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The Case of Charter School Principal Noelle Roni Who Said She Was Fired for...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Blogger Noelle Roni had served as the principal of the Peak to Peak Charter School in Colorado for eight years when she was fired last November. Matthew Hill, a...
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Postal Enemy #1: Darrell Issa and His Quest to Privatize the USPS…with Help...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Back in May 2012, I wrote a post titled Going Postal in Washington, D. C.: The USPS, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, Union...
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Obama’s NSA State of the Union: A Political Cartoon Video
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor The following video was made by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore: Filed under: Constitutional Law, Free Speech, Media
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Proud to Be: A Native American Ad That Wasn’t Aired During the 2014 Super Bowl
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Here is one ad that never aired during this year’s Super Bowl: The Proud to Be video was made by Change the Mascot, a national campaign that was...
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Missouri Lawmaker Introduces Legislation That Would Make Learning about...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor (NOTE: Correction and Update Below) A Missouri lawmaker has proposed legislation that would make learning about evolution in public schools “optional.”...
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United States of Surveillance: A Political Cartoon Video
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor The following video was created by Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Mark Fiore: Filed under: Constitutional Law, Courts, Free Speech, Media
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Remembering Abraham Lincoln—Reader, Writer, Poet
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Abraham Lincoln was a self-educated man. He once said that he acquired his education “by littles.” The combined total of all the time he spent in...
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Did Sen. Bob Corker’s Anti-Union Rhetoric Hurt Prospects for Expansion at the...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Last week, Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee “ramped up his anti-union rhetoric” in hopes of persuading workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant in...
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Should We Supersize the Cable Guys?: On the Subject of the Comcast Time...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor I’m sure many of you have read or heard about Comcast’s plan to buy Time Warner Cable. If these two companies merge, Comcast would then become the...
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Not All Needy People Are As Deserving As Others: Paralyzed Arkansas Lawmaker...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Meet Josh Miller. He’s a young Republican state legislator from Heber Springs, Arkansas. He took office in 2013. Miller also manages a rental property...
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Pray for Reign: Gay Marriage and The Bible (A Mark Fiore Political Cartoon...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor ~ Submitted by Elaine Magliaro The views expressed in this posting are the author’s alone and not those of the blog, the host, or other weekend...
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Not Just for Profit: Apple CEO Suggests That Climate Change Deniers Should...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a “self-described” conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., happens to be a...
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Arizona’s Discrimination License: A Mark Fiore Political Cartoon Video
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Mark Fiore said he was thankful that Governor Jan Brewer vetoed Arizona’s “religious freedom” bill last week. If the bill became law, Fiore said, it...
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The Height of Hypocrisy: Paralyzed Arkansas Legislator Sponsored Self-Serving...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Last week, I wrote a post about Josh Miller (Not All Needy People Are As Deserving As Others), a young Republican state legislator from Heber Springs,...
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“Cosmos” Host Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks Out about the News Media, Flat...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and director of the Natural History Museum’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He is also the host of Fox...
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Looking Back: Carl Sagan Talks with Charlie Rose about Government, Religion,...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor I thought this Carl Sagan interview would be a good follow-up to “Cosmos” Host Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks Out about the News Media, Flat Earthers,...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Importance of Science Literacy
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Last week, I wrote a post titled “Cosmos” Host Neil deGrasse Tyson Speaks Out about the News Media, Flat Earthers, Science Deniers, Climate Change...
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Exporting Homophobia: Pastor Scott Lively and the Anti-Gay Crusaders of the US
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Scott Lively, the head of Abiding Truth Ministries, is a resident of Springfield, Massachusetts. Lively is a controversial evangelical pastor known for...
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The Miracle of Anti-Gay Denial: A Mark Fiore Cartoon Video
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor On the YouTube page that includes the following video, political cartoonist Mark Fiore said that it has been “amusing (and maddening) to watch various...
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In Celebration of National Poetry Month: Four Poems Performed by Taylor Mali
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor I’ll Fight You for the Library What Teachers Make Undivided Attention The The Impotence of Proofreading Filed under: Academics
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Pastor and Radio Host Kevin Swanson Says Disney’s Movie “Frozen” Is a Satanic...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Kevin Swanson, a pastor and host of Religious Right, voiced his criticisms of Disney’s blockbuster movie Frozen on his radio program last month....
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Chief Justice Roberts and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor First, there was Citizens United. Now, we have the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the McCutcheon case. It does appear that our country’s campaign...
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God’s Messenger Cliven Bundy, His Wacko Disciples, and Uncivil Disobedience
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher and scofflaw, was hailed by some people as a folk hero and patriot recently when he—and his followers–engaged in a...
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Presence of Militia Groups Who Support Cliven Bundy Alarming Some Nevada...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor It appears that the militia groups who arrived in Nevada to support Cliven Bundy with his standoff against the Bureau of Land Management have become a...
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Picture This! US Patent Office Grants Amazon ‘Photography Against A White...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Doesn’t it seem “patently” absurd that Amazon would be granted a patent for the process of taking a photo against a white background? Earlier this...
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro I’ll be enjoying Mother’s Day with my ninety-six-year-old mother, daughter, granddaughter, husband, and son-in-law. I’m making lobster rolls–which my mother loves. I am so...
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Sandy Hook Truther Steals Peace Sign from Connecticut Playground Honoring the...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor I’m sure the readers of this blog remember the Newtown massacre that occurred in Connecticut on December 14, 2012, when twenty students and six adults...
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“Facing It”—A Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa in Honor of American Veterans
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Yusef Komunyakaa, the author of the poem Facing It, was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana on April 29, 1947. He “served in the...
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Public Schools for Sale?: Diane Ravitch Talks with Bill Moyers about the...
Diane RavitchEducation Historian Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University, a historian of education, and author of more...
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Li-Young Lee and Poetry about Fathers
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor I fell in love with the poetry of Li-Young Lee when I read his debut collection Rose. Published in 1986, the book won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial...
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Loser of Republican Congressional Primary in Oklahoma Plans to Contest...
Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Frank Dean Lucas, a Republican, is the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district. Prior to...
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SCOTUS, Science, Conception, and Some Facts about the Four Contraceptives at...
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Back in March of this year—during oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby case—Sahil Kapur (Talking Points Memo) said he thought that the conservative...
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Hobby Lobby’s Corporate Commandments–A Mark Fiore Political Cartoon Video
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Filed under: Constitutional Law, Courts, Religion, Society, Supreme Court
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Looking Back in Time: The Eagle Has Landed!
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor Forty-five years ago today—on July 20, 1969—astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. Michael Collins, the other member of the...
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For the Love of Poetry…and A Farewell Post
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro Much has happened in my life in the past few years. In July of 2010, my daughter, who is my only child, got married. A few months later, Jonathan asked me to be one of the...
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