Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
Monday's Blogs from the Bog!
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AUG 11 Columnist Clancy DuBos gives his take on the Edmonson Amendment in this post, comparing it to a snake "slithering" through the process. If you want a quick study on this whole issue, this is it. Clancy puts the situation in perspective and predicts what will happen next.
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AUG 11 Last week The Lens reported that a Lake Charles hospital's staff was stunned to find out that painkillers they had sent to a state prison in January were intended for use to kill a death row inmate. Now, The Lens reports here, it turns out the hospital was specifically told that the drugs were for a medical patient. Since when is an execution a medical procedure? Is this who we are now?
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FORMER PROSECUTOR SAYS TROLLING DUE TO AMBIEN
AUG 11 One of the former federal prosecutors who got canned over stupid, troll-like comments made on the Picayune's website is claiming the Ambien made him do it, this post on NOLA Defender tells us. He says he can't even remember making the comments attributed to him, the post tells us. Well, that makes it OK, then.
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AUG 11 Blogger Robert Mann is painting Bobby Jindal and David Vitter with the same brush, and it's dipped in hypocrisy. Their pontificating on Common Core is all political, and proves that neither of them gives a fig about the children affected, Mann says.
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ESQUIRE ON NATIVE DAUGHTER CAMPBELL BROWN
AUG 11 This post on Esquire Magazine takes a look at Campbell Brown, daughter of former state official and federal jailbird Jim Brown, who has taken up the standard of "privatize public education at all costs" that was cast down by Michelle Rhee. Spoiler alert: Esquire is not a fan.
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GROUP OF RETIRED TROOPERS STEPS INTO THE FRAY
AUG 11 A group of retired troopers has entered the controversy over a last-minute bill that added $55K to the annual retirement income of State Police Commander Mike Edmonson, blogger Tom Aswell tells us in this post. The group wants the board overseeing the pension plan to ask the courts to determine if the law is legal, Aswell says.
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WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN?
AUG 11 Blogger Mike Deshotels looks at Common Core in this post, and at the larger issue of education "reform" in America. The approaches (strict academic "standards," obsession with standardized tests) are based on questionable theories and aren't supported by research, Deshotels says. For once, he adds, he agrees with Bobby Jindal.
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CHARTER CORRUPTION IN 'LEADING' STATES
AUG 11 This story in the Washington Post takes a look at recent investigations done in Michigan and Florida, two states considered "cutting edge" in the charter school game. It's not a pretty picture, this image painted by these investigations of companies aiming to make money off of the education of children.