Anthony Cody describes the campaign to put mayors in charge of school districts and the reasons behind it.
The biggest supporter of mayoral control is Arne Duncan. When mayoral control was up for renewal in Néw York City, he weighed in to support it. He lobbied against any effort to give the mayor's appointees set terms; he insisted they should serve at the pleasure of the mayor to give his absolute authority over every decision.
An oddly appropriate song for this evening given the changes in America’s counter-terrorism policy…now let’s just hope we can stick to the new policy and not be lured into going backwards yet again.
President Obama’s speech today was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future.
Now, to be fair, as someone new to liberalism and the liberal side of things, I have to give President Obama credit where it is due: he found a middle balance between hewing to what some on the left would like to see him do OR sticking to current policy and continually having to answer up for it every so often. While we may argue about what Barack Obama said in his speech at the National Defense University earlier today, let us be thankful that the American ship of state is finally being turned towards a direction which includes adhering to the rule of law, something that we should’ve been doing all this time…
Oh no, big bad Harry Reid is threatening the Republicans by suggesting that something be done to stop their obstruction. In the same speech on the Senate floor, McConnell tried to claim that the talk of Republican obstruction was all part of a Democratic power grab, “Let’s be clear. These threats to use the nuclear option because of obstruction are just pretexts for a power grab.
Mitch McConnell has got stones to think Harry Reid is trying to "intimidate" him and Senate Republicans; someone should remind him that would he calls "intimidation" the rest of us refer to as "a functioning government", to borrow the quote from the column above.
The music world is a little darker this week with the passing of Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who died Monday of complications from bile duct cancer; tonight’s musical selection is in tribute to him.
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