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At Least The Writing Is On The Wall, Because It’s Not In The Classroom | Vogue Republic
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Contemporary Commentary on a Post-Modern World. At Least The Writing Is On The Wall, Because It’s Not In The Classroom. By a quirk of fate I was planning to return to blogging today because of a pair of items in the LATimes, my response to Paul Waldman aside, I’m glad to be back and writing about interesting goings on. If teachers weren’t protected as strongly as they are by tenure, so the theory behind the lawsuit and court-ordered remedy go, then a small number of more costly, less effective teac...
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My Love Affair With Being Nicht Poor | Vogue Republic
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Contemporary Commentary on a Post-Modern World. My Love Affair With Being Nicht Poor. Semi-sarcastic title aside, I’m really a fan of this post of Erik’s at Forbes. On the middle class and income inequality. The steep increases in the wealth of the super wealthy contrasts significantly with our progressive but still clunky income tax. I do think that we could stand to increase the progressiveness of our tax code creating new brackets for millionaires and multi-millionaires. The other thing that I think r...
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Floundering Founders | Vogue Republic
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Contemporary Commentary on a Post-Modern World. This is the type of commentary. That compels me to respond. It’s heavy on smug, light on context and discussion, and just reeks of hack job. Paul Waldman writes,. Here’s something I’ll bet you didn’t know: The Founding Fathers supported government-mandated health care. Rick Ungar of Forbes unearthed this bit of history. In July of 1798, Congress passed and President John Adams. As a supporter of the Affordable Care Act, I say…Who cares? He’s correct i...