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Incredibly powerful ad campaign reminds swing state voters of Romney’s dismissive comments on global climate change prior to Hurricane Sandy

By Mark | November 3, 2012

As we’ve discussed before, during the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney took the stage, and, pandering to the far right of his increasingly anti-scinece party, made a dismissive joke about extreme weather brought about as a result of global climate change. Romney, pointing out to his fellow Republicans that Obama not only believed in global [...]

Posted in Environment, Politics | Also tagged global climate change, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hurricane Sandy, Munich Re, NASA, Obama, ocean temperatures, RNC, Romney | 22 Comments

The possibility of a public boarding school in Detroit

By Mark | February 8, 2010

I’m sitting here tonight, thinking about all of the stuff I should be writing about, like the EMU student with tuberculosis and Rick Snyder’s “One Tough Nerd” gubernatorial ad, but all I really feel like discussing is this article in the Free Press today about the state of Detroit’s public schools. Maybe it has something [...]

Posted in Education | Also tagged Carl Taylor, Detroit Public School Board, Eastern Michigan University, gubernatorial races, Kwame Kilpatrick, one tough nerd, public boarding school, public education, Revenge of the Nerds, Rick Snyder, SEED Foundation, Super Bowl ads, the challenges of urban students, The Wire, tuberculosis, Virgil Taylor | 17 Comments

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