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How Did this High School Student Go From Being Suspended 20 Times to Graduating Valedictorian?

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 12th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL

How Did this High School Student Go From Being Suspended 20 Times to Graduating Valedictorian?
From: StudentNation

Watch how this Oakland teen went from being involved in gang violence to being top of his class.

As Iraq Crumbles, Will US Media Back Obama Bomb Strikes?
From: Greg Mitchell

As pundits droned on about Eric Cantor, Iraq descended into ever greater chaos.

How Women Are Shaping the Labor Movement and Winning Big
From: Dani McClain

And interview with Journalist Sheila Bapat on how domestic workers—mostly immigrant women and women of color—are winning labor protections nationwide.

Bowe Bergdahl and the Pathologizing of Dissent
From: Zoë Carpenter

New documents raise questions about the soldier's mental health.

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Why Polling Fails

Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 12th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL

Why Polling Fails
Frank Luntz, New York Times
ERIC CANTOR wasn’t the only person at a loss for words on Tuesday night.His pollster, McLaughlin & Associates, found itself trying to explain the impossible — how a projected 34 percent lead for the House majority leader 12 days before the election could end up an 11-point loss on Election Day to David Brat of the Tea Party in the Virginia Republican primary.

A Fight Against the End of the Planet
Dean Baker, The Guardian
Conservatives like to project themselves as lovers of the free market. They believe that everyone should go out and fend for themselves, that the government shouldn’t be getting in the way of those with talent and ambition – and that it shouldn’t be wasting “their” tax dollars on people who are too lazy to get off their rears and earn their keep.

While Obama Fiddles
Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
The fall of Mosul, Iraq, to al Qaeda terrorists this week is as big in its implications as Russia’s annexation of Crimea. But from the Obama presidency, barely a peep.Barack Obama is fiddling while the world burns. Iraq, Pakistan, Ukraine, Russia, Nigeria, Kenya, Syria. These foreign wildfires, with more surely to come, will burn unabated for two years until the United States has a new president. The one we’ve got can barely notice or doesn’t care.

The End of Authority in the Republican Party
Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
The big message from Eric Cantor’s stunning primary loss isn’t about immigration or the Tea Party. It’s about the unprecedented crisis of authority in today’s GOP.

Cantor’s Lesson: Stop Talking, Start Doing