Month: March 2005

What does it mean to be a teacher?

NOTE: posted this afternoon on dailykos, but it scrolled by without much notice.  I really think it is worth the read What does it mean to be a teacher?  I am often asked why i became a teacher, which question is far...

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Health Care and Housing: The Winnowing

Recent years have seen a marked acceleration in the effective use of health care and housing costs as a key tool in phasing out the middle class. Traditionally, the middle class has comprised the bulk of the voting class. Not...

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Attracting More Diaries and More…

…World Diaries and more members both foreign and domestic: Everything is going well with the site, in large part because our little community has been so patient and helpful with making suggestions. My only complaint so...

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A Century of American Use of Force Abroad

I’ve had several requests to repost this, which I originally put on my website on December 24, 2004. Since there is a general blanket amnesia often affecting Americans about their own history, I thought it was time for a...

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