Editors' Blog
Accomplishments in this session of Congress on education-related front
Just got this pretty signfiicant list of education-related legislative accomplishments in the first two years of the Obama adminsitration in an e-mail from the National Education Association:
Congress' Tax Alamo
After watching the debate over the President's tax framework in the House last night on C-SPAN, I have to admit to being somewhat amused.
We should support labor's view on tax cut deal
On December 7, 2010 AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, several days before Vermont Senator Sander's passionate filibuster, blasted the Administration's "tax cut deal" with the Republican Leadership.
Video: Voices of the unemployed
Why we need to pass the President's tax/unemployment comp extension framework quick:
New podcast up – interview with award-winning historian Blair L.M. Kelley
Political Affairs #126 – Boycotting Jim Crow: The Original Anti-Segregation MovementOn this episode we speak with historian Blair L.M. Kelley about her new book Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson, recently out by University of North Carolina Press.
Reckless GOP Obstructionism Means No Easy Choices
The following is a few days old, but it still makes sense.
Lenin on Strange and Monstrous
Written: February 28, 1918First Published: Pravda Nos. 37 and 38, February 28 and March 1, 1918; Izvestia VTsIK No. 43, March 8, 1918 published according to the Pravda text.Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 27, 1972, pp. 68-75Translated: Clemans Dutt, Edited by Robert Daglish
Sorry about the down time today
Problems with the servers caused interrupted service today (Dec. 15).
Judge with ties to Palin/GOP candidates rules health reform unconstitutional
After two other judges ruled health reform constitutional, Henry E. Hudson, a federal judge in Virginia, who has just ruled against the law seems to financial ties to Sarah Palin and numerous other Republican Party bosses who campaigned against or voted against health reform.
Unemployment/tax deal
Rather than an extensive essay on the subject, I propose to present these arguments as bullet points for ease of reading – and of course your criticism:1.
