher named David Paszkiewicz in New Jersey (who is also a Baptist minister) got caught proselytizing Christian fundamentalism to his students in class.
Instead of teaching them History, he was teaching […]
More campus cops
This time from UCLA. A student was using the computer lab but failed to produce his ID during a random check. The Community Service Officers (whatever that is) asked him to leave but he didn’t so they called in the police. While they were gone to get the police he began making […]
Support the Troops
There was a very good article on TomPaine.com on Tuesday that illustrates the problems with Republican bias against social programs.
The simple fact is that Pelosi’s legislative record on supporting veterans’ health care, education and other benefits is among the best in the House, while Buyer’s ranges from mediocre to atrocious, depending on who’s doing the […]
