Discussions, essays...
Margaret Warner interviewed Zbigniew Brzezinski and Walter Russell Mead on Bush's Inaugural Address. Here is a transcript of that interview, January 20, 2005, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, PBS.
Inagural Address of George W. Bush, 2005. This is a .pdf file (8 pages). Also here is a PBS web-page devoted to the event, with a link to the text of the address.
AnneMarie wrote and sent this article to the Nisqually Valley News, in response to Don Brunell's op ed piece on the minimum wage. Brunell is President of the Association of Washington Business. I haven't yet found his bit on line, but if I do, I will post it as well. --- Chuck
"What the World Wants from America" by Roger Cohen, NY Times, Jan. 16, 2005 - about the "...view of America as an unrivalled power with a single focus, unterested in consultation..." Relevant to Brzezinski's discussion.
"A Question of Numbers" by Roger Lowenstein, NY Times, Jan. 16, 2005. An excellent article on the history of social security, attempts at reform, and what is under discussion in the current efforts at reform.
"Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century". Key Findings, August 2000, Project for a New American Century
NSC
68: "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security"
(April 14, 1950); A Report to the President, Pursuant to the President's
Directive of January 31, 1950
"Must
Schools Fail" by Richard Rothstein. The New York Review of
Books, Dec. 2, 2004. This article reviews much of our curriculum on
education and the schools. Rothstein includes Lareau's Unequal Childhood
in his discussion.
Kathleen M. Sullivan, "What
Happened to 'Brown'?", The New York Review of Books, Vol. 15, No.
14, Sept. 23, 2004. Sullivan reviews three recent books on Brown v.
Board of Education, including Bell's Silent Covenants.
"The British Evasion" by Paul Krugman. The New Yoirk Times, Jan. 14, 2005. Krugman compares Britain's experience with "privatization" of their verstion of Social Security. He cites an article by Nora Cohen, "Bloody Mess." She is a British journalist.
Websites
Historical
Maps of the Middle East: Perry-Castañeda Library ap Collection
(U. of Texas at Austin)
History in
the News: the Middle East - a website from the SUNY at Albany. Excellent
source for maps, timeline..
Foreign Policy :online edition of this bi-monthly
journal
PBS
"Global Connections: the Mideast" - this includes a timeline
and other resources
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"Hiding the Homeless" Date of Debate: 12/9/2002. Robert Ellickson and Maria Foscarnis debate the enforcement of vagrancy laws and imposing fines on the homeless.
"Abstinence-only education" Date of Debate: 12/9/2003. Wade F. Horn and James Wagoner debate the Bush administrations support of this approach to sex-education in the schools. Check the JT archive for related programs.
