Month: July 2015

Can We Just Pretend that Bernie Can Win?

So, sometimes the feedback we get as bloggers can help clarify our thinking, and sometimes you can get two sides of a story that are equally compelling. In response to my recent piece on Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul, some people...

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What About Bill Cosby’s Mother?

I’m sad about who Bill Cosby really is, but we all have to deal with it. And I just want to know if he ever thought about his mother and what she would think when he was drugging one woman after another in order to have...

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Why Sanders, Like McCarthy in 1968, Will Fail

     If you weren’t coming home in a pine box or wheelchair from Vietnam, the year 1968 was tremendously exciting, and among the waves of change roiling American society none was quite as dramatic as Eugene...

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Diane Ravitch: Arne Duncan’s Legacy

Sometimes I have nothing to add to what I think is a must read article.  Ravitch hits it out of the part with Arne Duncan’s Legacy. … When Obama was elected, many educators and parents thought that Obama would...

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