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      More Tests Please

      Posted by okami

      No Child Left Behind has created the wrong kind of debate about testing. Given the lack of new funding, many states are jiggering their tests to obscure the failure of poorly performing schools and undermining the accountability that was the core goal of the program. Others are attempting to opt out of the program altogether. The process is wasteful, confusing to students, and fails to produce the information that education enterprises badly need to ensure continuous improvement in what they do

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      OPINION FEATURE: American torture past and present

      Posted by okami

      Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The

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      Medication Under a Microscope

      Posted by okami from Washington Post

      A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.

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    • Vet Advocates Fight for New G.I. Bill

      Posted by okami from Military

      It's a program that meant a college degree for millions who wouldn't previously have been able to afford one, and its advocates say the benefit helped make the "greatest generation" what it is today. But the World War II veterans who took advantage of the G.I. Bill of Rights to gain a college education got a lot more out of the deal than today's vets, say advocates and some key lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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    • Fidel Castro retires

      Posted by okami from Reuters

      Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country as president or commander-in-chief, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.

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    • Justice Official Defends Rough CIA Interrogations

      Posted by okami from Washington Post

      The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.

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    JXC comments on:

    United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians

    If Korean civilians are murdered in a forest and no one hears them fall, is it really a massacre?

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    11:34 am 5/28/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    Air America Radio Host Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Clinton and Ferraro "Whores"

    Meanwhile, Hillary’s camp praises Fox for the most ‘balanced’ news coverage, and for a ton of supposedly-democratic Hillaryites, no alarm bells are sounded. This whole cycle has gone right out of hand with the absurd disconnections from reality and unnecessarily puffed up emotions.

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    6:55 pm 4/04/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Air America Radio Host Randi Rhodes Suspended for Calling Clinton and Ferraro "Whores"

    I will say I was disgusted to see Ferraro on Fox News again today. No intelligent politician – nor any democrat should spend a second on that set.

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    4:30 pm 4/03/08
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    admin comments on:

    National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

    this sucks

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    8:12 am 3/15/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    Campus shooters used same gun dealer - UPI.com

    While I am not a supposed “liberal”, (whatever that is implied to mean these days, seems more like invective in today’s modern parlance) questioning the bravery or willingness to fight and kill perfect strangers over an theological or political ideology is not necessary to this discussion nor warranted. The U.S. has a traditionally violent gun culture with many advocates suggesting that to not want a gun in the hands of anyone, (well actually, that varies depending on who you may speak to. Many pro-gun folks I’ve personally encountered are also affiliated with historically aggressive White power organisations) is akin to cowardice. And to imply that the bravery you speak of is responsible for the United States, you’ve just proved by point. Very few but the most indoctrinated Aboriginal Americans and American Africans would call the groundwork applied to build the U.S. anything other than what it was and is, genocide. To deny this reality would be like denying Andrew Jackson ever held office. Cuba, Puerto Rico, Iraq, Iran, Columbia, Nicaragua, Kosovo, and the Filipinos who still struggle to expose American atrocities during the Philippine-American War of domination. The national myth may support your views, but factual colonialist American history documents a very different paradigm.

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    12:34 pm 2/19/08
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    okami comments on:

    Fidel Castro retires

    it’s quite possible. . .after all, we’ve been doing it to most of Central America since 1900. . .

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    3:34 am 2/19/08
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    theangryindian comments on:

    Fidel Castro retires

    The end of an era. Expect Cuba to be assaulted by the U.S. until they bend to its will.

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    3:17 am 2/19/08
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    okami

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    former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats

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    Villagenyc

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    East Village via Bama.

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    JXC

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    theangryindian

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    “The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.

    Indian Country