Posted in Conservatives, Politics, Radical, Supreme Court, liberties, values on June 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Students cannot be assigned to public schools because of their race, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a significant civil rights decision that casts doubt on integration efforts adopted across the country.
By a 5-4 vote on the last day of its term, the court’s conservative majority struck [...]
Posted in education on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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NEW YORK – The scarlet letter in education these days is an “R.” It stands for restructuring — the purgatory that schools are pushed into if they fail to meet testing goals for six straight years under the No Child Left Behind law.
Nationwide, about 2,300 schools are either in restructuring or are a [...]
Posted in F1, Formula One, Indianapolis Motor Speedway on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The brief clip below is from the start of the parade lap at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway of the United States Grand Prix, the Formula 1 race held at the IMS for the past 8 years. There is simply nothing like the sound of an F1 engine revving at 18,000 rpm as the [...]
Posted in Christian Right, atheism, creationism, inteligent design on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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There is trouble in paradise, with a fight of biblical proportions raging between a Kentucky-based creationist group and the Australian group from which it sprang.
Three days after the Memorial Day opening of Answers in Genesis’ $27 million Creation Museum in [...]
Posted in Politics, pop culture on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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ANYONE who follows an election campaign too closely will sometimes get the feeling that politicians think voters are idiots. But voters may not be idiots just irrational thinkers. This article presents a nice breakdown of voter biases with economic lessons integrated. The American voter biases are anti-market, anti-foreign, make-work, and pessimism…
THIS IS A FANTASTIC [...]
Posted in F1, Formula One, US Grand Prix on June 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Friday morning saw Fernando Alonso reassert himself over McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), in the first practice session for the US Grand Prix.
At one stage the first six cars – the McLarens, the BMW Saubers and the Ferraris – were only six-tenths of a second apart, [...]
Posted in Bush, Epistemology, FBI, Scandal, education, policy, power, terrorism, war on terror on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI possibly violated the law or its rules more than 1,000 times since 2002 in collecting data about phone calls, e-mails and financial records while investigating terrorism or espionage suspects, FBI officials said on Thursday.
The potential violations found by an FBI audit were far greater than the approximately [...]
Posted in NAEP, NCLB, Politics, education, high-stakes testing on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Yesterday Education Week reported the results of a study by the National Center for Education Statistics that calls into question the efficacy of state educational assessments required by the No Child Left Behind legislation. In part, Education Week wrote:
Many of the states that claim to have large shares of their students
reaching proficiency in [...]
Posted in Bush, NRA, Politics, education, gun control, guns on June 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
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Reuters reports this afternoon that:
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday responded to the deadliest shooting rampage in modern American history by passing legislation to help keep guns out of hands of the mentally ill.On a voice vote, the House sent the measure — which would be the first major gun control bill [...]
Posted in Bush, DIBELS, Department of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Gonzales, NCLB, Politics, Reading First, White House, education, policy on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Education Week reported on June 8th:
House Democrats want to put their own stamp on federal education spending by increasing Title I and other programs they favor and slashing Reading First and other priorities set by President Bush.
In the $56 billion fiscal 2008 spending bill for the Department of Education unveiled by the Democrats, No [...]
Posted in Campaign 2008, Politics, spin control on June 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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FactCheck.org summarized the latest Republican hopefuls debate writing
Pollsters will inform
us whether the third time was the charm for any of these candidates in
the eyes of potential voters. All we can do is remind you not to
believe everything you hear.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney committed the biggest factual fouls of the night, misleadingly [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Pragmatism, education on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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clipped from www.telospress.com
Richard Rorty, the leading American philosopher and heir to the pragmatist tradition, passed away on Friday, June 8.
He was Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Stanford University. In April the American Philosophical Society awarded him the Thomas Jefferson Medal. The prize citation reads: “In recognition of his influential and distinctively [...]
Posted in Campaign 2008, Obama, Politics, hype, power, spin on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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clipped from www.factcheck.org
Amid barbs on Iraq, there were exaggerations on energy, insurance and other issues in the second debate of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. Among those we found:
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware wrongly cast Iran as a nation running out of oil.
Former [...]
Posted in Bush, Politics, White House, disaster, liberties, policy, power, terrorism on June 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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clipped from www.boston.com
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is writing a new plan to maintain governmental control in the wake of an apocalyptic terrorist attack or overwhelming natural disaster, moving such doomsday planning for the first time from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to officials inside the White House.
The policy replaces a Clinton-era “continuity in [...]
Posted in DNA, Darwin, Michael Behe, Philosophy, creationism, education, evolution, inteligent design, pop culture, religious right on June 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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clipped from www.y-origins.com
Q.
IS THE ARGUMENT FOR DESIGN BASED ON SCIENTIFIC IGNORANCE?
A. But, today’s intelligent design arguments are based upon a growing body
of scientific evidence concerning everything from DNA to the laws of physics;
and upon our uniform and repeated experience.Design theorists offer extensive evidence that blind, material causes are
incapable of building irreducibly complex and [...]
Posted in Campaign 2008, Congress, Politics, education, ethics on June 1, 2007 | 11 Comments »
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FactCheck.org does it again. In their analysis of the Fair Tax proposal they pay close attention to the numbers and the spin placed on those numbers by Huckabee, Tancredo and Hunter. Some of what they have to say is reprinted below:
Americans for Fair Taxation offers the following plain-language interpretation of H.R. 25:
Americans [...]
Posted in cheating, ethics on June 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Stand up if you would buy an ointment that would cure cancer, arthritis, warts, athletes foot, headaches, bad breath, and hair loss for the mere sum of $22.95 for a ten day supply! I’ll bet not many folks are standing as they read this.When advertising claims are unbelievable, are designed to scare, or [...]
Posted in Campaign 2008, Politics, ethics on June 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Not that the Democrats are any better, but FactCheck.org happened to address claims made by the Republican hopefuls during their last debate. I think Lincoln got it right when he remarked that “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but [...]
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