In an amazing story in The Huffington Post the other day, Laura Hibbard reported that fourth graders at the James A. Jackson Elementary School in Jonesboro GA were assigned a math problem referencing slavery. “A plantation owner had 100 slaves,” the question read, according to the station. “If three-fifths of them are counted for representation, …
Thanks to Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, some truly ridiculous blather by Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and a man whose name is bruited about as a potential Republican nomination for president, has been exposed for the noxious nonsense that it is. Barbour. who is 62, recently gave …
Having been an unsuccessful and rejected president long ago liberated Jimmy Carter from the illusion that he might have something to gain by making nice to his former colleagues in government. Carter–pious, a scold, and possessed of a blind spot when it comes to foreign despots–is that sort of person whose views are hard to …