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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Speaking in Alabama at Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 45th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march, Duncan vowed to unleash on public schools legions of lawyers wielding Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They supposedly will rectify what he considers civil rights violations, such as too many white students in high school advanced placement classes.
Duncan said "the civil rights struggle" has become "more complex since...
Mrs. Jellyby, Stuck in the Sixties
Tonight, our fine country and the principles on which it was founded took a terrible blow. The only people who could possibly see this as a "victory" are those seeking to destroy America as we know (knew) it.
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Starting today, millions more of your fellow Americans will be able to get health care, many of them for the first time.
Are you one of those Conservatives who benefits from the government services that Democrats have achieved for you, but doesn't want to pay for them, or let others enjoy?
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How is it that today millions of Americans will be able to get health care? You do realize the bill, as much as I know of the 2700 page nightmare, doesn't...