Saturday, January 28, 2012

Conservatives war on education in the US?

http://open.salon.com/blog/robert_elisberg/2011/12/01/the_war_on_education


And so, at one time or another, we get Donald Trump, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, a pizza guy and even Sarah Palin leading the pack for the Republican nomination.  And now Newt Gingrich, who, as Paul Krugman put it, is a "stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like."








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