Jul 31 2011
The myth of the extraordinary teacher By Ellie Herman, July 31, 2011 … The kid in the back wants me to define “logic.” The girl next to him looks bewildered. The boy in front of me dutifully takes notes even though he has severe auditory processing issues and doesn’t understand a word I’m saying. Eight …
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Jul 31 2011
Everything you need to know- Honest! By Lee Burkett (with his permission), Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 1:08pm … We need to stop seeing what happens in Washington through the bipartisan looking glass. It is patently obvious that neither party are representing the will or the interests of the American people. The difference between the two …
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Jul 30 2011
…on Highway 84, about five miles northeast of Bismarck, Arkansas: What it fails to mention is that some estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties are as high as 1,455,590. Afghan civilian casualties are more difficult to estimate, but the United Nations recently reported that civilian casualties in Afghanistan are worse than ever. Almost 1500 civilians were killed …
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Jul 28 2011
The Rapture Profiteers By Peter Savodnik, July 28, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT … For nearly a year, nonagenarian preacher and radio personality Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21. Locusts would blanket the earth and millions would die while Camping and his flock would rise up to the sky, rendezvous with Jesus, …
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Jul 28 2011
In his rage against Muslims, Norway’s killer was no loner By Seumas Milne, Thursday 28 July 2011 … It’s comforting, perhaps, to dismiss Anders Behring Breivik as nothing more than a psychotic loner. That was the view of the Conservative London mayor, Boris Johnson, among others. The Norwegian mass killer’s own lawyer has branded him …
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Jul 28 2011
America’s own Taliban By Paul Rosenberg, 28 Jul 2011 10:44 … Prior to 9/11, the Taliban government in Afghanistan did not register very much on American radar screens, with one notable exception: when it blew up two colossal images of the Buddha in Bamiyan province in early 2001. But destruction of treasured artifacts isn’t just …
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Jul 28 2011
Censorship of war casualties in the US By Ted Rall, 28 Jul 2011 11:32 … Why is it so easy for political leaders in the US to convince ordinary citizens to support war? How is it that, after that initial enthusiasm has given away to fatigue and disgust, the reaction is mere disinterest rather than …
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