Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin is in the Supreme Court again. The lawsuit centers on whether or not “less qualified” students were admitted to The University of Texas at Austin, at the expense of Abigail Fisher, due to their race. The case targets the black population at the school. Despite the fact […]
Chad Stanton
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Why “No New Taxes” Guarantees There Are More Fergusons
The Department of Justice’s report on the practices of the city of Ferguson shows that the city adopted a predatory mindset when it came to its relationship with its black residents. White supremacy in America has always been a vehicle for transferring resources from typically poor black communities to richer white communities. Slavery was a […]
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Arguing that Education Funding is Unnecessary and that the “Culture of Poverty” is Due to a Lack of Education
“There really shouldn’t be public schools, should there?” This assertion posed in the form of a question from by Fox News host Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery hints at the true position of an education reform movement pursued with special vigor by the GOP. It’s a movement bent on altering an education system that has served the […]
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Netanyahu’s Strategy Makes No Sense
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to the joint session of Congress is controversial, and it may undermine the bipartisan support his nation enjoys here in the States. Considering the obvious risks, what is Netanyahu’s end-goal and how will his actions lead him there? Given his willingness to damage U.S.-Israeli relations, even to the point […]
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After Coates, It’s Time for Nation to Do the Right Thing
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent cover story in The Atlantic gives thinkers a lot to digest. In its scope and depth, there’s much to grapple with, but what jumped out to me was the challenge to the narrative of respectability politics. This strain of thinking is persistently popular and has been advanced as the cure to the […]
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Summertime Food Assistance: Only Rural Kids Need Apply
Josh Marshall recently highlighted Republican efforts to limit food aid for the summer to rural children only. Let me say that once again for emphasis: “limit food aid…to rural children only.” Much has been made of how gerrymandering has allowed Republicans to choose their voters and become the party of older, rural white people. This […]
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Will Common Core Turn Your Children Gay?
Homophobes have always been obsessed with the idea that LGBTQ people “turn” otherwise heterosexual people “gay.” The latest high profile case involves Florida State Rep. Charles Van Zant. In railing against the menace that is Common Core, Rep. Van Zant stated: VAN ZANT: These people, that will now receive $220 million from the state of […]
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Self Destruction, We’re Headed For Self Destruction
Way back in 1980’s when people were convinced that the biggest peril facing the United States other than communism was urban violence there was something of a cottage industry surrounding the examination of the culture and pathologies that lead to such “counterproductive” behavior. Eventually rappers took it upon themselves to begin releasing music that urged […]
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We’re Here Too
Bob Moser at The American Prospect recently wrote about the continued befuddlement of otherwise clear-eyed liberals in relation to the American South. He cites Obama’s three electoral wins in southern states as proof of undue nihilism in regard to liberalism’s ability to sway folks below the Mason-Dixon line in the past. We now may be […]
