Musings of a Reluctant Political Advocate
Thoughts to bridge the political divide
I woke up this morning at 4:45 AM with my mind whirling with disappointment. Last night I learned the U.S. had pledged $20 million for one year to the Global Partnership for Education at its replenishment conference. Remember the primary Continue Reading …
Last week I wrote about the Representative Jan Schakowsky letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in support of the U.S. pledging $375 million over the next three years to the Global Partnership for Education. I have some new information Continue Reading …
A couple days ago my local paper, the Contra Costa Times, telephoned to ask if the letter to the editor submission bearing my name was really submitted by me and if I authorized its publication. I excitedly said I did Continue Reading …
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the Education For All of 2011 (H.R. 2705) and last week I wrote about national security. If this bill becomes law AND the United States makes a firm commitment to funding it AND appropriates sufficient Continue Reading …
For the next three months or so, RESULTS groups in the U.S. will be focusing their efforts on building Congressional support for H.R. 2705: The Education For All Act of 2011. (To see the actual language in the bill, click Continue Reading …
One of the goals of RESULTS is to educate people about poverty and programs here in the U.S. and around the world that are reducing poverty. Underlying that conversation about poverty, however, is a host of facts, theories, assumptions, articles of Continue Reading …
At a news conference on February 2, 2002, Donald Rumsfield, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, said something very profound in response to a question regarding reports indicating a lack of evidence supporting the idea that the Iraqi government was or Continue Reading …