Last week I gave a lesson in my US History classes that I give every year, and my kids’ reactions always surprise me and them. I give them a quiz I made up a few years ago that gives a pretty crude picture of what political party they most closely identify […]
Filed under: Politics on November 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This has been the deadliest month of fighting thus far in the war in Afghanistan. Usually Iraq gets the dub’yus (new spelling of dubious) honor, but apparently the Ol’ Taliban is kicking it up a notch. It’s been a pretty deadly month in Iraq too, but we’re used to hearing that. It’s […]
Filed under: Politics on November 12th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Queen of my Universe sent me this clip of Senator and Presidential candidate Ron Paul opening a can of Economic Whoop-Ass on Fed Chair Paul Bernanke. He finally tries to get Bernanke to talk about some of the real problems facing the economy, and the real problems that have come about because the […]
Filed under: Politics on November 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In my Social Studies Teacher school, they made me take Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. The problem is that I took both courses during my sophomore year. I don’t remember most of what happened my sophomore year. All I remember about Macroeconomics was that my professor was a blind Pakistani guy, and that somehow […]
Filed under: Politics, Reviews on November 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I think Americans all over the country share my disgust at the Bush Administration and those that are perpetually at their beck and call, like my Congressman Randy Kuhl. Supporters of universal health care for children can’t figure out why the President is spending countless billions on the war for oil, but won’t spend […]
Filed under: Politics on November 3rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I take back half the bad things I said about John Mellencamp for the jingoistic ditty that ended up on the Chevy commercial, and served as the soundtrack to the jumbotron video of Americans with high tech weapons patrolling the Iraqi landscape to blow up some A/RABs.
Mellencamp’s Jena video is awesome. The […]
Filed under: Politics, History on October 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a great week for the anti-war movement. Sort of.
James Walsh, the Republican congressman from the next district over from me came back from Iraq the week before General Petraeus attempted to placate the masses and said the place was a mess and we need to bring the troops home NOW.
This […]
Filed under: Politics on September 24th, 2007 | Add Comment! »
by Chris Tate and the Buell Street Five
Five peace activists, “The Buell Street Five”, went on trial Friday September 7, 2007 in the tiny Finger Lakes village of Bath, New York. The defendants were charged with Criminal Trespass in the third degree, a misdemeanor, for refusing to leave the office of Representative Randy Kuhl […]
Filed under: Politics on September 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I teach my students about the Spanish-American War they’re amazed at the impact William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer had on many Americans’ attitudes toward the war. They’re amazed that the press can jump on a dubious justification for war and make almost everyone buy into it.
Then they get a sense […]
Filed under: Politics on September 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was eating breakfast one morning and all I had to read was a paper from August 16 that I hadn’t recycled yet. Since I read most of my news online, I just scan the printed paper. I only bought this because there was an article about some of my students who’d been […]
Filed under: Politics on August 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
