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Monthly Archives: February 2016
School Consolidation: This Ain’t No New Deal
The Three-Year Term
BY SUSAN ESTRICH It is almost one year until the next president of the United States will be inaugurated. Try holding your breath. That’s right. Let’s make sure absolutely nothing happens for a year. Because U.S. presidents are only elected for three years, right? The fourth year they, and we, just better hope nothing important […]
The Question Progressives Are Missing
Why Should You And I Have To Keep Paying Mitch McConnell’s...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right-wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But he can’t be any more brain dead than Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate. In a blatantly partisan ploy to prevent President Obama from nominating a successor to Scalia, McConnell has cited […]
Apple, Public Safety, And Selling Stuff
BY FROMA HARROP Federal investigators hold the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, the terrorist who helped slaughter 14 innocents in San Bernardino, CA. They want to look at its contents but can’t because the device is encrypted and Apple has refused to unlock it. The matter ended up in federal court, where a magistrate judge […]