When no child is left behind
President Obama s secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, now has nearly $5 billion in Race to the Top stimulus funds to enable each child to be a confident lifelong learner, not just a nameless statistic in national reading and math scores. At l...
 3.2K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Obama, is this America?
In the last weeks of the Bush-Cheney administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed into law such unbounded expansions of the FBI s domestic surveillance powers that I was stunned. Years ago, I had often ...
3.2K - Oct. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 What black parents tell their kids
After the Obama-Gates-Crowley beer summit at the White House ended, Ronald Walter, a black longtime professor of politics at the University of Maryland, said: Black parents are using this as a case in point of what they have been saying all along ...
3.3K - Aug. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Protect nonviolent speech
The media frenzy as President Obama called it over Sgt. James Crowley s arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. needs to become more than a teachable moment, in the president s phrase. But not only about interactions among blacks an...
3.2K - Aug. 12, 2009; scored 399.0 Who's still torturing?
On Dec. 26, 2002, Dana Priest and Barton Gellman broke, in the Washington Post, the first undeniable story of American torturing of suspected terrorists. In a CIA secret prison at our Bagram air base detention center in Afghanistan, prisoners were be...
3.2K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Are we ready for post-racial society?
In its widely anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano the New Haven firefighters case a majority of the Supreme Court evaded a significant opportunity to seriously question the constitutionality of the long familiar affirmative-action claims ...
4.1K - Jul. 14, 2009; scored 1000.0 No one feels safe in Zimbabwe
The BBC s Mike Thomson, in a series of reports from Zimbabwe in early June, spoke to a Zimbabwean mother and (13-year-old) daughter who are still too afraid to return home after being abducted and repeatedly raped by militiamen from President Robert...
3.9K - Jul. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 Who are we as Americans?
President Obama, in his May 21 speech at the National Archives Museum in Washington said that we can defeat Al Qaeda ...if we stay true to who we are ... anchored in our timeless ideals. A much more somber note, however, was in a warning by retirin...
4.0K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 399.0 Is Obama's 'prolonged detention' American?
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall once warned: Throughout the world today there are men, women and children interned indefinitely, awaiting trials which may never come or which may be a mockery of the word, because their governments believe th...
5.7K - Jun. 26, 2009; scored 399.0 Can First Amendment protect O'Reilly?
Following the cold-blooded murder of late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star, like many other outraged commentators, declared that anyone who had, in the past, criticized Tiller's practice thereby became an ac...
4.4K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 399.0 Reagan was right
President Obama is strongly disinclined to support an independent investigation of possible criminal violations of U.S. laws and international treaties by the highest levels of the Bush-Cheney administration. He also has no personal interest in going...
3.2K - May. 27, 2009; scored 399.0 World has forgotten Sudan
In North Darfur in late March, three black African Muslim infants and a toddler died prolonged, agonizing deaths at the Shangil Tobaya refugee camp. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir essentially killed them, but not with his murderous Janjawee...
2.9K - Apr. 6, 2009; scored 399.0 NAACP vs. free speech
Long a civil rights and civil liberties lion, Michael Meyers, born in Harlem, is a former assistant director of the NAACP; personal assistant to its late executive director, Roy Wilkins; and a protege of one of my mentors, Dr. Kenneth Clark. Clark s ...
3.2K - Mar. 10, 2009; scored 399.0 U.N. and Islam
On Inauguration Day, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, in a New York Times ad, told Dear President OBAMA that Muslims have compelling strategic and moral reasons to cooperate and peacefully co-exist with the United States in particular, ...
2.8K - Feb. 4, 2009; scored 399.0 Still disabling privacy
After testimony by our new attorney general, Eric Holder, on Jan. 14 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, I have regained my skepticism about how much of our Constitution President Barack Obama intends to restore for one example, our privacy righ...
3.0K - Jan. 27, 2009; scored 399.0 How many corpses?
If Eleanor Roosevelt were still here, she would be enraged and sickened by the utter failure of the United Nations, which she nurtured into being, to stop the continually mounting horrors inflicted on the people of Zimbabwe by its insatiably evil pre...
3.0K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 99.0 Will he find ghost prisoners?
The next president has supported increased oversight of the secret CIA detention program and efforts to restrict the CIA to interrogation techniques used by the military, according to the Nov. 6 Wall Street Journal report by Jess Bravin and Siobhan...
3.6K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 99.0 | 
