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Archive for September 3rd, 2008

Guiliani speech

Posted: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 @ 9:40 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

“…when they gave up on Iraq they were giving up on America.” Good sound bite and true in a way. “During their convention, the Democrats rarely mentioned the attacks of September 11.” This I am less sure about. How often is rarely? How often has it been mentioned at the RNC? I almost wrote, why [...]

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Explaining away a possible positive response to Palin’s speech

Posted: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 @ 9:09 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

A heading off of any positive response to Palin’s speech. “Why SP’s convention speech will be overpraised.” Supposedly because of media guilt. Anyone see that? I don’t see any media guilt. I don’t see any positive response BY THE MEDIA to her speech. I hope it was historic. I hope more people than ever watched [...]

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The teacher takes the desks.

Posted: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 @ 8:05 pm in Teaching/Ed | No Comments »

A story from Huckabee’s speech: On the first day of school in 2005, Martha Cothren, a teacher at Joe T. Robinson High School in Little Rock, was determined that her students would not take their education or their privilege as Americans for granted. With the principal’s permission, she removed all the desks from her classroom. [...]

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Homeschooling discussions

Posted: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 @ 6:20 pm in Homeschooling | No Comments »

In the Wall Street Journal and in Pajamas Media. Both electronic and print media are talking about homeschooling. I guess it has become mainstream. A great quote from the PM article: The secret of home-schooling, however, is that you don’t have to be a master teacher to do it well. Energy, dedication, and good materials [...]

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For clear media bias

Posted: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 @ 3:38 pm in Politics/Military | No Comments »

US magazine offers two different rhetorical analyses on their cover. Guess which is which? Baby, Lies, and Scandals Why Barack Loves Her Good grief, folks. Do you want us to do a rhetorical analysis on this crap?

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