Archive | November, 2006
Tester setting the right tone…
I’ll fully admit there have been a few stories post-election concerning Senator-Elect Tester that I grumbled about but I certainly think that he is setting the right tone after the election. While Burns is joining his fellow Republicans in doing nothing during their last few weeks as the do-nothing Congress, Tester is touring the state [...]
Continue reading...Joe Lieberman: Video Game Warrior
29. November 2006
Joe Lieberman is a much more moral man than I am. He, unlike me, is concerned about violence and its terrifying impact on children. Does this concern manifest itself in policy proposals to alleviate the poverty in inner cities that leads to horrific violence against American children? Not so much. How about supporting a withdrawal [...]
Continue reading...Thomas Friedman: Not Even Pretending to Make Sense on Iraq
29. November 2006
In an effort to shake off the derision directed at his repeated claims that the next six months would be critical for Iraq, Thomas Friedman today offered a bold new Friedman Unit: now, it turns out, the next ten months are critical. Friedman’s not unique because he has almost totally reversed himself on the Iraq War; [...]
Continue reading...Discharge? Stain? I Thought This Was a Family Paper
29. November 2006
I don’t mean to get all Freudian, but it certainly seems like Senator Corey Stapleton has an unusual way of expressing himself. Criticizing Mike Cooney and Sam Kitzenberg for taking jobs at the state, Stapleton offered this insight: The top Republican in the state Senate said Monday that two pivotal Democrats have cast a “stain across [...]
Continue reading...Educating Students Who Live in Poverty: Maybe Demonizing the Poor Isn’t the Answer
26. November 2006
There’s an interesting piece in the New York Times magazine this morning, discussing a variety of strategies to deal with the difficulty of educating students from the lowest economic brackets. The strategies discussed in the article range from the answer Mississippi has adopted (lowering standards to claim that all students are proficient) to controversial charter schools [...]
Continue reading...Israeli Decency Betrays Them
22. November 2006
As you may well of heard, Palestinians have resorted to using human shields to deter Israeli millitary strikes. I don’t know the official international consensus on this, but the BBC had this to say - “Palestinians can unite in confronting their enemy and the passive resistance of the human shields will be admired [...]
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