Why does Mitt Romney want to make it harder for young people to go to college?

Presumptive Republican president nominee Mitt Romney, commenting on the federal budget plan put forth by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan: “I’m very supportive of the Ryan budget plan. It’s a bold and exciting effort on his part and on the part of the Republicans and it’s very much consistent with what I put out earlier. I [...]

If I may be allowed to disagree

I don’t use the word hate lightly.  There are a lot of things that I dislike but I try not to say that I hate them so that when something really bad needs to be condemned in the strongest terms possible, I can say that I hate it and it doesn’t sound trite.  So let me [...]

The Barackness Monster!

Oh this is so very, very awesome!  A News Slow Jam to end all News Slow Jams…

Scott Walker Strikes Again – Update

I wrote this morning about Scott Walker's latest attack on teachers. This morning Katy Lounsbury was on SLY explaining this in further detail:

The rule redefines base wages for public employees as something other than what a teacher makes right now. No performance pay, overtime premium pay, reimbursement or assistance for furthering education, and [...]

Scott Walker Strikes Again

There are a few things that have defined the Walker regime

1. He is perpetually less than honest

2. He has demonized public workers, especially teachers

3. He values people who work for him politically over all others.

Now we have a story that Jud from UppityWI brings us a story that [...]

Scott Walker’s “tools” aren’t working for Wisconsin’s school districts

According to Republican Gov. Scott Walker, the “tools” (really nothing more than a sledgehammer) that he dropped on Wisconsin in the form of Act 10 were supposed to make it easier for local governments and school districts to cut costs (another term for salary and benefits) to provide better services.

Apparently school districts across Wisconsin [...]

Fox News Makes Stuff Up!

H/T Talking Points Memo:

In a recent campaign-trail speech, President Obama delivered a line that was widely construed as a jab at Mitt Romney. But whether it was a direct jab at Romney was at least arguable until a Fox News host pumped it up with three additional words that Obama never said.

“Somebody [...]

Charter School Epic Fail

St. Louis is scrambling to find space for 3,500 students when 6 charter schools were forced to close due to poor student performance.

More than 3,500 students will be displaced when a network of St. Louis charter schools run by Virginia-based Imagine Schools Inc. closes in what may be the largest shutdown of its kind [...]

Head Start

Recently on the ridiculous Fox News show Hannity, the token Democrat on the show, had his fill of republican ignorance and dropped the “F-Bomb” on live TV.

While the right wing is making the take away from this, the fact that someone who skews democratic, swore on national tv(so all democrats are barbaric), [...]

Misinterpreting the Decline in Teen Birth Rates

As usual, conservatives don’t understand how to analyze data outside of their ideological frame.  Take the decline in teen birth rates, for instance.

Some voices on the right unconvincingly assign credit for the latest change to abstinence-only sex education, even though the percentage of sexually active teenagers has remained fairly constant. Besides, some of the [...]