Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Where Does Donald Trump Find the Most Support?

    Now that you have these facts, what do you think the reason is that Trump has so much support in most of these top ten most violent, most racist and least educated states?

  • Is the Internet, high-tech World all that Great, and Learning to hate Toyota

    Playing old fashioned board games with real people in the same room is so much better than being alone staring at a computer screen and learning to hate Toyota.

  • Massachusetts: Billionaires Ready to Pour Up to $18 Million into Charter Referendum

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jonathan Pelto reports on the big money that will flow into the Massachusetts referendum on expanding charters. Most of it will flow from the coffers of hedge fund managers, who never showed any prior interest in improving public schools but get excited by the opportunity to privatize them. He writes: A group of billionaires…

  • Jesse Turner: Who Decides? Who is a Sell-Out? Who is Pure?

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: http://childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com/2016/09/who-decides.html?m=1 Jesse Turner is known as “the walking man.” He walked from Connecticut to D.C. inn 2010 to protest the overuse of mandated testing and its negative effects on children. He did it again in 2015. His blog is called “children are more than test scores.” This is his latest. It is called “Who…

  • The Child Predator We Invite into Our Schools

    As schools have relied more heavily on technology, they’ve invited big business into a space that is supposed to be private. Source: The Child Predator We Invite into Our Schools

  • Trump boasts he will make America Safe from Terrorists by doing what Israel does

    Mother Jones reports Donald Trump’s response to the recent New York, New Jersey Bombings, and the miracle cure is racial profiling on a mass scale. Trump says, “You know, in Israel they profile. They’ve done an unbelievable job, as good as you can do.” I took a closer look at Donald Trump’s claim that Israel does a job “as good…

  • A Vote for Gary Johnson (or, Jill Stein) is a Vote for Trump

    Originally posted on Ed In The Apple: Face the Nation and the other Sunday Talking Heads news commentary shows talked about the softening of the Obama coalition, the daily NY Times “percentage” in August had Hillary ahead 90-10, now the “poll” gives Hillary a 75-25 lead; whatever that means. The Nate Silver fivethirtyeight blog,”Chance of Winning,” has Hillary: 61.1% and Trump…

  • Charles Blow: Trump’s Birther Lies Are Unforgivable (and Deplorable)

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Charles Blow writes a regular column for the New York Times. In this one, he excoriates Donald Trump’s serial lies, which never end. He is not only a liar, he traffics in conspiracy theories. His “retraction” of the Obama birther claim came after five years of cultivating a following of rabid Obama-haters. He did…

  • Are you self-published? I am!

    Twenty percent of indie authors earn nothing from their books. What do traditional published authors earn?

  • If You’re Not a Feminist – What the Hell is Wrong with You!!?

    Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog: I am a male human being. And you’d better believe I’m a feminist. I wear that label proudly. The other day a friend of mine heard one of my articles was published in Everyday Feminism. And he said, “Kind of a backhanded compliment. Isn’t it?” Hell no! What does that mean? Would someone suppose that a…