This is getting to be a familiar scenario: The Texas Board of Education, preparing to adopt new curriculum standards, makes our schoolchildren’s textbooks a matter of highly partisan wrangling.
When the board met last week to discuss what to teach Texas’s; public school students in history, geography, government and economics, their preliminary druthers were heavily weighted [...]
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Education In Texas – Ruled by Conservative Ideology, It’s Failing The Nation
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Political Muse
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And Now…A Special Comment
January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Political Muse, Politics
Keith Olberman has his say on the Supreme Court ruling…
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The Transcript…
Olbermann: U.S. government for sale
With no limits on campaign financing, corporations will take over the government
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, ‘Countdown’
updated 8:29 p.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 21, 2010
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Finally tonight, as promised, a Special [...]
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Decision 2000…The Decision That Keeps On Giving
January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Political Muse, Politics
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept aside decades of legislative restrictions on the role of corporations in political campaigns, ruling that companies can dip into their treasuries to spend as much as they want to support or oppose individual candidates. (via Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending on political campaigns – washingtonpost.com)
And so [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Corporation·Free market·Political campaign·Politics·Rick Perry·United States Supreme Court
Are We About To Witness Judicial Activism From The Right?
September 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Political Muse, Politics
THERE ARE MANY complicated aspects of the campaign-finance case the Supreme Court is poised to hear Wednesday, but the issue boils down to this: Will the justices let corporations spend unlimited amounts to elect or defeat candidates for federal office? This course of action would be unwise and unnecessary to resolve the dispute at hand.
via [...]
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A Reply From The Senator…And My Thoughts
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Political Muse, healthcare
If you read my post a while back about Senator Cornyn’s response to the White House’s request that people forward the emails they received with disinformation…You may be interested in his reply that arrived today…
Dear Mr. Boyd:
Thank you for contacting me about President Obama’s new initiative to monitor American citizens’ speech about his health care [...]
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