Sigh
April 27, 2012
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by David Safier The TUSD dominoes just keep falling in its battle against Mexican American Studies. In a stunning rejection of celebrated author Ana Castillo's offer to read and speak with Tucson high school students next week, Tucson Unified School District administrators added a new chapter to the nation's most troubling censorship crackdown and dismissed … Read more
E.J. Montini gets (partially) sucked in by Melvin’s nuke waste dump argument
April 27, 2012
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by David Safier E. J. Montini, a reliably smart and readable Republic columnist, got took just a little bit by Al Melvin's nuclear waste dump propagandizing. Here's the passage from today's column, presenting Melvin's figures with no rebuttal. "The French recycle 96 percent of their nuclear material into new reusable fuel rods," Melvin told me. … Read more
Why does Obama hate predatory for-profit colleges?
April 27, 2012
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by David Safier President Obama just got through delivering a speech to soldiers promising to crack down on for-profit colleges that lie to students and saddle them with huge student loans in return for little or nothing in the way of education or career advancement. He's doing it by executive order, because you're not going … Read more
Let us now pan Japan’s education system
April 27, 2012
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by David Safier I'm sure Japan has very fine tea [See post below]. But its education? Not so good, I'm guessing. I'm just trying to be logical here. Let me explain. A few decades back, Japan looked like an unstoppable economic engine powering its way across the world and devouring everything in its path. At … Read more
Let us now praise Tucson tea, education
April 27, 2012
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by David Safier Tucson deserves tips of the hat from both of our most recent presidents (Obama with his left hand, Bush with his right, naturally). Counter to TUSD's generally held (and overstated) bad image, C.E. Rose, a TUSD K-8 school, was given a national ed award for excellence for, according to the Star, "a … Read more
PDA open primaries debate: Emotion vs Facts
April 27, 2012
by Pamela Powers Hannley More than 60 Southern Arizonans turned out last night to hear two UA profs politely duked out the open primaries question in a debate sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of American (PDA) Tucson Chapter. Before an attentive crowd, former State Representative (and self-proclaimed recovering politician) Ted Downing (below) argued for open primaries. … Read more
Brewer: Obama is playing politics with SB 1070. Me play politics? Never!
April 26, 2012
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by David Safier This is just fun: a Daily Sun article: Brewer blames challenge on 'politics'. According to Brewer, the Obama administration filed the SB1070 challenge to coincide with the 2012 elections. "They are playing to the Latino community," Brewer said. "They're trying to use that scare card, if you will, to generate support." Then … Read more
Al Melvin, Commie?
April 26, 2012
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by David Safier Is this a case of the Commie kettle calling the environmental skillet red? If you remember, Sen. Al Melvin tweeted, "#azright To show the political agenda of environmentalists, slice a water melon open. It has a thin veneer of green but is Commie red inside" Today I learned Comrade Al granted what … Read more
