The EPE Research Center, part of the non-profit Education Week came out with their latest report on our high school graduation rates. The Report, Diplomas Count, noted this: GRADUATION RATES STILL RISING A new analysis of high school completion from the EPE Research Center, using its Cumulative Promotion Index method and data from the U.S. [...]
Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we are having to pay to make up the difference between a fair and significantly higher wage, and for the Walmart unfair, discriminatory and illegal labor practices, with the Walton [...]
Last week, we had not one, but two bridge failures; one in Washington state (right), the other in Missouri (below right). The week before that, we had a massive train crash due apparently to a cracked rail. One might say, those were not bridges too far, but that didn’t go far enough. In other words, [...]
The right wing politicos and their supporters like to whinge on and on and on, beating the drum of personal accountability. My observation is that you almost never, ever see any actual taking of responsibility by the right for the results of their policies or what they do legislatively. We see this in the failure [...]
The right is so desperate for something to bitch about, they will go back to old news. The dead bomber from Boston has been autopsied and buried – finally. Not the determined search for a cause for hysteria on the right. Now, from the Long Island Press, we have another load of Glenn-Beck-style organic fertilizer: [...]
I’ve had it up to here with the right wing nut jobs WHINING and WAILING on and on and on about how they are victims – usually to distract people from the fact that they are the ones who are victimizing others. It has become a deliberate strategy, a fundamental tactic of the right, a [...]
Presumably the expected and promised votes have been counted up before the vote was scheduled. Governor Dayton has indicated he will sign the legislation into law as soon as it is passed. Grumpy, sex-hating, gay-hating, religious zealots in some of the out-state areas have come up with every lame excuse possible to justify their [...]
Three women who were kidnapped ten years ago were found recently when one of them escaped, along with a child belonging to the woman who escaped. The photo above shows the woman who escaped, Amanda Berry, and her daughter, along with Berry’s sister on the viewer’s left. All three kidnapped women and the little girl [...]
We’ve heard repeatedly from the gun-huggers that if we pass gun control, only the criminals will have guns. Never mind that in every comparably developed country in the eastern and western hemisphere, where there is effective gun control, there is less crime committed involving guns, far fewer suicides involving guns, and far fewer accidents involving [...]
We have water problems; we have problems with long term drought, and we have problems with short term flooding. Flooding is the result of the too-rapid melting of our snow-pack, which does damage and which we then lose as run-off instead of replenishing our ground water. The MN GOP members of the legislature are whining [...]
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