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Why Did More People Vote?

This is a take-away from the Romney campaign: “We didn’t think they’d turn out more of their base vote than they did in 2008, but they smoked us,” said one Romney operative. “It’s unbelievable that...

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It's Not Just Demographics

James Carville, in discussing his 2009 book on the emerging democratic majority, places demographics front and center in the 2012 election.http://www.cnn.com/... Many other pundits have joined in,...

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Leverage Lost?

In the aftermath of the Senate vote on the stop gap fiscal deal, many worried democrats are wringing their hands worried that too much was given up.  Progressive economists and pundits, like Paul...

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The Common Core Debacle

Public Education continues from transition to transition in response to the perception that we as a nation are in crisis because we are not properly educating our children. And the Obama...

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Some Common Ground on Education

Diane Ravitch, who served in the Department of Education of George H. Bush, has come to see the light in recent years, even going so far as to write a provocative and moving book about the misdirection...

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Unfortunately, There Will be Compromise

Despite all protestations to the contrary, the democrats will end up compromising further even though the budget passed two weeks ago by the U.S. Senate was and is an austerity budget with less meat on...

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I Take Back My Previous Diary

Supposedly, the Tea Party yo-yos have taken the republican party hostage and forced it to take the country hostage because they can't get their way on a laundry list of issues. (I don't buy that excuse...

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Public School Tent Sale

According to Sarah Garland, an educational writer, the educational textbook industry continues to make record profits from public school system contracts:Testing will also likely remain a significant...

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NBC Story Isn't News

Joe Scarborough and company were jumping on the President yesterday--even Obama supporter Washington Post editor Eugene Robinson--over the NBC news "investigation" that asked the kind of question that...

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