A Writer’s Blog

  • California: Is Marshall Tuck a Republican?

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: The race for State Superintendent of Instruction in California is the most expensive in history for a top state education job. California-based Capital & Main predicts the spending will top $50 million, with Marshall Tuck outspending Tony Thurmond by 2-1. All the usual billionaires have clustered behind Tuck—the Waltons,… Read more

  • Thurmond vs Tuck and how FAKE Democrats are fooling voters with help from Alt-Right Billionaires

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Politico.com reported on November 1, five days before the 2018 election, “In the race to be California’s top educator, charter schools ally Marshall Tuck registered a substantial 12-point lead (48 percent to 36 percent) over state Assemblyman Tony Thurmond, as Tuck takes his second shot at… Read more

  • Toxic Elections

    When the Republican Party endorses a Democratic candidate running against another Democrat, you know who the fake Democrat is. Read more

  • Trump’s Anti-Semitic “Dog Whistles” and More

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In 2016, Trump’s campaign ads appealed to (very) thinly disguised anti-Semitism. He let his friends in the Alt Right know that he was on their side. In July 2016, he tweeted a photograph of Hillary Clinton superimposed over a Jewish Star of David, with a background of dollars. In… Read more

  • Cancer threatens a combat vet’s best friend and lifesaver

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Guest post by Lisa Bonnington Robbie spent four years as a US Marine before he became a Green Beret Special Forces medic in the Army. Bella, Robbie’s PTSD service dog started her life as a rejected show dog thanks to an overbite. Then she became a skilled and… Read more

  • Washington Post on Kavanaugh: “What Goes Around Comes Around”

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In a column by Post opinion writer Helaine Olen, she points out the “staggering hypocrisy” of Brett Kavanaugh. He has said he doesn’t want to answer questions about his personal life, yet when he worked on the investigation of Bill Clinton, he zealously pursued prurient details about the relationship… Read more