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Monthly Archives: February 2013

For education, against the test

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 27, 2013Leave a comment

    Jesse Hagopian is doing more than teaching history. He is answering history’s call.     With Hagopian in the lead, most of the teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School have made recent history’s most important statement about what drags down public education in 2013.     They have refused to give the test.  …

Casting call: America’s next McCarthy

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 20, 2013Leave a comment

    America needs to know:     Whether Chuck Hagel has sold nuclear secrets on E-Bay.     Whether he has a secret time-share sauna with Vladimir Putin.     Whether he’s been a broker for toxic Chinese trinkets.     Whether he deals in marked-up black-market Persian rugs.      Don’t stop now, Sen.…

Prevention — brother, can you spare an ounce of it?

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 13, 2013Leave a comment

    Nehemiah Griego was angry. He got angrier, and angrier, and then he got a gun. Or two.     On Jan. 19, a day when firearms advocates staged “Guns Across America” events, the 15-year-old Albuquerque boy shot dead all five members of his family.     Horrific, yes. But one thing: It could have been worse.…

United States’ new separatists

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 6, 2013Leave a comment

     “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of — ah, the hell with it.”      “My country tis of thee; sweet land of — Obamacare? I’m walking.”       It’s been nearly a century and a half since, in a courthouse beside a bloody battlefield, a severed union was…

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