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June 2014

Monday, June 30:

Darrell Issa Crashes and Burns When Pressed By CNN For The IRS Scandal Smoking Gun (1 comments)

The Bell Tolls For Recess

GunFail News (Video included) (2 comments)

Is H.R. 2847 (FATCA) the worst federal law of the year?

Americans' Confidence in Schizophrenic Supreme Court Hits New Low (5 comments)

The False Jihad (6 comments)

Sunday, June 29:

Charlatans, Cranks and Kansas (2 comments)

Republicans Who Are Attacking Obama For Missing IRS Emails Caught In a Web of Hypocrisy (1 comments)

The Cunning Demons of Russian Propaganda, Or What The BBC Forgot To Warn Us About (2 comments)

Arsonist or Firefighter? (1 comments)

CURMUDGUCATION: Arne Blows Some Smoke at the PTA (1 comments)

The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (11 comments)

Saturday, June 28:

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." (2 comments)

The Illusion of Freedom by Matt Remle (2 comments)

Superintendent: The greatest 'crime' committed against the teaching profession - BY VALERIE STRAUSS The Washington Post (1 comments)

Case of James Risen, Times Reporter, Poses Dilemma for Justice Department

How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution - BY LYNDSEY LAYTON- The Washington Post (3 comments)

The Pitchforks Are Coming" For Us Plutocrats - Nick Hanauer - POLITICO Magazine (2 comments)

New Mayday PAC needs support, aims to take down wealthy elite (2 comments)

Friday, June 27:

Red Cross: How We Spent Sandy Money Is a "Trade Secret" (5 comments)

Paul Krugman: So Much for Obamacare Not Working (2 comments)

Thursday, June 26:

Sen. Chuck Grassley Blames Obama For a Scandal Caused By His Own Former Staffer

Romney Returns: Big Money Republicans Working On a Deal To Make Mitt Their 2016 Nominee (1 comments)

South Carolina Town Reinstates Lesbian Police Chief, Strips Power of Mayor who Fired Her

Grand Valley accused of being NHA's 'muscle' against school board - by By Jennifer Dixon (1 comments)

State admits violating the education rights of Philadelphia school children -- NewsWorks (1 comments)

Dump Arne Duncan: Petition to Congress (1 comments)

The United States Of Cruelty

US Government Ties El Salvador USD 277 M Aid Package to Monsanto's GMO Seeds (3 comments)

Wednesday, June 25:

The Roots and Impact of Libertarianism (6 comments)

Will the Democratic Party Deliver for Working Women? (1 comments)

There is no internet "outrage machine" -- just these outrageous rape apologists

Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh Claim That President Obama Is Hurting America On Purpose (8 comments)

Tangled web at two charter schools shows shortcomings of state law -by By Jennifer Dixon ; Detroit Free Press (1 comments)

Supreme Court Makes Sweeping Endorsement Of Digital Privacy

A Tale of Two Vergaras: Of Stardom and the End of Teacher Tenure (1 comments)

The Investigation Into Scott Walker Could Be Way, Way Bigger Than Scott Walker- by Paul Blumenthal (1 comments)

Pelto: Why Governor Dannell Malloy Supports Charter Schools (1 comments)

Videos - Can the President Strike an American Anywhere in the World?: Drone Memo Raises Troubling Questions (1 comments)

Videos - Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands (1 comments)

Presbyterians Divest From the Israeli Occupation: The End of the Beginning? (1 comments)

Education Reform: A National Delusion; Steve Nelson (1 comments)

Tuesday, June 24:

Republicans Threaten to Withhold Government Funding Over Obama's New EPA Rules

Monday, June 23:

Egypt: A new dawn for autocracy, last nail in the coffin for Democracy

Regarding Iraq, New GOP House Majority Leader Has No Earthly Idea What He's Talking About (1 comments)

Dick Cheney Falls Apart and Admits That He Has No Answers On Iraq

How Tea Party Blind Spots are Lethal to American's Standard of Living in the 21st Century! (1 comments)

