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My first foray into political website making has proved a success! Hooray!!!!! The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators has won the seats they were running for (including president) in the Chicago Teachers Union election. Congratulations to everyone at CORE! The website (CORETeachers.com) uses a fully customized WordPress theme (based on Sandbox). …and the winner is, – [...]
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The slate of the Caucus of Rank and File Educators, CORE, has forced a run-off election against the incumbent United Progressive Caucus slate, headed by President Marilyn Stewart. UPC has come under harsh criticism from the opposing slates for a perceived unwillingness to organize with teachers and parents to fight privatization, as well as for [...]
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If political buzzwords in 2008 had a temperament, they would be erratic. But enough already. We’re suspending this story to return to Washington immediately. We’re appointing ourselves “buzzword czars,” bent on putting “strict limits” on their use and proliferation. Politicians discussing the economic crisis will be forbidden from deploying that horribly overbaked “Wall Street vs. [...]
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Last Friday, in the first 2008 presidential race debate, McCain wiped the floor with Obama on the “National Security” issue. He set up traps like an expert bear hunter and Obama walked right into all of them. Obama couldn’t answer anything without appearing to be a flip-flopper, soft on defense or critical of the military. [...]
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Palin’s embarrassingly bad performance with Katie Couric proved two things: 1) Palin is as bad as we all thought. She has no business on a national election ticket, was purely chosen to woo white women to McCain’s side, and our country would be in deep shit if McCain had to vacate the presidency. And 2) [...]
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McCain’s choice of VP candidate should be getting a hell of a lot of media scrutiny. Palin is a blatant ploy to woo the Hillary fanatics, and to offset McCain’s out-of-touch-ness. If she plays such an important role in his candidacy, they must have a pretty good relationship, huh? Word on the street is they [...]
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Harry Shearer says it pretty damn well: I know most Kerry supporters are still stunned/sad today, so maybe you might want to set this note aside for reading over the weekend (after checking out the important gig dates at the bottom!!!). Well I remember liberal friends four years ago being upset with my critique of [...]
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