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Inside Donald Trump's Extremist Education Agenda
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Click here for reuse options! The Hillsdale College connection links Trump to the extremist, right-wing evangelical community of Betsy DeVos. Donald Trump’s election to the US Presidency left education policy experts at a complete loss to explain what...
How Coretta Scott King and JFK joined forces — and helped change the Democratic Party
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By Google News How Coretta Scott King and JFK joined forces — and helped change the Democratic Party Washington Post Tuesday night, when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) used the words of the late Coretta Scott King to express her opposition to President...
Racism Inc. Blocks the School House Door; GOP to the Rescue
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 was a seminal day in the history of American social policy. Seven thousand school kids, mostly black and Hispanic, went to Albany to protest NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s attack on the charter schools that were giving...
HAPPY DECEMBER -- The man who SAID NO to Trump -- RACE TODAY to be one of the most powerful men in D.C. -- Digging in on...
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What not to learn from the Bill de Blasio playbook
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Last Tuesday, New York City elected its first Democrat mayor in 25 years. Bill de Blasio’s populist campaign, with its focus on inequality and his promise to govern for ‘the 99 per cent’, certainly produced an impressive victory: a...

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Uber Shows How To Break Crony Capitalism — Manhattan Contrarian

The taxi medallion scam is one of the worst examples of crony capitalism. Uber (and some other app-driven services) are in the process of defeating the scam in New York and, apparently, in many other...
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What Is The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time? -- Part II — Manhattan Contrarian

Just under a year ago, on July 19, 2013, I asked the question, What Is The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time? After going through a number of candidates (e.g., the Tasaday, Piltdown Man) I con...