Conservative "History" Makes Liberalism Unnecessary
Al Franken famously wrote, paraphrasing, that "conservatives" (a term I'll use here as shorthand for people who put themselves on the Republican Party's political color-war team) love America the way a...
View ArticleJeffCo School Board Adopts Curriculum Review Committee Updated
Talk about tone deaf...GOLDEN, Colo. - Three conservative Jefferson school board members voted to approve a curriculum review committee Thursday night with a compromise of including students and...
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JeffCo Colorado school board isn't backing down on AP History fight
The fight over AP History rages on in Jefferson County, Colorado. Thursday, the three conservative school board members continued pushing their plan to revamp the AP curriculum to teach students to...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Pedagogical Clustrf*k
By now, most news-watchers are at least aware of a bit of Americana being played out in the streets of Jefferson County Colorado, an affluent collection of bedroom communities adjacent to the Denver...
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Erick Erickson has a Sad about Subtraction
Erick Erickson is sad. Or mad. I can't tell. We'll just call it "smad" to make it easier.Why is he smad? Because the Common Core-based math book his third-grade daughter brought home contains four...
View ArticleThe importance of local races
Before she was in Congress, Michele Bachmann was a state senator, and before that, pertinent to the title of this post, she was on her local school board. The fact I don't have to explain who she is...
View ArticleIn pivotal election year, Colorado Students Considering Recall of...
The bold protest of Jefferson County, Colorado students to the actions of the conservative majority on the Jefferson County School Board in Colorado has already drawn national and international...
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Colorado students disrupt school board meeting with protest (VIDEO)
In Jefferson County, Colorado, a far-right school board proposed a curriculum change for history classes that would "promote patriotism" by leaving out historical facts about the Black Panther Party,...
View ArticleRecall Begins for JeffCo School Board; AFP/Kochs gear up
Many of you may remember the ongoing battle with the Jefferson County, Colorado school board - most widely known, their proposal to change the AP History curriculum and the subsequent student protests...
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Controversial Colorado school board members face recall votes in November
Recall supporters will have their chance in November. Conservative school board members in Jefferson County, Colorado, tried to revamp the district's AP History curriculum so that it didn't "encourage...
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Students, teachers, and history win in JeffCo, Colorado, as Koch-backed...
Jefferson County, Colorado, had a big win for education and democracy Tuesday, with all three members of the county's far-right school board being recalled by voters and replaced with a completely new...
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There was a lot of good news for progressives that you may have missed on...
Democrat Jackie Biskuspki, who will be the first openly gay mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, campaigns with enthusiastic supporters You wouldn't know it from reading most traditional media accounts or...
View ArticleBig Night in Colorado for preserving truth in the history books
Lots of news, good and bad, for progressives around the country last night. But one of the major stories here in the Denver area was the recall of 3 Jefferson County School Board members, in a huge...
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Morning Digest: Pennsylvania Supreme Court sweep gives Democrats legislative...
Pennsylvania state capitol buildingLeading Off:•PA Supreme Court: In what was by far the most important victory of the night, Democrats swept three seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, giving them...
View ArticleWes Imer Gets Around
You might have encountered a “holy cow” sort of story making the point about the disarray in which Donald Trump finds his campaign: a 12-year-old is, for all intents and purposes, in charge of Trump's...
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"Facts are Facts?" Colorado Library District Scrubs "Politically Biased"...
Wow. Are we looking at censorship? In Jefferson County, the 4th largest in Colorado, Commissioner Don Rosier said he was “shocked and appalled” by postings on the library’s Twitter account, which he...
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Hey Mitch McConnell, sit down & STHU, Alabama has got this....Doug Jones...
Yo, Mitch come on over here. Just want to let you know, don’t worry about that whole molester Roy (creepy) Moore. Alabama has got your back. Well, not really, we have OUR back. The back, like in...
View ArticleUnder media scrutiny, WV state police return $10,000 they took from pregnant...
In June of this year, Tonya Smith—a nurse from New jersey—and her friend Domitrios Patlias decided to use a bunch of promotional offers they had accumulated, dozens of $100 gift cards, and some cash,...
View ArticleRacist Kentucky murder suspect slapped with federal charges in grocery store...
The Kentucky Kroger shooting suspect now faces three hate-crime charges and three firearms charges, courtesy of a federal grand jury in Louisville, the Associated Press reports.U.S. Attorney Russell...
View ArticlePregnant woman indicted for manslaughter after she is shot in the stomach by...
Late Wednesday, AL.Com published a story with a headline that read like a poorly thought-out Onion headline.xAn Alabama woman who was shot in the stomach while pregnant has been indicted and charged...
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