by Jeff Bryant | Jul 12, 2012 | Blog, Education
Left-leaning people everywhere recently got a hoot when the Texas Republican Party declared its opposition to the teaching of "Higher Order Thinking Skills," including "critical thinking skills," in public schools. Although a party spokesperson later back-peddled from...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 12, 2012 | Blog
Almost six years ago, the nation watched poor, mostly African-Americans suffer and die waiting for government help in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, conservative pundits declared that Katrina victims only had themselves to blame. Then Sen. Barack Obama...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 12, 2012 | Blog
I confess, when I heard Mitt Romney would be making his official pitch for the African-American vote at the NAACP convention, I groaned. "Why, oh why couldn't it have been Newt Gingrich?" Seriously, it would have been so much more fun to watch. Or even Rick Santorum....
by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
In the news, Republicans are running ads attacking Obama for "sending taxpayer dollars" out of the country in the stimulus… They depend on the news media to cover with as a "both sides do it" story, which it will, leaving voters confused and misinformed. The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 11, 2012 | Blog
On Wednesday the stock market remained in the doldrums, thanks largely to the release of Federal Reserve June meeting minutes that revealed that at least some members of the Fed believed the economy needs "further policy stimulus," but the Fed nonetheless took no...
