If You're Not Part of the Solution...

I quickly tire when hearing about unions, failing schools, underpaid teachers, standardized testing, etc. Working in education, I hear tirades about these things all the time, typically from people who claim to have all the easy answers and have never led a class or faced educational and economic hardship. Apparently we're all experts because...

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Fear That Water

Once again, I find the venerable Ta-Nehisi Coates in my head: “But the longer I write, the more I think my problems have less to do with ADD, and more to do with my desire to avoid pain. It's painful to write. It's painful to take a clear look at your finances, at your health, at your relationships. At least it's painful when you have no confidence...

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Sting and a Miss

Republicans have been getting a lot of bad press lately and the conservative base is in need of a quick pick-me up. Cue James O'Keefe, who swooped in to rescue their sagging spirits with yet another series of secretly taped and heavily edited videos! This time, O'Keefe targeted popular Republican scapegoat National Public Radio (NPR). James...

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