Archives for Best Web OpEds
January 2016
Saturday, January 30:
CURMUDGUCATION: AL: RAISE teachers? Raze teachers. (2 comments)
A primer on the damaging movement to privatize public schools - The Washington Post (2 comments)
Friday, January 29:
How America's Gun Manufacturers Are Quietly Getting Richer Off Taxpayers - BillMoyers
An Unhinged Trump Goes On Deranged Rant At Disastrous Sham Fundraiser For Vets (2 comments)
Thursday, January 28:
Donald Trump Wanted Vets Kicked Off Fifth Avenue (1 comments)
I support Bernie Sanders, and I'm not stupid or unrealistic
Bernie's Yearning: Because Nothing Is So Unstoppable As A Flavor Whose Time Has Finally Come
Op-Ed: The Creating Change Protest Was Pure Anti-Semitism (2 comments)
Flint Residents Told That Their Children Could Be Taken Away If They Don't Pay For City's Poison Water (5 comments)
Wednesday, January 27:
ThirdEyeOfTheStorm: The Clintons: Is The Oregon Standoff Really About Uranium?
Iceland Sentences 26 Corrupt Bankers to 74 Years in Prison (2 comments)
Tuesday, January 26:
The Litvinenko Inquiry: Legal Analysis from an Expert in British Law (8 comments)
Trump Threatens To Ditch Debate: "I'm Not A Fan Of Megyn Kelly" (5 comments)
Watch: Oregon militant challenges Chris Christie to sumo wrestling to end standoff
Sunday, January 24:
Key Segments of Bernie Sanders' Speech on Wall Street Reform Disappear (10 comments)
Sarah Palin's Abusive Kid Never Saw Combat, NO PTSD (8 comments)
The Pentagon is preparing for societal collapse due to Climate Change (5 comments)
Tina Fey's Sarah Palin Returned to "SNL" to Endorse Trump, and It Was Glorious
A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales (1 comments)
5 Behaviours That Show You Are Reaching a 'Higher' Level of Consciousness (3 comments)
Saturday, January 23:
The Pentagon Achieves its #1 Goal (1 comments)
Friday, January 22:
Loud As They Are, Republicans Mostly Silent on Flint Water Crisis
Clinton Steps Up Attacks On Sanders Days Before Iowa (1 comments)
Thursday, January 21:
Video Games Might Have A Butt Problem (1 comments)
Here's Why Ted Cruz Isn't Eligible to Run for President
Pope's climate push is 'raving nonsense' without population control, says top US scientist (2 comments)
A Neuroscientist Explains: Trump Has a Mental Disorder That Makes Him a Dangerous World Leader (1 comments)
WHAT GETS YOU ACCLAIMED AS A TEACHER IN PRIVATE SCHOOL GET YOU FIRED AT LAUSD AND EQUALLY BAD CHARTERS - Perdaily.com (2 comments)
Wednesday, January 20:
4 Things Obama Can Do to Stop the World from Nuking Itself Before He Leaves Office (1 comments)
Join UFT Solidarity in Albany to Lobby for Workplace Bullying Bill -- UFT Solidarity (1 comments)
Sarah Palin's Drunken Son Track Beat Up Girlfriend, Threatened to Kill Himself
Sarah Palin Goes On A Demented Mentally Unstable Rant About Obama While Endorsing Trump (6 comments)
Tuesday, January 19:
Nate Silver: "Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating" (3 comments)
Who Should Run LA's Public Schools? By Ellen Lubic: (1 comments)
Missing from the "State of the Union" Why Are We "Over There?"
Monday, January 18:
When black protesters took over a wildlife refuge in 1979, they were removed in 3 days (1 comments)
Democratic Debate Audience Grew By Millions After Republican Debate Hit New Low
Prepare for Hamlet - ImprovEd Shakespeare (1 comments)
Did You See The Gorilla In The GOP "Debate?" (1 comments)
Bernie Sanders Is Now the 'Inevitable' Democratic Nominee and Presidential Winner (6 comments)
Sunday, January 17:
Donald Trump On Ted Cruz: "He's A Nasty Guy. Nobody Likes Him."
This Is Your Brain on Trump (1 comments)
Saturday, January 16:
5 Famous Billionaires Dismantling Black Public Schools (2 comments)
The Brainwashing Of My Dad by Fox, Rush Limbaugh & Hate Media (5 comments)
The phenomenon that can not be spoken in Florida continues as salt water intrusion moves inland (2 comments)
Jersey Jazzman: Only You Can Prevent Charter Cheerleading
Borowitz Satire: Fact Checker of Republican Debate Hospitalized for Exhaustion (1 comments)
Supreme Court will review corruption conviction of former Va. governor Robert McDonnell (1 comments)
Joe Conason: New York Values: What Tiny Ted Cruz Will Never Get About the Big Town (1 comments)
Friday, January 15:
Republican Debates Bombs To New Low As Tens Of Millions Tune Out The GOP
Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Healthcare Plan Will Save American Families $1200 a Year (2 comments)
City and metropolitan inequality on the rise,
The Fall And Rise Of U.S. Inequality, In 2 Graphs : Planet Money : NPR (2 comments)
Harold Meyerson: Why Did the Supreme Court Turn Hostile to Public Sector Unions?
