Daily Archives: August 17, 2014

The militarization of American police forces is a byproduct of the utterly failed war on drugs with more gasoline thrown on the fire by the war on terror

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The militarization of American police forces is a byproduct of the utterly failed war on drugs with more gasoline thrown on the fire by the war on terror

The problem with this approach is that it does nothing to make us safer and only serves to have the police that should be protecting us end up terrorizing the populace.

Note that I am not calling police terrorists in the common usage of the term. However, if you see dozens of officers in military-style fatigues, helmets and body armor pointing big guns at you, it will inspire fear and terror.?

One sentence that explains why local police don’t need military weapons

We’re arming our police to fight problems we don’t have.

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38% of charter schools in Michigan rank among the bottom quarter of schools in the state

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38% of charter schools in Michigan rank among the bottom quarter of schools in the state

Clearly the for-profit operators like National Heritage Academies are desperate to avoid any real accountability for the way they are wasting tax dollars.?

Editorial: Pro-charter group’s tone-deaf tweet offended

What do state Superintendent of Education Mike Flanagan and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace have in common? Well, they’re both white men. That’s pretty much the only similarity we can find. But that didn’t stop the the charter school advocates at the Great Lakes Education Project from making the comparison.

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