Friday, September 19, 2014

Salon.com: Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform”

September 19th, 2014
Terry Gilliam, on the set of "The Zero Theorem"

Terry Gilliam: Hollywood is just "gray, frightened people" holding on for dear life

The godfather of dystopian cinema on the death of Hollywood, why he gave up U.S. citizenship and his new movie

Barack Obama applauds George W. Bush at the dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, April 25, 2013.

We really must remember the epic failures of George W. Bush

The New York Times wants us to forget how we got here. The real problem is that Barack Obama stopped reminding us

Supporters of the Yes campaign in the Scottish independence referendum in George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 18, 2014.

Scotland's referendum, 700 years in the making: Why the "no" vote was still a stunning watershed

To fully understand what happened yesterday one must first dig into the history of Scotland's nationalist sentiment

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Arrested, handcuffed man shot to death by police in Georgia

Authorities later found a firearm beneath the deceased

Dee Wampler

No one's trying to "cram homosexuality" down your throat

A lawyer's spectacularly ill-advised letter goes viral

Michelle Rhee

Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee's big secret and the collapse of education "reform"

There's big money in education "reform," and now it's flowing to tech companies that want to disrupt public schools

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College fraternity allegedly used color-coded system to roofie girls at parties

Several female students had to be hospitalized for extreme intoxication -- plus one male, who shared a girl's drink

John Boehner

Boehner messes up Paul Ryan's image rehab: Attacks unemployed as lazy and unmotivated

Remember Ryan wanted to change his party's perception on poverty? Boehner's new comments are not going to help

Dick Cheney, George W. Bush

Bush's recklessness strikes again: How his little-known war edict affects the ISIS mission

A presidential edict issued by Dubya is now preventing Congress from getting briefed -- on parts of our looming war

Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz's "terrorism" sham: Why his plan for "destroying" ISIS is ridiculous

GOP agrees ISIS must be "destroyed" -- but don't expect Cruz, Paul and co. to be honest about the costs involved

Viola Davis in "How To Get Away With Murder"

NYT: Shonda Rhimes should write autobiography called "How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman"

Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley gets things very wrong when it comes to race on TV

Hillary Clinton

You can thank women for Hillary Clinton's economic platform

Clinton's focus on women and the economy isn't an experiment on voters, it's her going where women have led her

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White House: Factory farms are putting the public at risk — but we're not going to do anything about it

New executive orders aimed at staving off "the next pandemic" both acknowledge and ignore livestock's contribution

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TechCrunch takes its sexism to a whole new level with Men's Rights-style editorial

The site seems to think sexism is only sexist when men bear the brunt of discrimination VIDEO

Chris Christie

Chris Christie won't consider climate change plan because he might run for president

Poor, sweet Chris, pulled apart by the opposing ideals of science and republicanism

Chuck Todd

"Quite stupid and wildly cynical": Confused media convinced Dems secretly want GOP Senate

Pundits' idea that losing the Senate would be good for Democrats is ridiculous, short-sighted and dumb. Here's why VIDEO

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11 billion people by 2100? Solving the world's problems just got a lot harder than we thought

According to new models, the global population isn't going to peak anytime soon

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White House unveils new sexual assault prevention campaign with a little help from Jon Hamm

Hamm and other celebrities like Kerry Washington are calling on men to stop rape VIDEO

Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton's ridiculous lie: Let's obliterate this wildly false farm bill ad

Arkansas GOPer is feeling the pain of voting against the farm bill. His explanation is completely ridiculous VIDEO

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The iPhone 6′s weird affair of the heart

What's the insane allure of lining up for a device?







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