Education's Smoke and Mirrors: We spend the first segment addressing Bob Herbert's op-ed "High Stakes Flimflam", published in Tuesday's N.Y. Times. Seems the No Child Left Behind Law allows the very states required to make progress in student proficiency to decide when that has been accomplished! Makes huge opportunities for dumbing down tests so more students appear to be improving! Sam also adds some colorful stories from law school days.
WWII Vets Fought Battle of Wits: Petula Dvorak's "Fort Hunt's Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII", published Monday in the Washington Post is a fascinating look at military interrogators' techniques employed on 4,000 pows, mostly German scientists and submariners, during WWII. According to Dvorak, the strategies used then ranged from monitoring to steak dinners and chess, and many of the two dozen gathered for award ceremonies from the Army's Freedom Team Salute had harsh comments for modern enemy interrogations. Listen up!
Peaceniks Turn to Military: Say what? Yep, according to Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith's, "How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack", published in The Nation, Daniel Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright and other leaders of the American peace movement are appealing to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to prevent an attack on Iran. Why? Tune in to find out.
Mississippi Democrat Adopts Republican Politicalspeak: Sam is not impressed, but Adam Nossiter's report, "In Mississippi, Democrat Runs in G.O.P. Lane", published in Wednesday's N.Y. Times, describes John Arthur Eaves Jr.'s challenge to Republican Gov. Haley Barbour in a creative way. Join us!
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