Convictions of A Progressive Teacher
I believe teaching is not merely a job; it is a calling and an honor. I believe in children…whether they are young or old…black, brown, red, white or yellow…rich or poor….are each in need of learning and are each able to learn. I believe in smart boards, textbooks, the Internet and computers for each has a part in the pursuit More...
Stand United!
America is more divided now than it has ever been except during the interval from roughly 1850 through 1878. America and all Americans have vicious, cunning, murderous enemies who choose to attack because they More...
Malignity Made Real
This poem is the first part of a two part response to the heinous bombing of the Boston Marathon on Patriots’ Day in Boston, MA. Bombs are rankling malignity given ferocious execution. Obscenely they pervert More...
Sequestration Shenanigans
pittsburghpost-gazette.com John Boehner is spending a lot of time and energy spreading disinformation about the looming sequestration. It seems as though he believes the American citizenry will be unable to recall More...
Constitutionally Crazy
prosebeforehos.com In addition to all the problems the country and its political process face now, there is one little discussed, but pervasive problem that underlies and aggravates them all. This problem is similar More...
150 Years and Counting
rnbphilly.com 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation — courageously declaring “That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred More...
On Deficits, Debt and Duty
macleodcartoons.blogspot.com – eyes prize Republican Congress members and conservative commentators relentlessly shriek about deficits and debt while making sweeping generalizations about “government spending.” More...
The Fact of Factionalism
http://www.gocomics.com/bensargent – Hard Day As defined by Madison in Federalist #10, a faction was a number of citizens, whether a majority or minority, who were united and activated “by some common More...
