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Mar 10 · Over the past couple of months, in an effort to combat a recent rise in incivility on DU, we made a series of substantial changes to our moderating system. Our plan was to increase the speed with which moderators could deal with alerts, and get rule violations off the board before they could turn into long, drawn-out flamewars.
I can state with certainty that we have not solved the problem of incivility - and we never will - but the plain fact is that alerts are now being dealt with at a much
Mar 10 · Sixty-five congress members, including 60 Democrats and 5 Republicans, voted to end the occupation of Afghanistan on Wednesday. But 356 congress members, including 189 Democrats and 167 Republicans voted to keep the war going. The vote followed three hours of debate created by Congressman Dennis Kucinich's introduction of a privileged resolution.
The debate featured three leaders from three groups of congress members: the war opponents (almost all Democrats), the pro-war Democrats, and the
Mar 10 · When I heard about the firings in RI and then President Obama's praise of that action, I had an instant reaction. It was as if my most sensitive nerve had been hit. This was a visceral reaction, and not one tied to breaking the unions or the unfairness of it. I wondered what exactly it was.
I believe that the spot that was hit is one that every teacher with an ounce of compassion has developed. It is what I call the 'possible' point. Did I do everything possible to help? It could be in relati
Mar 10 ·
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I Am Angry
By John Cory
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
Tuesday 09 March 2010
I am angry.
I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing, media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles w
Mar 10 · The latest was Markos Moulitsas, whom I usually like, claiming that Dennis Kucinich deserves a primary challenge. He went so far as to say, “I’m going to hold people like Dennis Kucinich responsible for the forty-thousand Americans that die each year.” Inexcusable hyperbole. It is very reminiscent of the pro war arguments of 2002 and 2003. If not in substance, at least in form. People like Kucinich have been coming up with cogent arguments against the mandate, and reasons why we need actual hea
Mar 10 ·
The Real Targets of the ACORN Smear Campaigns: Verifiable Truth, American Democracy
The truth behind the hoax was 'hiding' in plain sight, if only the media and Congress had bothered to seek it out...
-- Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning
In a society increasingly dominated by dictatorial and corrupt corporate wealth and power, a collection of community organizations, The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), steps forward to become the voice of the most vulnera
Mar 09 ·
FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) - A state judge in Baton Rouge has ruled that the board of Elementary and Secondary Education can take money from local school boards to pay for charter schools in the district.
Union Parish Superintendent Steve Dozier says he'd like a more detailed explanation of Monday's ruling by District Judge Todd Hernandez.
The judge's ruling rejected a request for a preliminary order to stop local money from going to D'Arbonne Woods Charter School. Hernandez ruled that it i
Mar 09 · The UK spends far less per person than the US Medicare system. Overall UK expenditure on health care is 1/3 less as a percentage spend of the GDP than the US and the UK has a higher life expectancy.
Preventative health care is provided.
Weight management clinics - check
chiropractic clinics - check
podiatry clinics (chiropodists)- check
smoking cessation (most definitely)
free flu jabs for the elderly - check
Choice in hospitals. Check.
A GP able to visit you in your home. Che
Mar 10 · If the Democrats don't get the youth vote, they're toast. That happened in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, where young Obama voters stayed home in droves. It's an ugly conceivable future portended by a new Harvard poll that shows forty-one percent of young Republicans planning on voting in November, compared to 35 percent of young Democrats and 13 percent of independents. A recent Pew poll showed a similarly disturbing pattern: Young voters still prefer the Democrats, but their marg
Mar 08 · That means public money in Florida is going to a private company in Virginia called Imagine Schools.
That is taxpayer money profiting an Educational Management Company instead of funding public schools.
Two popular Imagine charter schools in Manatee County incurred debts of nearly $900,000 and have been declared in a state of “financial emergency” by the school district.
An audit of Imagine School at Lakewood Ranch revealed debts of about $600,000 at the end of its first year. Mo
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I despise the implicit pro-Iraq War politics of "The Hurt Locker": There is no examination or even mention in the film of why the U.S. might be fighting there, no look at the neo-conservative ideology that sent our troops there, no questioning of the aggressive tactics aimed at Iraqi civilians, no overt politics at all, for that matter. But I cannot deny the movie's aesthetic power. It is a great film, one of the few war movies that really got into my gut. It well deserve
Mar 08 · I don’t want to single out just one anti-science teacher, but Ray Shelton signed his name to a letter that proudly proclaimed his ignorance. So I’ll focus on him. Fortunately, the vast majority of teachers are well above the national average when it comes to intelligence, good demeanor and critical thinking. My mother taught English for twenty years at the high school level and now teaches at a college. And most of the teachers I know socially, the majority of my children’s teachers and most of
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