Re speeches by McCain and Obama today. McCain does not understand, nor do the voters who approve of him. Barack Obama said the surge would (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Thirty years ago and Bakke
07/06/2008 Pat Barrett Add CommentThirty years ago I was at summer camp and Bakke was all the rage. For those of you under fifty, Bakke was a White man (Continue Reading)
The 3 bases of the neocon stance on Iraq
07/05/2008 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecently, Cliff May, a highly respected scholar, public servant, talk-show pundit, and president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, made some remarks about (Continue Reading)
The elections
01/08/2008 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I heard Hillary Clinton refer to herself as a woman running for president and that people should not forget that she is a woman. (Continue Reading)
At what point can we file a complaint?
11/12/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentAccidentlally, believe me, very accidentally, I hit upon a TV talk show called The View. A person named Laura Inghram was speaking. My wife says (Continue Reading)
Iraqi women need training
10/10/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe lovely news from Iraq, always a joy to read esp after the administration cleans it all up for us, includes the story of two (Continue Reading)
Hold it! Hold it! Hold it!
09/24/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentProtests. Warnings. Outrage. Denials. Empathy. Sympathy. More outrage. More protests. Jena, Louisiana? No, Columbia University. Guess who’s coming to speak? Good ol’ that guy whose (Continue Reading)
Spreading Democracy to Jena and…..?
09/22/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentI am a sixty-five year old African American woman and a retired school counselor. I am just appalled at what is going on around the (Continue Reading)
Ebonics Redux
09/01/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere it is again. The Houston Police Department has put out an oh so clever “ghetto dictionary of Ebonics”. Just as we saw in 1994, (Continue Reading)
Sicko
07/20/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentSome of the posts on flteach are addressing the movie Sicko because it deals with the health care system in countries like Canada, France and (Continue Reading)
Well, here then, take it!!!
07/02/2007 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs we received news of the Supreme Court’s decision in school integration cases, there was something about the term ’color blind’ that tickled my memory. (Continue Reading)
An effective and long-lasting terror network
10/30/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentAt long last I have found a reference to the terror network I think of when our fearless leader talks about terrorists and religious extremists. (Continue Reading)
Tentative foray into politics
07/28/2006 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe dictionary defines “foray? as a raid for plunder. So maybe “toe in the water? would be a better title. This is a response to (Continue Reading)