WATCH: John Oliver's Latest Epic Rant Hilariously Nails Dr. Oz and the Supplement Industry (7 comments)

A Job Seeker's Desperate Choice (1 comments)

Prosecutors Allege Scott Walker At Center Of Campaign Finance Criminal Conspiracy-by Paul Blumenthal (1 comments)

Robert Scott was right by Jason Stanford, Behind Frenemy Lines

Our Children and the Common Core - Letters to th editor, NYTimes (1 comments)

Iraq's Military Seen as Unlikely to Turn the Tide - By ALISSA J. RUBIN and MICHAEL R. GORDON NYTimes. (1 comments)

'Best Execution' and Rebates for Brokers - NYTimes.com (1 comments)

Voter Exasperation With Washington - by Charles M. Blow; NYTimes (1 comments)

The Republican Party Moves to the Right? Impossible! (1 comments)

Sunday, June 22:

Paul Krugman: Conservatives and Climate Change

Inequality and the Case for Unions

Fear Not the Coming of the Robots (16 comments)

The South Dakota Republican Party Passes a Resolution Calling for Obama To Be Impeached (3 comments)

States Ranked by Gun Sense and Gun Violents/Deaths

'Just a campaign to blame teachers': NY Principal Attacks Push for Flawed New Common Core Math Curriculum (1 comments)

Saturday, June 21:

Republican Led House Passes an Unconstitutional Defense Spending Bill (1 comments)

Republicans' pathetic last resort: When Jeb and Mitt are your 2016 saviors (4 comments)

Armchair Hawks Still Cling To Fantasies About Iraq

Friday, June 20:

Andy Borowitz: In Rare Consensus, Sunnis and Shiites Tell Cheney to Shut Up (1 comments)

The Hype Behind the Health Care Scandal

US Foreign Policy: The Big Picture

Horton: Not a Conspiracy Theory: The Gates Foundation Bought Control of U.S. Education (3 comments)

Thursday, June 19:

Republicans' 'new' idea for Obamacare repeal, now with a big price tag (5 comments)

War, Iraq, Enlightenment (1 comments)

Longtime Federal Attorney: Eric Holder Protects Corrupt Prosecutors (1 comments)

How WikiLeaks opened our eyes to the illusion of freedom

Citizens United Makes Lawmakers "Bit Players In Their Own Campaigns"

Climate win: Is atmosphere a "public trust"? Oregon state court must decide (2 comments)

It's Our Money with Ellen Brown - Why We Need Public Banks Now (Radio Podcast) (3 comments)

Dick Cheney's Chutzpah (2 comments)

Wednesday, June 18:

Mark Morford: The Internet of very dumb things

Stop treating war-crazy buffoons as experts! They got it wrong, remember? (1 comments)

How the 'War on Terror' Became a War on the Constitution, by Peter Van Buren (1 comments)

The Food Industry's Solution to Obesity - Mark Bittman; NYTime

Tuesday, June 17:

Why Benghazi suspect's capture isn't all good news for Hillary Clinton (2 comments)

Michelle Obama Calls Out House Republicans For Trying to Roll Back School Lunch Standards (3 comments)

Monday, June 16:

The "Progessive" (aka Liberal) Antiwar Movement: RIP? (3 comments)

Eric Cantor Blames President Obama For His Primary Defeat (3 comments)

Answers to the 7 Big Questions Everyone Asks About Gluten (1 comments)

Leonie Haimson: Come to NYC Hearings to Fight for Class Size Reduction; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)

CURMUDGUCATION: North Carolina's state legislature is most hostile to teachers: by Peter Greene (5 comments)

Dangerous Divisiveness (5 comments)

Free to Eat Whatever You Want

Why the Los Angeles School Board Ousted Stuart Magruder (1 comments)

A Piketty Protege's Theory on Tax Havens - By JACQUES LESLIE; NYTimes (1 comments)

