Americans for Reason and Truth

I encourage my readers to read Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today. For the first several paragraphs he lists the complicated and h...

I bet all the President's opposing Republican candidates wrote their NO speeches before the President even delivered his and that is the...

In class today, I tried to impress upon my AP students the importance of global interdependency. Their reaction, was reflective of the popul...

The Republican party has officially kicked off the 2012 campaign. Its collection of candidates at this point are tea party focused, but the...

The United States, under authorization by the United Nations, is with its coalition partners preventing a massacre of the Libyan people by M...

How do you spell Khadaffi? This is what I found today: Khaddaffi Khadaffi Khadafi Gaddaffi Gadafi Gadaffi Quaddaffi Quadafi Quada...

So I guess our President can sign a trade agreement in South America, assist militarily with an international coalition, the Libyan rebels, ...

It is not a surprise when your harshest critics pile on, but when more mainstream idealogues and loyal supporters do, it gives one pause. T...

Our Government is proving to be ever as incompetent as in the recent past. It really makes no difference which buffoons are in charge. Onc...

The images are frightening, sad and incredibly poignant. The nuclear incident is concerning and the prospects for finding the missing are d...

I am actually glad that the Republicans in Wisconsin undid the rights of public workers in 30 minutes and here is why. Success in a democra...

One of Congress's important roles is oversight. This has become historically a political process but is still indeed important. As the...

Just as the nation's economy begins to show real signs of a recovery and just as the public seems to be telling the Republicans that it ...

You're fired. That's what Governor Walker from Wisconsin told the Democratic Senators who were in Illinois about public employees. ...

While the Republicans continue to bloviate nonsense including comments like Huckabee's "mispeaking" about the President's...

Governor Scott Walker said today that he wasn't going to back down from his insistence that collective bargaining rights are taken away ...

I need a day off from Wisconsin. I know as a teacher I am not overpaid for what I do and yet my profession continues to be demonized as if ...

I can fully understand the concerns on the part of Governors who need to put their state budgets into balance. I can fully appreciate the K...

Tomorrow when I go back to work as a teacher, I will feel a little more demonic and a little less confident than I have felt in the past. T...

The mid term election is over. The Republican message resonated with the public. The budget battle has been drawn and it is time for Democ...