This is a horryfying article that details the dubious decisions made by Bloomberg regarding the schools, and how some say Bloomberg is proving to be a disaster to the majority of children in New York City. The article also details the disaster and racial bias of No Child Left Behind.

I'm wondering though, if the bias of No Child Left Behind actually involves low income students of all races? Any answers?

This article reminded me of our situation here in New Orleans, where the drop out rate is high, and some activists say the No Child Left Behind is causing more dropouts.

Don't hold your collective breaths waiting for the democrats to launch the environmental movement sorely needed in this country. This will be a grass roots effort.

I don't agree with Greider in the article, btw, that democrats are dispirited, largely. I think some of us are dispirited, some of the time, including myself. I also see great energy around the blogosphere. There is much activity in my hometown on the activist front.

Howard Dean is part of an aspect of reform in terms of who actually influences the party philosophy. This is important, because we are going to have opportunities, and do currently have opportunities, to greatly inflence the measure of the debate and the type of reform that is to take place in the coming years, within our country.

Here's a portion of the article:

A dumbed down, financially struggling class, versus the rich, is what their battle cry is, secretly.

It is my belief that this administration has written off huge portions of our population, in the name of enriching a few, private coffers.

Our's is not the only country, btw, whose practices on an international basis are harming world citizens.  

The obviously biased and delusional Gaffney basically gives the program the green light because Rumsfeld is one of the most "competent" Secretaries of Defense that we've ever had, Gaffney says; and therein is the problem with this report.

More commentary and transcript below:

He and George Malbrunot, during their captivity, caught a glimpse of the underbelly of the beast, and lived to tell about it.

Something Malbrunot said of the radical Islamists' goals, struck me as eerily similar to the grandiose ambitions of George Bush, as he expressed in his inauguration speech.  

Some here have posted on giving up on Roe versus Wade, some have posted to encourage us to move on from election reform.

What is troubling about this advice, is that the decisions for so many democrats to do this would be inauthentic. You are asking people to give up on what they believe in.

I'm a new student of Emerson, and I've just begun to explore his marvelous works. His essay Politics, is my favorite, so far. So I share with you my favorite passage from that essay, in the hopes that it can help light the darkness in such a time as ours.

Ritter believes the "scandal" is designed to hide
the true intent of the creation of the oil for food program: regime change.

There is a battle for the soul of the democratic party, ably represented in the differences between these two men. Although they are not in a contest, the direction of the party is being contested:

You know, I'm not even sure I'd be willing to call Harry Reid pragmatic; I'd be more tempted to say he is heavily invested in the current power structure, hence statements like this:

I had found information that wmd/terrorism drills were held on election day, as well as info on Senator Dayton closing his D.C. office on election day due to "intelligence reports of possible terrorism in D.C."  I'm posting this info as a dairy simply to present what took place on election day in defferent parts of the country. You may draw your own conclusions. From  Citizens for Legitimate Government:

However, he makes several statements regarding this election, and election reform, and those are the statement I wish to focus on at this time: