Once again I am offering my thoughts and opinions on a subject dear to myself. I have spent many years in classrooms and feel I do know something about teaching and education. These are but some of my thoughts.
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]]> Okay, liberals like to think of themselves as good people, accepting of all differing ideas and agendas. We don't really care to get into a tussle with conservatives until we have been pushed "just too far" well now we are being pushed and shoved.
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]]> We're starting a letter urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize and call attention to both his contributions and unjust treatment. Can you add your name to our letter?
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]]> Taking serious note of plight of two-year-old baby Falak, the union home ministry today sought a report from the Delhi Police and termed it as a case of human trafficking
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]]> "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

- Mark Twain

A bottle of whiskey, a shot glass, and an article to write.


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]]> Walter Littlemoon is a 69-year-old Lakota man born and raised in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The Thick Dark Fog profiles Walter's journey to heal himself and his community while reclaiming his heritage.
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]]> "In 2012, I will only support candidates who stand for Internet freedom and who oppose the PROTECT IP Act and SOPA. I will work against any candidate, of any party, who votes to censor and stifle the Internet."
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]]> An 18-year-old autistic student's family has been fighting his Texas public school to get him the free, appropriate education that he is entitled to. The school district has denied his diagnosis. When the case went to court, the judge is shown sleeping.
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]]> "I felt as though someone knocked me unconcious as I entered this world. I spent a lifetime trying to come to" John Trudell or as Walter Littlemoon calls it a Thick Dark Fog. Indian circle thinking had to go; wasn't good for ladder thinking exploitation.
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]]> Jesus has been in the US for 16 years. He had a good union job working for Pacific Steel for 14 years. He has had health insurance for 14 years. He waited 6 arduous years, doing dialysis daily, to get to the top of the donor list.
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]]> Women have the right to be protected regardless of their cultural heritage. Although the US government is clearly aware of the high risk of assault for indigenous women, they have failed to take adequate measures to protect them
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]]> Matthew Engle, legal director of the Innocence Project Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, plans to petition the Virginia Supreme Court for a writ of actual innocence on Barbour's behalf.


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]]> How can you enjoy some romance without playing into the marketing ploy?
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]]> One Million Moms -- a project of the American Family Association -- is very angry at JC Penney because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.
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]]> Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year.
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]]> Please tell the Canadian Ministry of Transportation to change this policy immediately and let trans* people fly on airplanes! This is discrimination and it is wrong!
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]]> A young girl from the native Awa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest was taken by loggers, tied to a tree and set on fire, killed in the name of greed, land, money and power.
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]]> Though he never directly mentioned the movement itself, Mr. Obama spent a great deal of time on Tuesday night underscoring many of Occupy's most central themes: income inequality, tax fairness, and the need to rein in the illegal and immoral behavior-->
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]]> Why This Is Important
Continuing to build on historic human conduct is to continue pursuing the unavoidable destiny of failure.
Voices For Change Petition 4. Please Sign.

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]]> A convicted murderer on death row in North Carolina wrote a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper about his life of "leisure" in prison and making a mockery of the legal system. Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Heath
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]]> The country’s ‘personal law status’' prohibits Catholics, Sunnis and Shiites from bequeathing possessions or property to offspring of different faiths. Lebanon’s personal law, which includes marriage, inheritance and divorce, is ruled by ten different re
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]]> In the penal colony convicts live in the barracks, able to spend free time outdoors. In closed jail they are cramped in the cells, and entitled only to a one-hour walk round a tiny yard. They have a right only to short visits and a food parcel not more th
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]]> Senator Chuck Grassley, previously documented for his inability to express a coherent thought via World Wide Web, just had that burden removed: his Twitter account has been hacked. For the first time ever, his tweets make sense!
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]]> This should be a no-brainer: if adoption agencies receive state funds, they should not ban LGBT people from adopting or serving as foster parents. But last month, the Virginia Board of Social Services stripped this entire group of these protections.
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]]> Street vendors accused women of defying cultural norms and attacked them this week in Lilongwe and Blantyre, two of the nation's largest cosmopolitan centers.
"They beat them up and stripped them naked,
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]]> Taking a shorter break than their last vacation, Anonymous is back at it already. Reports are coming in that they had completely knocked out CBS.com and are continuing their revenge spree.
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]]> I wandered every hall of every floor of the building after being told I'd have to come back in two hours to see my Congressman, and I didn't see a single non-black laborer. There were non-black Congressional aides and Capitol police, sure, but the--->
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]]> In its first six terms, from 2005 to 2011, the Roberts court issued 29 free speech decisions in argued cases, and it ruled for the free speech claim in 10 of them, or 34.5 percent of the time. The three prior courts issued 506 such decisions and ruled-->
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]]> Online piracy hub shut down (without needing SOPA or PIPA), new human rights filings against the Bush administration, US Army suicides are rising, Elizabeth Warren's money bomb, and more.


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]]> Gingrich argues that the reason so many people are on food stamps is not that the economy has thrown millions into poverty, but rather that lazy black families are getting on the dole and don’t want to work.
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]]> We need to hear from those whose lands and rights were taken away by those who "discovered" them. Their stories tell of 500 years of courageous struggle, and the lasting wisdom of native peoples. Is key to understand the same injustices happening today.
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]]> Singing legend Etta James died Friday at the age of 73 from complications from leukemia.
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]]> See 1st comment
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]]> Though reports of SOPA being "shelved" until next Congress appear to have been accurate at the time, Hollywood is not taking the news lying down. In fact they are pushing harder and still want a vote.
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]]> Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think
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]]> Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress.
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]]> Unless we act now, the current $1 trillion student debt bubble is going to look small in 18 years—and the only ones able to go to college will be the children of the 1%.
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]]> For Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Democracy Now! hosts a discussion of mass incarceration among African-Americans and how it has created a new Jim Crow era.
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]]> For Martin Luther King, Jr. day, Democracy Now! hosts a discussion of mass incarceration among African-Americans and how it has created a new Jim Crow era.
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]]> See 1st comment.
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]]> In January 2012, Congress is set to debate the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA), bills designed to let the US government block websites and information from the public.
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]]> An electronic database called MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems) has created defects in the chain of title to over half the homes in America. Counties have been cheated out of millions of dollars in recording fees, and their title records->
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]]> In this premiere Bill Moyers Essay, Bill talks about their anger — not at the concept of wealth itself, but at the crony capitalists who resort to tricks, loopholes, and hard, cold cash for politicians to make sure insiders prosper… and then pull up-->
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]]> A survey jointly conducted by the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) and the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) found that torture is a common practice among members of the National Police in Papua and has become the chief means for extracting informati
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]]> Joran van der Sloot was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the May 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. Also, he was also one of the last people to see teenager Natalee Holloway, Alabama, before she went missing in Aruba in 2005.
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]]> Woody Guthrie wrote tough yet lyrical stories about the men and women who struggled to survive, enduring the indignity of living life at the bone, with nothing to eat and no place to sleep. He traveled from town to town, hitchhiking and stealing rides->
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]]> For the better part of an hour, 42,000 college students stood in the frigid Atlanta night, patiently waiting for a statue illustrating the fight against human trafficking to be illuminated.
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]]> This highly important policy change will now drastically improve the method by which rape is reported and recorded throughout the United States. A huge win for both men and women, a huge appreciation for the revision of the definition, this is a giant ste
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