] "If ever there were a bleeding-heart liberal, it was
] Jesus Christ," Moore said at Congregation Agudas Achim
] synagogue. "I think the carpenter from Galilee was the
] original Democrat."

There's a special place in hell for people like this.

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HWJV?

] Taken together, the report finds that the Bush programs
] "mark a major shift in the constitutional separation
] of church and state."

The key word here is [CHRISTIAN] church.

Bush's faith-based changes scrutinized

make sure you check out 'Dubya's' message from the Ranch!

A message from White House West

] Anarchists' Convention Debates Whether Voting Makes You a
] Bad Anarchist

does anyone else see the humor in this that I do?

Anarchists' Convention Debates Voting

] President George W. Bush's tax cuts have transferred the
] federal tax burden from the richest Americans to
] middle-class families, with one-third of the cuts
] benefiting people with the top 1 percent of income,
] according to a government report cited in newspapers
] Friday.

[shudder]
shocking!

Reports contend Bush tax cuts benefit rich

] Authorities seized the assets of California Alternative
] High School and asked a judge to stop the company's 30
] schools statewide from handing out "high school diplomas"
] to students dreaming of a better life through education,
] Lockyer said.
]
] The company charged its mainly Latino students $450 to
] $1,450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that
] was riddled with errors, according to a lawsuit filed on
] Monday

Of course, how this is different from public education, where the cost is more than $4500 per PERSON for EVERYONE, is beyond me...

Caveat Emptor

] Time abuse is a symptom of a problem, not the problem
] itself. It is therefore impossible to cure a person of
] time abuse by actually managing his time. Instead, you
] must understand your time abuser's need for control and
] fear of evaluations.

The Time Abusers

What I am suggesting here is a program of idea work for educators. Of course it is harder to think about ideas than to bring a programming language into a classroom. You have to mess with actual ideas. But this is the kind of hard that will make teaching more interesting, just as idea work will do this for learning.

An article by Semour Papert published in a special issue of the IBM Systems Journal about the MIT Media Laboratory.

What's the big idea? Toward a pedagogy of idea power

] The Russian capital Moscow now boasts more billionaires
] than any other city in the world, according to a survey
] by Forbes magazine.
]
] The study also estimates that a quarter of Russia's
] wealth is now concentrated in the hands of just 100
] people.

BBC NEWS | Business | Moscow 'has most billionaires'

The City Council on Tuesday night approved an ordinance to allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer onto public streets over some heated objections.

Hamtramck OKs prayer call over heated objections