Sunday, June 15:

Planet Earth to CNN: A Shooting Is A Shooting Is A Shooting

Paul Krugman: Health Care and Climate: President Obama's Big Deals (3 comments)

Off with their heads! Eric Cantor, the Tea Party guillotine, and the certainty of conservative sell-out

Michael Steele Says There Is a "Lot of Interest" in Having Eric Cantor Run the RNC

The seven people who need to STFU about Iraq right now

The Reaganite Gospel of Prosperity (2 comments)

A Short Note To Correct Canadian Misconceptions About Indians Living Off "Taxpayer Monies"

Saturday, June 14:

On ThisCantBeHappening! radio: Dave Lindorff and Vietnam Vet and Long-Time Peace Activist John Grant Discuss the Bowe B

Tony Blair rejects "bizarre" claims that invasion of Iraq caused the crisis (4 comments)

Cantor's Loss, Populism's Gain: 8 Insights for the Left (2 comments)

Why You Shouldn't Trust the Government

Friday, June 13:

As Iraq Implodes, Neocons Still Have No Plan Except "Blame Obama"

Brokers Fight Rule to Favor Best Interests of Customers - By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD NYTimes (1 comments)

Global Rules for Auditors? Don't Hold Your Breath - By FLOYD NORRIS NYTimes

The Privacy Paradox, a Challenge for Business - By STEVE LOHR

Markets Are Restacking the Building Blocks of a Financial Crisis - By WILLIAM D. COHAN NYTimes (1 comments)

Elites Beware: Eric Cantor's Defeat May Signal a Populist Revolution (1 comments)

Saving Bayonne Was a Good Deal for Chris Christie - NYTimes Editrial Board (1 comments)

Cellphone Tracking Cannot Trample the Fourth Amendment - NYTimes.editorial boardThe capacity of cellphones to track peop (1 comments)

Paul Krugman: Eric Cantor and the Death of a Movement

SFPD Refuses To Discuss Their Constitutionally-Dubious Cell Phone Tracker (1 comments)

John McCain Predictably Blames Obama For Iraq Violence And Calls For Widespread Firings (1 comments)

The Vergara Court Decision Shows Us That The War On Teachers Is In Full Swing (1 comments)

On the Cusp of the Deluge (5 comments)

California Ruling on Teacher Tenure Is Not Whole Picture - by By JESSE ROTHSTEIN, NYTimes (1 comments)

Free Trade: Blessing in Theory, In Reality a Curse (2 comments)

Thursday, June 12:

Austerity/Immiseration Capitalism: What Can We Learn From Venezuelan Socialism? (1 comments)

Michael Morrissey: Surviving the 21st Century (1 comments)

Judge Rejects Teacher Tenure for California - By JENNIFER MEDINA, NYTimes. (11 comments)

The VA's one big problem

Wednesday, June 11:

LAUSD, Screwing The Top Teachers (1 comments)

House Republicans Meddle With Low-Income Children's Summer Meals (2 comments)

EVERY Dog Owner Needs To Watch This. It Will Change The Way You Look At Your Dog! What a Truly Wonderful Poem!

Defiant Hagel says: I took Bowe Bergdahl security risks "damn seriously" (1 comments)

E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Eric Cantor and the Tea Party Purge

CTU Protests Law to Cut Chicago Pensions;by Diane Ravitch (2 comments)

"creative disruption" and educational reform: by Jonathan Lovell (1 comments)

What Was the Evidence in the Vergara Case? Who Wins? Who Loses?: Diane Ravitch (1 comments)

Obama Courageous, McCain Political, on Bergdahl Exchange (1 comments)

CURMUDGUCATION: Arne Tells Teachers To Go To Hell (Again): Peter Greene (1 comments)

The Real War of Ideas - Thomas L. Friedman (1 comments)

What Causes Weight Gain: by Mark Bittman (5 comments)

