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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: education
Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
Remember the 2007 pay raise that Republicans used to bludgeon Democrats at the voting booths in 2010 and take over the Alabama legislature for the first time in 136 years? Turns out it wasn’t such a terrible thing, after all … Continue reading
Cleon Skousen Briefs the Tea Party
I submit that the term “tea party” should be de-capitalized. First of all, because there is no THE TEA PARTY. There are distinct national organizations that do not get along. Furthermore, the tea party has been around for years: Cleon … Continue reading
Stupidity Is Not Exclusively an American Trait
By Emilia1956 You think stupidity – specifically moral stupidity – is only to be found amongst the religious base of the Republican Right? You think only the likes of Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum harken the virtues of chastity rings … Continue reading
Richard Dreyfuss on Civic Education
Actor Richard Dreyfuss on the crisis of modern civics education. The success of right wing attacks on civics education is that a depressingly-large majority of Americans neither understands or cares how American government works. That makes it very easy to … Continue reading
Youth Always Lead The Way
Watch Chris Hayes, via C&L: No, Egypt and America are not the same country. But it doesn’t matter; today’s young, progressive generation is reaching adulthood and finding it a far heavier burden than their parents. Their demands are as recognizably … Continue reading
THIS Is How It Starts!
By Emilia1956 You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Teach the Test, Cheat the Student
National education standards (read: No Child left Behind) have replaced teaching with testing. Not only has this made our children dumber at everything except filling out bubbles, it has led to desperate teachers fudging results: Teachers spent nights huddled in … Continue reading
Lily Eskelsen on the Education Culture Wars
This is Lily Eskelsen, Vice President of the National Education Association. She can tell you all about the radical reconstruction that right-wing conservatives have in mind for public education. Name one political issue that doesn’t hinge on education — just … Continue reading
The Culture War on Education
It always amazes me that anyone is still amazed by this stuff. The Culture War fringe is sponsoring tonight’s South Carolina GOP debate: ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes is on the ground and spotted this booth — just 20 feet from the … Continue reading
Creationist Biology
OMFG. Tonight is a busy night, but I have to share this: I went to my daughter’s parent-teacher conferences today and discovered that her Biology teacher is a rabid creationist. She teaches the standard methodology of science, allows that the … Continue reading
