May 6, 2016

Getting Trump from 1,237 to 1,600

The difference between 1,237 and 1,600 isn't 363; it's the difference between the Republican nomination and the White House. A Trump victory in November may require anti-Trump conservatives to board the Trump train, but already a number ...

October 1, 2015

Poverty pimps owe middle class $22 trillion in reparations

Presidential candidate Donald Trump's newly released tax plan is putting the plight of the middle class in the spotlight.  On Sunday, Trump told CBS News anchor Scott Pelley his tax plan is "a substantial reduction for the middle-income...

May 22, 2014

Education Left Squeezes White Suburbia

Eighty percent of fourth and eighth grade black inner city students are unable to read or add at grade level.Who’s to blame? According to the education left, white suburbia. When responsible, taxpaying mothers dared to criticize Common ...

February 20, 2014

Michelle Rhee: School Choice and Common Core Cheerleader

Who would have thought the champion of charters and school choice, the foe of teachers unions, was connected to Common Core before most people had even heard the term?  Michelle Rhee is that woman and she has poured millions into getting Republi...

October 26, 2013

Toward Single-Payer: We're Almost There

Seventy-five years ago, it was lawyers, doctors, and shop owners; today, it's insurance companies.  These free-enterprise for-profits are the main obstacle to instituting a single-payer health care system in the U.S.  They must be...

May 2, 2013

First Black President Makes Racist White Woman's Dream Come True

Is Barack Obama really black? His love affair with the taxpayer-subsidized abortion provider Planned Parenthood suggests he has it in for his own people.  Why doesn't he care that PP's founder was a radical racist eugenicist? Last Friday, Obam...

April 6, 2013

How One School Superindentent Avoided Facing Jail...and Another Didn't

Atlanta's now-disgraced former school superintendent Beverly Hall faces 45 years in prison.  Her high-stakes testing strategy led to a massive cheating scandal which took over ten years to uncover.  D.C.'s former chancellor, Michelle Rhee, ...

November 19, 2012

Education 'Change Agent' Michelle Rhee: The Left Connection

Who would have thought the ubiquitous education superstar Michelle Rhee would be sitting next to Andy Stern on the board of the Broad Foundation?  Yes, that's right.  The Republican governors' siren and CEO of StudentsFirst works alongside ...

September 17, 2012

50 Shades of Grey Trilogy Normalizing Child Sex Abuse

Why isn't the blockbuster trilogy 50 Shades of Grey just another bosom-busting trashy romance novel?  After all, the endless sex scenes should have relegated the books to the erotica section in bookstores.  Instead, they have been mainstrea...

March 22, 2012

D.C. Cheating Scandal: A Conspiracy of Silence

It took nine years for rumors of cheating on test scores by school personnel in Atlanta to percolate and trigger a devastating nine-month investigation by their governor.  Will it take nine or more years for D.C. schoolchildren to get the same k...

February 20, 2012

Being Kevin Johnson

The stars aligned on November 4, 2008 for two political and social friends. One would live and work on the West Coast and the other on the East Coast and they would both champion the new civil rights movement -- education. Their visions for America's...

January 14, 2012

Unsolved Mystery: D.C. Public Schools Cheating Scandal

The Washington, D.C. school system's failure to hold higher-ups accountable for their 2008-2010 test cheating scandal has led to more speculation that some are intentionally stonewalling attempts to get at the truth. According to the Washington Post,...

July 9, 2011

Did Obama Administration Pressure Teachers Into Cheating?

A week ago Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sat down with MSNBC'S Andrea Mitchell to discuss the need for educational reform. In the interview Duncan touted "some states and some districts that in these tough economic times are being very creative...

January 21, 2011

Is Michelle Rhee Good for Students?

Recently appearing with Bill Gates on the Oprah show, Michelle Rhee, former DC Public Schools Chancellor, has been traveling the PR circuit to promote her new program StudentsFirst.org. She has waged war against status quo public education and teache...