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Rahm at press conference: "I agree with Karen Lewis..." Karen Lewis "It's just that simple, it's not rocket s...

Gen. Tata with his pal Palin.  Remember Brigadier Gen. Tony Tata? He was fast friends with Sarah Palin and  Michelle Rhee' s seco...

NEA Pres.-Elect Lily Eskelsen García As educators, we believe in good testing. Almost every student in America will confirm that mos...

Diane Ravitch  As usual, I did not pull punches. I don’t have time for that.  The amazing thing is that even though everything I said cont...

Sara Palin and Gen. Tata hawking their books.  If there was ever a guy you would never want to run your public schools, it was Brigadier...

"WTF?" says Palin "[Obama's] theme last night in the State of the Union was the WTF -- winning the fu...

The phrase "jump the shark" refers to the climactic scene in Happy Days in September 1977. In this story, the central characters ...

The press reported that Sarah Palin was in Chicago yesterday, or as Huffington described it, "had no problem dissing President Obama...

Republican battle cry "Drill, baby, drill" is now, "Hush, baby, hush." ( Greenwire ) Cardinal  Roger M. Mahony at L...

"Drill baby, drill?" The worst eco-disaster in U.S. history is taking place in the Gulf. BP Oil's race to the top has even g...

Palin & Gen. Tata hawking their books I mean, first you've got Arne Duncan backer and DFER's patron hedge-funder, Whitney Tilso...

Palin to T-baggers: 'No to courts, no to profs' Palin told conventioneers, she's not a big fan of the court system or academics....

This, from Paul Krugman's column last Thursday: So much, then, for Mr. Obama’s dream of moving beyond divisive politics. The truth is t...

Banning Ayers The banning of Bill Ayers has become a symbol of the collapse of academic freedom, residue from eight years of neocon power a...

According to the Washington Times , McCain’s people are now blaming Palin for the failed Bill Ayers strategy. “She went rogue,” they claim....

Today’s Sun-Times headline : “Outpouring of academic support for Bill Ayers — 3,200-plus sign petition for 1960s terrorist linked to Barack ...

Racist Martin started it A NYT front page story today , is about Andy Martin , or as we knew him here in Chicago, Anthony Martin Trigona. ...

You won’t see Sarah Palin on any of the network news shows this morning, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t keeping busy. My Republican inside...

Last night’s debate From The Plank ’s Jonathan Chait: Palin's final quote was from Ronald Reagan, warning that without vigilance, ...