TASER International Inc. maintains that its stun-guns are “changing the world and saving lives everyday.” There is no question that they changed Jack Wilson’s life. On Aug. 4, in Lafayette, Colo., policemen on a stakeout approached Jack’s son Ryan as he entered a field of [...]
Introductory Historical Context 2015: The twentieth anniversary of Welfare Reform is rapidly approaching. Amidst much cntraversary at the time, The "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was signed into law on August 22, 1996. Today, it is lauded, applauded and praised. Still questions remain. Ten years after [...]
Photograph; “A History of the United States” and “America: Pathways to the Present,” by different authors, use substantially identical language to cover several subjects. By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at Daily Kos. and BeThink. July 14, 2006 A New York Times article, “Schoolbooks Are Given [...]
Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. By Nell Bernstein | Originally Published at Salon. October 30, 2002 The last time Tracy Carter, a longtime drug user, was sent [...]
Image; Public Broadcasting services, Education Prior to today's education debate there was another discussion, indeed many. In each we heard the same; public education is a failure. It has to change. More often than not, the refrain remains. We must go back, back to the future, before [...]
For several years now, I've been trying to find a better balance between work and family, and failing miserably. I've only just understood why. It's the word ''balance'' that threw me. I've always assumed that a better balance meant more of what you really want [...]
By Diane McWhorter | Originally Published at The New York Times. May 8, 1994 | Photographic Credit; Heflin, J. Thomas. Senator. Image circa approximately 1905 -1945 by Harris & Ewing[/caption]You have heard the arguments against the rite of condescension that you are observing today. So I won't [...]
Becoming a media buzzword is the public relations dream of every Washington policy cabal. It is the signal that the media is ready to collaborate. The great PR success story of the 1980s was the "supply-siders." The term, which suggests a conservative concern with investment [...]
