Category Archives: Talking Points
President Obama’s speech at the Associated Press luncheon
Transcript of President Obama’s speech at the Associated Press luncheon today, as released by the White House: Thank you very much. (Applause.) Please have a seat. Well, good afternoon, and thank you to Dean Singleton and the board of the Associated Press for inviting me here today. It is a pleasure to speak to all […]
Continue readingMexican American Studies Suspension: A Teachable Moment in Tucson
Original article at In These Times Some educators and students refuse to accept a new curriculum ban in Arizona. BY Rebecca Burns In Tucson, where 60 percent of the school district’s students are Latino, youth activists have organized their own ethnic studies classes. A group of students and educators are not sitting silently through Arizona’s […]
Continue readingObama’s Top 50 Accomplishments
Original article: The Washington Monthly: Features March/ April 2012 Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments By Paul Glastris, Ryan Cooper, and Siyu Hu (Also check out the main article, The Incomplete Greatness of Barack Obama, and the issue’s Editor’s Note.) 1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, […]
Continue readingRomney Outspends Competition, Panders to Far Right to Try to Win Illinois
Romney Outspends Competition, Panders to Far Right to Try to Win Illinois Key Point: Mitt Romney is outspending his competition and alienating the voters he’d need to win in November. Mitt Romney has been pandering to his party’s extreme-right flank to win today’s Republican primary in Illinois. Romney and his allies have been carpet-bombing the […]
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