GOP NOT SO HIP TO THE INTERTUBES. Via Salon: It’s fascinating/typical that only two GOP candidates, Ron Paul and John McCain, have agreed to participate in the GOP version of the YouTube/CNN debate we all enjoyed so much this week. This looks to me a little bit like print journalists whining about the corrosive effects […]
Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.
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COMPASSION CONSERVATISM REDUX.
COMPASSION CONSERVATISM REDUX. Former Bush speech writer Michael Gerson is a welcome addition to the Washington Post op-ed page because, as one of the guys who actually believed in compassionate conservatism, he’s willing to say things other conservatives just won’t. Today, for instance, he admits that Evangelical teenagers, those same kids who are wearing chastity […]
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I LOVE THIS IDEA!
I LOVE THIS IDEA! Call me Grinch (and trust me, you will if you meet me in December), but I think it would do well-off children a world of good to, as this New York Times article describes, collect small donations for a local charity or organization in lieu of receiving dozens of birthday gifts. […]
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GOP Moms: Between a Rock and the Hard Right
A Republican Congresswoman describes her life as a working mother to a room full of young conservative women. Mixed messages abound.
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HOUSE SAYS NO PERMANENT OCCUPATION.
HOUSE SAYS NO PERMANENT OCCUPATION. Twenty-four Republicans were the only House members yesterday to vote “no” on a resolution that would prevent the United States from establishing “any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq or to exercise United States economic control […]
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CUTBACKS IN HISTORY, SCIENCE, ART, AND MUSIC.
CUTBACKS IN HISTORY, SCIENCE, ART, AND MUSIC. According to a new study from the Center on Education Policy, 44 percent of elementary schools nationwide have cut down on subjects that No Child Left Behind considers non-essential in order to focus more instruction time to reading and math skills. CEP has some very sensible recommendations on […]
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DECLINING HOME PRICES CAUSE STOCK MARKET SELL-OFF.
DECLINING HOME PRICES CAUSE STOCK MARKET SELL-OFF. The news yesterday that many home owners with good credit ratings are defaulting on their mortgages led to the biggest one-day drop in the S&P 500 in five months. Home prices are down 2.1 percent from a year ago, after rising 11 percent between 2005 and 2006. This […]
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AT LEAST IT ISN’T NEW TIMES.
AT LEAST IT ISN’T NEW TIMES. The Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper will be bought by Creative Loafing Media, which owns alt-weeklies in Atlanta, Tampa, Charlotte, and Sarasota. Since moving to D.C. I’ve developed the typical local feelings about the City Paper: appreciation of smart, savvy coverage like this expose on conservative online social […]
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S-CHIP UPDATE: GOP LOSES ITS NERVE.
S-CHIP UPDATE: GOP LOSES ITS NERVE. Last week Republican senators pleaded with President Bush to accept the bipartisan plan to use cigarette taxes to finance an expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover millions of uninsured kids. Today, The New York Times reports: In an unexpected turn of events, the top two […]
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“AN IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION AGENDA.”
“AN IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION AGENDA.” That’s what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told bloggers this morning Congressional Democrats are calling their set of economic proposals on everything from the minimum wage to increasing access to higher education, from affordable housing to developing “green collar” job opportunities. It’s a smart tack to offer Americans security from the ups […]
