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Affirmative Action is dead in the United States… Now what?

By Mark | April 23, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court, as I’m sure you all know by now, upheld Michigan’s ban on affirmative action yesterday in a 6-2 decision, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting. (Elena Kagan, recused herself, presumably due to the fact that she was involved in the case prior to joining the Supreme Court, during […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan | Also tagged achievement gap, affirmative action, Arizona, Bill Schuette, California, Civil Right Act, college, college admissions, conservative legislation, dissent, diversity, Elena Kagan, Florida, higher education, KKK, Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Proposition 2, racism, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schuette v. BAMN, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Ted Spencer, the free market will fix everything, University of Michigan, Ward Connerly, Wisconsin | 65 Comments

Obama’s fiery response to the Republican budget

By Mark | April 5, 2012

President Obama delivered an uncharacteristically fiery speech the other day, at an Associated Press luncheon. You’ll find the video below, but, first, here’s a clip from an editorial about the speech that ran in yesterday’s New York Times. President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Rail, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bush tax cuts, class warfare, Contract with America, defunding public schools, Eisenhower, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal budget, Franklin Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, George Bush, Head Start, Henry Ford, infrastructure, John Boehner, land grant colleges, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, National Academy of Sciences, New Deal, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Paul Ryan, prosperity, research funding, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, safety net, Social Darwinism, social security, standing up to the Republicans, tax the rich, taxing the poor, the collapse of the Republican party, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to the middle class, trickle down economics | 4 Comments

What conservatives really want, and how we’re helping them get it

By Mark | February 20, 2011

Our old friend George Lakoff has a brilliant essay on the Common Dreams website today. Here’s a clip. I’d encourage those of you with time to follow the last link and read the whole thing, though. ….The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged anti-immigrant, anti-science, class warfare, collective bargaining, deficit, empathy, entitlements, food safety, framing, fucking Democrats, George Lakoff, individual responsibility, linguistics, Obama, prenatal care, public broadcasting, public employee unions, Republican framing, Rockridge Institute, state employees, strict father, the growing gap between rich and poor, threats to Democracy, threats to the middle class, union busting, Wisconsin is open for business, women's rights | 6 Comments

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