David Hursh: Governor Cuomo Supports Privatization of Public Education (1 comments)

Tuesday, June 10:

Surprise, Surprise! Alex Jones Calls Las Vegas Shooting a False Flag Set Up (1 comments)

Stop Desalinization where none is needed and taxpayers are paying for it. (1 comments)

Remembering Reagan (3 comments)

Army Vet: Bowe Bergdahl's Rescue Was the Right Message to Send to Soldiers

Monday, June 9:

"Hard Choices": A chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Clinton's new book (2 comments)

Jerad Miller Amanda Miller Vegas Shooters Facebook Page Guns

Web of Deceit: The Bilderberg Group and Elite Powerbrokers Linked to the UK's Stealth Intenet Censorship Coup

How the Mascot Issue Got Drowned in the Bathtub

Shifts in Charity Health Care - NYTimes editorial (4 comments)

Time for Congress to Investigate Bill Gates' Coup; by Diane ravitch (2 comments)

Yesterday's News: The arrival of Charter Chains (1 comments)

Try everything but the solution: ECB cuts deposit rate below zero

Sunday, June 8:

Paul Krugman: Interests, Ideology And Climate (1 comments)

Bible Verses That Atheists Love (33 comments)

Saturday, June 7:

Hillary Clinton Talks Frankly About Bill, Becoming a Grandmother -- and Another White House Run (1 comments)

A Common Vision -- The Abolition of Militarism

11 Reasons Why Neil deGrasse Tyson is Our Favorite Scientist

5,000 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying is Always Aimed at Crushing Dissent (1 comments)

Friday, June 6:

REVEALED: Gates Foundation financed PBS education programming which promoted Microsoft's interests (2 comments)

President Obama was Right -- David Brooks (2 comments)

Racist Fox 'News' guest attacks Neil deGrasse Tyson because he 'fit the profile' (1 comments)

Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Intimacy that Kills (1 comments)

Parents and Educators Demand Release of Pearson Tests; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)

Paul Krugman: The Climate Domino

Thursday, June 5:

Edward Snowden, a year on: reformers frustrated as NSA preserves its power

Bowe Bergdahl and the Honorable History of War Deserters (1 comments)

Talking with National Climate Assessment Vice Chair Gary Yohe: Telling It Like It Is Now On Climate Change (

Obamacare is evil: How long can Republicans afford to equate the Affordable Care Act to 9/11, slavery, or the Holocaust?

CURMUDGUCATION: Common Core Cement: By Peter Greene (2 comments)

Who's in control -- nation states or global corporations? (2 comments)

Michigan: A Very Curious Story of Charter Management Techniques (1 comments)

Wingnuts' war on the troops: The ugly lesson of Bowe Bergdahl and Sarah Palin

Wednesday, June 4:

SEC charges UNO with defrauding investors, warns probe 'not done' (1 comments)

Oliver North (Yes, Oliver North) Accuses Obama Of "Financing A Terrorist Organization" With Bergdahl Release

Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial

Feminism: 51 Shocking Facts

Tuesday, June 3:

Not Left Behind

Nearing a Climate Legacy - NYTimes editorial (1 comments)

The Art of Focus - David Brooks; NY Times (3 comments)

Smoke in the Water - by Derb Carter; NYTimes (1 comments)

John Merrow's Poetic Critique of Bubble Testing, H/T Robert Frost (2 comments)

Obama: true champion of the planet (16 comments)

A Pipeline Runs Through It... (1 comments)

Monday, June 2:

Bernie Sanders Makes Republicans Put Up or Shut Up With New Bill To Expand Vets Benefits

Hot Moms Club : What education is and should be about in one sentence (1 comments)

Paul Krugman: On Inequality Denial (1 comments)

Sunday, June 1:

New experience for GOP: No heir apparent (2 comments)

A Hysterical Reince Priebus Claims Benghazi Disqualifies Hillary Clinton From Running

 

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