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The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia

By Mark | April 25, 2012

We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics | Also tagged Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, Bill Gates, Bush tax cuts, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, charter schools, education reform, Frederick Douglass Academy, Gates Foundation, Good Morning America is crap, Grover Norquist, Philadelphia, public education, Thomas Knudsen, wealth inequality | 38 Comments

The U.S. credit rating slips, proving that the debt ceiling agreement didn’t really fix anything

By Mark | August 5, 2011

We gave in to the Congressional Republicans on the debt ceiling debate on almost every issue. We agreed not to raise taxes on the wealthy. We agreed not to tighten loopholes that allowed them to hide their assets elsewhere. We said that, instead, we would slash government spending. We were told that there wasn’t a […]