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When universities try to behave like businesses, education suffers
via MvH on FacebookUC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi (in white coat) attends a campus rally in November 2011, days after a campus police officer pepper-sprayed student protesters. (AP)Michael Hiltzik,...
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"Steinbeck quote" on socialism in America -- Note for a discussion, "E...
via VS in FacebookQuote also attributed to Ronald Wright:“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed...
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Obama’s Organizing Years, Guiding Others and Finding Himself - Note for a...
By SERGE KOVALESKI, New York Times (2008)Image from article, with caption: Barack Obama at the Developing Communities Project, 2008[JB note: above-cited article worth reading in full; see also "Three...
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The Safety and Sameness of Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy
by Paul R. Pillar, lobelog.comimage fromThe easy part for Hillary Clinton and her speechwriters in constructing what was billed as a major foreign policy speech was to enumerate some of the many valid...
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Homeless in Hawaii -- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
Hawaii ... cracks down on its homeless population, the highest per capita in the nation.Monday, June 6, 2016Image from article: A homeless woman in Honolulu
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A resurgence of resegregation - Note for a discussion, "E Puribus Unum? What...
washingtonpost.comOn the steps of the Supreme Court in 1954, Nettie Hunt explains the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregated public schools, to her...
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In the age of Trump, a plea for pluralism: Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus...
Michael Gerson, Washington Post; via LH on Facebookimage (not from article) fromIf there is any unifying theme in our degraded political discourse, it is the belief that the other ideological side is...
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Donald Trump is wrong: America wins all the time, and this new book proves it
Vox.comUpdated by Zack Beauchamp on June 7, 2016, 3:31 p.m. ET @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com(Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)America, Donald Trump is fond of saying, needs to be made great again. "We don't...
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Revisionism: In Putin’s Russia, History Is Subversive
Andrew Foxall, the-american-interest.com; via IK on Facebookimage fromPutin is re-writing the past to justify authoritarianism in the present.Over the past two years, as the Kremlin has annexed Crimea,...
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Notable & Quotable: Rejecting ‘Animal Farm’
Wall Street Journal‘What was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.’ENLARGET.S. Eliot in 1944. PHOTO: THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGESJune 7, 2016...
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Donald Trump’s revealing quote about ‘American exceptionalism’
By Greg Sargent June 7 at 3:03 PM, Washington Post undefinedDavid Corn of Mother Jones unearths a fun quote from Donald Trump last year in which he declared that he doesn’t think much of the term...
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The shock of the past - how to "fix" it
image fromGiven efforts to reinvent history on USA campuses these days (see numberless articles on this matter, among them), am working on an article, "the shock of the past" -- with the simple point...
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Expanding the U.S. Military’s Smart-Power Toolbox
JAMES STAVRIDIS and JOHN R. ALLEN, Wall street journal Commanders saw a promising way to combat extremism—too bad current law won’t allow it.Image from article, with caption: U.S. Gen. David Rodriguez...
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Thomas Jefferson -- "All men are created equal" -- on ladies
image fromWe all know how good Jefferson was on freedom of speech, but he was possibly the worst sexist in the very competitive group known as the Founding Fathers. (“Our good ladies, I trust, have...
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America ranked No. 103 on list of ‘most peaceful’ nations on Earth
Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times - Wednesday, June 8, 2016Image from article, with caption: The 2016 Global Peace Index ranks the statistical peacefulness in 162 nations.America, land of peace?...
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Cambridge renames Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day - Note for a...
Eric Levenson June 7, 2016, boston.comThe discoveries of Columbus and his effort to bring European culture and religion to the lands he sailed to has remained controversial. Image from article, with...
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STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING – By Donald J Trump
rottingpost.com; VIA LH ON FACEBOOKBY ROTTINGPOST ON MARCH 25, 2016• ( 80 COMMENTS )I have a pretty good idea whose woods these are, believe me.And let me tell you something, my people say he’s a...
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Mass shootings in the USA -- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Friday, June 10, 2016 (via email)image fromOn average, a mass shooting occurred in the U.S. nearly every day last year. Today we remember some of the innocent bystanders among the 1,792 casualties.
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Prediction re Father's Day
image fromWith "father's day" coming up at the end of this month of June, allow me to predict that, in less than a decade, the term "Founding Fathers" -- for centuries referring to those of the male...
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Freedom Trains - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
[JB note -- When I have the pleasure to share ideas, in discussions on the topic of "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United," with very bright, very inquisitive young "Open...
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