January 2011

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This is a tale of two children, two school districts, four schools, a single African-American mom, and injustice. It is also a tale about how No Child Left Behind has failed. But more than all of that, it’s about how our educational system, our economy, and our society is failing the poor and disadvantaged, regardless [...]

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Let’s just start with this photo. Sen. John McCain smiling broadly while Senator Kerry sits, fingers crossed, looking somewhat grim. If you’re a real lefty liberal, Kerry is what you look like right now. That’s because tonight’s State of the Union address was not aimed at you, and contained only tiny glimmers of things that [...]

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The #FOK Frenzy

by Karoli on January 24, 2011 · 12 comments

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Gotta hand it to Keith Olbermann. He’s great at setting up the promos, as he showed today by sending out an early tweet today after falling silent all weekend, saying he would tweet his next tweet at exactly 8pm EST, the time Countdown would ordinarily have been on the air. This sent Twitter into a [...]

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