(Source: bencrowther, via republicanidiots)
May112013
May12013
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April282013
“George W. Bush failed to keep us safe, partly because he happened to be president when al-Qaeda succeeded in perpetrating a major attack, partly because various other attacks happened during his tenure, and most unforgivably because of his reductionism and hubris, pursuing a needless war of choice on false pretenses and executing that war poorly for years on end, in part because he elevated loyalty to his immediate underlings above having competent help. The “he kept us safe” talking point is factually inaccurate. In closing, it’s worth noting that the president doesn’t swear an oath to keep us safe, but to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Bush failed at that too.”
Conor Friedersdorf (via azspot)
(via azspot)
April262013
Ray Canterbury On School Lunches: West Virginia Republican Proposes Making Kids Work For Food
“I think it would be a good idea if perhaps we had the kids work for their lunches: trash to be taken out, hallways to be swept, lawns to be mowed, make them earn it,” Del. Ray Canterbury (R-Greenbrier) said during floor debate. “If they miss a lunch or they miss a meal they might not, in that class that afternoon, learn to add, they may not learn to diagram a sentence, but they’ll learn a more important lesson.”Sure, let’s teach them that if the uneducated serfs don’t slave for their masters, they don’t get to eat. It’s important they know that before we send them off to their minimum wage no benefit part time jobs at Walmart. That sounds like a “good” idea. Why do we need well-fed educated kids when we can have fearful uneducated drones?
April252013
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He’s still one of the worst presidents ever.
March312013
![(Originally posted in 2011. Posted again now, because the truth about Ronald Reagan needs to be told every day.)
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
Remembering the Real Ronald Reagan
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of our 40th president amid glowing plaudits, folksy reminiscence, and an abundance of praise, it’s important to remember one thing: the election of Ronald Reagan is the central and enduring tragedy of our age.
By that I don’t mean “it’s the worst thing that has happened.” It would be foolish to raise (or lower) the political fortunes of any one man to equal the human toll of the earthquake in Haiti, the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe and in Africa, or the ravages of the Iraq War. I mean that the rise of Ronald Reagan was the tipping point, the axis around which history turned away from one view of the world towards another. And it was a devastatingly wrong turn. […]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhcoidakps1qhnz98o1_250.gif)
(Originally posted in 2011. Posted again now, because the truth about Ronald Reagan needs to be told every day.)
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
Remembering the Real Ronald Reagan
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of our 40th president amid glowing plaudits, folksy reminiscence, and an abundance of praise, it’s important to remember one thing: the election of Ronald Reagan is the central and enduring tragedy of our age.
By that I don’t mean “it’s the worst thing that has happened.” It would be foolish to raise (or lower) the political fortunes of any one man to equal the human toll of the earthquake in Haiti, the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe and in Africa, or the ravages of the Iraq War. I mean that the rise of Ronald Reagan was the tipping point, the axis around which history turned away from one view of the world towards another. And it was a devastatingly wrong turn. […]
March252013
Via Teabonics
March82013
“The point in our history at which we had the highest rate of equity in funding and spending was in the 1970s. In fact, the “war on poverty” — the Great Society period — made a big difference; there was far less childhood poverty than there is now. Unemployment was lower, there was a lot of federal money going into urban school districts and poor rural schools districts and school finance litigation had caused quite a bit of equalization. In 1975, for the first time, the rate of black, Latino and white students going to college was exactly equal. We had made a lot of strides. But most of those programs were eliminated or greatly reduced in the 1980s as part of the Reagan revolution and so we saw the federal dollars get cut in half for public schools. Almost all of that came out of equity-oriented programs that were facilitating both fiscal equity and school desegregation – and making investments in tiny communities. Similarly, during the 1990s — during the 1980s and the 1990s — we had many states doing as California did: putting in place tax caps and other strategies to make it harder to invest in public education and those reforms basically increased the inequality in funding for schools and in the other resources that communities receive.”
Linda Darling-Hammond (via azspot)
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March52013
How Reagan Promoted Genocide
Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s national security team agreed to supply military aid to the brutal right-wing regime in Guatemala to pursue the goal of exterminating not only “Marxist guerrillas” but their “civilian support mechanisms,” according to a newly disclosed document from the National Archives.
Over the next several years, the military assistance from the Reagan administration helped the Guatemalan army do just that, engaging in the slaughter of some 100,000 people, including what a truth commission deemed genocide against the Mayan Indians in the northern highlands.
(Source: azspot, via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
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