WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Republican battle cry
"Drill, baby, drill" is now, "Hush, baby, hush." (Greenwire)
Cardinal Roger M. Mahony at L.A. May Day rally
“Everyone in God’s eyes is legal...Every time we have an economic downturn, there is a new attack on immigrants.' (NYT)
McCain's bashing of immigrants
What a difference the Tea Party makes. This time McCain endorsed his state’s new immigration law as “a good tool” and “a very important step forward,” and propagandized in favor of it with his widely ridiculed televised canard that illegal immigrants were “intentionally causing accidents on the freeway.” (Frank Rich)Report from the Venture Fund meet
Charters have also become a pet cause of what one education historian calls a billionaires’ club of
Condo in Florida still for sale
Back in August, 2008 I wrote about "Rhee's cynical tenure-for-pay swap."
But the problem is, technocrat Rhee and Mayor Fenty are in league with Ownership Society privatizers bent on replacing public with privately managed (non-union) charter schools and vouchers for Catholic (non-union) schools. That means that the pay provisions of any new contract won’t be worth the paper they’re written on...