Is Vast Inequality Necessary? by Paul Krugman (2 comments)
Goldman to Pay Up to $5 Billion to Settle Claims of Faulty Mortgages - (2 comments)
Thursday, January 14:
The Republican Debate Is Going To Be A Wild Free-For-All
Michael Moore: Arrest Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan (5 comments)
The Racist History of the 2nd Amendment and Why it Matters Today (1 comments)
When Leonie Haimson FOILed John King--and Got No Answer--Then Found Out the Truth about inBloom (1 comments)
The Biggest Threat: It's Not ISIS, It's Nuclear War
Charter Cheerleader Reed Hastings Sets Up $100 Million Fund for More "Reforms" (2 comments)
Swarm Of 100 Drones Dance To Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 5' In The Night Sky (2 comments)
Why Is the Obama Admin Sending Refugees Back to Narco War Nightmare the U.S. Helped Create?
Is Friedrichs Vs. California Teachers Assoc. A Death Knell For All Unions (3 comments)
The Tempting of Bernie Sanders - (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 13:
Rand Paul quits upcoming GOP debate. Smart move or desperate?
Tuesday, January 12:
Teachers Unions At the Supreme Court: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Friedrichs Case (1 comments)
Monday, January 11:
VIDEO: Remember How Bernie Sanders Treated a Muslim Woman Who Stood Up at One of His Rallies?
Texas Governor Unveils Plan To Repeal The 20th Century
Behind the Scenes in Oregon, Ammon Bundy Preaches Revolution (2 comments)
Sunday, January 10:
Hillary Clinton Rips The Heart Out Of Donald Trump's Attacks On Bill Clinton (2 comments)
How did North Korea Acquire the Technology for the Bomb?
Walton Family Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion to Start New Charters Across the Nation (4 comments)
Saturday, January 9:
TAKE ACTION: Tell legislators there should be no winners and losers in teaching
US Corporate Media Amplifies Saudi PR Machine (2 comments)
Bernie Sanders Decries Lack of Wall Street Prosecutions (2 comments)
Hillary Clinton Made More in 12 Speeches to Big Banks Than Most of Us Earn in a Lifetime (2 comments)
Friday, January 8:
Obama Vetoes Anti-Obamacare Bill, Obviously (3 comments)
A Shameful Round-Up of Refugees
Paul Krugman: When China Stumbles
Educator: A Curious Test of Leadership, Designed (1 comments)
What Donald Trump Owes George Wallace - (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 6:
Borowitz Satire: Obama Continues to Stubbornly Link Gun Violence with Guns (2 comments)
Is Pres. Obama right to bypass Congress on gun control? 77% of Americans agree
Detroit schools plan shows lack of faith in democracy (1 comments)
Republicans Admit That A Trump Or Cruz Win Will Destroy The GOP For A Generation
The Hear-Nothing Gun Crowd - (1 comments)
Borders of Love, Borders of War
Even Insured Can Face Crushing Medical Debt, Study Finds - (2 comments)
Speech by the President on Common-Sense Gun Safety Reform
Tuesday, January 5:
Can George W. Bush save Jeb's campaign?
Oregon 'standoff' roundup: The dumbest revolutionaries on the planet?
Forget hopes and dreams: The GOP race is all about nightmares
Angling for the Hopping Mad - (1 comments)
Monday, January 4:
What Do the Bundy Brothers Have Against Wildlife? (1 comments)
'Somebody Intervened in Washington' BY ALEC MACGILLIS (1 comments)
The Most Undercovered Stories of 2015 (Part One) - Bill Moyers (2 comments)
The Supreme Court Looks Poised To Blow Up Everything You Think You Know About Redistricting (1 comments)
Neoliberalism Raises Its Ugly Head in South America
Nevada's Radical Voucher Plan Will Aid the Rich, Ignore the Poor, by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
Production Classes for ImprovEd Shakespeare (2 comments)
Donald Trump on Obama's gun executive action
Economists Take Aim at Wealth Inequality (1 comments)
Elections Have Consequences (1 comments)
Carol Burris to CEO of ExxonMobil: "Leave Our Children Alone" (1 comments)
How The US Became An Oligarchy (4 comments)
Sunday, January 3:
Hillary Clinton would "crush" Trump
Donald Trump Falls Apart When Asked How Women's Lives Are Different From Men (1 comments)
Saturday, January 2:
As Obama looked for an exit, Putin seized his chance (6 comments)
Borowitz Satire: Trump Calls His Al Qaeda Recruitment Video Highest-Rated Terror Video Ever
A Smarter Plan to Make Retirement Savings Last - (2 comments)
Friday, January 1:
Trump Used in Jihadist Recruitment Vid (7 comments)
Paul Krugman: Privilege, Pathology and Power (3 comments)
I was asked: Whatever Happened to Inflation after all this Money-Printing?