New Orleans The great news is that Chief Justice John Roberts looked over his shoulder at history and found a way to provide the needed vote to uphold President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment and rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was constitutional yesterday. The decision is surrounded by dark clouds and rests on somewhat …
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John Lewis and the New Fight for Voting Rights
Houston The lion in winter is still a lion, and John Lewis, a beacon for the civil rights movement in the 1960’s and now a longstanding Congressman from Atlanta, roared in the halls of Congress the other night about voting rights once again. The simple issue that pushed his button was the hater amendment from another …
Is Head Start Obama’s “No Child Left Behind?”
New Orleans HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that about 132 Head Start agencies charged with providing pre-school education for the poor will go through “redesignation.” Redesignation really means that they will lose their contracts and go through a rebidding process because they have been found deficient in some respect. Many of the deficiencies seem …